Trust Changes Everything

Programs, coaching, and tools to build great teamwork and maximize employee engagement for companies, leaders and HR departments.

Do you want to significantly improve communication and performance for your teams? Discover why 20,000+ employees are benefitting from this process.

Cards Against Mundanity

Does your team and/or organization have any of these challenges? If so, you aren’t alone. 99% underperform.

Poor collaboration within the team and across the organization. Teams and departments operate in cliques and silos. Managers and employees aren’t locked at the hip. They aren’t working together as effectively as they could be.
Scaling and growth are creating bottlenecks and slowdowns. Lack of delegation.

Managers aren’t getting the most out of their teams. Only 28% of managers are skilled in building effective teams. Individuals and teams feel under appreciated. Only 16% of employees give 100% effort on a daily basis. Distrust and disengagement is present.

Teams conflicts are going unresolved (Issues are festering for months/years causing emotional turmoil and distrust).

Misunderstandings, misperceptions, miscommunications and lack of feedback are frequent. People aren’t having hard, candid conversations. Strategic decision making is suffering.


“Google found the #1 indicator of every high-performing team was psychology safety and trust that’s built only through very strong social connections and cohesion “	“Yale School of Management found that the social cohesion within a team is more predictive of profit and success than the number of years of experience and the collective IQ of the team.”	Employees who have deep trust with their manager are 8x more engaged. Without deep trust, employees show the same level of engagement as does someone who actively distrusts his team leader. For trust to matter, it must be extreme.	68% of employees are disengaged and disconnected at work	Only 16% of employees work at peak performance	Only 28% of managers are skilled at engagement	70%+ teams are dysfunctional and underperform

Google found the #1 indicator of every high-performing team was psychology safety and trust that’s built only through very strong social connections and cohesion

“Yale School of Management found that the social cohesion within a team is more predictive of profit and success than the number of years of experience and the collective IQ of the team.”

Employees who have deep trust with their manager are 8x more engaged. Without deep trust, employees show the same level of engagement as does someone who actively distrusts his team leader. For trust to matter, it must be extreme.

68% of employees are disengaged and disconnected at work

Only 16% of employees work at peak performance

Only 28% of managers are skilled at engagement

70%+ teams are dysfunctional and underperform

What people are saying about Cards Against Mundanity

“Jason’s presentation and Cards Against Mundanity game instantly resonated with our group. It was the start of new and much deeper and meaningful connections across our organization. In my experience as a sales leader, I know that candid, vulnerable conversations are absolutely critical to building a strong foundation of trust within a team. When strong relationships are fostered, salespeople reach a higher level of engagement and performance levels. Jason’s unique methodology ensures a quick path to skyrocketing trust and creating candid dialogue in a really fun way. Every sales organization would significantly benefit from his workshop and game. You can apply it with customers and prospects as well.”

Matthew Smith
Senior Director, Head of Corporate Sales, Southwest Airlines and President of AA-ISP

“The workshop and game were excellent. The team was very appreciative of the team building game and workshop. It kept coming up as one of the best experiences they’ve ever had. They were able to quickly open up, be vulnerable and build much stronger and deeper relationships that extended beyond their small groups to our large, global team. Throughout the following two days, we hosted some guests from other groups, and we asked them to answer random cards in front of the audience. Their answers were surprisingly deep and instantly helped to establish trust between them and our teams. It made each of the sessions in our off-site much more valuable. I’d highly recommend this for any team and team off-site.”

Alberto Grazi
Senior Leader and Head of the Video Solutions Group, Google

“I highly recommend every organization plays your employee engagement and team performance game. It’s game changing. There is nothing out there like it. After I heard Jason speak at a Sales Leadership Summit, I played Cards Against Mundanity game with my executive team. We learned important information and experiences about each other that we never knew before (and would have never asked). It helped us build significantly more trust and openly discuss other challenges. We’ve improved our communication, teamwork and team closeness. It made a significant impact in a very short period of time.”

David Kreiger
President, SalesRoads

After interviewing 1000+ leaders, managers and employees, and observing 80+ teams in Fortune/ Fortune’s Top 10 Workplaces, here the requirements to create an effective people strategy and build great teamwork on every single team:

Get leaders, managers, and employees to deeply trust by understanding each other (know their “pet peeves”, communication styles, etc.) and their experiences to create unbreakable chemistry.

Foster a contribution mindset where people care about each other and the organization’s success.

Create psychological safety so people can speak up, raise concerns and share accountability

Promote curiosity to get leaders and employees to invest in self awareness, emotional intelligence, and best practice skills, leadership and management development

Be comfortable to have tough conversations, and provide candid feedback.

Whether you are a company, leader or an HR professional, here are proven solutions that will work for you.

20,000+ employees are using Cards Against Mundanity in organizations such as Amazon, Southwest Airlines, Ernst & Young, Google, Gillette, Microsoft, Oracle, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Worldwide Express, CareHere, Oklahoma City Thunder (NBA team), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Novartis, Merck, Intel, and Thermo Fisher Scientific, and many others. SHRM- and HRCI-Certified.

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Cards Against Mundanity

What is it? Cards Against Mundanity is a structured process to build extremely deep trust, caring, closeness, teamwork and connection in minutes by sharing deeply personal and meaningful experiences in groups (in a safe way).

What’s the benefit? It’s a scientific approach to maximize performance, engagement, teamwork, communication, problem-solving and innovation in any size company and any industry.

It’s creates unbreakable chemistry and bonds that brings the best out of every person. You’ll be building your version of a “dream team.”

How does it do that? It skyrockets trusts to the highest level in minutes (versus a decade) by sharing deeply personal, meaningful experiences in groups. 99% of teams never accomplish what this process can do. It’s your competitive advantage.

It’s based on a famous research study where 30% of the participants (who were complete strangers) created the closest relationships in their lives in 45 minutes.

How do you play it? How many people can play it? It’s a group question-and-answer game where everyone answers the same questions (i.e. everyone in the group answers question #1, then #2, etc.). It can be played with one other person or groups up to 10 people. You can have an unlimited number of groups play this at the same time (up to thousands in the same room or virtually).

There are 96 poker-sized cards included.

Who it is for? Executives, managers, program directors, facilitators, project directors, team leaders, business owners, teachers, instructors, board of directors, and many others.Individuals can use this to accelerate their career success. It can also be used with third parties by sales, business development and others with customers, prospects, and partners to close deals faster, upsell more, etc.

What settings: Teams, working groups, coworkers, 3rd parties (customers, prospects, partners, etc.) events, company off-sites, company meetings, board meetings, hiring, new employee orientation, weekly team meetings, conferences, brainstorming sessions, resolving conflicts, diversity training, acquisitions, mergers, management transitions, and much more. In person, via video, and on the phone.

Two types of questions: There are conversation starters and connection questions (deeper, more vulnerable questions). Connection questions are what skyrockets trust. Recommend using 10% conversation starters and 90% connection questions.

Cards Against Mundanity

Hire me to conduct team building workshop, manager training, leadership development, keynote speaking, executive coaching and much more

Conduct high-impact (on-site and remote) programs and trainings for HR departments, employees, managers (first-time and experienced), leaders, executives, business owners and startups.
These can last from 60 minutes to a complete program.

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Complete Teamwork & Team Building Programs: There are both on-site and remote programs. I help leaders, managers, employees, and HR departments on how to use the strategies, processes, and tools to maximize performance, teamwork, and much more.

The base program includes:

Team building workshop
Creating “How-to-Work-with-Me” manuals (detailed guides on how to work with each other much more effectively)
“Teamwork Agreements” (set of rules on how to communicate, resolve conflicts, expectations and more)
Detailed blueprint on incorporating the strategies into every part of your company (including employee engagement, hiring, onboarding, conflict resolution, and more).

There are add-on options for leaders, managers, and more.

Teams increase trust by 20% and increase key metrics by 10% to 20% over the next 90 days.

There also is an option to just do the team building workshop (incorporating Cards Against Mundanity).

Manager Training: Provide high-impact training for both experienced and first-time managers from two hours to days.

Leadership Development/Training: Design specific programs and coaching for VP-level and above to successfully tackle their most pressing challenges, maximize performance, develop future leaders and ensure organizational success.

Speak at your conference, company event, team off-site or large-scale event.

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His passion for communicating clear business solutions with humor, wit, story-telling, energy and razor-sharp insight has made him one of the most sought after authorities on team building, and leadership today.

His interactive keynotes speeches are designed to provide tangible solutions that maximize performance,teamwork, culture and leadership abilities. He can help any organization create a unified, unstoppable team capable of achieving impossible goals together.

He brings the “content to life” for the audience with small group games and activities (including playing Cards Against Mundanity). They’ll build deep meaningful connections each other. Finally, audience members will walk away with new, game-changing ideas they can immediately put into action

Create a company and/or team off-site where your team can get away and dive deep into your pressing business and strategy challenges.

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Build a compelling go-forward plan with strategies and tools you and your team can use in the workplace

Create unbreakable chemistry and stronger relationships

And much more

More Testimonials

“Getting to work with Jason was a game-changer. I thought my team was close before playing Jason’s Cards Against Mundanity, but seeing how much they bonded (and learned about each other) during the hour we spent playing was amazing. It significantly increased our teamwork, communication, engagement, and problems solving. I cannot stress enough – ANY relationship will be strengthened by playing this game. I’ve played with family members, friends and coworkers in other departments and the results speak for themselves. Beyond that, Jason has continued to offer his insights & suggestions on how I can better navigate difficult situations in the workplace and manage my team better. I’m a much better leader with a higher functioning team after my time with Jason.”

Kate Stott
Director of Enterprise Operations, WorldWide Express ($1B+ company)

“Our clinic was struggling to maintain positive morale and it was causing significant challenges. After attending Jason’s workshop, I was able to take his strategies, best practices, and tools and put it into action. After our first team building session, I noticed a significant difference in how the group was communicating and collaborating with each other. Their performance also improved. The transformation has been incredible and continues to grow. Word quickly spread within my company on how successful this experience was so there are plans to use Cards Against Mundanity in other clinics across the nation. I highly recommend any team and organization play his team building game and leverage his expertise. It’s business changing.”

Angie Higgs
Director of Clinical Services, CareHere (Provides onsite healthcare in 26 states to 200+ organizations)

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