Change management training for leaders that actually works must address a fundamental problem: most standard programmes don’t. “Change fails at the human layer. Always. And yet we keep training for it at the conceptual layer.” The research confirms it: somewhere between 60 and 70 percent of change initiatives fail to achieve their intended outcomes. The … Read more
“You don’t need a title to have power. But you do need to know how to use the power you actually have.” However, That’s the insight most organisations discover only after people have already burned through goodwill, missed deliverables they depended on others to deliver, or managed upward so clumsily that they’ve made themselves politically … Read more
“The entire success of a workshop can often be traced back to how well the structure was planned. Not the content. The structure.” However, After running hundreds of leadership sessions, that’s the conclusion I keep landing on. Organisations spend weeks agonising over which frameworks to include, which guest speakers to book, which activities will land. … Read more
“They learn great concepts. They answer all the right questions. They know what to include in the post-assessment. And then Monday happens.” However, That’s the knowing-doing gap — and it’s where most leadership and management training money quietly disappears. The gap isn’t between ignorance and knowledge. It’s between knowing what good leadership looks like and … Read more
“Nothing in the game is there just for fun. Everything can be traced back to the debrief.” However, That’s the line I find myself repeating to every L&D head who books a discovery call half-sceptical, half-curious. They come in expecting something between a team-building ice-breaker and a Kahoot quiz dressed up in fancy language. What … Read more
The Confession That Changes Everything “I didn’t buy Avel because I wanted to play it. I bought it because I wanted my family to want what comes after it.” That sentence sat in my head for weeks before I said it out loud, and when I did, it felt less like a board game review … Read more
“I had CJ figured out. Two hours in, I had motive, I had opportunity, I had a whole psychological profile assembled through WhatsApp messages with four other people who were equally convinced. Then I flipped the suspect cards. CJ wasn’t there. Not a red herring. Not a twist. Just – absent. The game had never … Read more
TTRPGs saved my life, and I decided that gatekeeping them with grammar corrections and performance standards was a crime. Here’s what happened when I chose to apply lessons I learned from them to serious games and learning experiences.
If you can hack anyone's emotion, you can get them to pay attention. I've spent years watching facilitators confuse participation with presence — here's what games taught me about the difference.
I ranked 25 board game mechanics by emotional impact – then told facilitators why the ranking doesn't matter. Because having the right wrench doesn't make you a plumber, and your toolbox is not your philosophy.