kyu Collective

✨ We’re excited to announce the launch of kyu Pulse, a new creative solution from the digital dreamers and expert technologists at Sid Lee, Kepler, BIMM, Napkyn, Digital Kitchen, YARD, C2, and Haigo. Through this connected partnership, clients will gain more than just access to 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁. They’ll tap into a dynamic system of 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀, and a wellspring of passion for 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀 that move consumers and the markets alike. This isn't just a network of agencies. It’s marketing reimagined through the power of connection. 🥇 🤝 Visit https://lnkd.in/eu5nNUgM to find out more about kyu Pulse and the teams behind it. #kyupulse

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙞𝙣 11 𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙨? 🎥 For the team at Godfrey Dadich Partners, it’s: agree to produce and deliver a short film on freedom for the 2024 Democratic National Convention. Directed by GDP CEO Scott Dadich and renowned photographer Platon, the film is a stunning example of the magic that happens when you take brilliant creatives (like Paula Chowles and Marcus Wohlsen) and task them with capturing the American spirit. ✨ We’re proud that kyu Collective member companies are producing impactful work like this for the world’s biggest moments. This Election Day, let’s put freedom in focus! Get more from behind the scenes at https://lnkd.in/gmyKMSXx. 📸: Rachel Elkind #Freedom #Democracy #TeamGDP #Collaboration

⭐ 𝙋𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮. 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚? Last month, we opened the doors to kyu House at #ClimateWeekNYC to kyu Collective companies BEworks, C2, Gehl - Making Cities for People, Kepler, IDEO, and SYPartners, plus partners like LinkedIn, BSR, Kite Insights, World Resources Institute, The Aspen Institute, and RMI. 📝 A topic that came up time and time again — from speakers like Blaine Merker (Gehl), Laurie Jennings (Good Housekeeping), and Wangui Kaniaru (ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna)— was messaging. Check out insights from kyu House on 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘀 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. Explore more about kyu House at https://lnkd.in/eCmzMcXc and be the first to know where we’re heading in 2025 by signing up at https://lnkd.in/eFz3buHK. 📸: David Dini for kyu House (𝘍𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘴, 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦: Rick Greenberg, Tim Brown, Kwolanne Felix, Jeff Risom, Blaine Merker, Majken Kalhave, Kristen Rydberg, Robin Grossinger) #kyuHouse #ClimateWeekNYC #ClimateAction

🏡 It’s been a month since kyu House at Climate Week NYC and we’re still buzzing about all we heard from BEworks, C2, Gehl - Making Cities for People, Kepler, IDEO, IDEO.org, SYPartners, and many more. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be spotlighting wisdom from kyu House around three core themes. 🤝 First up: 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘀 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. Speakers like Nicolas Maitret (SYPartners), Teju N. Adisa-Farrar (Black Fiber & Textile Network), and Lucy B. (Nestlé Nespresso SA) talked about breaking down silos, bringing diverse voices to the table, and working together across sectors and disciplines to make real, lasting climate change. Find out more about what you missed at kyu House at https://lnkd.in/d3jwY6hF and stay up to date on the latest kyu House news at https://lnkd.in/dyeRQdKV. 📸: David Dini for kyu House #kyuHouse #ClimateWeekNYC #ClimateAction

With companies around the kyu Collective working at the forefront of #AI, we gathered some of our top thinkers to discuss their pressing concerns and to trade insights. This summer, Mike Burns (CTO, Upstatement), Jenna Fizel (Emerging Technology Lab Managing Director, IDEO), Anthony Quigley (VP, AI Systems & Emergent Technologies, SYPartners), and Jennifer Weeks, Ph.D. (former VP of Strategy, BEworks) met via Zoom for a lively, timely, and thoughtful conversation moderated by Jay Olman (Lead Data Scientist, Kepler). They asked questions like: ⭐ With AI, will there be a time when we feel like we’ve arrived? 🪞 How will the ways people define themselves change over the next five to 10 years due to AI? 😟 What are our biggest AI worries and how can we prevent them from becoming reality? To find out how they explored these questions and more, head to https://lnkd.in/eyfdQM4K.

We loved seeing how IDEO showed up at #ClimateWeekNYC at kyu House and beyond. Check out key insights from Nazlican Goksu, Sergio Fregoni, Natalia Vasquez, Alex Gallafent, and Tim Brown 👇 ⭐ 🧠

For kyu Tokyo business development director SHUN IKEGAI, curiosity and creativity are top of mind. His job is to understand and communicate the work that’s being done across 20+ kyu Collective companies around the globe. A big part of that is, “standing between each country’s culture, work style, and language, and acting as a translator and mediator.” Shun, who connects the Eastern and Western worlds, often finds that the perspectives he encounters go beyond the textbook cultural stereotypes. Among the kyu Collective projects that have recently inspired him are Upstatement’s work for Earth Alliance (and their use of AI “to complement the consistency and versatility of the creative”) and Godfrey Dadich Partners’s work, in partnership with Hakuhodo Inc., for Grand Seiko Asia-Pacific, a project that he believes is particularly special for how it honors the Japanese cultural ID. When he’s not bridging cultural divides, Shun is embracing his musical alter ego with his synth-driven dystopian rock band, yahyel, which has toured the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Learn more about the diverse companies that make up the kyu Collective at https://lnkd.in/ePWTskdZ.

Launch alert 🚀 We are so excited for Lexington and this new global healthcare communications partnership. Can't wait to see them tell healthcare stories that matter. Find out more below 👇

That’s a wrap on kyu House at Climate Week NYC! Over the course of three days, we welcomed influential, insightful, and inspiring guests in the climate space and beyond. 🗣️ We got our friendly debate on with dynamic face-offs from Kite Insights, BSR, and LinkedIn that probed how American political leadership and job creation have a place (or don’t) in the climate space. 🤝 SYPartners explored how collective action and next-generation leadership can help us thrive in the Climate Era with The Aspen Institute and Kite Insights, while C2 shared insights about sustainable gatherings. 💡IDEO, IDEO.org, and others broadened our dialogue by bringing gender, global entrepreneurship, and AI into the climate conversation. 🧠 Kepler and BEworks asked us to consider the stories we tell around sustainability and what we can do to translate words into tangible actions, whether they're related to consumer spending or behavioral changes. 🌇 Gehl - Making Cities for People, along with partners like RMI, World Resources Institute, Second Nature Ecology and Design, and Creative Denmark, showed us a vision of the future of our cities — and how embracing nature can increase well-being for everyone. Along the way, we formed new connections, bounced around novel ideas, and celebrated how “creativity in action” can help us build the world we need now. Stay tuned for more insights from kyu House and keep up to date with where we’re headed next at https://lnkd.in/e879E7_B. 📸: David Dini for kyu House #kyuhouse #ClimateWeekNYC #ClimateAction

The final day of kyu House highlighted the future of climate action — and what that future looks like when we get things right. 🇯🇵 ENND PARTNERS leaders Tim Brown and Masanobu Iwabuchi were joined by Marukome USA Inc.’s Shuta Aoki to explore Japanese business lessons and how they can help in the climate fight. They talked existing in the space between the past and future, the concept of “mottainai” (a sense of regret concerning waste), and more. 💪 Leadership in the Climate Era isn’t just about the now. SYPartners’ Jessica Orkin and Kite Insights’s Sophie Lambin 🪁 hosted an intimate conversation that saw next-generation leaders like Alexandre da Rocha Leão and Sage Lenier taking center stage. 🏙️ Cities represent a path to a lower-emissions world. “Done right, they are profoundly good for the planet,” said Third Derivative and RMI’s Rushad Nanavatty in his introduction to Gehl - Making Cities for People, RMI, and World Resources Institute’s standing-room-only session. “We need a language to talk about the kind of life that a climate-aligned city offers,” said Gehl’s Blaine Merker, who pointed to examples of Gehl’s impactful work in places like Shanghai, Sydney, and Carmel, Indiana. The good vibes continued with an engaging panel hosted by Yuki Numata and featuring Majora Carter, Felipe Ramírez Buitrago, and Robin Chase. 🐝 What happens when we bring more nature and biodiversity into our everyday lives? Gehl’s second kyu House session explored how we can increase productivity, creativity, and well-being by transforming urban spaces. Gehl's Jeff Risom gathered insights from experts doing just that: urban ecologist Robin Grossinger, Majken Kalhave, Kristen Rydberg (of the urban beekeeping company Alvéole), and Merker. 📣 LinkedIn and Kite Insights got us pumped with another stellar debate — this time exploring “Is Climate Action Job Creation?” Debaters Dawn Lippert, Patrick Flynn, David Carlin, Ajaita S., Kwolanne Felix, and Caterina Sarfatti covered intentionality, entrepreneurship, global perspectives, and more for impressed jury members Wanjira Mathai, Nigar Arpadarai, and Allen Blue. While the “Against” debaters clinched victory, the vital discourse was a win for everyone. 🌍 kyu House wrapped up with a compelling vision of the future in a WRI and The Green Belt Movement session that centered on African entrepreneurship. “The challenge that I want to pose to all of us today is to see entrepreneurs all the way through. They're not just a ‘feel good’ story, they are a scale-up story,” said Endeavor Kenya’s Maryanne Ochola. We’ve had so many brilliant guests stop by kyu House at Climate Week NYC and we’re still buzzing about the compelling ideas they shared. See you next time at kyu House. 📸: David Dini for kyu House #kyuhouse #ClimateWeekNYC #ClimateAction