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Your natural leadership style
What happens when nobody assigns the roles?
Pitch & Plate × People by People
A live business experiment · Marbella
The Experiment Lunch
You don’t discover a team in a meeting room. You discover it when something unexpected happens.
A three-course lunch where strategy, psychology, food and human behaviour come together — created for founders, leadership teams, companies and individuals who want to understand more about how they think, decide, lead and react.
The premise
This is not a normal business lunch.
And it is not traditional team building.
The Experiment Lunch puts you and your team inside a carefully designed challenge. You will have to make decisions, use limited resources, read situations, communicate, adapt, choose who to trust and lead when the answer is not obvious.
Sometimes you may have to change your entire strategy — all while sharing a three-course lunch around the table.
The experience is entertaining while you are inside it.
What it reveals can be surprisingly real.
What it reveals can be surprisingly real.
The collaboration
Experience meets people strategy.
The Experiment Lunch is created by Pitch & Plate, in collaboration with People by People.
People by People brings expertise in people strategy, talent, leadership, team performance and organisational development. Together, we combine experience design with human and business insight to reveal how people communicate, lead, collaborate and respond when situations become less predictable — whether they arrive as part of a company or as an individual.
Pitch & Plate
Creates the environment, experience, connection and human interaction.
People by People
Brings the strategic perspective around people, teams, performance and organisational dynamics.
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
Guests arrive, meet the other participants and take their places.
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The lunch begins
A three-course daytime lunch is served while the experience gradually unfolds.
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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
The teams make their final decisions. There is a winning team and a prize — but winning is only part of the experience.
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The reveal
Experts unpack leadership, communication, decision-making, trust, influence, collaboration, pressure and the roles people naturally take when there is no script.
What comes to the surface
What will you discover?
You may arrive with your team, or you may arrive alone. Either way, you may leave seeing the people around you — and yourself — differently.
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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. Laugh. 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.
The experience combines psychology, human behaviour, leadership, business strategy and team performance — not to judge people, but to create awareness.
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Expert 01
Psychology / Human Behaviour
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Expert 02
Leadership / Strategy
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Expert 03
Team Performance / Business
Who it is for
Built for people who build.
For companies and leaders who want more than another corporate activity.
Individuals
Join a curated table to understand more about yourself — how you react, decide, communicate, lead and adapt when the situation changes.
Companies
Bring employees or leadership into an experience that goes beyond conventional team building.
Founders
Discover how you lead, negotiate, respond to uncertainty and work with different personalities.
Leadership Teams
See dynamics that can be difficult to recognise inside the normal working environment.
Entrepreneurs
Test instinct, strategic thinking, communication and adaptability.
Private Corporate Editions
Bring the format into a private setting tailored to your company, team and objectives.
Intentionally intimate
Tables of 5 or 6 people.
One shared experiment.
Every table is deliberately limited to five or six people. The smaller format creates enough space for every person to participate, react, be observed and contribute to the decisions around the table.
Join with your company or team, or come as an individual and request a place at a curated table.
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 Experiment Lunch creates a controlled environment where some of those dynamics can be experienced around one table.
Learn through doing.
Understand through experiencing.
Connect through sharing.
Understand through experiencing.
Connect through sharing.
The Experiment Lunch
Come for lunch.
Leave knowing more about how you lead.
More about your team. More about the people around you. And, if you come as an individual, more about how you personally react, decide and behave when the situation changes.
Three courses.
One experiment.
No predictable outcome.
Starts at 12:00.
One experiment.
No predictable outcome.
Starts at 12:00.
Each table holds only five or six people. Individuals can request a place and we will curate the table mix for the next available edition.