Where creative play meets practical leadership
We help mission-driven teams build trust, navigate conflict, and collaborate with clarity.
Too much professional development feels like a checkbox.
Employees sit through workshops, barely engage, and forget everything by Monday. It's passive, disconnected, and rarely leads to real growth.
THRIVE breaks that cycle.
Our PraxisPlay™ approach transforms professional development into something radically different: active, embodied, and deeply engaging. We use strategic play and real-time team activation to build skills that actually stick, because learning should feel alive, not like a lecture.
Our Approach
Rooted in Praxis. Fueled by Play.
When your team communicates clearly, resolves conflict, and creatively solves problems, everything changes.
You move faster. You waste less time. You make smarter use of your resources.
That kind of transformation doesn’t happen through a slide deck.
It happens when people practice leadership in real time through interactive learning, honest collaboration, and transformative experiences.
At THRIVE, we don’t just teach leadership.
We create the conditions where it’s practiced.
Why PraxisPlay™ Works
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Experiential Learning
Through immersive, hands-on experiences participants learn by doing, reflecting, and applying skills in real time.
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Team Activation
Sparks connection, trust, and alignment—helping teams move from cooperation to true collaboration.
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Strategic Play
Through structured, goal-oriented activities, we unlock creative thinking and problem-solving in ways that feel energizing.
The Results
What happens when your team learns to communicate clearly, navigate conflict, and solve problems together?
Trust deepens.
Creative thinking sharpens.
And your mission moves forward.
Every single day.
Teams That Have Experienced PraxisPlay™
(Peninsula, OH)
(Michigan)
(Washington DC)
(Akron, OH)
(Washington DC)
(McLean, VA)
(Boise, ID)
(Akron, OH)
(Philadelphia, PA)
(Cleveland, OH)
(Lawrence, KS)
(University Park, IL)
(Akron, OH)
(Akron, OH)
(Cleveland, OH)
(Akron, OH)
(St. Louis, MO)
(Sheridan, WY)
“THRIVE changed my perspective on what it means to serve as a leader. They didn’t just talk at us—they walked with us. They created space to practice leadership, not just study it. That’s what made it stick.”
James Talbert, Pastor of Vision/Outreach
Citizen Akron Church
“They helped us become reinvigorated through motion, contemplation, and discussion, getting us out of the funk we were all in after coming out of the tough times of the pandemic. It is easy and a joy to work with Ashley and Dominic!”
Katie Miller, Past President
Michigan Presenter’s Network
“Thrive conducted a workshop for our full staff on working with our community. The team left energized and excited for building collaborations. Dominic and Ashley engaged everyone in the process with heart and fun. We can't wait to have them back!”
Laura Kendall, President & CEO
Morrison Center for Performing Arts
