Lewis Pinault

Lewis Pinault is a Senior Director at LEGO and General Manager of LEGO Play for Business, which specializes in hands-on, playful applications for team learning, creative innovation, and effective collective decision-making. Lewis has been involved as a client, research-practitioner, and licensed facilitator in the group’s core application, LEGO Serious Play, since its inception nearly ten years ago. Previously, he worked as a consultant specializing in change management and transformation, beginning with The Boston Consulting Group, ultimately becoming a Partner with Coopers & Lybrand. Nurturing a lifetime fascination for the common resources of the oceans and outer space, and the collective behaviors that determine how they are shared and used, Lewis holds degrees in Political Science, Ocean Engineering, and Japanese Studies from MIT, an MSc in Sea-Use Law from the London School of Economics, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Hawaii, where he was a NASA Space Grant Fellow specializing in Mediation, Negotiation, and Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is the author of the best-selling “Consulting Demons” (a Fortune Best Business Book 2000) and “The Play Zone” (HarperCollins 2004). At LEGO, Lewis works closely with industry and national space agencies to open the frontiers of exploration and discovery in the belief that anyone can learn by building and playing. Currently, he is leading the integration of LEGO Serious Play into the online Serious Games environment, and championing and exploring LEGO’s role in bringing collectively designed and Dr.iven robotic experiments to the Moon and beyond