Office Hours: GTM Acceleration Lab: Design × Thought Leadership Advisory Hours
Presented by: What if Design & Astoundly
Are you building a climate solution that’s moving from pilot to commercialization — or lab to market?
The stakes are high to get your go-to-market strategy right. Every short-term decision shapes your long-term trajectory.
This Q&A based workshop brings together design strategy and thought leadership to help you:
Sharpen your message
Build momentum
Earn trust across investors, partners, and early adopters
Who this is for:
Founders, GTM leads, and (some) VCs
How it works:
Choose your track: Design or thought leadership. Then, sign up for a 30-minute working session.
If your track is Design, you‘ll sign up for a session with Akhila, co-founder at What if Design. If your track is Thought Leadership, you’ll sign up with Ritika, co-founder at Astoundly.
You are welcome to sign up with both.
Come prepared with a question to ask or GTM pain point to work through.
Examples of questions/pain points
For Akhila
Our Business far ahead of how we present ourselves, what can we do to build trust for people during our sales process?
What can we do to improve our web presence in an agile and affordably way?
How to showcase our credibility and position our selves a category leaders against our competitors?
For Ritika
The most common mis-understanding about my solution is X. What can I do, tactically, to overcome this friction?
What are some articles that I should write, to simplify my market’s understanding of my solution?
What are some messaging risks, that I may not be aware of, that I should think about at this stage?
Register now to grab your seat. Limited spots.
About the Organizers:
What if Design is on a mission to elevate the climate movement by designing socially and environmentally responsible brands, products and services. They have worked with companies backed by the Department of Energy, ARPA-E, Accel and Sequoia to support them in streamlining their communications, creating a strong brand, and simplifying complex technical information in Carbon capture, climate venture building, GHG Sensors, Large scale solar etc., They have previously led UX Design for enterprise-grade products for the Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia, and Indian Unicorns like TATA 1mg and Pristyn Care.
Astoundly is a boutique thought leadership consultancy, purpose-led to elevate brilliant perspectives (often from quiet voices) as core drivers of innovation. The firm partners with ahead-of-the-curve companies, venture funds, nonprofits, and governments to help them communicate with clarity, authority, and strategic depth. Astoundly’s clients are tackling some of the toughest challenges in climate, AI, financial inclusion, public health, and critical infrastructure and shaping the solutions that define our future.
We are a team of editorial, communications, and creative strategists united by a shared belief in the power of unrelenting optimism. We work with brands and individuals and are proud to call some of the most resilient and forward-facing organizations clients: LinkedIn, All Raise, Dun & Bradstreet, Breakthrough Energy, Scale Venture Partners, Cloudera, Trulioo, H2O.ai, Salesforce, innovation teams within the U.S. government (2017) and more.
By registering for this event, you agree to share your registration information with the organizers.