Active Learning for
Working Professionals

Think & Innovate

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TRACK ONE

Creative thinking, problem-solving, and hands-on methodology. These workshops are rooted in the belief that the best thinking happens when you're actively making, doing, and exploring.

LEGO® Serious Play®

Apply the LSP method within your existing role and work. Foundational, focused, and immediately useful.

Design Thinking

A human-centered approach to problem-solving that applies iterative methods to generate innovative solutions grounded in real human needs.

The Idea Storm

A set of structured techniques to generate, refine, and prioritize ideas for maximum creativity and impact. Move past the first idea to the best idea.

First Draft

Dive into a hands-on, prototyping process and practice for quickly bringing ideas to life through tangible models that invite testing and iteration.

Elevate Your Voice

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TRACK TWO

Communication, presence, personal brand, and intentional self-direction. For professionals who want to show up more confidently, to pitching an idea, telling their story, or taking a more deliberate hand in shaping where they're headed.

Pitching Yourself

A hands-on process for developing and refining your personal story, highlighting your strengths, and positioning yourself authentically in professional settings.

Networking for Introverts

A skills-based workshop offering tools and strategies for navigating networking situations in ways that feel genuine, sustainable, and effective.

Plot Your Journey

Utilize and apply the Design Thinking Process to explore possibilities and shape intentional personal and professional paths.

Crossover Workshops

  • The Art of the Pitch

The Entrepreneurial Mind

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TRACK THREE

For builders, founders, and intrapreneurs. Frameworks for generating ideas, validating them with real humans, and bringing them to life. Whether you're launching something new or thinking like an entrepreneur inside an organization, these workshops are for you.

The Art of the Pitch

A framework with actionable techniques for crafting compelling stories, structuring presentations, and communicating ideas with clarity and conviction.

Gaining Empathy to Validate Your Ideas

Get out of your assumptions and into the lived experience of your users.

Build Your BMC

Map out the building blocks of a business idea and explore how each piece connects using a strategic tool that helps visualize how each component creates value.

Crossover Workshops

  • Design Thinking

  • The Idea Storm

  • First Draft

WHO WE’VE WORKED WITH

  • American Marketing Association at VCU

    Adobe and Marketing

  • Henrico Innovation Challenge

    TRACK 03

    Design Thinking • The Idea Storm • First Draft • Build Your BMC • The Art of the Pitch

  • 2024 CHW Summit

    Pitch Yourself

  • 2024-26 VCU School of Medicine

    Design Thinking • The Idea Storm • Gaining Empathy to Validate Your Ideas

  • 2025-26 AmeriCorp VISTA Virginia Housing Alliance

    Design Thinking • Pitching Yourself • Networking for Introverts • Plot Your Journey

  • Commonwealth Managers Association

    LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Workshop

  • 2025 SISN Conference

    Pitching Yourself

  • University of Richmond

    The Art of the Pitch

  • VCU Financial Success Center

    The Art of the Pitch • Pitching Yourself • Networking for Introverts

  • Developing Men of Color “Secure The Bag” Financial Literacy Summit

    LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Workshop

Take your practice to the next level

GET CERTIFIED

Playthos Pro Certified programs are for professionals who don't just want to attend a workshop, they want to lead one. Earn credentials that reflect a real commitment to active, hands-on learning.

PLAYTHOS PRO CERTIFIED

LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Practitioner

Apply the LSP method within your existing role and work. Foundational, focused, and immediately useful.

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PLAYTHOS PRO CERTIFIED

LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Facilitator

The full certification track. Design and lead LSP sessions independently as part of your professional practice.

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COMING SOON

Design Thinking Facilitator

Certification to facilitate the full design thinking process with teams and organizations. Currently in development.

  • "I enjoyed Cael Parker's presentation because I am always seeking personal growth, self reflection, ways to be more mindful, attentive to myself while providing the right amount of attentiveness to others, ways to be better personally and professionally."

    Participant, Summer Institute for School Nursing 2025

    Pitching Yourself

  • "Cael led an engaging and insightful design thinking session for the VCU Alumni community, and the experience was both interactive and impactful. Her expertise, creativity, and energy guided us through new ways of approaching challenges, leaving participants with practical tools they could carry forward. We especially appreciated her flexibility in adapting seamlessly to a last-minute shift to a virtual format. The feedback from attendees has been overwhelmingly positive, highlighting the meaningful learning experience she created. Cael is a thoughtful facilitator and strategic partner, and we look forward to future collaborations."

    Tiera Byrd, Office of Development and Alumni Relation

    Design Your Way Forward: Innovate, Adapt, Solve Facilitation

  • "You taught me how to keep the end-user in mind in ALL that I do! Your workshops made a significant difference in how I approached my undergrad capstone projects and work since graduation. Wishing you the best! I know you’ll be a fantastic addition to a program or product team."

    Participant, VCU Undergrad

    Design Thinking

  • “Cael was wonderful to work with. She was timely and professional in communication and demonstrated thoughtful planning. She was able to listen to me deeply and modify her materials to adapt to medical students. She came up with creative ideas to approach medical students. She had good presentation skills and kept the students’ attention. We worked together over two years developing several sessions that introduced medical students to design thinking concepts. We created assignments for students to apply their new learning.”

    Melissa Bradner, Associate Professor VCU Department of Family Medicine and Population Health

  • "Cael’s level of curation of the topic 'Pitch Yourself,' with a focus on self-presentation and personal branding to advance career opportunities, was an excellent way for community health workers to consider various forms of career advancement. Within the presentation, the execution of questions and the flow of the topic were beneficial to everyone in the conference. Cael provided real-life examples of how one can successfully gain new strategies in the next career or even become an entrepreneur. I highly recommend Cael as a facilitator for any group that may be seeking new strategies for personal and professional development."

    Kelly Evans, Consultant, Institute for Public Health Innovation

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