JOIN A THREE-DAY STRATEGIC-PLANNING INTENSIVE.
Turn what matters into a plan you can actually carry forward.
Sh*t Happens By Design helps people and teams design what comes next and build toward it. Apply strategic design and agile ways of working to turn goals into action, learn through practice, and create momentum toward outcomes that matter.
DECEMBER 9–11, 2026 · INDY HALL, PHILADELPHIA
Limited to 12 participantsThe work you choose affects your time. Your financial goals affect your capacity. Your responsibilities shape what is feasible. The way you operate determines whether a plan becomes sustainable progress or another source of pressure.
Most planning experiences focus on what you want to accomplish without examining the system that must support it.
Design Your 2027 helps you look at the whole picture. You will consider your work, priorities, capacity, energy, responsibilities, and desired future together. Then you will make intentional choices about what the coming year can realistically hold.
You do not need more goals. You need a year designed around what matters and a way to begin living it.
This experience is designed for founders, independent professionals, and creatives who have meaningful work underway but need protected time and structured guidance to determine what comes next.
Design Your 2027 is a three-day SHBD planning intensive at Indy Hall. Clarify where your work is going, choose your priorities, and build a practical Q1 plan that accounts for your time, resources, and capacity.
Step back from daily demands and examine what your current life and work are telling you.
You will focus on these outcomes:
Define what you are building toward and make the tradeoffs required to support it.
You will focus on these outcomes:
Translate your direction into an actionable first-quarter plan.
You will focus on these outcomes:
December 9–11, 2026 at Indy Hall, Philadelphia. The morning program runs from 10 a.m. to noon each day, with optional coworking until 5 p.m. You only need to reserve the morning sessions for the program. Afterward, use the coworking time for your own work, continue developing your plan, or work alongside other participants. Lunch is on your own. Limited to 12 participants.
Explore Design Your 2027The goal is not to predict every part of the year. It is to make the choices that allow you to enter it with intention and momentum.
It was challenging in the best way. It simplified the overwhelming feeling about where to start and helped me get what was in my head onto paper.
The workshop was a sprint of knowledge, tools, and concepts that make vision tangible and attainable. My confidence grew.
This program consistently gets me out of my head and into action. As a returning participant, I can confidently recommend this accelerator to any entrepreneur or creative who needs clarity and direction. It blends self-discovery, goal setting, and real implementation in a way that actually moves you forward.
Reflections from participants in previous SHBD workshops and facilitated experiences.
Annalicia GeeterStrategic Outcomes Advisor and Founder of Futura Studios and SH*T HAPPENS BY DESIGN
SH*T HAPPENS BY DESIGN began with a belief: the strategic-design practices used to help major organizations navigate complexity and create change should not be reserved for corporations.
I spent more than a decade working across strategic design, change management, product strategy, facilitation, and program delivery. I helped leaders and teams make sense of complicated situations, align around what mattered, and translate strategy into action.
But when I began moving from corporate consultant to independent consultant and, ultimately, studio owner, I encountered a different kind of design challenge.
I wasn’t only changing jobs. I was reconsidering how I wanted to work, what I wanted to build, how much capacity I actually had, and what kind of life the business needed to support. Traditional career advice and business planning treated those questions separately. My life did not.
I created The Unstuck Method to help me examine the full system, clarify the future I wanted, and design a path I could test and activate. That work became the foundation of SHBD.
Today, I use the same strategic-design, systems-thinking, and change practices to help other people see more clearly, choose intentionally, and move differently through consequential moments in their lives and work.
Strategic design helps organizations create better futures. I believe individuals should have access to that power, too.
Consider what you want your life and work to support, make a practical plan, and get support as you put it into practice.
Design Your 2027 runs December 9–11, 2026 at Indy Hall, Philadelphia. Morning sessions 10 a.m. to noon, with optional coworking until 5 p.m. Lunch is on your own.
$349
Per person. Your ticket includes:
$299
Per person, for current Indy Hall members. Includes the three mornings of facilitated planning, the Bring Your Human to Work self-guided course and toolkit, and coworking on all three program days.
Ask about Design Your 2027$99
Self-guided course and toolkit. Make space to consider what you want your life and work to support before you plan what comes next.
Coming with coworkers? If three or more people from the same organization would like to attend, reach out to Annalicia to discuss the best fit.
Ask about attending as a teamAsk about a private intensive
Private team experiences may include additional customization, team-only facilitation, and organizational planning support.
Planned January 13–15, 2027. Proposed $299 per person. Guided planning plus the Bring Your Human to Work self-guided course and toolkit; no venue benefits.
Ask about the January virtual intensivePlanned February 1–March 12, 2027. Six weeks of support to put one priority into practice. Bring a clear priority you are ready to work on, whether or not you attended an intensive.
Ask about the February Momentum SprintBusiness will be part of the conversation, but it is not treated as separate from the rest of your life. You will consider your work, capacity, priorities, responsibilities, and desired future together before building your plan.
No. You can arrive with an early idea, competing priorities, or a plan that needs to be challenged and clarified.
You only need to reserve the morning sessions for the program. Afterward, you can stay at Indy Hall until 5 p.m. and use the coworking time for your own work, continue developing your plan, or work alongside other participants. Lunch is on your own.
If three or more people from the same team or organization would like to attend, reach out to Annalicia to discuss the best fit. A private intensive is a separate engagement designed only for your team.
No. The Bring Your Human to Work self-guided course and toolkit is included in your Design Your 2027 ticket.
Bring your laptop, charger, calendar, relevant business or financial information, and anything else you need to make informed decisions about the coming year. You will receive a short preparation questionnaire before the intensive.
Cancel at least 14 days before the experience for a full refund. After that, registration is nonrefundable but may be transferred to another participant up to 48 hours before the experience. No refunds are available for no-shows or partial attendance. If SHBD cancels or reschedules the experience, you may choose a full refund or transfer your registration to the new date.
Give yourself three focused mornings to decide what matters, design what is feasible, and build the first version of the plan.
Explore Design Your 2027DECEMBER 9–11, 2026 · INDY HALL, PHILADELPHIA
Limited to 12 participants