Watson Labs & Designworks (hereinafter, “Watson Labs” or “the Labs”) is a boutique client-services firm located in Boston, Massachusetts that offers private clients personalized services to support their learning needs and to build their knowledge, skills, and capacity to achieve their individual or professional goals.
Services the Labs offer include individualized instruction & coaching to support clients’ academic learning, skills acquisition, and executive functioning, as well as bespoke consulting & design services for entrepreneurs, career professionals, businesses, and nonprofits seeking to improve their community education, policy, advocacy, or other organizational needs.
About the Principal
Spencer Watson, J.D.
Watson Labs & Designworks, LLC is an independent firm founded by Spencer Watson (they/them) in 2025. They are a freelance researcher, writer, and academic—as well as the founder and Executive Director of the Center for LGBTQ Economic Advancement & Research (CLEAR), a not-for-profit organization seeking to advance financial access and freedom for LGBTQ individuals, businesses, nonprofits, and communities.
Spencer has spent over 15 years working primarily in non-profit organizations to advance the rights of people in the United States to have free and open access to education, financial services, and other public goods and services and to overcome systemic barriers and other obstacles to their personal goals.
Spencer holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), with honors, from the University of Colorado at Boulder in both English Literature and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental (MCD) Biology, as well as a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the Law School at the University of California – Berkeley. Additionally, Spencer is a Certified Financial Counselor accredited by the National Association of Certified Credit Counselors (NACCC).