Quest
To unlock the power of human potential through innovative leadership development, Gamenamic Leadership harnesses role-playing games and dynamic group interactions to enhance personal growth and foster meaningful community experiences. We aim to develop human capacity for collective creativity, sharing the transformative value of these experiences worldwide.
Journey
To lead transformative educational practices, empowering individuals and organizations to evolve together and become co-designers of shared experiences that inspire creativity, community engagement, and imagine social change.
We specialize in generating fun meaningful development experiences and elite leadership.
Our programs help people practice crystalizing purpose with support from a learning community, invest in relationships on the team and in their network, shift mindsets to see more possibilities and reframe perspectives, generate energy that creates real change, and focus on well-being and empowering human experiences.
As a result, we enable people and organizations to generate meaningful experiences with clarity about their purpose, gain self awareness that fuels personal growth, maximize team dynamics, transform conflict, be more creative insightful, and adaptable, have deeper quality relationships, collaborate and communicate more effectively, get more value from learning in their current work, and build supportive communities and organizational cultures.
…and all while having fun while we’re at it!
Meet the Founder
Joe Lasley stands at the helm of Gamenamic Leadership, weaving together his expertise in leadership, organizational studies, and game design into transformative educational experiences.
“Dr. Joe” Lasley is the Founder, Coach, and Gamemaster of Gamenamic Leadership. He consults and teaches Leadership, Organizational Studies, and Game Design specializing in experiential and transformational learning that uses leadership coaching to empower inner development. His areas of expertise include Systems Thinking, Adult Development, Consciousness, Group Relations, Adaptive Leadership, Team Creativity, Play, Game-Based Learning, and Applied Role-Playing Games. Joe has a B.S. in Organizational Communication and Psychology, a M.S. in Higher Education Administration, a graduate certificate in Organizational Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Leadership Studies. He received International Coaching Federation Certified training in Leadership Development Coaching from the University of San Diego and Air University.
Joe views leadership development as evolving together by becoming co-designers of shared experiences. To do this, he focuses energy on generating developmental interactions and facilitating a creative process that helps people gain deeper awareness and build personal agency in group dynamics. Joe embodies coaching as a collaborative process for developing a creative presence in the relationship between coach and client. Working together, we reveal the potential for the client to explore their self-determined goals for increasing awareness, living with purpose, and transforming thoughts, attitudes, feelings, and behavior. His approach integrates Curiosity, Flow, Appreciative Inquiry, Action Learning, Motivational Interviewing, Socratic Inquiry, and Serious Play.