Are You Performing Workshop Theatre?

If you’re here, you’ve probably just heard my talk “Are You Performing Workshop Theatre?” or found it through someone who did. This page pulls together everything you need to move from performative workshops to sessions that actually change how your team works.

This page is meant to be shared. Pass it along to:

• Leaders who keep asking for “a workshop” without being clear on outcomes.
• UX, product, and other teams who are stuck in workshop fatigue.
• Anyone quietly thinking, “We’re doing a lot of activity, but not a lot of change.”

You’re not the only one seeing the theatre! This is your starting point to change it.

1. Get the Slides

Missed something during the talk, or want to share it with your team?

• View the full slide deck from “Are You Performing Workshop Theatre?”
• Revisit key concepts: rigorous preparation, deliberate activities and balanced facilitation
• Share with colleagues who couldn’t attend.

2. Diagnose your workshops

If you suspect your sessions are more performance than progress, start here.

• Use my Workshop Diagnostic Scorecard to assess how your workshops are really functioning today.
• Get a simple score plus guidance on where things are performative versus productive.
• Identify quick wins and deeper issues you can tackle over time.

3. Keep learning with the Workshop Alchemy newsletter

Workshops are just one piece of how teams collaborate and make decisions. In my newsletter, I share practical tools and candid stories about fixing broken workshops and meetings, applicable to small and complex organizations.

Subscribe for:

• Deep dives into workshop design beyond trendy frameworks.
• Concrete facilitation tips you can use in your next session.
• Honest takes on UX maturity, leadership, and “doing less theatre” at work.

4. Work with me

If you’re ready to go beyond ideas and actually rework how your team runs workshops, I can help.

Ways we might work together:

• Individual coaching – Turn your high‑stakes sessions into focused, outcome‑driven workshops.
• Team training – Build your team’s capability to design and facilitate workshops that don’t rely on theatre.
• Advisory for leaders – Align workshops with strategy, decision-making, and real constraints in your organization.