An Applied Identity Experience

Identity
Lab™

A guided space where people examine the identity systems shaping how they see themselves, navigate change, use technology, and contribute their full potential.

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Reflect
Measure
Experiment
Practice
Apply

Why a Lab?

Identity is not fixed.
It can be examined and strengthened.

The Identity Lab™ turns identity development from an abstract idea into a guided, practical experience. Participants explore how internal narratives, external systems, technology, culture, and lived experience shape what they believe is possible.

Reflection

Participants surface the stories, assumptions, strengths, and experiences influencing how they see themselves.

Experimentation

New language, behaviors, tools, and decisions are tested in a supported environment.

Application

Insights become practical commitments for leadership, learning, career growth, technology use, and contribution.

The Lab Journey

Five movements from awareness
to intentional action.

01

Observe

Notice the patterns, experiences, systems, and narratives shaping identity.

What is influencing me?
02

Name

Develop language for strengths, values, barriers, aspirations, and identity tension.

What is true for me?
03

Measure

Assess belonging, confidence, agency, visibility, trust, and persistence.

What signals are present?
04

Experiment

Practice new decisions, language, boundaries, behaviors, and technology-enabled possibilities.

What can I try?
05

Activate

Turn insight into a personal, professional, or organizational identity action plan.

What happens next?

Inside the Experience

Not a lecture.
A guided transformation environment.

Each lab is designed around the people in the room and may combine research, discussion, assessment, storytelling, visual mapping, technology, case scenarios, peer exchange, and action design.

01Identity Mapping

Visualize the internal and external forces shaping identity.

02Guided Reflection

Use structured prompts to uncover beliefs, strengths, friction, and possibility.

03Identity Metrics

Explore measurable indicators such as agency, confidence, trust, and belonging.

04Scenario Practice

Apply identity-centered judgment to real decisions, systems, and environments.

05Activation Plan

Leave with practical commitments, language, and next-step experiments.

Lab Formats

Built for individuals,
teams, and communities.

Identity Lab™ can be adapted for youth, women, leaders, teams, educators, technology professionals, and organizations navigating transformation.

Youth Identity Lab

Confidence, belonging, technology identity, imagination, resilience, and leadership for middle school through college participants.

Leadership Identity Lab

Executive presence, professional identity, visibility, judgment, agency, and leadership impact.

AI & Identity Lab

How AI affects work, confidence, decision-making, identity, culture, and human potential.

Team Identity Lab

Shared identity, trust, role clarity, collaboration, belonging, and collective performance.

Organizational Identity Lab

Culture, systems, employee experience, governance, and the operational identity gap.

Custom Lab Experience

A designed experience aligned to your audience, transformation challenge, and desired outcomes.

Potential Outcomes

Participants leave with
more than inspiration.

01Clearer Identity Language

A stronger ability to name values, strengths, aspirations, and identity tensions.

02Greater Agency

More confidence in making decisions, setting boundaries, using voice, and taking action.

03Visible Patterns

Recognition of the systems and experiences influencing behavior and opportunity.

04Practical Experiments

Specific ways to practice new behaviors, language, leadership, and technology use.

05Identity Measures

Indicators that can be revisited to evaluate confidence, belonging, trust, and progress.

06Activation Plan

A focused set of commitments for the next stage of growth or transformation.

Framework Connections

The Lab activates
the Institute’s intellectual property.

Identity Lab™ can draw from IAMPHENOMENAL™, The Phenomenal Journey™, SIIM™, the Identity Metrics Framework™, A.I.M.™, and The Operational Identity Gap™.

Individual Identity

Personal belief, confidence, belonging, agency, resilience, and leadership.

Identity Measurement

Qualitative and quantitative signals that make identity outcomes visible.

Organizational Infrastructure

Systems, leadership, culture, governance, and experience redesign.

Bring the Lab to Life

Create the space
where identity can shift.

Bring Identity Lab™ to your school, conference, organization, leadership program, technology initiative, or community.