Designing for Impact, Innovating for the Future

At CLQ, we believe that true innovation is rooted in deep human understanding. Our work is built on humanity-centered design, an evolved approach to design thinking that goes beyond individual users to consider societal-level challenges and complex systems.

Through deep research, systems-based thinking, and co-creation, we help businesses navigate the evolving landscape of human behavior, technology, and innovation—ensuring that their strategies are not only effective but sustainable and impactful.

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Our Approach

Everything we do is underpinned by our trademarked design thinking methodology, which has led to significant business impact and financial gains for our clients. We take businesses beyond conventional innovation, unlocking new revenue streams, implementing transformative strategies, and building alternative business models.

Our Double Diamond approach ensures a holistic, iterative process that deeply understands business strategy, immerses into the customer world, and delivers tailored, data-driven solutions.

Our process is delivered across three core phases:

  1. Defining Opportunities – Identifying challenges, market gaps, and emerging opportunities through research and insight.

  2. Designing the Solutions – Co-creating tailored, human-centered interventions that align with business strategy and user needs.

  3. Delivering the Value – Implementing, testing, and refining solutions to ensure measurable impact and long-term success.

Meet the Founders

Robyn Moore and Savannah Otto founded CLQ in 2022 with a shared vision: to solve complex problems and drive meaningful impact.

With 18 years of combined experience in strategy, research, and product design, they bring a unique ability to blend human insights with business impact, helping organisations unlock new opportunities and design future-ready solutions.

  • Robyn is a Design Thinking expert committed to designing inclusive solutions, mentoring future leaders, and fostering ecosystems where both businesses and people can thrive.

  • Savannah is a strategist and designer deeply passionate about sustainable innovation. Savannah bridges the gap between visionary thinking and practical execution, creating solutions that resonate on a human level while driving real-world impact.

Together, they lead CLQ in reimagining how creativity, collaboration, and innovation come together to drive transformation.

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The CLQ Ecosystem: Where Innovation Meets Collaboration

We designed our operating model to reimagine how creativity comes together, enabling deep collaboration and extreme teaming of creative leaders, thinkers, and innovators.

Ecosystem Partners

CLQ’s ecosystem partners are a diverse group of organisations that enrich and broaden our Design Thinking value chain. These partnerships provide niche insights, industry-specific expertise, and accelerated execution for product, service, and experience development.

We meticulously curate these capabilities to ensure quality, efficiency, and innovation at every stage of the process.

Ecosystem Consultants

Our Ecosystem Consultants—a dynamic network of strategists, designers, researchers, and industry experts—bring specialised skills to rapidly scale innovation efforts and strengthen existing teams.

  • Need expert strategy insights? We have specialists in business model innovation and market growth.

  • Looking for cutting-edge research? Our research consultants provide deep human and market insights to inform decision-making.

  • Developing a new digital product? Our UX, UI, and service designers bring experience-driven solutions to life.

This fluid, expertise-driven model allows us to assemble the right team, at the right time, for the right challenge—ensuring rapid innovation and meaningful impact.