
Strategic Play Podcast
We are all experts in creativity and innovation. And through play, we all have the ability to dream and imagine better ways to work and solve complicated problems. In each episode, we’ll take you on a journey around the world, where you’ll hear from some seriously smart and playful people. They’ll share their stories of how, through daring to believe and think differently, they can and are changing the world.
Episodes
17 episodes
Matthew Jones: Playing at Purdue
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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47:23

Mike Walling
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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1:04:30

Dr. Kim Macuare
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...
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53:04

Mike Campigotto
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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42:50

Jeff Balesh
Jeff, LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Methods facilitator and executive coach extraordinaire, loves a good LEGO® epiphany.
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45:36

Strategic Play Podcast -Sarah Moyle
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 ...
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39:46

Strategic Play Podcast -Jeremy Neuner
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 Bene...
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38:39

Strategic Play Podcast -Sara Romadoro
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 creativ...
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42:18

Strategic Play Podcast - Van Lai-Dumone
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 th...
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37:18

Strategic Play Podcast -Scott Perryman
Much of Scott’s career has been in healthcare, where he works with individuals to up their leadership game. What does that mean in a clinical setting? Scott’s recent focus has been on working with organizations seeking to create a patient exper...
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55:48

Strategic Play Podcast - Stephen Walling
When discussing generational divides in the workplace, millennials get a lot of flack for being impossible to work with. So we brought our resident millennial, Stephen, into the studio to interrogate him—we mean, to explore what we might be mis...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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53:31

Strategic Play Podcast - Susan Newhouse
What do you get when you combine boundless enthusiasm for innovation, LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® certification, a flair for theatrics, and a tube of red lipstick? Susan Newhouse, facilitation dynamo, who once helped the Ferrero chocolate folks blast o...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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50:38

Strategic Play Podcast - Dr. Kasra Khorasani
Dr. Kasra Khorasani puts a unique spin on group psychotherapy by bringing in the LEGO® duck to help patients click, relate, and validate. And settle in for a fascinating lesson on neuroscience, as the good doctor talks about mirror neurons and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:03:56

Strategic Play Podcast - Col. Jason "TOGA" Trew, PhD.
Colonel Trew entered the Air Force in 1999 after graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree. After flying trainers and fighter aircraft for the first half of his career, he has spent the last decade focused on ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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51:24

Strategic Play Podcast - Terry Rachwalski
Have you ever had the urge to tell someone, “Wow, that’s one ugly baby!” Imagine the creativity it would take to do that so tactfully the person didn’t even realize that’s what you meant. Now how does this relate to government and innovation, y...
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Episode 2
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43:04

Strategic Play Podcast - Dr. Steve Ralph
We feel privileged to be friends and collaborators with Dr. Steve Ralph, Pepperdine University professor and founder of the EPIC Impact Society. Academics and LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® are such a perfect match, especially in the hands of individuals ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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