POSITIVE INNOVATION
coflourishing by design
Our mission is to drive positive change by empowering clients with the tools to drive breakthrough innovation that drives us to thrive together.
COFLOURISHING:
OUR UNIQUE APPROACH TO POSITIVE INNOVATION
Our unique approach to Positive Innovation surpasses the conventional thinking of “impact” and instead reinforces a mindset of tying together mutual suceess from value chains through customers and into product regeneration. This requires a conscientious approach to leveraging complementary skills, content and community to create a positive and resilient future.
POSITIVE INNOVATION AT WORK:
COLLABORATING WITH CLIENTS TO REALIZE SHARED VALUE
Collaboration is the heart of psotitive innovation. We learn from our clients, their problems, ans their partners. Our goal is to help lead and facilitate the best possible solutions and learn from these experiences.
Sealvax is revolutionizing food preparation and preservation with a truly innovative vacuum technology. These products extend food freshness up to 5X normal preservation methods, greatly helping us reduce food waste. Our technology further delights customers to simplify meal preparation, and eliminate single-use plastics from the kitchen.
We worked with McDonough Innovation, MBDC and developing numerous manufacturing partners in India to realize a Cradle to Cradle Gold Certified set of shirts. This apparel not only sets a new bar for garments but also led to the creation of the Fashion For Good center in Amsterdam and Aly co-authoring an open source manual for the industry on sustainable apparel manufacturing.
Spiked drinks are a highly prevalent precursor to sexual abuse. We worked with this passionate team of entrepreneurs to find a portable and discrete method to easily test beverages for drugs. The SipChip allows a user to dip their finger into a drink and release a few drops onto the test strip. These sip chips can be mounted to a phone, keychain or piled into a place at the bar to signal predators to stay clear.
FHI is a global non-profit dedicated to improving health and well-being. Their expertise spans diverse areas including infectious disease response, reproductive health, women’s issues and crisis response in some of the most poverty stricken areas of the world. We worked with them to unify a distributed team with widely diverse insights into a singular brand to showcase their positive impact and increase their outreach.
WALKING THE WALK:
POSITIVE INNOVATION STARTS AT HOME
We have been on the ground floor of getting new positive ventures to the market. In the process we have developed fantastic networks and added a ton of learning experiences to draw from. We’d love to share them with you.
LiveLCA is a state-of-the-art lifecycle assessment (LCA) tool designed to offer decision-makers actionable data. Our team invented, designed, engineered and implemented LiveLCA as a way to give designers and engineers feedback data on the products they design.
Aly cofounded this leading ocean plastic marketplace by scouring the planet for ocean plastic supply chain partners. Leveraging his experience in manufacturing, Aly was then able to greatly expand the pool of manufacturers to successfully work with the materials and launch several products in the market. Aly also developed one of the earliest draft standards on ocean plastic verification, leading to his participation on the 3R standard.
Aly and Beth Khalifa founded the team to create this trailblazing open-source creative festival that activated all of downtown Raleigh and brought in more than 80,000 attendees in a weekend. This helped build the local region to be known as the Creative Hub of the South.
Gamila gourmet beverage products are made without paper filters, and encourages immediate biological use of the spent leaves and beans. After a successful kickstarter launch, barista competitions and multiple endorsements, we sold the company to Seventh Generation who was equally aligned with sustainable products.
SHARING EXPERIENCES:
LECTURES & WORKSHOPS DRIVING POSITIVE INNOVATION
To do something big, we’re going to need a supportive community. Our approach is to foster an Inventive Culture that can support positive innovation within your teams. Aly Khalifa and the Positive Company team provides lectures to inspire teams and workshops to help them apply their own magic.
Aly Khalifa reflected on his life-changing experience as an Eisenhower Fellow through this TEDx Raleigh talk. Building from the visionary works of E.F. Schumacher, he shared his experiences traveling throughout Southeast Asia and meeting pioneers using innovation as a force for good. From this he develops a framework on how to address our challenges ahead.
At Mayor Meeker’s request, we facilitated more than 120 members of the community to design the very center square of the city. From this charrette, City Plaza was designed to be Raleigh’s center stage, with facilities for lighting, projection, gas and electricity to serve a wide variety of civic showcases. It remains the focus of city events to this day.
We worked with the city of Raleigh to develop the first feature of the largest city park projects of modern times in North America. This project was able to save a 40 acre stand of forest and instead sculpt a challenging amount of dirt-fill into a landmark vantage point and soccer bowls.
Aly Khalifa presented at Sustainable Brands in London and San Diego on “Redesigning from a New Paradigm: Radical Integration of Material Sustainability, Job Creation and Customer Service”
ALY KHALIFA :: innovation director
Aly is the rare breed of designer and engineer in one. He can dream big while still understanding that little thing called reality. Aly has a passion for sustainable design and manufacturing, and base-of-pyramid projects. His knowledge is extensive in design for disassembly, manufacturing and sourcing, invention strategy, creative process and launch strategy. He is also recognized globally as an expert to call upon for sustainable projects involving recycled and ocean plastics.
BETH KHALIFA :: creative director
Beth sets creative direction and launch strategy for brands and products. She develops the brand tone, visual and content messaging with a researched understanding of the target customer and goals of the business. She finds the “good” in every company and magnifies it. Her passion is creative empowerment and she enjoys helping companies develop a culture and space to nurture creativity and collaboration.
KARIM KHALIFA :: innovation consultant
Karim has spent his career in the design and construction world, most recently as the Director – Innovation Specialist for Buildings at Google and Sidewalk Labs. He has also led the global hotel innovation and design team at Marriott, where he launched the company’s first innovation lab/collaborative design space (The Underground). While at Marriott, he also led the LEED Volume Build program for hotels and launched Marriott’s global modular construction initiative.
Let’s Do Good Together.
POSITIVE IMPACT BY DESIGN.