Sailing Smiles
Delivering dental care for the caribbean communities
Social Impact
Service Design
Design of non-profit
Healthcare
ROLE
Researcher
Strategiest
Workshop Facilitator
DURATION
10 Weeks, 2025
OUTPUT
Strategic Roadmap
Client
OVERVIEW
About Sailing Smile
Sailing Smiles is a non-profit initiative bringing essential dental care to the remote island communities of the Caribbean where access to oral healthcare is nearly nonexistent. Founded by Dr. Stephanie Sweeney, CEO of Savannah Dental, the project was built on a bold belief: that geography should never be a barrier to basic healthcare. What started as a vision became a strategic roadmap to reach thousands of underserved people across the islands.
Mission
Sailing Smiles aims to create at providing essential oral care services to isolated island communities, prioritizing accessibility and impact.
Vision
Establish a fleet of catamarans operating across islands to maximize dental and oral healthcare accessibility.
THE CHALLENGE
How do you deliver consistent, quality dental care across scattered islands with no roads, no clinics, and no easy access? How do you build a model that is practical, sustainable, and truly community-centred?
WORKSHOP FACILITATION
Brand Diagnostic Workshop
We curated a brand diagnostics workshop to address specific questions, issues, or opportunities with key stakeholders invited to participate. The expected gains from the workshop included enhanced brand clarity, a set of actionable strategic initiatives, a competitive advantage through differentiation, and effective stakeholder engagement.
WORKSHOP SYNTHESIS
Area Of Opportunity
Our team curated a brand diagnostics workshop to address specific questions, issues, or opportunities with key stakeholders invited to participate.
The 7 activities that were hosted were:
• Dreams and Nightmares
• Brand DNA
• Winds, Anchors Questions and Ideas
• Stakeholder Mapping
• Blue Ocean Strategy
• 2x2 Time vs Impact
The expected gains from the workshop included enhanced brand clarity, a set of actionable strategic initiatives, a competitive advantage through differentiation, and effective stakeholder engagement.
Let’s build something
meaningful together
Open to full-time roles in product design, UX design, UX research and strategy.
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