AWARD Crash

AWARD Crash is for mid to senior-level creatives – roughly 3-7 years in – who are already making great work and getting things done, but want to sharpen the soft skills that hold it all together.

Think: presenting with clarity, handling feedback, managing up/down, and getting buy-in across the agency.

It’s made for those in the middle – not juniors, not CDs – who want to feel more confident, more effective, and more in control of the creative chaos.

If you’re already doing the work but want to do it smarter, this is for you.

We follow the work. Literally.

Crash is built around the actual journey of a creative project – from receiving the brief to delivering the final thing. Each session zooms in on a critical moment where things often go sideways: feedback, handovers, presentations, tough convos, all of it.

You’ll move through key stages like:

• The Language of Ideas

• Judging Creative Work

• The Power of Presenting

• Negotiation & Conflict Resolution

• Creative Career Progression

You’ll get both solo time to think and group time to build, because sometimes clarity hits when you’re alone, and sometimes you need to hear someone else say the quiet part out loud.

Before the Room:

5 x 30-minute online lectures, released before the live session.
Each one breaks down a core stage of the creative journey and includes a hands-on task or reflection. This isn’t fluff. It’s prep that makes the in-person sessions hit harder.

• You’ll arrive informed, warmed up, and ready to contribute.
  No homework-for-homework’s-sake – just sharp thinking you’ll use on the job.

In the Room:

1.5 days of live, in-person workshops

• One session per project stage
• Small group size = real discussion, not awkward icebreakers
• Led by top-tier mentors who’ve made the mistakes already, so you don’t have to
• Each session is interactive: group exercises, frameworks, war stories, and Q&A
• No lectures. No jargon. Just useful stuff you’ll use immediately