Book nowLeadership expert, Gallup-certified strengths coach, and one of fewer than 100 certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitators in the United States.
With more than 25 years in learning and development, Jolynn D. Ledgerwood has become a sought-after voice in leadership, team building, and strategic communications.
Her career spans hospitality, consumer goods, professional services, IT, and cyber security, including work at PepsiCo, Brinker International, FritoLay, Critical Start, and Toyota Motors.
What sets her apart is her pioneering work with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® in the United States. The methodology has more than 15,000 facilitators across Europe and fewer than 100 certified practitioners in the US. She found it after growing frustrated with team-building approaches that never gave every voice equal weight.
Her certifications also include Bob Goff Dream Big, The Primal Question, and Gallup StrengthsFinder.
She hosts Play for Performance, a podcast on transforming workplaces through play and creativity, so she knows the format from both chairs.
Leadership podcasts, team development summits, HR conferences, innovation workshops, and strategic planning events.
More than 3,900 followers across platforms
Typically within 24 hours, and happy to tailor her approach to your audience and format
How the methodology transforms team dynamics by getting people building instead of just talking. Hands-on model building breaks down communication barriers, surfaces hidden perspectives, and produces solutions that traditional brainstorming never reaches.
Focusing on individual strengths rather than fixing weaknesses. How identifying and using each person specific talents leads to greater engagement, productivity, and satisfaction, and turns good teams into exceptional ones.
How building goals and strategies in three dimensions creates a genuinely shared vision, and produces alignment and commitment that survives the walk back to people desks.
Techniques for using models to brainstorm, prototype, and refine solutions on the messy multi-stakeholder problems that resist normal methods.
Jolynn comes prepared with media-ready answers to the questions audiences actually ask about this methodology.
It leverages the connection between hands and brain, engaging multiple cognitive pathways at once. Building with your hands reaches deeper knowledge and more honest perspectives than discussion alone.
No prior experience is needed. The structured approach puts everyone on equal footing, with warm-ups that build confidence before the complex work starts.
Complex, multi-stakeholder problems where diverse perspectives are essential. Strategic planning, team alignment, innovation, change management, and communication barriers that resist normal methods.
It creates psychological safety by letting people speak through their models rather than stating opinions directly. Introverts often thrive because they think while building and then have a concrete artifact to point at.
It is grounded in constructionism, the theory that knowledge is built through experience and reflection. Building models engages visual-spatial reasoning, motor skills, and narrative thinking at the same time.
She has plenty. Teams breaking longstanding gridlock, executives finding blind spots in their own strategy, and quiet people turning out to be the most valuable contributor in the room.
Conversations on leadership development, team building, and the methodology itself, all built around practical strategies a listener can use the same week.
Why play is the essential missing link in training programs. How tactile learning engages the prefrontal cortex, why traditional brainstorming falls flat, and what happens when siloed departments build together.
Building ideas brick by brick. Swapping PowerPoints for plastic bricks in the boardroom, and uncovering leaders the C-suite did not know it had.
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Leadership development, team building, strategic planning, facilitation, StrengthsFinder, play for performance, organizational change.
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