NOT A TRADITIONAL CONSULTING STUDIO
Complex challenges demand creative facilitation.
There’s a reason your teams often get stuck when they face big challenges:
The tools that got you where you are won’t get you where you’re going. In the gap, uncertainty creates fear. Trust erodes. And your teams fall back on old habits.
But the world won’t press pause while you get comfortable with uncertainty.
Consider us your new toolbox.
Suchee Studios offers expert facilitation to guide your team through change. We work with paradoxes like the push and pull of uncertainty. This allows us to open up a broader field of choices that help your organization see what’s truly possible.
This kind of facilitation requires more than a deck of standard practices. It takes holding structure loosely enough so something new can emerge, knowing when to guide and when to get out of the way. It takes deep listening skills, emotional presence, and the ability to lead without dictating. And it’s an art we’ve been practicing for decades.
Suchee Studios is led by fahad punjwani and supported by a national network of A-list collaborators invited into projects based on each client’s needs.
fahad punjwani (he/they)
fahad is a strategist, designer, poet, and uncle. He was raised in Karachi, Pakistan and now proudly calls Houston home. His vision is to root change in beauty, liberation, and dialogue.
As a management consultant and a design strategist, fahad has spent a decade working with Fortune 500 companies and non-profits on developing new visions, new products, and new teams. He has taught and spoken on design thinking at MIT, Rice University, and the University of Texas at Austin.
Prior to Suchee, fahad worked as a Design Fellow at IDEO, Strategy Consultant at Deloitte Consulting, and DEI Consultant at The Darkest Horse.
fahad completed graduate work at MIT in product and human-centered design. There, he also spent a lot of time designing for belonging and inclusion. fahad completed his undergraduate studies at Rice University in Mathematical Economic Analysis. There, he also spent a lot of time taking classes in history and theater, and building culture at his residential college.
You can find fahad enjoying poetry and coffee in one of the craft coffee shops in Houston, dancing in his living room, and spending time with his nephews.
“fahad has been a thought partner and advisor whom I can count on. fahad has a unique way of seeing and articulating my organizational needs, leaving me with clarity and confidence in doing the hard work of leadership!”
Our Collaborators
Judy Le (facilitator extraordinare)
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Dr. Anhlan Nguyen (bilingual researcher - Vietnamese)
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Shirley Hernandez (graphic designer)
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Yady Blessinger (bilingual researcher - Spanish)
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Rosi Greenberg (facilitator, storyteller, graphic recorder)
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Judy Le (facilitator extraordinare) . Dr. Anhlan Nguyen (bilingual researcher - Vietnamese) . Shirley Hernandez (graphic designer) . Yady Blessinger (bilingual researcher - Spanish) . Rosi Greenberg (facilitator, storyteller, graphic recorder) .
Our studio is in Houston, Texas, which is the sacred and ancestral homeland of the Sana, Karankawa, Atakapa, and Coahuitecan people. We acknowledge and share gratitude for the stewards of this land as both historic and contemporary communities.