About

Your Digital Tattoo (YDT) helps mission-based organizations worldwide courageously acknowledge and work through and within continuous change.

We use inclusive and regenerative methods, sensemaking, play, scenario planning, systems mapping, and maturity assessments to help individuals, teams, and organizations of any size become more confident in how to understand, manage, use, and create digital experiments, products, and services.

Through our research practice, we aim to make connections between the seemingly unconnectable and our lives, and share those connections using language and the support of our CARE Community / Network to help people feel less alone, connected, and more digitally courageous.

Through our training and consulting services, we guide people using the ‘Take CARE to be CALM’ approach, a life-centered framework to develop fit-for-purpose digital mindsets, skill sets, and toolsets to

  • Rethink new ways of working;

  • Reimagine their digital ecosystem, and 

  • Reframe digital (community) practices and processes.

FOUNDING PRINCIPLE BIO

By day, Dr. Lauren 'L' Vargas is a digital dragon wrangler with 20 years of experience assisting organizations with their community, communication, and collaboration strategies. Vargas is the principal of Your Digital Tattoo and operates at the intersection of community and technology. She uses her research and consulting practice to further meaningful connection, purposeful inclusion, and digital civility.

In her capacity as a consultant, Vargas helps mission-based organizations worldwide courageously acknowledge and work through and within continuous change. She uses inclusive and regenerative methods, sensemaking, play, scenario planning, systems mapping, and maturity assessments to help individuals, teams, and organizations of any size become more confident in how to understand, manage, use, and create digital experiments, products, and services.

In her capacity as an independent researcher, Vargas is affiliated with New_Public as a researcher and design facilitator, and with the University of Leicester as a former 'One by One’ Research Associate and community strategist for the Institute of Digital Culture.

Vargas was previously named by The Economist Intelligence Unit as one of the top 25 social business leaders. She is based in Leiden, Netherlands and by night, she is an insomniac devouring speculative fiction. 

YDT PHILOSOPHY

At YDT, we will not sacrifice our values of integrity, accountability, and inclusion for our or any other organization’s bottom line. Our individual values and boundaries supersede those of YDT. We aim to model the behavior we seek from our clients and community. It is our intention that we work to live, rather than live to work; meaning, we are able to work from anywhere, so long as we abide by our personal boundaries.

The vision of the founding principal is to not build a business requiring 24hr/day hustle. The founding principal and any other people who may become affiliated with YDT should be able to live, explore, travel, and work.

What meaningful work might YDT commit to and still have employees/partners/subcontractors live meaningful lives outside of work?