Unreasonable Mentors

Sarah Nuernberger

Innovation/Experience Strategy Lead at fuseproject

Sarah is an Unreasonable Mentor. Sarah was part of Unreasonable Impact Asia Pacific 2018, and has advised over 14 Unreasonable companies.
Sarah's mission is one of impact, she works to craft desirable futures by conducting innovation strategy for clients. She blends business and design thinking to develop elevated but practical solutions. Her sweet spot is in moving Fortune 100's from uncertainty to possibility and in pushing startup clients to think bigger while balancing the necessity of quickly getting an MVP to market. Some of the industries she has been involved in includes: AI, CE, IOT, Aging In Place, Green Technology, Cannabis, and Wellness. She has spent the last five years practicing innovation design strategy at fuseproject design agency in San Francisco which is wildly known for making design actionable and getting products to market. She has won over 15 awards during her time at fuseproject.
Having a strong desire to teach and dig into our society's most pressing issues, she also worked for a year at the Stanford d.school as a adjunct lecturer where she mentored a serial social entrepreneur in developing a solution aimed at alleviating homelessness nationwide. Prior to practicing innovation strategy, she ran her own creative services business for 8 yrs as a photographer. This experience combined with her innovation/design strategy experience has made her a master storyteller with a strong empathetic sensibility that allows her to quickly jump in and understand what customers need, the business context, and the key challenge at hand.
Some of her past clients include: Samsung, Diageo, PayPal, Kodak, Cobalt, August, Zolt
Education includes an M.B.A. in design strategy from California College of the Arts (2013) and a B.S. from Drexel University (2004)
Currently located in San Francisco.