Strategic Play Podcast

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In this special episode, Vivian Forssman of Royal Roads University interviews Strategic Play Founder and doctoral student Jacqueline Lloyd Smith. Gain a deeper understanding of how play—using 3D tabletop models—can be highly useful to bulletproof any strategy, especially when the stakes are high in the face of impending disaster. 

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Matt is a PhD student and fellow at Purdue University bringing play to academics. We met at a creativity conference after he couldn’t resist the allure of a session that had him asking: What the duck?!

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Mike, owner of 3Dynamic, is a pro in the industrial and mechanical design industry. Would you believe that, as a child, a particular line of LEGO® kits set him on that path?

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A self-professed recovering academic, Kim is Co-Director of Innovation Labs at The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. With a background in literature, she’s found a unique position to pursue her love of creativity. What would you expect if your manager sent your team to participate in an innovation and problem-solving workshop at an art museum?

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From tech pro to retiree making prosciutto and hot sauce to joining up with a group of young folks in a startup for safety innovation in the mining sector. Yep. Sounds like Mike’s just had your typical career path.

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Jeff, LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Methods facilitator and executive coach extraordinaire, loves a good LEGO® epiphany. 

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Holding the title of Senior Business Consultant at Intel Flex doesn’t sound like there’s much room for creativity, does it? Well guess what? Sarah did it. Find out how she managed to carve out her own place as a Creative Facilitator and Visual Storyteller at this tech giant.

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Jeremy is a LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methods facilitator and enthusiastic storyteller who used to be a U.S. Navy Pilot who now works for Google and once co-authored a book called The Rise of the Naked Economy:  How to Benefit from the Changing Workplace.  Let’s just hope if that office is using LEGO, folks are at least wearing shoes!

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We met Sara when she was a Red Shirt – what’s that?! – at a creative conference in Sestri Levante, Italy. After a chance run-in at the train station, she spent a day playing our tour guide in Milan, which led to a lasting friendship and creative partnership.

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Van rhymes with fun! And she is also a seriously entertaining individual. Van has forged a unique path in the business world, eschewing traditional training approaches for highly creative and hands-on methods where she urges people to follow their curiosity. Let’s see where that leads.