The people behind SeriousWork
About Serious Work
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Facilitation Training and Certification
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Our storyand people

Born in 2015

Born in Denmark

SERIOUSWORK began in 2015 when Sean Blair and Marko Rillo shared a coffee at a gathering of LEGO® Serious Play® facilitators in LEGO's birthplace, Billund, Denmark. We discussed how few books there were about LEGO Serious Play and decided to write a how-book, to help readers understand the process, impact and outcomes professionally facilitated meetings and workshops.

We launched the book in London in November 2016 and it has since won 5 star reviews on Amazon.

SERIOUSWORK How to facilitate LEGO Serious Play

Then we re-designed facilitator training

To improve how people learn LSP
Practice based learning

To accompany the ideas in the book, next Sean designed what has become the gold standard of LEGO Serious Play facilitation training courses.

Our approach to LEGO Serious Play training is practice based and facilitation-skill centred and helps people learn about the method and also develop their facilitation competency at the same time.

People have given amazing feedback on our training, Sean now has over 50 recommendations on LinkedIn profile.
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Our next books

Three books in three languages and counting
We are the only trainers in the world to have written three books on the method.
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In 2018 Jens Dröge completed the translation of SERIOUSWORK into German and this was published in 2019 by German business book publisher Vahlen.

In March 2020 we published MASTERING The LEGO Serious Play Method. MASTERING shares 44 facilitation techniques that professional facilitators uses to plan and deliver outcome oriented workshops.

In October 2020 we published How to Facilitate The LEGO Serious Play method ONLINE and shared the new techniques we created to deliver online LEGO Serious Play and SERIOUSWORK in Spanish.

LSP training goes online

We broke a few boundaries with this work
Even before COVID-19, environmental pressures were asking how remote teams could work together online without the carbon costs of travel.

We have pioneered the first techniques to enable remote teams to use LEGO Serious Play into shared model building (AT2).

We are happy to share these ideas with new LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitators and any trained in the original face-to-face techniques.
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Sean Blair
Founder

Sean leads SERIOUSWORK. He was the principal author and designer of the books and developed the SERIOUSWORK LEGO® Serious Play® Facilitation Training course.

Sean is the founder of a ProMeet, an international professional facilitation business. He facilitates learning, growth and change in meetings, workshops, conferences all over the world.

Sean was a co-founder of the Service Design Network, an honorary Fellow at Durham University, a Trustee of the Royal Society of Arts, a council member of the Design Council and a commissioner on the Mayor for London’s Creative Industry Commission. Sean is an IAF Certified™ Professional Facilitator and a winner of a 'Facilitation Impact Award'.

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Helen Batt
Business and Operations Manager

Helen supports the strategic and operational development of the business. She is responsible for the organisation of client workshops and facilitation training programmes and has financial management and control for the business.

She aims to provide a high quality service in the delivery of projects designed to improve the client experience and is a graduate of SeriousWork training and a certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator herself.

Helen brings over 13+ years experience delivering large scale commercial projects for clients including Hitachi, Siemens and London Underground, specialising in customer-relationship management and strategic resource management. 

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Jens Droege
Lead Associate

Jens is Executive Coach, Change Manager and Certified LEGO Serious Play Facilitator. With his consulting company within the network of the German Steinbeis University Berlin (SHB) he facilitates workshops and meetings with and without the LEGO Serious Play method and offers leadership trainings.

Jens has over 15 years of experience in training and facilitation which he gained in various leading positions as Business Consultant in companies such as Porsche Consulting.

Jens has a strong belief in empowering people by sharing, listening and reflection, thus resulting in a higher approval and a feeling of responsibility. He has a strong focus on performance and personality, all of which he sees people gain through LEGO Serious Play. He has translated all three of our books into German.

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Mirjami Sipponen-Damonte
Associate

Mirjami is the founder and CEO of the leading faciliation business in Finland: Xpedio and has 13 years experience in facilitation and organisation development.

Mirjami is a global board member of the International Association of Facilitators, and the European & Middle East Regional Director. In 2016, she was awarded the "Gold Facilitation Impact Award" award for outstanding facilitation. Mirjami is a certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator.

Mirjami inspires the opportunities of working with the groups and the experiences of success in creating functional processes for the individual needs of the group. Paying attention to the learning environment, adapting to the situation and the needs of the group, and creating a confident and secure environment are all important in building relevant group experiences.

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Mia Eng
Associate

Mia is an Executive Coach, Consultant and a Certified LEGO Serious Play Facilitator. She has worked with international clients across a range of sectors partnering with organisations to develop leadership capability and organisational culture aligned to vision and mission.

Mia holds a master’s degree in Leadership and a professional coaching credential from the International Coach Federation. She is a certified LEGO Serious Play facilitator, which she applies to meet needs of the individual, team or organisation.

Mia creates an environments for honest communication and collaboration. She is a talented facilitator who provides the opportunity for participants to challenge complacency and articulate clear, meaningful and actionable plans.

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Holly Henderson
Associate

Holly is a Senior Lecturer and Education Incubator Fellow at the University of Exeter. She's a Certified Advanced and Online Facilitator in LEGO Serious Play.

Holly has fifteen years experience successfully delivering National and International projects from concept to completion, on time, to budget and scope. She's a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Certified Management & Business Educator and a MHFA England Mental Health First Aider.

Holly’s enthusiasm for LEGO Serious Play has seen it deliver learning outcomes and enhance the student experience across the University of Exeter and beyond as part of the University's Education Incubator. Holly is energetic, empathic, and able to adapt and change a learning moment to needs of the learners.

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Camilla Nørgaard Jensen
Associate

Camilla is the Founder of the facilitation firm InterPlay that operates out of Denmark and the US.

At the 2014 International Association of Facilitators conference, Camilla introduced Sean Blair to the LEGO Serious Play method. He immediately recognised its power and later invited her to contribute a chapter to his first book about the method.

Originally an Industrial Design Engineer, Camilla earned her doctorate at Arizona State University by specialising in how to accelerate knowledge-driven value creation in the arenas of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Her PhD showed how LSP can help solve complex problems that require cross-functional collaboration. She has since pioneered the method with heavy industry professionals, the pharmaceutical industry, US military veterans, and in higher education.

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Héctor Villarreal Lozoya
Associate

Héctor has 18 years experience facilitating and business consulting throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

Héctor has a Master Degree in IT Management and a post graduate diploma in Conflict Resolution from Madrid Complutense University. He's been a member of the International Association of Facilitators since 2004 and a Board Member from 2014-2019.

He is a Certified Online Facilitator in LEGO Serious Play which he uses to engage meaningful conversations with groups that aim to produce significant change. His passion for aiding teams to develop true collaboration skills has cemented his belief that LSP can cut across the surface to create profound and beneficial interactions. He is currently translating the Online book of LEGO Serious Play into Spanish.

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Sophie, Ma XiaoTsing 麻晓晴
Associate

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Vicky Qu
Associate

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