Design It in Michigan, Make It in Michigan: Local Product Design Drives Reshoring Success

Summer is here: the air is warmer, the days are longer, and your team’s calendar is just starting to open up. It’s the season when teams, if given the space, can rediscover what they’re really capable of. But how many more ideas can your team generate inside the same boardroom, staring at the same slide deck?

After years of hybrid meetings, back-to-back Zoom meetings, and increasingly tactical to-do lists, even the most visionary teams can fall into execution mode. Creativity flattens. Strategy narrows. The “why” behind the work gets lost in the “what now.” The fix? Get outside – not just outside the office, but outside your usual ways of working.

Bonfires & Breakthroughs: A Creative Reset in Nature

The Season Is Short, The Opportunity Is Now

There’s only so much time each year when the weather’s just right for stepping outside, gathering around a fire, and doing your best thinking under the trees. The time between now and fall is the sweet spot, and it doesn’t last long. Calendars get crowded in Q4, and teams get buried. By the time the urgency hits, the best windows (and the best weather) are already gone.

That’s why now is the moment to lock in a time to step back with intention, reconnect with purpose, and build momentum going into year-end planning – or next-year strategy – with clarity and shared vision. We’ve only got a handful of dates open this season, so if this sounds like the spark your team needs, let’s grab some time to talk.

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