ELEVATING HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
ELEVATING HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
Reclaim
the messy, meaningful stuff AI can't REPLICATE.
Reclaim
the messy, meaningful stuff
AI can't replicate.
Reclaim
the messy, meaningful stuff AI can't REPLICATE.
Frameworks and workshops combining critical reasoning, poetic thinking, and embodied play to help leaders, teams and organisations think beyond algorithms and elevate their human skills.
Frameworks and workshops combining critical reasoning, poetic thinking, and embodied play to help leaders, teams and organisations think beyond algorithms and elevate their human skills.
SENIOR
LEADERS
CEOs, MDs, Founders, CTOs and Heads of Strategy seeking fresh approaches to complex and system challenges
DIRECTORS OF PEOPLE
L&D leaders, Human Resources and Talent teams looking to develop talent beyond standard training programmes
CREATIVE HEADS
CEOs, MDs, Founders, CTOs and Heads of Strategy seeking fresh approaches to complex and system challenges
INNOVATION TEAMS
Strategists, Creatives and Consultants who need lateral breakthroughs and provocation, not linear thinking
As AI seeks to simplify and optimise, we're in danger of losing the skills that create actual value.
As AI seeks to simplify and optimise, we're in danger of losing the skills that create actual value.
As AI seeks to simplify and optimise, we're in danger of losing the skills that create actual value.
Contextual judgement, metaphoric reasoning., creative synthesis, embodied understanding. These aren't soft skills - they're deep, difference-defining, competitive advantages that are all too often ignored because they can't be easily measured or automated.
Contextual judgement, metaphoric reasoning., creative synthesis, embodied understanding. These aren't soft skills - they're deep, difference-defining, competitive advantages that are all too often ignored because they can't be easily measured or automated.
Contextual judgement, metaphoric reasoning., creative synthesis, embodied understanding. These aren't soft skills - they're deep, difference-defining, competitive advantages that are all too often ignored because they can't be easily measured or automated.
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is Business Poetry and why is poetic thinking good for business?
Poetic thinking is the practice of engaging deeply with language (its sensory, emotional and metaphorical dimensions) to develop richer understanding and imaginative reasoning. Corporate thinking tends to be linear and analytical, which is precisely what AI does well. Poetics creates unexpected connections, views problems through multiple lenses and produces the kind of lateral thinking that drives real innovation.
What is LEGO® Serious Play and how is it used in leadership and team development?
Why combine poetry, critical theory and LEGO® Serious Play?
What’s the difference between soft skills and human intelligence?
Can human intelligence be trained and developed?
WAYS OF WORKING
WAYS OF WORKING
However you want to engage and develop human intelligence, we've got you.
However you want to engage and develop human intelligence, we've got you.
BUILD INTELLIGENCE THAT DEFINES DIFFERENCE
BUILD INTELLIGENCE THAT DEFINES DIFFERENCE
Workshops & Facilitation
Workshops & Facilitation
Bespoke workshops for leaders, teams and organisations.
Combine critical thinking, poetic thinking and LEGO® Serious Play
Designed around your challenge, problem or objective.
MAKE MOMENTS THAT
MARK THE MEMORY
MAKE MOMENTS THAT
MARK THE MEMORY
Keynotes & Appearances
Keynotes & Appearances
Presentations, panels and group activities built for engagement.
Keynote speaking and public appearances to motivate the room.
Designed to build and celebrate human intelligence
RAISE HAIRS, RAISE THE BAR
AND RAISE THE ROOF
RAISE HAIRS, RAISE THE BAR AND RAISE THE ROOF
Writing: Live & Commissioned
Writing: Live & Commissioned
IP Creative Writing, Manifestos, Poetry and Spoken Word pieces
Conference and Event Poetry captures live emotions & energy
Designed for momentum and collective understanding
"Work on the beautiful human being you can become. That part of ourselves which will persist even if machines can do most of the jobs."
YOSHUA BENGIO, 'GODFATHER' OF AI
"Work on the beautiful human being you can become. That part of ourselves which will persist even if machines can do most of the jobs."
"Work on the beautiful human being you can become. That part of ourselves which will persist even if machines can do most of the jobs."
YOSHUA BENGIO, 'GODFATHER' OF AI
Frequently Asked Questions
Find out more about our ideas & services
What is Business Poetry and why is poetic thinking good for business?
Poetic thinking is the practice of engaging deeply with language (its sensory, emotional and metaphorical dimensions) to develop richer understanding and imaginative reasoning. Corporate thinking tends to be linear and analytical, which is precisely what AI does well. Poetics creates unexpected connections, views problems through multiple lenses and produces the kind of lateral thinking that drives real innovation.
What is LEGO® Serious Play and how is it used in leadership and team development?
Why combine poetry, critical theory and LEGO® Serious Play?
What’s the difference between soft skills and human intelligence?
Can human intelligence be trained and developed?
Frequently Asked Questions
Find out more about our ideas & services
What is Business Poetry and why is poetic thinking good for business?
Poetic thinking is the practice of engaging deeply with language (its sensory, emotional and metaphorical dimensions) to develop richer understanding and imaginative reasoning. Corporate thinking tends to be linear and analytical, which is precisely what AI does well. Poetics creates unexpected connections, views problems through multiple lenses and produces the kind of lateral thinking that drives real innovation.
What is LEGO® Serious Play and how is it used in leadership and team development?
Why combine poetry, critical theory and LEGO® Serious Play?
What’s the difference between soft skills and human intelligence?
Can human intelligence be trained and developed?
The Pillars of Real Intelligence
The Pillars of Real Intelligence
My frameworks and workshops combine critical reasoning, poetic thinking, and embodied play to help leaders, teams and organisations think beyond algorithms and elevate their human skills.
My frameworks and workshops combine critical reasoning, poetic thinking, and embodied play to help leaders, teams and organisations think beyond algorithms and elevate their human skills.
Frameworks and workshops combining critical reasoning, poetic thinking, and embodied play to help leaders, teams and organisations think beyond algorithms and elevate their human skills.
Metacognition
Metacognition
Thinking about your own thinking, Recognising biases,
challenging assumptions, understanding when to shift
strategy, questioning motives, solving the right problem.
Thinking about your own thinking, Recognising biases,
challenging assumptions, understanding when to shift
strategy, questioning motives, solving the right problem.
Intersubjectivity
Intersubjectivity
Intersubjectivity
Understanding what isn't said.
Reading emotional and social
dynamics, shared meaning-making, the paradigms and pragmatics that algorithms can't parse and recognise.
Understanding what isn't said.
Reading emotional and social
dynamics, shared meaning-making, the paradigms and pragmatics that algorithms can't parse and recognise.
Contextual Judgement
Contextual Judgement
Reading the room. Knowing
when rules should bend,
when "technically correct" is actually wrong, when objectives themselves are misguided.
Reading the room. Knowing
when rules should bend,
when "technically correct" is actually wrong, when objectives themselves are misguided.
Embodied Understanding
Embodied Understanding
Moving towards meaning.
The physical, sensory
engagement that creates
neural pathways and intuition
that transcends reason.
Moving towards meaning.
The physical, sensory
engagement that creates
neural pathways and intuition
that transcends reason.
Esme Floyd Hall
Esme Floyd Hall
The only consultant in the UK combining prize-winning poetry, critical thinking and purposeful play to build integrated intelligence.
Published author of 11 books.
Contributor to Britannica.
Writer for Sunday Times, Carlton & National Geographic.
Certified LEGO® Serious Play facilitator. Prize-winning Poet & Copywriter.
The
Triple
Prism
The Triple Prism
The
Triple
Prism
Critical Thinking
Develops metacognition, big-picture thinking, and the ability to challenge assumptions and biases - your own and others'.
Poetic Exploration
Deepens engagement with language to develop pragmatic understanding and imaginative reasoning.
LEGO® Serious Play
Encourages kinesthetic problem-solving through thinking with hands and objects, not just abstractions and language.
Critical Thinking
Develops metacognition, big-picture thinking, and the ability to challenge assumptions and biases - your own and others'.
Poetic Exploration
Deepens engagement with language to develop pragmatic understanding and imaginative reasoning.
LEGO® Serious Play
Encourages kinesthetic problem-solving through thinking with hands and objects, not just abstractions and language.
Consultants & facilitators have been combining LEGO® Serious Play and critical thinking for years. The addition of poetics is what makes this approach so novel. My triple prism reframes problems through metaphor, generates distinctive strategic frameworks, integrates different types of intelligence, and keeps sessions engaging and memorable.
Consultants & facilitators have been combining LEGO® Serious Play and critical thinking for years. The addition of poetics is what makes this approach so novel. My triple prism reframes problems through metaphor, generates distinctive strategic frameworks, integrates different types of intelligence, and keeps sessions engaging and memorable.
Consultants & facilitators have been combining LEGO® Serious Play and critical thinking for years. The addition of poetics is what makes this approach so novel. My triple prism reframes problems through metaphor, generates distinctive strategic frameworks, integrates different types of intelligence, and keeps sessions engaging and memorable.
NEWSLETTER
The Productive Struggle
Monthly essay and worksheet on what it means to think in an age of algorithms. Each edition contains a provocation, analysis of a piece of writing & an exercise to boost your human skills.
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Rekindling Human Intelligence
The value of human intelligence in an artificial world.
How to reclaim the messy, meaningful capabilities AI will never replicate.
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