Success Stories
We Love Digi & Circular Communications: Building a Shared Organisational Picture for Scale-up
Turning different team perspectives into a shared picture for sustainable scale-up.
Info Hub
Success stories, news, events and expert perspectives from Smart Minds — in one place, organised in three clear rubrics.
Success Stories
Real client work, tangible outcomes and practical examples of how organisations turn challenges into progress with Smart Minds.
Success Stories
Modern Leadership: From Control to Trust
30 participants explored what modern leadership really means through LEGO® Serious Play® - revealing a shift from control and micromanagement towards trust, shared responsibility, psychological safety and freedom connected by a common purpose.
Success Stories
AUBG Elevate: Turning Startup Ideas into Stronger Business Models
Learn how AUBG Elevate business models helped early-stage founders clarify value, market fit, and pitch-ready logic for growth. See the impact.
Success Stories
PMI Bulgaria Chapter: Empowering Project Leaders Through LEGO® Serious Play®
Smart Minds partnered with PMI Bulgaria to empower project leaders, teams and volunteers through human-centred LEGO® Serious Play® development.
Success Stories
SOF Connect: Making AI Practical for Leadership
See how Smart Minds helped SOF Connect, operator of Sofia Airport, make AI practical for leadership, productivity and smarter decision-making.
Success Stories
Coca-Cola HBC Switzerland: Turning Collaboration into Tangible Action
Learn how Coca-Cola HBC Switzerland collaboration turned real business challenges into prioritised solutions, ownership, and action. Explore the story.
Success Stories
Vasil Levski Sofia Airport: Building a Feedback Culture for a 5-Star Future
See how Vasil Levski Sofia Airport feedback culture was built through leadership habits, community, and progress tracking. Explore the story.
Success Stories
Moto-Pfohe: Aligning Functions Around Retail Growth Opportunities
Learn how Moto-Pfohe growth opportunities aligned retail, marketing, and brand teams to improve engagement and turn ideas into action. Explore the case.
Success Stories
DVE Constructions: Scaling While Preserving What’s Unique
See how Smart Minds helped DVE Constructions align teams, improve role clarity and build a stronger foundation for sustainable growth.
Success Stories
A Data Pro: Shared Team Vision for Growth
Discover how Smart Minds helped A Data Pro align teams, strengthen collaboration and build a shared vision for growth through LEGO® Serious Play®.
Success Stories
HP Inc.: Celebrating Excellence at the PM Awards 2025 with LEGO® Serious Play®
Smart Minds supports HP Inc.’s award-winning “Do Good” community with a LEGO® Serious Play® workshop to strengthen alignment, capacity and 2026 strategy.
Success Stories
Elevate team Potential and Plan for Global Impact “The OpenText Way”
Discover how Smart Minds helped OpenText align its Bulgarian Sales Operations team through a LEGO® Serious Play® workshop that unlocked collaboration and strategy.
Success Stories
OpenText Success Story: Elevating Team Potential
Smart Minds partnered with OpenText to elevate team potential, unity and impact. See how LEGO® Serious Play® turned collaboration into a shared global vision.
Newsroom
From live events and workshops to partnerships, announcements and LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Foundational Certification — this is our public timeline.
Events
Modern Leadership: What Serious Games® with LEGO® Can - and Cannot - Do
A practical look at where LEGO® Serious Play® can support modern leadership - and where it cannot. Join our free webinar on 19 August.
News
JCI Bulgaria TOYP 2026: Celebrating Young Leaders and Their Impact
Smart Minds joined JCI Bulgaria TOYP 2026, with Tsvetelina Teneva serving on the jury. All ten honourees will receive a Smart Minds workshop experience as part of their recognition.
Events
Modern Leadership through LEGO® Serious Play®
30 participants explored modern leadership through LEGO® Serious Play® with Smart Minds and The Modern Leader Community at Sofia University.
Certification Cohorts
Six New Facilitators - and a First for Bricks for Social Good
Six professionals from HR, L&D, entrepreneurship and the creative sector completed our third LEGO® Serious Play® Foundational Facilitator Certification - including the first two young professionals supported through Bricks for Social Good.
Events
What Would We Rewrite in the Rules of Work?
During HR Updates 2026, Smart Minds invited participants to reflect on one question. The answers revealed clear signals about the future of work - more human connection, greater flexibility, and feedback that truly supports growth.
Events
Smart Minds Turns One: The Gifts Are on Us
Smart Minds marked its first birthday with a community learning experience and a free LEGO® Serious Play® workshop at JAMBA in Sofia.
Certification Cohorts
Meet Petar Neftelimov, the First Bricks for Social Good Scholar
A scholarship is not just support. It is a commitment to turn new skills into real social value.
Certification Cohorts
A Remarkable Second Cohort Joins the LEGO® Serious Play® Facilitator Community
The second Sofia cohort of the LEGO® Serious Play® Foundational Facilitator Certification brought together experienced coaches, consultants and development professionals - expanding the local facilitator community with strong professional depth.
News
Shaping the Next Generation of Ventures
Smart Minds helped AUBG Elevate founders turn ideas into scalable business models in a hands-on Business Model Canvas workshop.
The "Gold Standard" in LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Strengthened: Prof. Johan S. Roos Joins Inthrface as Partner and Investor
Discover how Prof. Johan S. Roos joining Inthrface strengthens LEGO® Serious Play® and ensures global quality, innovation and scientific rigour.
News
See how Smart Minds supported HP Inc.’s award-winning “Do Good” community to align strategy, boost engagement and plan future impact with LEGO® Serious Play®
When HP Inc.’s “Do Good” Volunteer Community was named a category winner at the PM Awards 2025, they looked to Smart Minds to transform that recognition into a roadmap for future impact.
Events
Beyond the Hype: Making AI Work for Leaders
Smart Minds delivered an in-house AI leadership workshop for SOF Connect, helping Sofia Airport leaders turn AI tools into practical partners for productivity and strategy.
Partnering with Tuk-Tam: Envisioning the Future of Giving
Smart Minds partnered with Tuk-Tam to facilitate a LEGO® Serious Play® strategy workshop, helping scholarship funders align vision, strengthen community and amplify impact.
Events
PMI Summit & Awards 2025: Empowering Project Leaders
Smart Minds partnered with PMI Bulgaria at PM Summit & Awards 2025, empowering project leaders through LEGO® Serious Play® workshops and community learning.
Events
FEBulous Journey: Redefining Sustainability
Smart Minds joined FEB’s “FEBulous Journey” to explore sustainable business through LEGO® Serious Play®, showing how leadership mindset drives profit, people and planet balance.
Events
Disrupted, Not Displaced: Human Creativity in the Era of AI
Discover insights from Smart Minds’ LEGO® Serious Play® session at Future of Work Summit 2025 on AI, creativity, ethics and human value.
Certification Cohorts
Smart Minds Launches the First LEGO® Serious Play® Foundational Certification Cohort in Sofia
Smart Minds delivered the first local LEGO® Serious Play® Foundational Facilitator Certification cohort in Sofia on 15–16 October 2025, marking the beginning of a growing facilitator community in Bulgaria.
Insights
Actionable ideas, frameworks and how-to guides on strategy, culture, collaboration, leadership development and growth.
Strategy & Culture, Alignment & Collaboration, Work & Play
Change is inevitable. Readiness isn’t.
Change readiness takes more than agreement. Explore five drivers that help teams build the shared commitment and confidence to make change happen.
Growth & Development
The More AI We Use, the More These Human Skills Matter
As AI becomes part of everyday work, human capabilities like judgement, sense-making, collaboration, trust and decision-making become even more valuable.
Strategy & Culture,Alignment & Collaboration,Work & Play
Instant Global Alignment: Solving the "Month of Emails" Problem with Acceleration
Accelerate global alignment by turning months of cross-border emails into one focused day of shared clarity with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®. Explore the insight.
Strategy & Culture,Alignment & Collaboration,Growth & Development
The Visible Truth: Using Physical Models to End Functional Bias
See how functional bias derails strategy alignment and how LEGO® Serious Play® helps teams make assumptions visible. Explore the insight.
Strategy & Culture,Alignment & Collaboration
The Strategy-to-Performance Gap: Why Vision Alone Is Not Enough
Learn how to close the strategy-to-performance gap by improving alignment, reducing miscommunication and turning vision into shared execution.
Strategy & Culture,Work & Play,Growth & Development
Disrupted, NOT Displaced: Human Creativity in the Era of AI
AI doesn’t replace creativity - it redefines it. Learn how Smart Minds and Bosch Digital explored human imagination, ethics and wisdom in the age of artificial intelligence.
Strategy & Culture,Alignment & Collaboration,Engagement & Employer Branding
Culture by Experience: Turning Organisational Values into Daily Behaviour
Learn how experiential learning helps employees live organisational values. Build culture through action, reflection, and shared experience - not posters or slogans.
Strategy & Culture,Alignment & Collaboration,Growth & Development,Engagement & Employer Branding,Work & Play
Aligning Leadership Teams with LEGO® Serious Play®
Discover how LEGO® Serious Play® helps leadership teams build lasting alignment, trust and clarity—turning strategy into shared understanding and measurable action.
Alignment & Collaboration,Growth & Development
Manager Enablement: A Practical Playbook for Feedback & Performance
Manager enablement made practical: learn how to fix feedback fatigue, strengthen trust in performance management, and improve outcomes through agile check-ins.
Strategy & Culture,Work & Play,Growth & Development
Disrupted, Not Displaced: Creativity in the Age of AI
Learn how AI reshapes human creativity and decision-making. Key insights from Smart Minds’ LEGO® Serious Play® workshop at Future of Work Summit 2025.