Elliot leads and founded brightspot strategy, a consultancy that works with organization to improve the experience of their people by changing their space, services, or culture. He is an accomplished strategist, expert facilitator, and gifted sense-maker, able to understand the most complex of problems through both creative and analytical means. He has directed projects for leading companies as well as higher education and cultural institutions such as Google, Microsoft, SFMOMA, University of Virginia, NC State University, and the Smithsonian Institution. Elliot frequently writes and speaks about design strategy and also teaches in the Design and Management program at Parsons The New School for Design.