Case studies

Teams that practiced the moment before it was real, and the platforms, games and events we built for clients along the way.

Publicis Sapient

A firm-wide leadership rollout, played as a 20-minute space mission

Publicis Sapient was rolling new Leadership Expectations out to 20,000 people. We turned them into a 20-minute space mission played in the browser, opened first to its Director+ leaders.

A CX Program for global innovation teams

EY's global innovation teams knew CX theory and had nowhere to practice it under pressure. We built the practice, then moved it onto Rondo.

mci group

A keynote and workshop for a global leadership academy

A keynote and a workshop for 350 leaders facing calls with no clear answer. The CEO kept using the keynote's language for weeks.

Publicis Sapient

Turning one shared experience into twenty rooms of practice

PS Starship gave 1,300+ leaders a shared experience. Then they needed to talk about it, so we built three drills and ran them twenty times on Rondo.

IBTM World / RX Global

A leadership workshop for event industry executives

Six hours that hired 30 senior event executives into a company from 2032 and asked them to design its flagship experience. For several, the first time in years they'd designed without budget or politics in the way.

Publicis Groupe

Two hours inside a client launch going wrong, for three cohorts of agency leaders

Agency leaders spent two hours inside a made-up EV launch going wrong: voice notes from its C-suite, a plan to build against the clock, and a client who might walk.

TBN Americas

An impact investing workshop for family offices

A custom card game and a hosted simulation on values-based investing for multi-generational family-office executives, making conversations about wealth transition both strategic and human.

Columbia Business School x DIG

Turning a founder talk into a leadership lab

A guest founder talk, rebuilt as a ninety-minute live lab: Columbia MBA students worked DIG's real challenges and handed back ideas the founder hadn't considered.

Lucens

A professional development platform for physicians

Platform strategy and curriculum design bridging the gap between clinical expertise and business reality, from market validation through content architecture and launch.

The Lighthouse

Creator education, from vision to blueprint

Learning architecture for the creator economy. We helped The Lighthouse develop their education track from vision to delivery-ready blueprint.

Portal Learning

Taking skills education from campus to digital

Portal was moving from physical micro-campuses to a digital platform. Ten skill Cards and a community space to explore them, built with no code, from concept to delivery in under 8 weeks.

DIG

A first-day orientation rebuilt from 1 video and 2 activities into 5 games and 13 videos

The build half of our work with DIG. In four months we turned the first day for new chefs into a session of games and original video, made six games for a Sous Chef Program, chose a new learning platform and filmed the winter menu.

Portal Schools

Three edutainment prototypes in eight weeks

A co-designed innovation challenge that generated three prototypes in under eight weeks: a trivia game format, a mobile learning app and an educational news show.

Amplitude

Product education goes interactive

Using curiosity tests (and cuddly toys) to connect with B2B audiences.

WeTransfer

Getting remote editors making ideas together again

A half-day virtual workshop that got WePresent's remote editors making ideas together again.

Wasserman

Getting creatives, producers and strategists on the same page

A workshop series for the moment creatives, producers and strategists disagree on a live project.

DIG

Six weeks of listening, then four builds for a chef academy

DIG's academy had plenty of material and not enough of it in use. Six weeks of interviews and observation became a menu of more than 15 ideas. DIG picked four, and we built them in the next 12 weeks.

The New York Times

Presentation skills for an insights team

The Times’ Audience Insights Group did excellent research, then lost the room presenting it. Two modules plus office hours closed the gap.

XP Conference

Eight workshops for the MENA music industry

Eight workshops spanning copyright law to crowd safety, gender parity to nighttime economies, designed for the MENA music industry's fastest-growing conference across four continents.

Wasserman

A day back together for 73 people after nearly two years apart

An experiential marketing team, in one place for the first time in nearly two years. We turned the reunion into a day of practice at finding ideas: spotting trends in the morning, pitching for 2041 by the afternoon.

NYC.gov

An accelerator for New York media founders

Three months of live and digital sessions for New York media founders, built with industry mentors.

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