Failing Smart
Francesca Gino
Author & Behavioral Scientist
Francesca Gino, top behavioral scientist and author, helps teams build adaptive, creative, and fulfilling cultures.
About this experience
What if making failure safe wasn’t about lowering the bar, but about raising it?
In this interactive experience led by author and researcher Francesca Gino, your team will explore how innovative cultures balance tolerance for failure with a relentless commitment to high standards. Through a fast-paced electric maze game, participants will experience failure firsthand and see how their team responds in real time. You will learn to distinguish between productive failure that drives learning and mistakes that come from lack of care or discipline.
Price $3,000 for up to 20 people
Headcount:
*Headcount is editable later
You will be able to place a free '48-hour hold' on your preferred date & time.
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Hosted virtually
Live
Sessions are
not pre-recorded
not pre-recorded
Perfect for in-person, remote and distributed teams.
Pick this experience when…
Your team avoids failure, reacts poorly to setbacks, or struggles to hold a consistent bar for performance. This experience is especially helpful when teams are either too forgiving of poor execution or too quick to shut down ideas after something goes wrong.
What to expect during the experience?
Francesca will guide your team through an electric maze game where failure is inevitable and reactions happen in real time. As you navigate the challenge, you will notice how your team responds when things go wrong, from blame to withdrawal to learning.
Through guided discussion and a short case example, participants will explore the difference between productive failure and poor execution, and what it takes to hold a high bar while still allowing room to learn. The experience highlights how strong standards make it safer, not harder, to work through setbacks.
The session closes with a team reflection where participants identify one standard to reinforce and one area where they can create more room to learn from failure going forward.
Francesca Gino
Author & Behavioral Scientist
Francesca Gino is a behavioral scientist and award-winning author who studies how people can have more productive, creative, and fulfilling lives at work. Recognized as one of the world’s 50 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, she has spent over two decades researching decision-making, leadership, and collaboration. She taught at Harvard Business School for fifteen years. Her insights have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Psychology Today, and she has worked with organizations across industries to help them foster more adaptive, innovative cultures.
“The electric maze game made failure feel real in a way that stuck with our team long after the session.”
Alicia
Director of Operations
May, 2026
“We’ve talked about failure before, but this experience showed us the difference between learning and sloppy execution.”
Kyle
Engineering Manager
April, 2026
“The game created just enough pressure to reveal how we actually react when things go wrong.”
Rachel
Project Manager
April, 2026
“It helped us raise our standards without making people afraid to take on harder challenges.”
Helen
VP of Customer Success
May, 2026
Price $3,000 for up to 20 people
Headcount:
*Headcount is editable later
You will be able to place a free '48-hour hold' on your preferred date & time.
Need more information before you book?
Get a quote
Hosted virtually
Live
Sessions are
not pre-recorded
not pre-recorded
Perfect for in-person, remote and distributed teams.
Why choose this experience
Elevate Team Performance
Turn strategy into action by refining how your team works every day. Strengthen execution, improve effectiveness, and build momentum to achieve more together.
Take Bold Risks
Encourage a mindset of innovation and confidence, helping your team embrace smart risks and new ideas.