In an era dominated by rapid technology integration and AI-driven workflows, the defining factor of organizational success remains uniquely human. For modern professionals and business leaders, navigating workplace dynamics requires moving past outdated, transactional authority frameworks. Today's workplace demands human-centered leadership capable of building unshakeable trust, navigating complex multi-generational work styles, and unlocking deep employee engagement.

This intensive 2-day masterclass blends core people-management principles with the deeply engaging LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) methodology, allowing participants to "think with their hands" to solve critical cultural and operational challenges. Rather than sitting through passive lectures, leaders and teams will actively build and prototype workplace systems that maximize psychological safety, align diverse communication preferences, and drive a culture of sustainable high performance.

Key Capabilities Developed

• Human-Centered Leadership Mindset: Understand how specific leadership behaviors directly shape corporate culture, trust, and team psychological safety.
• Core Drive (Motivational Intelligence): Master a practical lens to diagnose and leverage the hidden motivational drivers that influence how individuals show up, perform, and contribute at work.
• Dynamic Communication & Empathy: Use structured tactile metaphors and brick-based storytelling to eliminate communication breakdowns, build deeper empathy, and actively listen to what isn't being said.
• High-Performance Collaboration: Apply data-driven frameworks to design team environments centered around psychological safety where people feel secure to take creative risks, collaborate effectively, and challenge the status quo.

Objective

By the end of this 2-day masterclass, participants will be able to:

• Lead with Empathy: Frame workplace interactions and systemic management decisions through perspective-taking and organizational empathy.
• Engage Across Generations: Mitigate friction and realign individual tasks with organizational goals by mapping cross-generational values and work styles.
• Master Metaphorical Storytelling: Utilize spatial and tactile tools to unlock creative insights, foster psychological safety, and guarantee 100% voice equity in team meetings.
• Map Team Perspectives: Construct actionable Empathy Maps (Said, Thought, Did, Felt) to discover unmet employee needs and invisible systemic friction points.
• Dismantle Functional Silos: Turn destructive communication barriers into constructive, collaborative solutions.
• Deploy Immediate Micro-Interventions: Implement localized action protocols like the "15% Solution" to improve immediate workflows using existing resources.

Outline

Day 1: Human-Centered Leadership & Core Drive (Motivational Intelligence)

Module 1: Mindset – Unlocking the Hand-Brain Connection & Psychological Safety

• Introduction to intentional play and explore how conscious leadership behaviors dictate team trust, psychological safety, and performance.
• LSP Leadership Application: Build a 3D model representing the non-negotiable qualities of an empathetic, human-centered leader.

Module 2: Motivation – Multi-Generational Superpowers & Core Drive Frameworks

• Unpacking communication preferences, varying workplace assumptions, and the Core Drive framework to diagnose engagement and locate invisible organizational friction points.
• Tactile Analysis & Mapping: Map generational models against Core Drive motivators (purpose, growth, recognition, belonging) and build explicit structures of current leadership styles.

Day 2: Communication & Collaboration

Module 3: Connection – Communication Essentials & Cognitive Empathy Mapping

• Introduction to the 7 Principles of Communication, the Active Listening Formula, and moving from self-awareness to structured interpersonal perspective-taking.
• Partner Empathy Exercise: Conduct deep-dive interviews regarding a real workplace challenge and translate qualitative input into a 4-quadrant Empathy Map (Said, Thought, Did, Felt).

Module 4: Collaboration – Gamified Constraints & High-Performing Team Metrics

• Aligning Google’s Project Aristotle high-performing traits (Dependability, Structure, Meaning, Impact) with the 4 Stages of Psychological Safety (Inclusion, Learner, Contributor, Challenger).
• LSP Collaboration Build: Model a past successful career collaboration and modify it to showcase how missing Core Drive metrics can be reintroduced effectively.

Module 5: The Shared Collaboration Charter & Macro Table Build

• Breaking down functional silos, building reciprocal relationships, and merging distinct points of view into a collective operational roadmap.
• The Macro Table Build: Build a single, unified team "Collaboration Charter" model to resolve overlapping operational gaps.

Who should attend

This masterclass is specifically engineered for professionals responsible for driving team alignment, engagement, and operational execution:

• New Managers & Supervisors transitioning from technical subject-matter experts to people leaders.
• Mid-Level Managers and Department Heads navigating complex, cross-functional stakeholder landscapes.
• Project Managers & Team Leads directing diverse, hybrid, or remote project teams.
• HR Business Partners, People Ops, and L&D Practitioners championing systemic cultural transformation.

Methodology

• Core Philosophy (80% Experiential, 20% Theory): Hands-on, play-based instructional techniques ensure abstract frameworks translate into immediate behavior changes back at the office.
• Hierarchy Flattening: The structured environment ensures equal participation, neutralizing typical corporate power dynamics so introverted, extroverted, junior, and senior participants have an identical platform.
• Ideal Cohort Size: 12 to 20 participants split into cross-functional units to maximize collaborative outcomes.

Andy Chong's Profile

Psychological Safety & Team Effectiveness Practitioner (CPSTEP) | IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Instructor | LEGO® Serious Play® Facilitator | ACTA Certified Trainer | Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) | Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) | Developer of the Core Drive Framework | Human-Centered Leadership | Systems Thinking | Design Thinking | Team Effectiveness | Innovation Facilitation

Andy Chong is a facilitator, learning designer, and human-centered design practitioner who specialises in helping organisations build stronger leaders, healthier teams, and more engaging workplaces. He is passionate about understanding what drives people at work and translating complex organisational challenges into practical, people-centered solutions.

With more than a decade of experience across technology, public service, education, and the social impact sector, Andy has designed and facilitated programmes for leaders, managers, and teams navigating transformation, innovation, collaboration, and organisational change. His experience spans leadership development, team effectiveness, design thinking, agile ways of working, service design, and employee experience.

Andy is the developer of the Core Drive, a workplace motivation framework that helps individuals and organisations understand the underlying drivers that influence engagement, collaboration, decision making, and performance. Drawing on behavioural science, systems thinking, and organisational research, the framework enables leaders to move beyond assumptions and create environments where people can do their best work.

Known for his thoughtful facilitation style, Andy creates highly interactive learning experiences that encourage reflection, meaningful conversations, and practical application. Rather than relying on theory alone, he blends storytelling, design methods, structured dialogue, and experiential activities to help participants uncover insights they can immediately apply in their work.

His areas of expertise include Human-Centered Leadership, Psychological Safety, Team Effectiveness, Team Resilience, Design Thinking, Systems Thinking, Innovation Facilitation, Employee Motivation, Leadership Communication, Collaboration, Problem Solving, Workshop Facilitation, Service Design, Agile Mindsets, and Organisational Sensemaking.

Sampling of Clients - Singapore
IBM, Citibank, Borouge, Sony, P&G, Shiseido Asia Pacific, Akamai, Harley Davidson, Schneider Electric, SingHealth, Sentosa Development Corporation, MOH, MOE, MHA

Sampling of Clients - Malaysia
Petra Energy, Telekom Malaysia, Ørsted,Prudential, NCR

Certifications & Professional Development

• Psychological Safety & Team Effectiveness Practitioner (CPSTEP)
• Advanced Certificate in Training & Assessment (ACTA)
• Certified Enterprise Design Thinking Instructor (IBM)
• Certified Human-Centred Design Facilitator (IDEO)
• Certified Critical Thinking & Research Analyst (CCTRA)
• Certified Agile Team Facilitation & Coaching (ICAgile)
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
• Certified LEGO® Serious Play® Facilitator
• Certified Facilitator, Pro.Play Method
• Certified Game Thinking Coach