Workshops
All programs will include experiential activities in addition to meaningful reflection, facilitated by our team of expert facilitators and leadership coaches. Most programs are available in a variety of virtual, hybrid, or in-person modalities.
Sample Topics we cover:
Understanding and exploring your role on teams and in organizations
Developing self-awareness and emotional intelligence
Team-building, understanding and navigating team dynamics
Working with difficult coworkers and having difficult conversations
Creative problem solving for conflict resolution
Negotiation, Cooperation, and Dialogue
Creativity and Collaboration
Building by Embodying your Brand
Change Management
Leading Through Uncertainty
Short-form opportunities:
Keynotes - An engaging talk for larger audiences where we dive into one topic. Will include an experiential component and debrief.
Workshop - classroom formats where we facilitate activities that cover a topic in greater detail for 5-50 people.
Connected Experiences - Multiple or longer-form workshops that are half to full or multi day experiences. Can cover multiple topics or one aspect of leadership development in greater detail.
“I am glad that I have done multiple programs with Dr. Joe and have built a professional connection with him. His passion for leadership has helped me continue to be passionate about my own leadership progress.”
“Each time I left a session, the discussion always stuck with me long after it ended, and I found myself reflecting on it until we met again. This demonstrates how profitable attending sessions was and how much the material impacted me.”
Comments from workshop evaluations
“A very well done workshop. Would highly suggest giving them a deep dive time slot.”
“This was an interesting one because it was an actual role play. It was a good time.”
“Awesome interactive leadership event. Bring them back.”
“Fun and informative. Made me think differently about work and collaboration.”
“Quite fun to have such an interactive activity to see how groups can interact with each other and how listening is so key. And being willing to reach out to other groups.”
Sample Workshops
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Negotiating with Dragons: Cooperative Problem-Solving for Leaders
This workshop prompts participants with role-playing scenarios in a fictional setting where they must negotiate and strategize to save the town and advance personal agendas, simulating real-world leadership dilemmas.
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Playing Your Part: Discovering Archetypes for Teamwork and Leadership
Discover your leadership style and how archetypes affect the roles we play. Perfect for professionals who want to enhance self-awareness and leadership working with diverse personalities.
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Imagining Together: The Practice of Creative Collaboration
This workshop uses collaborative worldbuilding to see how ideas come to life. Participants engage in hands-on worldbuilding activities, utilizing creative storytelling and problem-solving to construct a dynamic, interactive world.
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Building Your Brand: Creating Characters From Abstract to Embodied Identity
Participants will transform vague positioning statements into a vivid, playable personality that employees can embody and customers can recognize, using collaborative character-building techniques adapted from role-playing games.
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Prismatic Perspectives: Tap into difficult conversations with emotional intelligence
Unlock your emotional intelligence in this immersive session with scenarios that hone your empathy and communication skills. Learn to lead a diverse team by understanding different perspectives and utilize emotionally intelligent interactions.
Dive Deeper
Schedule a longer workshop or connect multiple topics.
Creative Teams by Game Design — In Person full or half day workshop
This is a dynamic workshop that combines game design and team leadership skill development in a game jam competition. Participants will be periodically guided through design teamwork and leadership skill building activities that enable them to work in teams to design a tabletop game using a predetermined theme (aka secret ingredient) in a matter of hours. Teams learn how to:
Establish healthy, playful norms for thriving in a constantly changing environment.
Utilize design thinking and creative mindsets that enhance team performance.
Build high quality relationships, psychological safety, and develop positive team culture.
Problem Solving Conflict Resolution — In Person half day workshop
This game-based workshop gives participants the chance to practice skills and uses experiential learning about conflict styles, mediation, potential differences in perspective, and strategies for resolution using game-based design. The "Conflict Style and Resolution Game" will bring these skill development areas to life as participants play the game. Participants work together to activate different styles for responding to conflict and progress through the resolution process, responding to environmental pressures and creating solutions - spending "energy" and narrating the process along the way.