Mission: Serendipity
A connection design studio reinventing how humans gather.
We create joyful large scale experiences designed to spark authentic connection and a deeper sense of belonging.
Ride the Light: A community bike art adventure with Ben Davis, the founder of Illuminate.
2025
Our Mission:
To create once-in-a-lifetime serendipitous experiences that help people connect.
These gatherings are designed to spark meaningful connection between strangers, colleagues, and communities in ways that feel natural, memorable, and deeply human.
Previous Facilitations and Speaking Engagements
We Offer:
Large-scale community gatherings
Conference and event programming
Interactive facilitation experiences
Keynotes and connection-centered talks
Custom designed connection formats
Signature Experiences
The Drop In
The Drop In is a facilitated connection experience that helps people meet and relate without the heavy lift and awkwardness of traditional networking. Through guided prompts, partner exchanges, and playful structure, participants quickly move into heart centered meaningful conversation and shared presence.
Best used for conferences, organizations, and community gatherings.
Speaking, MC and Connection Facilitation
Mission Serendipity founder Stephanie Cowan offers keynotes and facilitated sessions that transform rooms into spaces of authentic connection and purpose. Her talks and experiences focus on belonging, human connection in a digital world, aligned leadership, joyful play and the power of intentional gathering.
Each session is interactive, energizing, and designed to create lasting impact beyond the room.
Corporate Workshops
In a world where genuine connection is often overlooked, Mission Serendipity brings a refreshing, intentional approach to fostering relationships within teams, clients, and communities. Whether for an offsite, retreat, brand activation, or leadership gathering, these custom experiences are designed to move beyond the surface, creating moments of real engagement, trust, and serendipity.
Connection Consulting
Mission Serendipity offers connection consulting for organizations, conferences, and communities that want to create gatherings where people genuinely connect. Led by Stephanie Cowan, this work focuses on the connective tissue of gatherings, the subtle design elements, facilitation, and social architecture that help strangers quickly become part of a shared experience. Each consultation is fully customized to the unique goals and energy of the event, helping transform traditional networking into meaningful interaction so people leave feeling energized, seen, and connected to one another.
Mission Serendipity is responsible for over 10k authentic connections.
People have found best friends, lovers and business partners from attending our once in a lifetime days.
Meet Stephanie
Mission Serendipity was founded by Stephanie Cowan, a connections specialist, facilitator, and speaker devoted to changing the way we gather.
Her work brings people out of isolation and into authentic relationship through thoughtfully designed joyful shared experiences. She is the creator of The Drop In, a guided connection format used at conferences, for organizations, and community events to help people quickly build trust and meaningful conversation. Proudly based in the Mission District in San Francisco, Stephanie has loved creating her connective formulas in this beautiful city.
Stephanie’s background blends community building, creative facilitation, and live experience design. She works with leaders, teams, and public communities to create gatherings that are structured, participatory, and deeply human.
Her mission is simple: To change the way we gather by bringing people into community and inviting them to a deeper connection to self.
The Drop In at One Market
2025
The Drop In at Summit Detroit
2025
Let’s Collaborate!
We would love to hear from you! Please fill out the form below and we will reach out if we feel the collaboration is a good fit!
