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

  1. BeforeEach participant brings one live decision to work on. It stays private.
  2. 20 minWhy decisions break under pressure, told through Andrew's story as a sequence of real choices.
  3. 40 minThe toolkit, tool by tool: decision card, constraint map, options builder and values check.
  4. 60 minTeam practice on scenarios built with you, such as a lost client, a reorganization, a deadline that moved or a teammate under strain.
  5. 40 minPersonal application: each person runs their own decision through the toolkit and finishes with a pre-commit review.
  6. 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

  1. 20 minThe Puzzle: what Andrew learned about identity when the pieces he had built on disappeared.
  2. 40 minValues sort: from a long list to the few values that actually drive your choices.
  3. 40 minYour puzzle: mapping the roles, relationships and strengths you build on.
  4. 40 minPurpose in your role or business: where your values already show up at work, and where they don't.
  5. 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

  1. 25 minA working week from a wheelchair: the office, meetings, travel, client visits and events.
  2. 25 minAsk, don't assume: habits and language that make conversations easier for everyone.
  3. 45 minJourney review: teams walk through a real workplace, client or event journey and mark the barriers.
  4. 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.

Ask about coaching

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.