About Us

In 2007, Greenhouse Collaboratives was founded by Kayin and Cary Griffith out of a love of helping their community and working closely together. This love has been an important part of the Greenhouse way of relating to each other and clients.

Though the company structure and name has changed a few times, the vision to help the world through stewarding the stories and vision of others with strategic and beautiful design has not. Greenhouse has slowly grown to who we are today and we are so proud of our team. We’ve found our niche as people who like to walk alongside companies and entrepreneurs as they grow.

Kayin now serves as the Managing Partner for Greenhouse Collaboratives leading a team of amazing leaders and creatives. Cary is the Design Director and UX lead across all accounts ensuring quality design. As a women owned company, we believe deeply in building, learning and developing equity and diversity in our systems and team. We aim to be a transparent, accountable and honest group of people.

We have experience with early stage start-ups, agencies, non-profits, education, large corporations, and more. If your business is B2C or B2B, we can help you grow.

What we value

Love

Yes, this sounds cliche but we believe in the magic of love. We love each other, our clients and our families well. It’s an important part of the “miracle grow” in the Greenhouse environment that can take any project to the next level.

Celebration

Life has highs and lows. When there’s a high we call that a reason to celebrate and want to do that collectively, for our clients and for ourselves. We call out the wins and make it a point to draw attention to growth.

Work hard, play hard

We’ve been known for working around the clock on a deadline to meet a goal. We’ll pull out all the stops to move mountains for a client, however, as a company we have an open vacation policy and believe in prioritizing time off and mental health.

It’s only as good as it functions

A beautiful illustration or brand is only as good as it functions. One of the reasons we love working long term with clients is that we get to touch all parts of a process and can consult along the whole design phase. This often includes looking at data and mapping out user needs. This is true for space design too. If a space looks good but doesn’t fit the needs of those using the space, it’s a waste of time and money.

Over-communicate by default

Alignment on goals, timeline and expectations isn’t just a one time meeting. We care about consistent communication with stakeholders to ensure we are adding the best value and delivering the expected product. We are comfortable asking or being asked hard questions and would rather lean into conflicting ideas than ignore them. This ensures real collaboration and often brings about the best results.

Meet the team…

At Greenhouse Collaboratives, we deeply value our people and believe that we would not be able to help you grow without growing ourselves. We believe that being a part of a team is formational, transformative, and deeply relational. Growth happens when people feel safe, challenged, encouraged, and loved. Our mission to help your business thrive can only be accomplished when we celebrate and cheer on the growth of our own team. We are immensely grateful to have the privilege to be working with eachother.

There are multiple team members and contributors not listed below.

CEO | Account Lead
With a background in marketing, project and change management Kayin brings strategy and person centric design to all she does. With a MBA and bachelors in design she is always dreaming up business possibilities and celebrating others' aspirations. No dream is too big. She thrives leading teams and loves championing the strengths and talents of others. She’s worked in non-profits, education, corporate consulting, utilities and technology. The masterpiece she’s most proud of are her two amazing children (Amalea and Anaya) who she parents with Cary.

Senior Designer
Alana is a seasoned graphic designer with over 10 years of experience who takes a left-brained approach to her creative work. Her love of learning new things has brought her to work in a variety of industries including consumer packaged goods, outdoors, gaming, and nonprofits. Alana prides herself on listening well to gain a deep understanding of a client’s needs to deliver designs that are both functional and beautiful. When she’s not at her desk designing, you can find her playing in the great outdoors skiing, running or gardening.

Design Director | UX Lead
Empathy paves the way for everything Cary devotes himself to. With almost two decades of design experience Cary is a master at functional, simple and impactful art. He currently spends most of his time focused on user experience design. Not only does Cary excel at all things creative but he also loves solving puzzles and finding solutions. He and Kayin have designed many houses that he has personally remodeled. He’s most proud of a shipping container project that he took from a metal box to a luxury get-a-way. Cary’s deepest joy comes from the laughter of his children that he parents with Kayin.

Director of Operations
Jenny’s love for operations began at an early age. While it started off as the desire to simply be organized, she began to realize she loved bringing small details together to seamlessly work on a large scale. Her love for strategy, purposeful details, and relationships has deepened over the last ten years of work in operations, higher education, and software marketing. Jenny loves spending time with her husband and two children, novice gardening, and traveling.

Artist | Social Media Strategist
Benjamin brings a background with over a decade in design and studio art to Greenhouse Collaboratives. When he's not working his magic for our team in media communications, content creation, and space design, you can find him serving in our community as a board member on the Yamhill County Cultural Coalition, a partner at East Creek Art, and the Ceramic Studio Manager at the Chehalem Cultural Center. His passion for bringing ideas to life and connecting people to purpose is a gift to our team and our community. To get an idea of what he’s up to follow him at @benjamincahoon and check out his youtube videos for pottery tutorials.

Social Media | Project Management
Josh loves thinking deeply about projects and drinking good coffee. You can find him developing stories and creating a connection with the audience. He has a keen eye for the small stuff and believes every part of the process is important. After he puts his phone down, you can catch him in the ceramics lab listening to anything NPR, exploring new restaurants with his wife Hope, or simply hanging out with his rescue cat Pickles, proving that any dog lover can have a change of heart.

Graphic Designer
In her free time, Phoebe can be found reading at Powell's, painting, knitting, doing yoga, or honing her espresso-pulling skills. She's currently living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest but is originally from Southern California. Her passion is in typography, but by night has been gaining more experience in 3d modeling for 2d designs.

Designer
Drawing dinosaur enthusiast by day, and aspiring foodie—also by day. Representing Lima, Peru, Carla brings over 5 years of experience in design and illustration, creative and thoughtful vision and love for research. Their work is characterized by bold colors and typefaces, inspired by Peruvian street art.

Video | Photographer
Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, Scott has been on a journey to help discover, develop and bring stories to life through the mediums of motion and stills from an early age. Known for always having a camera on him at any given time, Scott has been enamored with the purpose of telling stories through his work. An award winning documentary filmmaker in his own right who enjoys the outdoors, watching the clouds and singing Whitney Houston through the cracks of his deep voice. He currently develops & produces video content for fellow team member Benjamin Cahoon and continues his life’s journey toward bringing the stories of the human experience to light.

Designer
Caroline is a graphic design student at Pacific Northwest College of Art finishing up her studies. As a native Portlander she loves the beauty the Pacific Northwest has to offer. She loves music and movies.

Web | Creative

Satoshi is currently fascinated by three things:
The importance of taking ownership
The power of listening
The cultivation of belonging
These themes influence their approach to design, data collection, and teamwork. With 4 years of web content experience, Satoshi has had the time to build and design countless pages and emails in between the primary tasks—taking naps, writing poetry, and reading books.

Join the team

Our team includes a mix of leaders who are content strategists, editors, social media buffs, artists and designers.

We are always looking for people to collaborate with. Are you interested in joining our team? E-mail hello@greenhousecollaboratives.com to start the conversation! We look forward to meeting you.