The Fruit Stand™ A role-playing workshop built around negotiation, tension, and real-time decision-making.
You work at a fruit shop. The owner is away. One shelf space remains.
Three people, three fruits, one winner. Secret incentives are in play.
Your actual title stays at the door, a C-suite leader becomes the apprentice nobody listens to, an intern steps into the manager's seat. Go.
What happens next is never the same twice, and always revealing.
What Actually Happens in the Room
The Fruit Stand™ is Yuan's original role-playing workshop on workplace identity and organizational behavior. It has been played by teams from C-suite to interns at an award-winning AEC firm, and repeatedly at SAWY's public programs, where it is consistently the session people keep talking about long after it ends.
When people from the same company play together, the game becomes a mirror. Real dynamics surface. People say things they wouldn't say in a meeting. When people from different companies play, something else emerges: the realization that the same person behaves completely differently depending on the culture they are in, and that their company's norms have been shaping them in ways they had never noticed.
The game is the trigger. The debrief is where insight actually happens.
What You Will Gain
Clarity on the difference between playing a role well and being consumed by it
Heightened awareness of how organizational culture shapes personal behavior
Language for discussing identity, code-switching, and authenticity with colleagues
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