Collaborative strategy
Facilitation, coalition design, stakeholder alignment, and shared decision-making.
BRIAN GOODMAN · FOUNDER, BPG LABS
Helping people move from complexity to action.
I am an innovation strategist, systems thinker, facilitator, and quantitative problem-solver. For more than 20 years, I have helped organizations understand difficult systems, align the people inside them, and build practical paths forward.
20+years across innovation, strategy, and systems change
100+strategy and analytics engagements delivered
Boston ↔ Brusselspublic, private, entrepreneurial, and civic experience
THE THROUGH LINE
Work at the intersection.
My work has rarely lived inside one discipline. I have led public-sector systems redesign, built university–industry partnerships, directed cross-sector innovation programs, and advised startups, governments, and Fortune 500 companies.
The common thread is a particular kind of challenge: important decisions distributed across many actors, evidence that does not arrive in one neat package, and good ideas that need both analytical rigor and collaborative ownership to move.
BPG Labs brings those disciplines together. Depending on the challenge, I work independently or assemble the collaborators, technical expertise, and stakeholder perspectives the work requires.
WHAT I BRING
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A hybrid practice by design.
Analytical clarity
Opportunity assessment, segmentation, predictive modeling, scenarios, and financial modeling.
Systems perspective
System mapping, feedback analysis, policy modeling, and the identification of leverage points.
Innovation in practice
Program design, prototyping, entrepreneurial co-creation, and moving an idea toward implementation.
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
A path across sectors and systems.
BPG Labs
Consulting, experimentation, and collaborative innovation at the intersection of systems thinking, analytics, and collective action.
The Synergist
As Director of Innovation, supported entrepreneurial co-creation and sustainable programs including READI, Guide.MRD, Gravitate, and PFMD.
City of Boston
Led innovation and systems redesign as Innovation and Systems Manager.
Boston University
Managed corporate relations and partnered with faculty and industry on major proposals and contributions.
CONNECT
Working on something that crosses boundaries?
Tell me what you are trying to move, where it feels stuck, and who needs to be part of the answer.