Use the power of play to help your teams solve real problems in real time.

Face-to-face collaboration has the potential to solve your biggest challenges and strengthen team bonds in the process.

We achieve this through real-time strategy workshops using the methods and materials of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®.

Clutch is led by Sean Miller, a strategist and facilitator with over 20 years of experience in creative agencies and consumer research.

Our workshops tap into the collective wisdom and imagination of your group. We ensure 100% participation so every voice is heard and the group is focused on achieving a shared outcome.

After the workshop, we bring our strategic expertise to the debrief, providing insights and analysis to help your team turn its breakthroughs into actionable, inspired plans.

Join us for some serious play!

Common applications

  • Creating and refining business, marketing, brand, product, and creative strategies.

  • Providing a different lens to open up insights and ideas.

  • Diagnosing challenges and establishing principles at the team or organizational level.

  • Developing a framework for better collaboration within and between teams.

  • Constructing a clear and shared identity for a brand, division, department or team.

Not just another day in the office.

Make the most of your team’s office time.

Take a moment to consider the valuable work and ideas your team has developed but hasn't yet acted on. You may have research insights and strategic initiatives, but something is preventing it from fully being utilized.

Our workshops are crafted to uncover and highlight the collective wisdom and imagination of the group. Traditional strategy sessions often favor outspoken participants, leaving quieter members less engaged. We ensure every participant contributes fully, with 100% participation toward achieving a shared goal.

Being face to face has enormous potential not just to address complex strategic problems, but also to elevate team connection and productivity.

The solution to your challenges may already within the team—it just needs to be revealed.

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Refreshing

We’ve spent a gazillion hours in traditional offsites and workshops. A LEGO SERIOUS PLAY workshop is unlike any other, promising 100% involvement from 100% of participants. It’s all about leaning in.

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Rigorous

This approach is backed by principles of neuroscience and the psychology of play. While some see play as the opposite of work, this method is anything but frivolous. Our workshops serve your goal with intensity and focus.

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Flexible

No two teams are alike, and your challenges deserve a creative approach to solving them. We address goals as diverse as product innovation, scenario planning, creative ideation, brand positioning, customer journeys, and more.

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Impactful

Your experience with Clutch goes beyond the bricks. Our founder has over 20 years experience as a brand strategist guiding major companies and their teams. With the power of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY in the mix, you’re in good hands.

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This built a level of trust and camaraderie our board hasn’t had in a while. We now have a shared vision for growth.

Nonprofit Board Member, Hartford, CT

The session surfaced several things about how the company is currently running and our relationships with each other. Very insightful.

Small Business Leader, Glastonbury, CT

We were blown away by what we achieved in a half day. I haven’t seen the executive team come together like this before. It was the highlight of our three-day offsite.

Financial Consulting Firm, West Palm Beach, FL

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Explore the intersection of work and play.

Ditch the screens and tackle your challenges hands on, in real time, with a trained facilitator. (No LEGO experience necessary!)

Hi, I’m Sean.

As a brand strategist, I'm experienced in using market research and workshops to help organizations achieve their goals.

The pandemic completely changed how teams work. I noticed that clients were increasingly looking for creative ways to solve complex problems, requiring everyone on the team to be fully involved.

This led me to explore real-time strategy workshops using the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method in 2024.

The approach is a perfect fit for how I have always worked: with a strong sense of purpose, tempered by a spirit of play and possibility.

I became a certified facilitator in the method and created Clutch, a boutique consultancy that combines this capability with my experience in brand and creative strategy.

I enlist other facilitators, creatives and strategists as needed to tackle a variety of challenges.

I’m based near Hartford, Connecticut but I travel to wherever interesting problems are.

How it works:

Pre-workshop

  • We have a call to discuss your goal, the Big Question. I’ll learn about your organization, participants, and help you hone an ambitious objective for the session.

  • We will determine the right length based on number of participants, budget, and time.

  • We’ll discuss logistics and requirement for the room, etc.

  • This is done 1-6 weeks in advance, depending on your needs.

Workshop

  • We will bring all necessary LEGO materials, flip charts, etc. including additional facilitators if discussed.

  • You communicate to participants and ensure attendance. We will as well, outlining the goals and guidelines of the session.

  • Arrive on time ready to play with purpose! Just lean in and leave the rest to us.

  • The group will be taken through a series of achievable challenges based on your objective.

Post-workshop

  • We will provide all documentation including photos, and verbatim quotes from the session.

  • Depending on your needs, we will also create a more detailed analysis with POV on your goals and steps you can take to meet them. This is informed by our deep experience in consumer research and brand strategy.

  • Should you wish to act on some of your new insights, we are able to refer you to our trusted collaborators to bring your new insights to life.

Reduced-cost workshops are available for small businesses and nonprofits.

Let’s chat!

Get in touch to learn more about our approach, pricing, and whether Clutch is right for your needs.