Robert Rasmussen is principal for Robert Rasmussen & Associates LLC. He is director of business development for Tufts Center for Engineering Outreach and co-president for The Center for Balance by Design, a research-based organization committed to providing companies, institutions, and others with the tools to create a more inclusive work culture that combines elements of work, learning, physical design, and living in an integrated and balanced structure.

Robert Rasmussen is a native of Denmark and has a degree in psychology as well as a master’s degree in education from The Royal Danish School of Education in Copenhagen. He has spent his career applying experiences and theories about play, learning, creativity, and teaching and organizational development.

A former employee of LEGO, Robert is a main architect of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY. After several years and more than 20 iterations, he and his team developed the concept into the reproducible and robust methodology it is today. He worked for the LEGO Company from 1988 to 2003 and was head of the development team for LEGO MINDSTORMS.

Robert Rasmussen has worked extensively over a 10-year period with designers and researchers at Tufts University and the MIT Media Lab to develop and market hands-on learning tools. Over the past 15 years, he has been asked to speak at numerous conferences and workshops around the world about “hand knowledge” and how to design tools and environments that use this knowledge to optimize learning.

From 2001 to 2003 Robert managed Executive Discovery, which developed and marketed the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY programs. He was responsible for all operations, product development, marketing and delivery of consulting services with this new methodology for strategic decision making and organizational learning.

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