Bad decisions don't happen because people don't care.
They happen because there wasn't space to think together.
When urgency crowds out clarity, teams get stuck—more meetings, surface-level agreement, rushing toward commitments no one fully owns.
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The cost shows up later: resistance, rework, decisions that quietly unravel.
Do Good Playworks helps leadership teams think together upstream, before decisions harden.
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The result: real alignment, not just agreement. Decisions that hold. Less cleanup downstream.
Why play?
Play isn't a break from serious work. We play precisely because the work is so serious.
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What makes play different is that it shifts focus from outcomes to exploration. And when we're not pressured to be right, we think more openly: people can test ideas, follow hunches, and think out loud. Assumptions surface. New possibilities emerge. People say what they actually think instead of what sounds safe.
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​That looseness is what lets groups see more clearly. And counter-intuitively, slowing down to play is often the most efficient path—there's less to clean up later.​
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Play is how humans naturally learn and explore, setting the cognitive conditions for better strategic thinking. This isn't theoretical—it's grounded in the science of learning and thinking.
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Making space to stay human matters.
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Meet the Founder
Do Good Playworks was founded by Casey Meehan, PhD, an organizational learning leader with deep roots in sustainability, education, and facilitation. The through line of Casey's career has been helping people reimagine how they connect with one another and the world around them.
Driven by curiosity and playfulness, Casey brings over twenty years of experience helping people and organizations think more clearly about complex questions.
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Ways we work together
This work takes different shapes depending on context and the questions at hand.
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Some organizations need a single workshop to think through a specific challenge—half-day, full-day, or multi-day sessions designed to unlock insight, clarify priorities, and strengthen alignment. Others want an ongoing partnership: facilitated sessions timed to real decision points throughout the year, leadership debriefs, and check-ins to track whether clarity is holding.
Either way, the approach is tailored to your goals, timeline, and culture.
What this looks like in practice
Our approach is always tailored—what matters is creating the conditions for honest, generative thinking. ​In practice this often means:
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Building, mapping, or modeling ideas so thinking becomes visible and shared
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Designing moments that invite curiosity and loosen assumptions
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Connecting individual perspectives to surface patterns
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Closing with clarity and momentum—not prepackaged answers
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We've found the sharpest tool for this work is often LEGO® Serious Play®, a structured facilitation technique designed to make thinking visible and surface insights that discussion alone misses.
Every engagement is carefully designed, never scripted.
Who this is for
We work with organizations trying to make the world better—and facing decisions where the stakes are high, easy answers don't exist, and rushing creates more problems than it solves.
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B Corps (or aspiring B Corps)
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Foundations and philanthropic organizations
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Nonprofit and mission‑driven organizations
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Universities and higher education​​​
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If your team needs to think wider before deciding and build the kind of alignment that actually holds, this work is for you.​
What clients say
We hired Casey as our lead facilitator for our initial kickoff meeting for our Climate Action and Resilience Planning process... We were so pleased with his approach and delivery that we are excited to be working with him again this year to continue our planning work.
​​Dave B.
Sustainability Director,
mid-sized public university
Casey led a training...for our Annual Meeting, a gathering of over one hundred climate leaders from around the Midwest... People came out of this session smiling, rejuvenated, and inspired and they are still talking about his session a month later!
Melissa G.
CEO,
non-profit organization
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The LEGO® Serious Play® workshop with Do Good Playworks was an excellent way to engage [our] students... Participants left energized with creative problem-solving approaches they could immediately apply to their work. Highly recommended!
Alan T.
Sustainability Director,
large public university
