ABOUT
So...who's Trudi Boatwright?
An experience junkie and a play advocate
Trudi has spent her life exploring the wonders of the human spirit. With a family legacy in the arts (her grandfather wrote Australia’s first radio jingle), she learned early the transformative power of imagination and creativity.
Over 25 years as an actor, producer, and experience designer, she’s witnessed the magic of live storytelling — and the joy of helping people uncover their own untapped abilities. For her, the most rewarding moments are the sharp inhales of breath as someone feels wonder, delight, or amazement during an experience she’s crafted.
Creative Disrupter
By combining these creative instincts with the frameworks of experiential learning and design, she now designs and supports projects that embed genuine transformation in engaging, meaningful ways. Her Master’s in Design Futures allowed her to research play within organisational culture, offering insights into how play reduces burnout, builds adaptability, and strengthens human connection.
Humans are glorious — and she’s fortunate to have built a career that celebrates them every single day.
How Trudi works
To make an experience memorable, it must be relevant to you.
To ensure you get the best experience I work through these five steps:
1.
Connect
We meet. We chat. We learn how each other works. Connection before content.
2.
Concoct
I add your needs to my pot of skills, and consult you on my approach.
3.
Create
I boil up a service that meets your team where they are at.
4.
Confir
We share this approach together and add any final spice.
5.
Commit
We serve it up on a transformation menu!
Experiential learning cycle
The Kolb Experiential Learning cycle is a holistic learning process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience. A four step process encompassing experiencing, reflecting, thinking and acting, and encompassing 9 different learning styles, research has shown that the learning cycle creates:
Greater memory retention
Better decision making
Stronger teams
Maximised focus and awareness
Flexibility and resilience
Methods
Play Theory
Play is a primal response built into the biology of all mammals. It is one of seven primary emotional systems pre-wired in the human brain. It is our natural innovator and enhances our learning potential, increases empathy, helps problem solving and speeds up productivity. It is a powerful learning tool.
Spolin
Viola Spolin is considered ‘the grandmother of improvisation’. She developed theatre training using games to organically teach the formal rules of theatre and since then, her teaching has branched out into varying fields as an organic teaching process.
Design
Design thinking is a human-centered problem solving process that is iterative and non-linear in its approach. Designed to help understand the needs of the people you’re creating for, Design Thinking puts the user at the heart of every step of the design process to ensure that any design is relevant and helpful to those its designed for.
Let’s Make Organisations Playful
If you’d like to work together or if you simply have a question, please feel free to reach out.
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