On June 4, I felt a mixture of pride, joy, and gratitude when BeyondCurious was named Boutique Agency of the Year by thinkLA. I am deeply grateful to our clients who give us the opportunity to shine with our work and to my inspiring team that lives our mission of unlocking limitless potential every day.

The annual thinkLA IDEA Award celebrates creativity in the Los Angeles marketing and advertising community. Agencies are nominated for categories ranging from best social campaign to media agency of the year. Congratulations to OMD for being named media agency of the year and to Deutsch L.A. for winning the full service agency of the year honor.

This award is a challenge for us to raise the bar even higher. We constantly push our clients to innovate and gain marketplace momentum. Brands with momentum dictate the terms for the market and attain powerful and profitable leadership positions.  At BeyondCurious, we believe innovation is the fuel of momentum: both large and small innovations, both disruptive and everyday innovations. It is for this reason that we define ourselves as an innovation agency. Our business purpose is to enable momentum-building innovation that propels our clients into a leadership position. Here is how we're delivering on that purpose:

• We recently articulated the importance of mobile and our deeper focus on it in our public story. We deepened our focused on mobile experiences from apps to wearables that empower people and transform brands. Everything we do is aligned to this – how we are organized, how we solve problems, how we build products – so that we can help our clients innovate for the mobile age. 

• On April 7, we announced the launch of CatalystGo, an offering that helps companies develop high-impact digital products better, faster, and more cost effectively. With CatalystGo, businesses have a tool to build momentum through innovation. CatalystGo is a flexible and responsive framework for innovation, rather than a rules-based methodology. With CatalystGo, integrated teams of researchers, strategists, designers and technologists incubate ideas and build products in two-week sprints, a process that unleashes creativity while minimizing risk.

• On May 26, we announced the launch of BeyondCurious Academy. Through BeyondCurious Academy, we are developing the skillsets and mindset required to innovate, starting with our own team. BeyondCurious Academy codifies our best thinking in working with both market leaders such as Lexus and disruptive brands such as GoPro. BeyondCurious Academy is an incubator designed to develop the talent needed to innovate in the mobile age by teaching people how to flourish in a non-linear, unstructured environment.

We are very excited about our journey ahead. Thank you thinkLA for the recognition! To hear the latest on BeyondCurious, connect with us on Facebook, Twitter or our website.