Imagining new solutions to the world's toughest problems.

The Imaginate Method helps social sector leaders think bigger — with tools, frameworks, and creative space for the ideas that change everything.

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"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

— Albert Einstein

"It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover."

— Henri Poincaré

"If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions."

— Albert Einstein

"Our mind is not likely to give us a clear answer to any particular problem unless we set it a clear question."

— Graham Wallas

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

— Albert Einstein

"It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover."

— Henri Poincaré

"If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions."

— Albert Einstein

"Our mind is not likely to give us a clear answer to any particular problem unless we set it a clear question."

— Graham Wallas

// Tools

Sharpen your thinking.

AGILE
STRATEGY

Agile Strategy

Most nonprofit strategies end up as 40-page documents nobody reads. Agile Strategy replaces the static plan with a living system — a clear north star, real-time signals from your environment, and short strategic sprints that keep your organization learning and adapting every quarter.

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THE
STRATEGY
HABIT

The Strategy Habit

Twelve monthly exercises that turn strategy from a dusty document into a team habit. Each one takes 90 minutes, pulls in your whole leadership group, and builds the strategic muscles your organization needs to stay ahead of change.

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MICRO
GUIDE

The Social Entrepreneur's Micro Guide

A compact, no-nonsense cheat sheet for building a social enterprise — from first idea to scaling. Four phases, hard-won lessons, and the books to read at each stage. The mentor talk you wish you'd had on day one.

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The Imaginate Method

How to take a creative sabbatical and come back with that paradigm-shifting idea.

You work in the social sector — as a nonprofit leader, a founder, a philanthropist. You've got deep expertise and solid experience. You know your stuff. And as part of your life's work, you're tackling a crazy big problem that's affecting humanity.

But lately, something feels off. The tools that were once cutting edge are getting blunt. The daily business hums along, but you're not making the progress you know is possible. You've read the strategy books. You've done the team retreat with the fabulous consultant and the inspiring location — and come home with a pile of Post-It notes that lost their spark.

The Power of Big Ideas

Behind every paradigm shift, there is one idea — rare, valuable, and world-changing. Not a strategy tweak. Not an incremental improvement. A genuine breakthrough that reframes the problem entirely. The Imaginate Method is built on a simple conviction: that idea is already inside you.

Part of you wants to quit. Part of you knows the answer is in there, if only you could step away from the daily grind and get the time to really think. So you're considering a sabbatical — a few weeks of space to reboot. But how do you make sure you come back with something real?

That's exactly what the Imaginate Method is for. A structured 4-phase process that turns a creative sabbatical into a launchpad for Big-C ideas. Not a retreat. Not a break. A disciplined framework for breakthrough thinking.

If this is who you are, where you are, and how you feel — this is for you.

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// About the Founder

Meet Daniele.

I'm Daniele D'Esposito, a social entrepreneur passionate about organizational development, social innovation, and building tools for the nonprofit sector. I started in humanitarian work, moved to human rights, then founded Nonprofit Builder to connect foundations, nonprofits, and consultants for capacity building.

I believe in the power of breakthrough ideas. Behind every paradigm shift there is one — rare, valuable, and world-changing. They say it's all about execution, but nothing great ever came from a poor idea to start with.

That's why I created the Imaginate Method. You feel there's a big idea inside you, if only you could surface it? My mission is to help you get it out into the world.

Also building

Nonprofit Builder A marketplace connecting foundations, nonprofits, and consultants for capacity building — where grantees consume for free and foundations pay on their behalf. Org360 An AI-powered survey platform that turns responses into structured development reports, backed by a deep library of open-source assessments. Persona360 A new kind of personality assessment that uses AI to blend 12 trait pairs with your context and aspirations — creating a narrative that's uniquely yours.