Fluid Life Design is the catalyst that leads you through disruption and uncertainty and onto…

“What’s Next?”

Built on a foundation of design thinking, and evidence-based positive psychology, Fluid Life Design helps individuals and organizations navigate unprecedented disruption and leads them to desired outcomes.

Mindsets

Design Thinking begins with a series of mindsets. We further develop these mindsets to guide clients through the design thinking process.

Authenticity

The most difficult design challenge of all is designing a life you love. Fluid Life Design is rooted in authenticity, and embraces change.

Process

Once these designer mindsets are established, we use tools in a fluid, and directional process, to help clients create, what hasn’t been created before.

Three Life Design Challenges

Life Change

We teach you how to design your life to navigate through uncertainty. Whether you’re in college, starting your first career, or are part of a new empty nest, a Fluid Life Design propels you forward.

Career Change

AI and emerging technologies have made adaptability the only stable career path moving forward. Early, mid, late, and encore careers, need a Fluid Life Design to ride this wave of disruption into authenticity.

Wealth Management

Wealth is about much more than asset allocation. Helping clients plan for a robust future, whether working with families on legacy planning or those just starting out, financial security requires a Fluid Life Design.

How we work

We offer flexible formats — half-day and full-day workshops, comprehensive multi-day programs, and ongoing consulting engagements. The Fluid Life Design curriculum teaches by doing. You’ll leave with the tools, methodologies, and insights that propel you through“What’s Next?”

Art Wagner

Who We Are

Greg Stern

Greg brings decades of experience navigating disruption and change at the highest levels of business and the arts. He is co-founder and Chairman of BSSP, an independent advertising agency producing award-winning work for global brands. He also served as CEO of SFJAZZ, leading it through the pandemic, a founder transition, and the expansion of its digital platform.

Art brings broad career experience helping people, teams, and brands navigate change. He is a practicing psychotherapist whose career has spanned advertising and media leadership, high school baseball coaching, life design training, and was a staff therapist at Saint Mary's College of California's Counseling and Psychological Services department, working with undergraduate and graduate students.