Learning Experience Creator
I help L&D teams create learning experiences people actually DO something with.
Strategy + Creativity + Human Insight
The box that matters
Learning isn't about filling calendars, adding slides or collecting happy sheets. Those boxes tick themselves. One doesn't.
Go on. Tick it.
What makes it different
What really needs to change? The awkward questions get asked early, before anyone builds forty slides.
Original concepts, unexpected moments and exercises that make people lean in instead of zone out.
How people behave, connect and grow. Especially when things get a little uncomfortable.
Selected work
Clients include
Signify · Europe, China and India
Challenge Help team leaders in tech build their own leadership style, read team dynamics and put each person's strengths to work.
Change Leaders coaching their teams better, and showing up with more confidence in difficult presentations and courageous conversations.
Philips Lighting · Europe
Challenge Move marketing and sales people from selling hardware to selling services, and change how they build and present proposals.
Change Propositions that show the value of services and complex systems, not only the hardware.
Qatar Energy · Fully virtual
Challenge Bring 24 people together, from offshore platform crews to office staff, and improve how they communicate and collaborate remotely. All of it through a screen.
Approach Three days designed as a gamified storyline. Participants weren't attendees. They were the lead actors in a shared play.
Change Trust deepened and conversations opened up. In the closing round, one participant was moved to tears by the connections that had formed. Afterwards, the feedback was that the practical tools and insights were put to use.
Signify · Europe, China, India and US
Challenge Give junior product managers the technical and people skills the role demands. Low on theory, high on activation.
Change Participants and their line managers reported high value, especially in applying it at work.
Heineken · Europe
Challenge Get marketing teams across the global commercial organisation working data-driven, fast.
Change New tools and techniques adopted, because people understood them and could use them.
How we could work together
In the room, on screen, or both. Across cultures, time zones and screens.
What is going on underneath the request? We find out together.
The idea that makes the learning stick, and makes people curious.
The journey, the exercises and the tools people will use afterwards.
In person, virtual or hybrid. Facilitated by me, or delivered with the BLENDEDPEOPLE collective.
Sometimes that means challenging the original brief. Sometimes throwing out half the content. And sometimes bringing in a few unexpected ingredients. Brief already written? Happy to join where it helps most.
What the experiences feel like
Playful challenges. Unexpected moments. Creative experimentation. Group dynamics. Laughter. All of it with a serious purpose.
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People join in because it's engaging, and stay in because it matters. Never entertainment for its own sake.
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Room to notice what just happened, and to connect it to Monday morning.
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People leave with tools and choices they can use the next day.
In their words
He challenged our thinking in the right way and helped elevate the overall quality of our learning initiatives.
I see his openness and empathy set him apart from the rest.
He is able to keep audiences engaged and is a great master of ceremony for your learning event.
A to the point, down to earth type of trainer with a warm personality.
Speak UPP!™, INNERGISE™ and BLENDEDPEOPLE™. Three initiatives that grew out of this work. See where the work goes further
The person
Twenty-five physiotherapists on a mandatory course, arms folded. I had a manual I'd read in the car and no experience as a trainer. So I picked up an orange from the lunch table and we started throwing it. Two days later there was openness, laughter, and people talking about what they were really struggling with.
That was the first time I saw how much more there is in people than meets the eye. I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.
Let's talk
connect@ricardosteinbuch.com · All the ways to reach me