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The Playmaker

What becomes possible when the frame changes?

Play is not entertainment. It is a serious technology for reaching what rigid thinking cannot. I help leadership teams loosen the grip enough to find the ideas the spreadsheet was never going to surface, and to remember they actually like each other.

Anyone who tells you play is not serious has never watched a team find the real answer through laughter.

You might recognise this

  • Your team has forgotten the difference between rigour and grimness.
  • AI is changing the work and the response so far has been more meetings.
  • You want to design a small, bold experiment, not another slow plan.

Possible ways to work together

A Day in the Room

A day designed to think, not to perform thinking.

Magic Wand Session

Ninety minutes to find the experiment worth running.

Let’s begin with a conversation.

Curious about working together? Let’s make a little space to meet. Bring what’s on your mind, however formed or half-formed, and we can explore what might be useful. We don’t need to decide what working together looks like before we’ve met.

An exploratory conversation, online or over coffee in Guernsey.