Sparkleworks helps companies like yours stop wasting time and money solving the wrong problems.

Sparkshop is a practical creative problem-solving workshop that teaches your team how to solve problems using generative authentic self-expression.

What to Expect


1. Discovery

Sparkleworks collaborates with your leadership, people managers, employee development teams, or offsite coordinators to illuminate your team’s unique challenges. Together, we will craft a tailored workshop to engage, motivate, and harness your employees’ creativity and energy towards a better working environment with tangible business results.


2. Sparkshop

According to your individual needs, we’ll facilitate a collaborative in-person or remote workshop that delves deeply into team strategy, creative problem-solving, and group reflection in a fun and energizing environment we call “Sparkshop.” These can be local in San Diego, or we’ll travel to meet you.


3. Outcomes

Your team will leave their Sparkshop inspired and empowered: energized to do their best work while feeling a sense of purpose and cohesion with one another to drive towards a shared vision.

The Sparkle Method
Double Diamond Framework


Sparkle Experiences


Most Popular

3 Hour
Sparkshop

A three-hour intensive collaborative workshop that will teach your team how to solve problems using generative authentic self-expression. You will leave with a strategy and action plan to solve real problems. To maximize impact, the repeatable Sparkle Method can be applied to every future challenge.

Best Value

1 Day
Sparkle Experience

A one-day action-inspiring event that includes all the benefits of Sparkshop and culminates in a group celebration!

Other team building off-sites can feel like “empty calories”: fun but not meaningful. Sparkle Experiences are “meat and potatoes,” and can leave a lasting impact on your business.

  • Paired structured collaborative storytelling activity to get everyone in the right mindset to do their best work.

  • Group workshop to catalyze action by reflecting on real problems and craft a strategic action plan. Sparkshop is structured using the research-based Sparkleworks double diamond framework.

  • Celebratory moment to fuel team cohesion with a joyful creative activity alongside a dinner celebration.

About Charley


Charley “Sparkle” Lapomardo (they/them) is a dynamic Experience Facilitator and Founder of Sparkleworks dedicated to co-creating transformative workshops, events, and spaces to help humanity realize our potential. Their expertise comes from 5 years as an Employee Experience User Researcher and a BBA in Marketing, Theater, and Media Literacy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They are based in San Diego, CA.