Connect
Connect is a vital brand pillar because it reflects Delorean’s dedication to aligning with the needs of the modern world and fostering meaningful relationships between people, technology, and ideas. As Delorean challenges outdated practices, "Connect" ensures that every brand extension bridges gaps between users and tools, between intention and execution, creating seamless, intuitive experiences. It reinforces the brand’s role in building systems that are not only technologically advanced but also emotionally and socially resonant.
PROD 3: Delorean Podcast Network
SERV 1: Delorean Mentors
ENV 3: Museum of Fails and Fixes
COLL 1: Delorean and Ted Talks
EVE 1: Flow Fest
EXP 1: Collab Corps
PROD 3
delorean podcast network
A podcast network featured a collection of boundary-pushing shows that explore innovation and creativity
A podcaster that is part of the Delorean Podcast Network sharing project stories.
A duo podcast laughing in the studio.
Mission Focus: Delorean Podcast Network reinforces our mission of fostering innovation and collaboration by amplifying voices that celebrates disruptors, innnovators and thinking.
Delorean Podcast Network is a home for curious and critical audio content that reflects Delorean’s mission of shifting systems and empowering bold approaches in various industries. There are multiple series, each of which explore different facets of disruption, like youth-led climate action to radical business models. The podcasts are produced in-house and feature guests and different creators.
Similarities: Wondery, Dear Media
Differentiators: Delorean Podcast Network is focused on amplifying voices of thinkers and systems of disruption.
Podcast mic in the studio.
EVE 1
Flow fest
An immersive weekend bootcamp/retreat with workshops, training and exercises
Mission Focus: Flow Fest reinforces our mission of fostering innovation and collaboration by teaching individuals and team the process of high-performance.
A weekend that is part bootcamp, part creative retreat that provides workshops, training, and team-building exercises. The goal would be to collaborate and teach others about productivity, recovery, and help people discover their best work style/system. Speakers and professionals share their wisdom and attendees learn programs of deep work and energy reset exercises.
Similarities: Mindvalley, Summit Series
Differentiators: Flow Fest is an event that teaches more intuitive information on creating habits, being productive, and rejuvenating energy.
Two participants of Flow fest meeting each other and discussing a workshop.
An instructor at Flor Fest sharing insights on the workshop.
Flow fest pariticipants sharing their notes after a workshop.
EXP 1
Collab corps
A collaborative, in-person volunteering experience where teams work on community missions
Volunteers working together to build a garden shed.
Volunteers working together to restore a local garden.
Mission Focus: Delorean Collab Corps reinforces our mission of fostering innovation and collaboration by creating an experience where commnity members can work together to create change.
Delorean Collab Corps activates local neighborhoods with purpose-driven squads who tackle community missions, like restoring neglected gardens, hosting inclusive cultural pop-ups, and feeding the homeless. Each team as a supervisors who guides the project and group dynamics. The experiences spark mutual understanding and community building. Volunteering becomes a people-powered practice of collaboration.
Volunteers working together at a food kitchen.
Similarities: VolunteerMatch, DoSomething.org
Differentiators: Delorean Collab Corps are deployed in major cities and create their own group with missions, specific to the community.
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DElorean mentors
A curated program matching pioneers with up-and-coming disruptors in meaningful, project-based exchanges
Mission Focus: Delorean Mentors reinforces our mission of fostering innovation and collaboration by giving the next generation of thinkers a method of learning from seasoned professionals.
Delorean Mentors is a model focused on project-based mentorship and network weaving. Participants are grouped into collab circles that mix changemakers with seasoned innovators. Each cohort co-designs a proejcts and solves a real challenege, guided by shared interests and values. The program includes structured dialogue-sessions, reflective journaling, and peer coaching.
Museums of fails & fixes
An interactive museum showcasing failed inventions, pivoted ideas, and how collaboration led to eventual success.
Mission Focus: Museum of Fails and Fixes reinforces our mission of fostering innovation and collaboration by creating a space where failures can be reframed to be seen as part of the innovative process.
Museum of Fails & fixes is a celebration of failure as a springboard for innovation. There are exhibits of once-flawed products or ideas that show the story of how it was reiterated or salvaged, especially through collaboration. Visitors are invited to remix the products, contribute thoughts, or sketches on how they would redesign it today. The space forces visitors to rethink the stigma around getting it wrong.
Similarities: Museum of Failure, Museum of Jurassic Technology
Differentiators: Museum of Fails and Fixes focuses on iterations that ended up in success. It celebrates failure as part of the process to success.
COLL 1
Delorean and Ted Talks
An open-access talk series by radical thinkers, activists, creators — focused on non-traditional innovation paths.
Mission Focus: Ted Talk Series reinforces our mission of fostering innovation and collaboration by sharing knowledge to democratize innovation education.
Delorean partners with TED Talks to create a series of conversations and lectures that cover radical collaboration, systems disruptions, and interdiscplinary practice. They are taught by innovators from a variety of industries and walks of life. The masterclass talks ends with collective assignments for viewers and has collab forums where ideas grow after the talk ends.
Similarities: MasterClass, 99u
Differentiators: Delorean and Ted Talks will focus on system disruptions and are available in person to participants.
SERV 1
Similarities: ADP List, Big Brothers Big Sisters
Differentiators: Delorean Mentors are focused on sharing stories about innovative thinking and disrupting in a variety of industries rather than a singlular one.
ENV 3