Stop Wasting Money on Keynotes That Fade Away
Transform Your Team’s Innovation & Collaboration in 60 Minutes With Personality Poker®
Since 2005, over 250,000 people in 39 countries have played Personality Poker to drive team innovation & collaboration. Isn’t it time you gave it a try?
What Is Personality Poker?
Unlike traditional speakers who deliver the same rehearsed performance at every event, I created Personality Poker as a living, breathing experience uniquely shaped by your team’s dynamics.
After watching countless talented speakers deliver polished performances that fade away with the applause, I knew teams deserved better – your team deserves better!
That’s why I created Personality Poker—not as another keynote that fades with the applause, but as an experience that transforms how teams work together and continues driving innovation long after I leave the stage.
- Tailored to your team's specific challenges and dynamics
- Reveals hidden patterns in how your teams collaborate and innovate
- Discover innovation styles and blind spots as they play
- Uncover the hidden strengths already existing within your teams
Personality Poker is a full-body experience that helps teams discover their collective genius and continues driving innovation long after I leave the stage.
The Personality Poker Experience: How It Works
Personality Poker is an interactive game that uses proprietary playing cards. They look like regular playing cards, with one key difference: each card features a word that describes a particular behavior or trait.
Playing the Game
- Preferred innovation styles and how these shape their approach to challenges
- Hidden blind spots that may be limiting their effectiveness
- Natural collaborators they might otherwise avoid but who complement their strengths
- Missing elements in their team dynamics that are creating innovation barriers
- How others truly perceive them and why any perception gaps matter
Personality Poker is backed by implementation in hundreds of organizations worldwide and validated by organizational behavior experts. It transforms how teams see themselves and each other.
Ultimately, Personality Poker establishes new (often unexpected) collaborations that continue evolving long after our session.
Success Stories That Continue Evolving
Teams Still Collaborating Differently a Month Later
Our Personality Poker event created a buzz that continued well past the event. A month later, I continue to see evidence that the awareness the game fosters really stuck. Teams are collaborating in ways we’ve never seen before.
Engage Your Teams While Building Real Collaboration Skills
Watch Your Innovation Culture Transform
Playing the Game
If you’re ready to bring Personality Poker to your organization, you have two options: bring me in to deliver a keynote, or if you prefer a more do-it-yourself approach, you can get team members certified in the process.
Each has its unique advantages depending on your organization’s culture and goals.
Two Pathways to Sustained Transformation:
Book Stephen for a Keynote
A dynamic, interactive Personality Poker session creates immediate shifts in how your team thinks about collaboration and innovation. Every session is uniquely crafted to address your specific organizational challenges.
What makes this experience unique:
- A living, breathing experience uniquely shaped for your team's dynamics
- Interactive gameplay that reveals hidden team patterns
- Every participant receives their own 5 cards from the Personality Poker deck
- Real-time insights that transform how people work together
Personality Poker Certification
For organizations wanting to integrate Personality Poker deeply into their culture, our certification program provides facilitators with the tools, knowledge and materials to run sessions independently.
Ideal for:
- HR and L&D professionals
- Team leaders and managers
- Innovation facilitators
- Organizational development specialists
- Training companies that want to offer Personality Poker to their clients
Frequently Asked Questions
Unlike static assessments that people quickly forget, Personality Poker creates an interactive experience that sticks. The physical cards become daily tools for better collaboration, while the gaming dynamics create stronger neural connections for lasting behavioral change.
The beauty of Personality Poker® is that it quickly transitions from feeling like a game to revealing profound insights about team dynamics. Even the most skeptical participants typically become engaged when they see their colleagues having breakthrough moments about collaboration styles.
Personality Poker works effectively with groups ranging from fewer than 10 people to over 1,000. The experience scales seamlessly while maintaining its interactive and personalized nature.
Any organization that values collaboration, innovation, and team performance. Personality Poker has been used by Fortune 500 companies, startups, and everything in between.
Personality Poker cards are available through three channels:
- Bringing Stephen in for a keynote or workshop (all participants receive cards)
- Getting certified in the Personality Poker® methodology
- Previous purchasers who are grandfathered in to reorder
- Previous purchasers who are grandfathered in to reorder
If you believe you qualify, please contact Stephen through
the contact page to discuss your specific needs.
It’s both! While the experience is highly engaging, the insights are deeply practical. Teams walk away with concrete strategies to improve innovation and collaboration that continue delivering value long after the session ends.
Every participant receives their own deck of Personality Poker® cards and access to our exclusive training program. Teams can immediately apply these tools to real workplace challenges, ensuring the insights become part of your daily collaboration culture.
Yes, consultant Werner Puchert reviewed it in his podcast series. He highlights how Personality Poker helps teams identify collective strengths and reduces innovation uncertainty by leveraging diverse thinking styles.
Watch the unbiased review here.
Yes, Personality Poker underwent scientific validation with Michael Wiederman, a psychology professor at Columbia College. Our research confirmed two key findings: individuals are multidimensional and shouldn’t be rigidly categorized, and the conversations during gameplay provide exceptional value for team development.
Many participants keep their cards for years as powerful reminders of their strengths and collaboration styles. Teams use them to identify the right mix of styles for projects, resolve conflicts by understanding different perspectives, and communicate more effectively across departments. We’ve even met people who’ve carried their cards through multiple job changes spanning over a decade!
If you’d like to explore how Personality Poker® can create positive change in your organization,
book a call or contact Stephen directly.