Workshops
Time to put the ideas to work.
Real decisions, practical tools and time to use them. Run a workshop on its own, as a conference breakout, or paired with a keynote at the same event.
The Decision Toolkit
Practical tools for making clear calls under pressure.
A hands-on workshop that gives your team a shared, repeatable way to make good decisions when time, information or options are tight. Everyone practises on real situations and leaves with a toolkit they can use the next morning.
Designed to help your people
- Slow the first reaction down and name the real constraint.
- Build real options instead of defaulting to the first one.
- Make a choice the team can explain and stand behind.
- Commit to a next step and review it on a set date.
What's in the toolkit
- Decision cardThe five-step protocol on one page, for any decision, big or small.
- Constraint mapSorts what is truly fixed from what only feels fixed.
- Options builderWidens the list before you narrow it.
- Values checkThree questions that test a choice against what matters most.
- Pre-commit reviewA five-minute look at how a decision could go wrong, before it does.
- Floor planYour minimum-action plan for difficult weeks: the smallest set of actions that keeps you moving.
- 30-day practice planShort weekly exercises, for individuals or whole teams, that turn the toolkit into a habit.
Sample half-day agenda
- BeforeEach participant brings one live decision to work on. It stays private.
- 20 minWhy decisions break under pressure, told through Andrew's story as a sequence of real choices.
- 40 minThe toolkit, tool by tool: decision card, constraint map, options builder and values check.
- 60 minTeam practice on scenarios built with you, such as a lost client, a reorganization, a deadline that moved or a teammate under strain.
- 40 minPersonal application: each person runs their own decision through the toolkit and finishes with a pre-commit review.
- 20 minMake it stick: a personal floor plan and a 30-day practice plan.
The 90-minute version covers the decision card, constraint map and values check, with one practice round.
Pairing with a keynote
Pairs with When the Plan Breaks or Both Sides of the Desk. The keynote introduces the protocol to the full audience; the workshop gives teams time to put the tools to work.
- Suited to
- Leadership teams, sales and client-facing teams, project teams and conference breakouts: anyone who makes consequential calls with incomplete information.
- Group size
- Small teams to large groups. Larger groups work in table teams, and the format is adjusted so everyone takes part.
- Proposed formats
- 90 minutes or half-day (about three hours). In person or virtual.
- Pairs with
- When the Plan Breaks or Both Sides of the Desk
Purpose at Work
Define your values and find purpose in your role or business.
A practical, reflective workshop built on Andrew's Puzzle framework. Participants name the values that guide their best decisions and connect them to the work they do every day, whether they lead a team, hold a role or run their own business.
Designed to help your people
- Name the few values that actually drive your choices.
- See which parts of your identity rest on a role or title, and which hold regardless.
- Connect your daily work, or your business, to a purpose you can state in one sentence.
- Choose one change that brings your work closer to your values.
What's in the toolkit
- Values cardYour top values, in your own words.
- Puzzle mapThe roles, relationships and strengths you build on, and how they fit together.
- Purpose statementOne sentence on why your role or business matters, written by you.
- 30-day values-in-action planSmall, specific steps that bring your work closer to what matters.
Sample half-day agenda
- 20 minThe Puzzle: what Andrew learned about identity when the pieces he had built on disappeared.
- 40 minValues sort: from a long list to the few values that actually drive your choices.
- 40 minYour puzzle: mapping the roles, relationships and strengths you build on.
- 40 minPurpose in your role or business: where your values already show up at work, and where they don't.
- 30 minYour one-sentence purpose statement and a 30-day plan, shared in pairs.
The 90-minute version combines the values sort and the purpose statement.
Pairing with a keynote
Pairs with The Puzzle. The keynote opens the conversation for the whole audience; the workshop gives people time to do the work.
- Suited to
- Teams going through change, new and emerging leaders, business owners and founders, employee resource groups, and offsites focused on engagement.
- Group size
- Small teams to large groups. Larger groups work in pairs and table teams, and the format is adjusted so everyone takes part.
- Proposed formats
- 90 minutes or half-day (about three hours). In person or virtual.
- Pairs with
- The Puzzle
Practical Accessibility and Inclusion
Find the barriers and decide what to fix first.
Lived-experience training that helps teams look at their workplace, client and event journeys honestly, find the barriers and decide what to fix first.
Focus
- Asking rather than assuming.
- Examining workplace, client and event journeys.
- Identifying the barriers people actually meet.
- Prioritizing practical changes your team can make.
Sample two-hour agenda
- 25 minA working week from a wheelchair: the office, meetings, travel, client visits and events.
- 25 minAsk, don't assume: habits and language that make conversations easier for everyone.
- 45 minJourney review: teams walk through a real workplace, client or event journey and mark the barriers.
- 25 minPrioritize: each team chooses practical changes, with owners, for the next 90 days.
Participants leave with
- An accessibility checklist for workplaces and events.
- A short language guide.
- A 90-day action plan.
Pairing with a keynote
Pairs with The Puzzle for inclusion weeks, ERG programming and International Day of Persons with Disabilities events.
This is practical, lived-experience training. It is not a legal, building-code or AODA compliance audit, and it does not provide certification.
- Suited to
- HR teams, ERG leaders, people managers, and client-facing or events teams who want practical changes, not a lecture.
- Group size
- Small teams to large groups. Journey reviews run in table teams, so the format scales to the room.
- Proposed formats
- Two hours or half-day. In person or virtual.
- Pairs with
- The Puzzle
Virtual sessions
One-on-one coaching
Private, virtual sessions for professionals and leaders who want to decide well and keep moving, using the same tools Andrew teaches in his keynotes: the Puzzle and the decision protocol.
- LeadershipLeading a team through change, making hard calls, and keeping your judgment steady when others are looking to you.
- PerformanceBuilding routines that hold up under pressure, recovering from setbacks, and staying focused on what matters.
- Purpose and transitionGetting clear on your values and identity through a career change, a new role or a life that has changed course.
Coaching is practical and goal-focused. It is not therapy, counselling or financial advice.
Bring a workshop to your 2027 event.
Tell Andrew about your audience, your date and what you want people to leave with. He will follow up to talk it through and send a proposal.