FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Everyone has the same capital. The same technology. The same intelligence.
Only you have your people.
Imagination is the competence this era demands. And it's theirs — the capacity to see what doesn't exist yet and decide what comes next.
Your edge. Your work.
Speaking
Most rooms are full of smart people arriving at the same answer. That's an imagination problem, and most leaders haven't named it yet.
Theresa uncovers what's running underneath. The strategy that reads like everyone else's. The bold decisions that don't feel bold.
Then she gives the room language for it: the Three Modes, the Default Script, the Generative Cliff, the Five Disciplines. Drawn from The Imagination Age and nearly thirty years of work with executives and senior leaders.
For keynotes, leadership gatherings, conference sessions, and senior-team convenings. Virtual or in person.
Imagination Lab
90-minute or half-day working session.
The analytical work that filled your team's days — optimizing, forecasting, scanning for risk — is increasingly work machines do well. What rises in value is the work they can't do: sensing what's missing, picturing the option not yet on the table, building for the person on the other side of the work. All of it runs on imagination, and imagination is a competence that can be named, practiced, and rebuilt.
The Lab gives a team a shared language for how that competence works, where it goes under pressure, and how to bring it back into the work only this team can do. Built for product, strategy, marketing, and innovation teams, for program and grantmaking teams inside foundations, and for any group carrying the thinking that can't be automated. The direction is set with you on a scoping call and shaped to the team's real work.
Executive Imagination Intensive
A three-part engagement designed for senior leadership teams in transition.
Your team comes together in a custom series to learn the science-backed principles of imagination as a competence — the one that fuels your organization's most critical work. They learn to harness it systematically: to surface the Default Script the team is running, break the binary that traps strategy in two options, and uncover how empathy runs on imagination and can deepen the way the team connects with the people it serves.
They come away able to interrogate the success no one thinks to question, generate options the room could not see before, and lead with the full range of imagination — naming and choosing the mode each moment demands.
“I've spent more than three decades in executive roles across corporate and mission-based organizations. Theresa is the rare thought partner who can sit across from a leader at any level and ask the question that shifts how the work gets done. She writes about and guides others through the transitions most leaders are navigating alone. She is not just teaching about imagination; she is living it. The way she shares ideas and works with groups has changed how I think about the present and the future. I only wish we had started working together sooner.”
— Scott Morgan, CEO
About Theresa
Theresa Stroisch has spent nearly thirty years working with executives and senior leaders on the questions that shape careers, institutions, and lives — across philanthropy, global law, disaster relief, and roles inside the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She is the author of The Imagination Age: Reclaiming Your Most Essential Competence. Her work brings imagination forward as a named competence — research-grounded, leadership-tested, and built for the era organizations now face.