Workshops

Hands-on experiences that transform teams from the inside out.

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Philippe offers two distinct types of workshops designed for different organizational needs:

Deep-dive transformation intensives (half-day) provide comprehensive frameworks for systematic change. These workshops address specific organizational challenges through Philippe’s Innovational Intelligence™ System, delivering practical tools and measurable shifts in how teams approach innovation, communication, culture, and growth.

Quick-Impact Experiences (45 minutes – one hour) create immediate self-discovery through hands-on gamified challenges that reveal how individuals and teams naturally approach problems, make decisions, and collaborate. In a short space of time, participants uncover hidden patterns in their own behavior and see how their teams really work under pressure.

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DEEP-DIVE TRANSFORMATION INTENSIVES

MAKE AI WORK FOR YOU

Groundbreaking generative AI technologies are not only redefining the way we work; they’re reshaping entire industries overnight.

Organizations that successfully integrate AI stand to gain unprecedented competitive advantages, including capabilities that seemed unimaginable even months ago. But these gains depend on how people feel about AI adoption, which means the organizations that succeed are those that address ongoing concerns first.

In this hands-on workshop, Philippe systematically transforms AI anxiety into confidence by customizing each session to your team’s specific challenges and industry context, then guiding participants through practical AI applications that fundamentally shift their perspective on what these tools can accomplish.

Key Takeaways:

  • The confidence to experiment with AI tools rather than making assumptions about what they can or can’t do.
  • A clear understanding of how AI changes their role without eliminating their job or value.
  • An experimental mindset for approaching AI questions—when in doubt, test rather than assume.
  • Enthusiasm and energy for continued AI adoption.

PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY

Teams who operate in cultures where psychological safety is the norm reimagine what’s possible, adapt faster, and leave competitors scrambling to catch up.

But most organizations inadvertently create the opposite: environments where people play it safe because they worry about making a mistake or being judged for thinking outside the box.

In this half-day workshop, Philippe frees participants to challenge the status quo, experiment with new approaches, and build on each other’s thinking with collective intelligence that becomes a team strength and leads to real breakthroughs.

Key Takeaways:

  • The confidence to share their boldest ideas without fear of judgment.
  • An understanding of how to give feedback that builds on ideas rather than shuts them down.
  • Simple ways to create environments where challenging assumptions is the norm.

TURN EMOTIONS INTO INNOVATION FUEL

Emotions aren’t just problems to manage. The most innovative teams use how people feel as information that leads to better ideas.

When teams feel frustrated with a process, that frustration is a sign that something needs to change. When people feel excited about a possibility, that energy can drive new breakthroughs. Even when teams feel uncertain, that uncertainty can be turned into curiosity that inspires experimentation.

In this half-day workshop, Philippe demonstrates where emotional intelligence meets Innovational Intelligence™, showing teams how to harness both as a competitive advantage. Through hands-on exercises, participants will learn to turn how they feel into insights that help them solve problems quicker and spot opportunities faster.

Key Takeaways:

  • Tools for reading team emotions as signals for innovation opportunities.
  • Techniques for turning uncertainty into curiosity-driven experimentation.
  • An understanding of how emotional awareness accelerates problem-solving.
  • Simple practices for using team energy to drive breakthrough thinking.

QUICK-IMPACT EXPERIENCES

BUILD THE TOWER OF PISA

What happens when you give teams a simple challenge with limited materials and just 15 minutes to succeed?

This hands-on competition reveals how different teams instinctively approach problems under pressure. Strategies that seem logical at first often lead to spectacular failures, while approaches that appear more spontaneous often produce the most successful results.

In this 45-minute workshop, teams experience a visceral demonstration of Philippe’s core Innovational IntelligenceTM principles through trial, error, and unexpected discoveries.

The real insights emerge during the debrief, when participants recognize their own problem-solving patterns and understand why certain approaches consistently outperform others when facing the unknown.

What participants discover:

  • How their team naturally responds to uncertainty and time pressure.
  • Why some problem-solving approaches succeed while others consistently fail.
  • Their own assumptions about the “right” way to tackle unfamiliar challenges.
  • The innovation principles that make the difference between success and failure.

INDO-FLORIDIAN BELOTE

Most organizations have teams that seem to speak different languages. Marketing and Finance approach problems differently. R&D and Sales have different priorities. Operations and Strategy operate on different timelines. When teams with different approaches need to collaborate, miscommunication and frustration often follow.

This interactive one-hour workshop reveals how operating assumptions shape our understanding of “the right way” to do things and provides insights for bridging the gaps. Through an engaging team challenge, participants discover their own assumptions about how others think and work.

What starts as a simple game quickly becomes an eye-opening lesson about how easily teams can misinterpret each other’s intentions when operating from different frameworks.

What participants discover:

  • How quickly they assume others are wrong when expectations don’t align.
  • The invisible cultural rules that govern how they approach collaboration.
  • Why miscommunication often stems from different assumptions rather than bad intentions.
  • How to recognize and bridge cultural differences that block effective teamwork.
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Measure Your Innovation Reality

Typically deployed before keynotes and workshops as part of Philippe’s programming, the Organizational Innovational Intelligence Quotient maps innovation perception across leaders and teams to identify exactly where breakthrough thinking gets stuck.

Philippe analyzes the results to show you where the problems are, what’s causing them, and how to fix them.

The assessment becomes your annual innovation benchmark—proving your transformation efforts are actually working with data you can measure and improve upon.

Are you a rule breaker?

You weren’t supposed to find this.

But here you are, because you did what most people don’t: you questioned, you explored, you clicked the thing you weren’t sure you should click.

That’s Innovational Intelligence™ in action.

Most people stay inside the lines. Follow the expected path. Click the obvious buttons. Accept things as they are.

Not you.

You’re one of those rare minds that refuses to accept “this is how it’s always been done.”

We need more people who think like you.

So here’s your reward for coloring outside the lines:

Get VIP pre-release access to the next assessment on Innovational Intelligence™:

You’ll be the first to know when it’s available.

Keep breaking rules. The world needs what you see.