With 160 people, four European offices and multiple international projects requiring attendance at any one time, it is a rare moment when we can get the whole team together. So it was a privilege to host Ideaworks day at the London Design Museum last week. A day dedicated to reflecting on the past year as well as looking to the exciting year ahead.

A year that will continue the investments we have been making in the tools we use to help clients, the tools we use to help ourselves, in the technology we invent, in the environment and the local community and in maintaining our long-term, stable and forward-thinking company.

Our Founder, Kevin Andrews also shared some insights from ‘The Expectation Effect’. The book explores the connection between our minds, our bodies, and our outcomes. It explores how expectations can form our realities and reveals the extent to which self-fulfilling prophecies shape our lives. In short, if we expect the best of things, then mostly the best of things will happen. Let’s expect the year ahead to be a great one.

We announced our platinum sponsorship partnership with Together for Cinema who design and install home cinema rooms in children’s hospices for the benefit of the children. The team were introduced to We are Beams, a local charity that supports disabled children, young people and their families. Since then, our internal team has been formed and are getting started on the design for their cinema. Watch this space!

We shared an update on PRIME, a not-for-profit co-founded by Ideaworks that exists to help companies who want to do better business (i.e. being more sustainable, both environmentally and culturally). It is seeing strong growth and more recently, starting to spark collaborations between businesses to improve their impact on the environment.

We are always on the lookout for great people to join our Ideaworks family. If you are curious about a role at Ideaworks then please check out our careers site.