an over-the-shoulder view of the arms and hands of seven onsite workshop participants holding a variety of tools over a wooden workbench

Inclusive Businesses Are More Successful & Impactful

We Offer Consulting Services & Hands-On Workshops
Our Expertise Is In Product Design, Innovation, & JEDI
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WHY WE START WITH CONNECTION

When’s the last time you and your colleagues gathered together for something other than work?

Healthy relationships are the lifeblood of successful teams and companies. Relationships, like people, need consistent care and feeding to thrive.

Strong relationships and trust among colleagues are integral to your and your team’s health, happiness, performance, and success (whether working at the office or remotely from home). A regular cadence of inclusive and impactful team building activities can foster feelings of connection, inspiration, and engagement within your workplace.

WHAT WE DO

Connection & Inclusion Drive Impact

Smith Assembly is a benefit company founded and led by two women of different ages and backgrounds. Our workshops and consulting services help you enhance your company’s impact through connection and inclusion. We feature hands-on activities co-created by innovators from around the world in our workshops. The culturally-, bias-, and justice-aware consulting services we offer improve the accessibility and inclusion of your products/services and support your company throughout its impact journey. We also model a more diverse, inclusive, equitable, and just way to do business.

an older man and a younger woman share a moment of connection and pride after soldering a connection during the hands-on activity

HOW WE DO IT

Hands-On Activities Open Minds & Hearts

Our connection workshops and other impactful consulting services create an environment that encourages you and your colleagues to engage, open up, and build. Something special happens when you spend time interacting with one another in different ways, especially when you’re also doing something tactile or kinesthetic.

two women play a kinesthetic icebreaker with their team at the beginning of a smith assembly onsite workshop

WHY WE’RE DIFFERENT

Shared Experiences Deepen Relationships

Having fun together in immersive activities boosts camaraderie between you and your colleagues and forges bonds across gender, race, ethnicity, age, and org chart. Our radically-inclusive approach is to co-create our offerings with leaders from the underserved communities supported by our donations. We feature those global innovators, showcase a wide variety of cross-cultural collaboration practices, and share stories about how grassroots innovation enables sustainable development around the world.

WHO WE WORK WITH

Our Clients Manage Teams, Are Executives, & Serve On Boards

Smith Assembly’s hands-on workshops are a fun way for your team to nurture relationships, celebrate milestones, and onboard new team members. Our impactful consulting services can also augment your corporate training and development programs related to inclusion, design thinking, and leadership.

DRAG TO VIEW SOME CLIENT LOGOS

client logos like decade impact, mit, backyard creative, caravel labs, global shapers, dreamrider productions, and ilab

OUR BELIEFS

We believe that embracing and empowering a breadth of perspectives results in better products and better business.

WE'D LOVE TO BUILD WITH YOU

Inclusion Drives Success & Impact

Learn how Smith Assembly’s consulting services and workshops can help you and your team harness the art and practice of inclusive design.

a fist bump between a man and a woman during one of smith assembly’s onsite workshops (both are wearing safety goggles and smiling at each other)

two oaxacan women collaborate to build something (one is marking a measurement on a piece of wood) while a third woman watches

In 2021, that nonprofit is OAXIN — an organization driving social and economic justice in the Mexican state of Oaxaca through a community maker space and participatory programs teaching inclusive and collaborative innovation practices.

OUR SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

We Love Global Innovation

Smith Assembly is a Certified B Corporation®. We participate in 1% for the Planet and donate an additional 5% of our revenue every year to nonprofits selected by our global innovators in order to amplify the positive impact they have in their communities.

We’re committed to supporting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals with a focus on: GOAL 5: Gender Equality, GOAL 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, GOAL 10: Reduced Inequalities, and GOAL 13: Climate Action. The policies we enact and the metrics we measure ourselves against are aligned with B Lab’s SDG Action Manager.

READ ABOUT OUR IMPACT IN 2020