Reimagining how meaningful work happens

The most important challenges organizations face aren't technical.

They are human.

When the work feels urgent and progress feels harder than it should, Do Good Playworks helps teams find new ways forward through playfulness.

We work with leaders in sustainability, climate, and social impact who need fresh approaches to complex challenges. Through facilitation, workshops, and co-design, we serve as a catalyst to help teams tap into creativity, strengthen connections, and develop strategy needed for long-term change.

We believe play is part of being human.

Not a reward for finishing the work.

Not a trick to be more productive.

In a world shaped by urgency, efficiency, and automation,

play helps people reconnect with themselves, each other,

and what they care about.

Making space to stay human is essential.

Making space for connection and possibility

The urgency is real. When people feel the weight of it, imagination shrinks. Conversations circle the same ideas, energy fades, and progress feels harder than it should.

At Do Good Playworks, play is not an icebreaker or a break from serious work. It is a deliberate way of bringing people back into relationship with one another and with what they’re trying to move forward.

We design and facilitate participatory processes that help teams work through messy challenges together - grounded in curiosity, creativity, and a belief that meaningful change is possible.

Ways we work together

Play creates space for curiosity, invites different voices into the conversation, and makes it easier for people to show up fully in the room.

This work takes different shapes depending on context and questions at hand. We often partner through:

Facilitated experiences around climate change and sustainability

Designed experiences that help stakeholders make sense of complex issues. The work builds shared understanding, surfaces assumptions, and supports informed, aligned decisions.

Play-based workshops using LEGO® Serious Play®

Half-day and full-day facilitated workshops using the LEGO® Serious Play® and other human-centered methods to unlock insight, develop strategy, clarify priorities, and strengthen alignment especially when there are no easy answers.

Sustainability across the curriculum workshops

Interactive workshops for educators and institutions exploring how sustainability topics can be meaningfully integrated across disciplines without adding overload or trying on one-size-fits-all approaches

Custom facilitation partnerships

Ongoing or multi-session collaborations tailored to your organization's goals, timelines, and culture supporting teams as they navigate change, uncertainty, and the work of turning ideas into action.

What this looks like in practice

The work is collaborative, reflective, and grounded in how people actually learn and change. Rather than delivering answers, we facilitate processes that help groups uncover the insight, alignment, and strategy that already exist withing their system.

In practice this often means:

Designing moments of creativity and playfulness that invite curiosity, loosen assumptions, and open space for possibility

Making thinking visible by building, mapping, or modeling ideas in shared space

Connecting individual perspectives to surface patterns and build understanding

Closing sessions with clarity and momentum - not prepackaged answers

Every engagement is carefully designed, never scripted.

Meet the Founder

Do Good Playworks was founded by Casey Meehan, PhD, a sustainability professional, educator, and nonprofit leader.

With a background in psychology and sustainability and expertise in teaching and learning, the through line of Casey's career has been helping people reimagine how they connect with one another and the world around them.

Driven by curiosity and playfulness, Casey brings over fifteen years of experience helping people and organizations engage with stakeholders around sustainability and climate work.

Casey Meehan facilitating a LEGO Serious Play workshop

For teams navigating complexity

We work wherever complex, meaningful work is happening.
This includes:

Universities and higher education
Sustainability and ESG teams within larger organizations
B Corps (or aspiring B Corps)
Foundations and philanthropic organizations
Nonprofit and mission‑driven organizations

Sustainability and climate work remain a core area of focus alongside other forms of good works that carry real stakes and real impact.

We meet institutions where they are, helping them navigate complexity without oversimplifying it.

What it's like to work together

Casey led a training...for our Annual Meeting, a gathering of over one hundred climate leaders from around the Midwest. He helped us identify ways that play not only makes our lives more wonderful but also productive. Casey's session also helped leaders think about how to realistically bring play and more playful approaches to our work: how we support our teams, how to access creativity, and how we can lighten up a bit while still keeping a sharp eye on our goals. People came out of this session smiling, rejuvenated, and inspired and they are still talking about his session a month later!

Melissa G.

CEO, non-profit organization

Ready to explore what's possible?

This work is challenging, and it matters. How people come together around it matters just as much.

Sometimes the most useful next step is simply a conversation about what you're navigating and how play might help.

Start a conversation

(No commitment. Just an honest conversation about your work.)