About Us
‘Never been done’ is our comfort zone
Although history repeats itself in broad strokes, we are all living in ‘never seen before’ times. Therefore it’s vital to have a partner that is ready for the future and experienced in ‘never been done’ solution development.
See the forest and the trees
We are experts in giving you an edge. Making the details actionable with big-picture thinking and strategy. Bringing the right team together for you to develop ‘critical intelligence’ and make ‘future forward’ decisions. We form a flexible workforce around your needs and specialize in an outside-in approach by enabling collaboration with pioneers, experts and thought leaders to help you cultivate a new mindset, organization, and business.
Our Promise
We want to make the act of consulting fast, personal, practitioner-based and low-invest - in one word, actionable. Showcasing concepts and real-world applications and implications, not PowerPoint. Creating meaningful connections and developing solutions not by hours, but by phased results.
Our mission is to support clients with innovative solutions and experiences that solve their challenges and create change that matters.
Clients Include
Why work with us
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Team and Network - Our team is made up of the leading experts across Retail, Workplace and Talent, Mobility and Tech, and our extended network includes over 400+ industry experts, technologists, UX resources and creatives.
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We have enabled over 200+ collaborations to flourish between our clients and experts, startups, and other companies.
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We have organized and executed over 80+ Innovation Journeys worldwide for a variety of industry clients.
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We have organized, planned, and facilitated over 100+ concept sprint workshops for a variety of industry clients.
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We have supported in the programming and speaker fulfillment of 40+ innovation events for a variety of clients.
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We have access to over 2500+ speakers and have facilitated 800+ one-on-one client-to-partner sessions.
“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.”
– William Gibson
Our partner network
MCL.digital’s partners include over 35+ unicorns, 300+ companies, 30+ academic institutions, 100+ innovation spaces, accelerators, incubators and labs.
About the Founder
Ryan McLaughlin is the CEO and Founder of MCL and The 100 Summit, a concept sprint conference.
Ryan spends most of his time in global innovation centers like Shenzhen, New York and Singapore, where he meets with pioneers and explores the latest innovations. His insights come not from the Internet, but from these physical places where the future already lies. He is therefore in the best position to describe what is happening where, on topics like retail, workplace, mobility and technology.
Ryan brings together creative and innovative minds such as Alexis Ohanian, founder of Reddit, David Kelley, the father of design thinking and founder of d.school in Stanford, and Tom Alberg, the first investor of Amazon, with organizations C-Suites so that they can learn from each other and become partners. Throughout his career in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and now Hamburg, Ryan has been a bridge bringing creative professionals, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and researchers together with leading brands and executives. He believes that collaboration not only sometimes, but always, beats competition.
Learn more about Ryan and how to book him for your next speaking engagement