Learn the skills and frameworks to lead Experience Strategy in your organization - while solving complex problems alongside other companies - all at a fraction of the cost of a single research project.

The Collaboratives are unlike traditional conferences that spark ideas but rarely lead to real-world integration, costly research projects, or development programs that take years to complete.

A Proven Track Record of Forward Thinking

2025/26 Collaborative Tracks:

Only companies with a Strategic Point of View survive.

Engagement: Gain the trust of your customer through deeply meaningful interactions.

Technology: Defend your business model from AI hegemony.

Transformations: Understand the type of transformation that your customer values.

Business Growth: Align your company around a Strategic Point of View that anticipates your customer’s future needs.

How It Works

Stone Mantel will conduct ethnographic research, co-creation research, and quantitative research over the course of the year-long program. We will invite you to attend quarterly summits where we will foster innovative thinking and collaboration.

Your team of 2-5 joins thought leaders and teams from other non-competitive, complementary sectors at four hybrid quarterly Summits.

At each guided immersive Summit, you’ll 

  • Learn new tools and frameworks

  • Create innovative concepts

  • Commission quant and qual research studies

  • Challenge old assumptions

  • Deepen relationships and communication with your team and others

Between Summits, Stone Mantel conducts research on your concepts and ideas, using our proprietary experience methodologies, with your customers.

Some of Our Past & Current Members

As a member of The Experience Strategy Collaboratives, you will gain a robust and well-rounded education in the art and science of Experience Strategy. You’ll develop skills, solve complex problems and have some fun along the way with like-minded professionals. You’ll leave with custom research on your real-life experience strategy challenges, a powerful set of tools and frameworks that you can use to have an impact throughout your career, and the Experience Strategy Certification from the world’s leading experts in Experience Strategy.

  • "Being part of the Digital Healthcare Collaboratives was truly a fun, think tank experience that provided actionable strategies that were utilized on a pre-launch digital health product. Additionally, from a research perspective, the methodology provides an economical means to capture multiple phases of robust research."

    Pfizer

  • "The major impact has been on the way we do consumer and customer research. We are asking different questions. Probing for different ways to connect and add value. But it has also changed the way in which we build and modify our offerings. Frameworks around Jobs to be Done and Modes have really helped our teams think differently and build new products, offerings, and innovations that have some truly disruptive potential."

    Clayton Homes

  • "Mercy's team found the DHC extremely useful because the meetings, research, and learnings are actionable. The sessions are well planned, a great mix of action and learning, and we're able to leave each meeting prepared for the next stage in the research - no need to continue working on it back at the office. The presentations stimulate great discussion & provide an opportunity for the group to collaborate and learn from each other. The digital tool framework is very useful and will change the way we think about digital tools going forward."

    Mercy

  • "The Meaningful Experience Collaborative is helping us to think beyond traditional or status quo experience design thinking that will propel us toward breakthrough experiences for our clients. (It) has provided us an exceptional platform to engage with like-minded individuals and companies who are tackling the same opportunities in providing meaningful experiences with their clients and customers."

    Truist

  • "Tackling problems in financial services, we're surrounded by similar organizations - fintech providers, banks, credit unions, and so forth. Too often, we end up 'drinking our own kool-aid' simply because that's what's around. The Collaboratives expand our horizons, challenge our thinking with new perspectives and experiences from consumer-focused professionals outside of our industry. This outside-in view, from groups that work with the very same consumers and users that we do but in completely different contexts, carries incredible value."

    Fiserv

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