LABORATORY

WHAT HAPPENS AT THE LAB

At Laboratory5 Inc. we are creatives playing and instigating fun while producing real outcomes. We build human ecosystems by connecting people to topics that matter globally. Using our skills as storytellers to co-create narratives for tools, training, and applied outcomes.

Our primary clientele is government, higher education, military, and non-profits. Topics we have created inside of include: Threatcasting, Futurecasting, Coolabilities, Cyber Awareness, AI, Big Data, Biodesign, Weaponized Narratives, and Information Shaping.

Clients work with us to look into the future as a way to deepen their process, make decisions and take action. The rule-bending approach at the Lab asks clients to suspend ideas on what they think they know and allow new information to lead to new outcomes. We push our clients to think bigger to bring to life transformational outcomes. We have a distinct way of thinking that offers a unique perspective and pushes the boundaries giving new insights to see into the future.

ABOUT OUR FOUNDER:

Cyndi Coon is a time traveler and rule-bender, nerding out for good using data and science. She is a storyteller, creative, ecosystem builder, facilitator, author, producer, and Futures experience designer for governments, military, higher education, industry and NGOs.

Cyndi has peered into the future of: Aerospace, AI, Big Data, Bio-Health, Covid-19, Design Fiction, Digital Currency, Disabilities, Gender Equality, [the] Individual, Information Warfare, Mis/Dis/Mal Information, Sports, Truth, Workforce, Weaponization and more. Her clients and collaborators include Army Cyber Institute, BioDesign Institute, Homeland Security, National Guard, Sandia National Lab, SecureAmerica Institute and US Secret Service, to highlight a few.

She is Founder and Producing Director at Applied Futures Lab, Founder at Laboratory5 Inc. (F. 2003), and Co-Builder of the Threatcasting Lab. She is on the board of directors of the People Centered Internet where she leads the i4j (global workforce), Global Help Desk and Coolabilities projects. She is a Co-Chair of the Human Wisdom Committee and is on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Planet Positive 2030 Global Sustainability Standards.

Cyndi resides in the high desert mountains of northern New Mexico, USA, a dreamy space surrounded by nature.

Constellation of Experience

AI, Creativity, Coolabilities, Design Fiction, Design Justice, Digital Equity, Disabilities, Futurecasting, Gender Equality, Human Ecosystems, Inclusion, [the] Individual, Information Shaping, Information Warfare, Supply Chain Manufacturing, Mis/Dis/Mal Information, Neurodiversity, Resilient Communities, Science Futures, Sports, Sustainable Cities, Threatcasting, Time, Truth, Weaponization and United Nations SDGs.