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Your natural leadership style
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Pitch & Plate × People by People
Corporate edition · Marbella
The Leadership Lunch Experiment
You don’t discover a team in a meeting room. You discover it when something unexpected happens.
A private three-course corporate leadership experience where strategy, human behaviour and team dynamics become visible in real time. The restaurant is closed to the public and reserved exclusively for the experience, creating an intimate setting in which teams can step outside the usual workplace and discover how they communicate, decide, collaborate and lead when the script changes.
The premise
This is not a normal business lunch.
And it is not traditional team building.
The Leadership Lunch Experiment places each company team inside a carefully designed sequence of challenges. As conditions evolve, participants must interpret information, allocate limited resources, communicate clearly, negotiate, adapt and make decisions without a predetermined script.
The restaurant is closed to the public and dedicated exclusively to the experience. This creates a focused, intentionally intimate environment where teams can engage fully, without the distractions or formality of a conventional corporate setting.
The experience is engaging by design.
The behaviours it brings to the surface are real.
The behaviours it brings to the surface are real.
In collaboration with
People by People brings expertise in people strategy, talent, leadership, team performance and organisational development. Their role is to bring the strategic people perspective into the experience, helping reveal how teams communicate, collaborate, lead, adapt and perform when situations become less predictable.
The experience
How it works
You experience it first. Then we reveal what happened — and what it says about the way people naturally work together.
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12:00 — Arrival
Company teams arrive at the private venue and take their designated tables. The format is designed around intimate teams, allowing every participant to contribute and be seen within the experience.
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The lunch begins
A premium three-course lunch is served while the first challenges begin to unfold. The lunch is not a break from the programme; it is part of the environment in which the team is observed.
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The challenge
Teams receive missions, information and resources. Every decision can influence what happens next.
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The unexpected
New situations are introduced. Plans change. Resources become more valuable. People have to react.
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The final move
Teams make their final decisions and complete the experiment. A winning team is recognised, but the greater value lies in what the process reveals about each team.
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The reveal
The experts debrief what happened at the tables: leadership patterns, communication, decision-making, trust, influence, collaboration, adaptability and behaviour under pressure. Teams leave with practical observations they can take back into the workplace.
What comes to the surface
What will you discover?
Each company enters as a team. The experience is designed to reveal how people communicate, decide, lead, collaborate and respond together when the usual workplace structures are removed.
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Decision-making under uncertainty
How you respond when information is incomplete or changing.
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Clarity under pressure
Who creates direction when the room becomes less predictable.
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Influence & negotiation
How resources are shared, protected, traded and prioritised.
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Communication patterns
Where information flows well — and where it begins to break down.
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Team behaviour
How personalities affect collective decisions, competition, change and opportunity.
The table matters
Food is part of the experiment.
The lunch is not a break between activities. The lunch is the environment.
Eat. Talk. Negotiate. Think. Learn. Observe. Compete. Connect.
Food lowers formality. It changes the atmosphere and creates a more natural environment for human behaviour to appear. That is precisely what makes this different from a conventional workshop.
Expert insight
Experience first. Understanding after.
Two experienced leadership professionals accompany the experiment from different perspectives: one works directly with the teams inside the experience; the other observes leadership dynamics, analyses behaviour and turns what happens at the table into practical guidance for future growth.
Leadership Analysis & Guidance
Radia Alami Sounni
Founder, advisor and leadership coach with 16+ years across investment banking, consulting, senior leadership and transformation. Radia observes the experiment through a leadership and performance lens, analysing how people influence, decide, communicate and respond when conditions change. She identifies emerging leadership styles, strengths, blind spots and patterns that may be limiting progress, then provides focused guidance to help leaders increase self-awareness, unlock blocks and translate what was revealed into more conscious, effective action.
Observed in real time
What happens at the table does not stay invisible.
The experts follow the dynamics as they unfold: who takes the lead, who creates clarity, how trust shifts, how decisions are made and what changes when pressure enters the room.
The purpose is not to judge the team. It is to help the team see itself more clearly.
Who it is for
For companies that treat culture as a business advantage.
For leaders who believe that individual talent matters, but sustainable success comes from how people work together: how they communicate, trust, take responsibility, adapt and move in the same direction.
Companies investing in culture
For organisations that see culture as something people practise every day, not simply something written in a values document.
Leadership teams ready to grow
For leaders willing to look beyond titles and observe how leadership actually appears through decisions, pressure, trust, influence and accountability.
Teams navigating growth or change
For companies entering a new stage, scaling, restructuring or simply wanting their people to work with greater clarity, resilience and alignment.
Organisations that value collaboration
For businesses that know one person can move a task forward, but an aligned team can move the company forward.
Private by design
One company.
One shared experiment.
The format is intentionally intimate. Each company has its own table, and the restaurant is closed to the public and reserved exclusively for the experience. The room is deliberately limited so every participant has space to contribute and the experts can observe team dynamics with depth and precision.
A private table. A closed restaurant. A focused environment built around the team.
You are not watching it.
You are inside it.
You are inside it.
Why we created it
Real business is rarely predictable.
Business has spent decades teaching people how to perform inside predictable environments: meetings, presentations, workshops and assessments.
Markets change.
People change.
Information arrives late.
Resources disappear.
Opportunity appears.
Pressure changes behaviour.
The Leadership Lunch Experiment creates a controlled environment where those dynamics can be experienced, observed and discussed around one table. It is not entertainment for its own sake. It is an investment in the human system behind the business: the way people trust, communicate, take responsibility, adapt and move together when conditions are not perfect.
Because individual talent can move a task forward.
An aligned team can move a company forward.
An aligned team can move a company forward.
The Leadership Lunch Experiment
Put your team at the table.
Leave with a clearer view of how you work together.
See what happens when hierarchy becomes less visible, information changes and the team has to decide together. The value is not in performing correctly. It is in seeing the team more clearly.
Three courses.
One experiment.
No predictable outcome.
Starts at 12:00.
One experiment.
No predictable outcome.
Starts at 12:00.
The restaurant is privately reserved for the experience, and participation is intentionally limited to protect the quality, focus and intimacy of the room.