Exploring new-age leadership skills & approaches: through LEGO® Serious Play® methodology

Genre Literature

Sub Genre Design, Creativity

Format Workshops / Masterclass

When Saturday, 17th January 2026
From 10:30am to 2:00pm (IST)

Where Essar House - Podium, 11 KK Marg, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai 400034

Price Rs. 2000/- (Including GST)

Details

In today’s rapidly evolving workplace, leadership is increasingly defined by collaboration, inclusion, and innovation rather than hierarchy alone. With teams comprising multiple generations—Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z—aligning perspectives, communication styles, and ways of working has become essential for effective collaboration and project success.

Avid Learning presents an immersive leadership workshop introducing participants to LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP)—a powerful, hands-on methodology ideal for emerging leaders, managers, and teams seeking more inclusive, collaborative, and effective ways of working.

Led by Mr. Mrunal Shah, certified LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator and Founder of Sunday Bricks, the workshop enables participants to explore contemporary leadership mindsets, strengthen communication, and collaboratively address complex workplace challenges. Through guided building, reflection, and dialogue, participants will co-create practical insights that can be applied immediately within their organisations.

Workshop Highlights

· Everyone builds, everyone speaks — ensuring 100% engagement

· Unlock deeper, often unspoken insights and perspectives

· Accelerate problem-solving through collective intelligence

· Break down hierarchical barriers and encourage psychological safety

· Foster creative, tactile thinking to address complex challenges

· Translate ideas into shared understanding and actionable outcomes

Note: Avid Learning workshops are now ISO 29993:2017 certified, an international standard for non-formal education and training services.

A participation certificate will be provided for the workshop.

Faculty

Mrunal Shah

Mr. Mrunal Shah, a LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator from Mumbai. Founder at Sunday Bricks

Mr. Mrunal Shah, a LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator from Mumbai. He is the founder at Sunday Bricks and he designs LSP sessions for corporates to manage topics like culture, strategy, team building, enhanced communication, creative problem solving using this innovative and hands-on approach.

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Collaborations

Sunday Bricks

Blog

In today’s workplaces, leadership is no longer defined by authority, titles, or corner offices. It is shaped by the ability to listen, collaborate, adapt, and create environments where diverse voices feel valued. As organisations increasingly bring together multiple generations—each with distinct expectations, communication styles, and ways of thinking—the challenge is not just managing people, but aligning perspectives. This is where unconventional tools, like LEGO®, offer surprisingly powerful insights into modern leadership.

LEGO® is often associated with play, creativity, and childhood imagination. Yet, in leadership contexts, it becomes a serious medium for expression and problem-solving. When individuals build models with their hands, they externalise thoughts that are often difficult to articulate through words alone. Abstract ideas such as trust, power, conflict, or vision suddenly take shape—literally—making them easier to understand, question, and refine. Leadership, after all, is as much about clarity as it is about creativity.

One of the most compelling aspects of using LEGO® in leadership development is how it levels the playing field. Traditional meetings often privilege the loudest voice or the most senior title. Hands-on, build-based conversations shift the focus from hierarchy to participation. Everyone builds, and therefore everyone contributes. This creates psychological safety—an essential ingredient for effective teams—by ensuring that each perspective is seen and acknowledged. In such spaces, quieter team members often emerge as insightful contributors, while leaders learn to listen more deeply.

LEGO®-based leadership approaches also encourage systems thinking. When individuals connect their models to form shared landscapes, they begin to see how roles, decisions, and behaviours interlink. Problems are no longer viewed in isolation but as part of a larger ecosystem. This is especially valuable in complex organisational environments where challenges rarely have linear solutions. Leaders learn to recognise interdependencies, anticipate consequences, and co-create strategies rather than impose them.

Another critical leadership lesson embedded in this method is adaptability. Building and rebuilding models mirrors real-world change—ideas evolve, assumptions are challenged, and solutions are refined collaboratively. This reinforces the mindset that leadership is not about having all the answers, but about facilitating discovery. It shifts leaders from being problem-solvers to becoming enablers of collective intelligence.

Perhaps most importantly, LEGO® invites leaders to reconnect with curiosity and play—qualities often lost in high-pressure professional settings. Play does not trivialise work; it humanises it. By engaging both logic and imagination, leaders access deeper empathy, innovation, and insight. Teams that think creatively together tend to trust each other more, communicate better, and respond more effectively to change.

In a world where leadership demands emotional intelligence, inclusivity, and shared ownership, sometimes the most profound breakthroughs come not from presentations or spreadsheets, but from building something together—brick by brick.