Build stronger teams by playing with the cards someone else was dealt.

Diverse Lives is a team-building workshop built around a powerful board game. As colleagues play together, they help characters in the game navigate real-life challenges while discovering new perspectives. They see how chance, choice, and circumstance shape opportunities.

The shared experience builds trust, sparks collaboration, and strengthens workplace culture.

Make your team-building have a lasting impact by having deep conversations in a playful and accessible way.

Unlike lectures, PowerPoint trainings and checkbox e-learning, Diverse Lives is:

  • Interactive – Built around decision-making, not lectures

  • Emotionally resonant – Based on real-life stories where players have the opportunity to navigate life as a person affected by unfamiliar bias

  • Safe yet challenging – Facilitated by trained experts

  • Customizable – The facilitator led discussions can be customized to focus around specific goals/ strategies

Ideal for organizations that want to build inclusive leadership skills, support ERG learning initiatives, drive culture change through experiential learning, and improve allyship and psychological safety.

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Explore our offering

  • For Leaders

    Step up your leadership game by gaining actionable insight into the lived experiences of others. 

    Max. participants: 6 per session

    Duration: 90-120 minutes

  • For the Whole Team

    A session for the whole team to improve collaboration through increased empathy and emotional intelligence. Ideal for your workshop afternoon or your next offsite!


    Max. participants: 20 per session

    Duration: 180-240 minutes

  • Digging Deeper

    Our experts are here to support you and your team, as you design follow-up actions based on the outcomes of the session.

    Learn more about our team below and don’t hesitate to reach out!

Contact us!

Meet the Team

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    Akilah Foote

    Founder and Inclusion Strategist

    Akilah is a strategist, legal mind, and social worker who designs tools that turn lived experience into collective learning. She brings deep knowledge of disability inclusion, recruitment equity, and trauma-informed facilitation to every workshop. Akilah is the strategic mind behind Diverse Live’s game mechanics and characters.

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    Emil Novák-Tót

    Founder and Inclusion Strategist

    Emil is a DEI practitioner, linguist, and systems thinker who bridges lived experience with research-driven insight. He brings expertise in inclusive communication, social impact strategy, and organizational psychology. Emil is the strategic mind behind Diverse Live’s game mechanics and visuals.

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    Stella Karapetian

    Project Coordinator & Facilitation Support

    Stella is a multilingual coordination professional with a passion for building structures that serve people, not just processes. She ensures the Diverse Lives team, your orders, and every session run smoothly, with every voice heard and every detail handled with care.

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    Stephen Burrell

    Founder and Leadership Development Consultant

    Stephen brings a cross-sector leadership background and a passion for connecting strategy to human experience. He works at the intersection of executive coaching, talent development, and DEI implementation, translating business goals into action. Stephen helps you connect insights from the game to real-world leadership and cultural change.

Every workplace is different.

Let’s talk about your team and design a Diverse Lives workshop customized to your goals and culture.