11/12/2025
ReNew Productions has teamed up with Octo Design Group to create something unique - If you're a leader - check this out for your team - A few months ago Chad Parsons met Wendy Verna, the founder of Octo Design Group. A business to business marketing business located in Philadelphia.
Octo has launched an immersive training experience unlike any other! It is where attendees step inside a Seagrass REALM (Real-life Experiencial, Adaptive Learning Module) to participate in a high-energy, team-based challenge designed to test adaptability, decision-making, and resilience. Think “ESCAPE ROOM FOR BUSINESS”- only smarter, faster, and unforgettable.
The background is this...
For 28 years, Wendy had been running a full-service marketing firm Octo. In the past three, they have seen an unexpected decline in client sales that does not match up with the engagement and inquiries our marketing drives. They dug deeper and learned it is not the marketing, it’s internal. Staff lack the soft skills—critical thinking, personal responsibility, agility, and teamwork—to help these companies win. It’s a common thread that they have heard from businesses of all sizes, across the region and beyond.
Fast forward…
Octo (Octo Design Group) has launched Seagrass, a high-impact, live-fire, experiential soft-skills learning program. Now, with our help can be delivered in an 4D escape-room-style environment with props, actors, smells, lights, sounds, emotions and clues! Seagrass immerses participants in real-world business challenges under pressure, engaging them emotionally and making knowledge stick in ways traditional training just can’t.
Seagrass succeeds in team building, employee development, staff engagement, and talent assessment. It works equally well at retreats, workshops, networking events or conferences. For newcomers to the workforce, it can be especially eye-opening...helping businesses uncover talent gaps and build confident, adaptable leaders.
Below are our main areas of focus
· Professionalism
· Critical Thinking
· Customer Relations
· Profitable Growth
· Problem-Solving Under Pressure
· Resilience, Growth & Adaptability
· Communication &nCollaboration
· Team Management During Crisis
Check out the Seagrass Sizzle!
This is "Meet Seagrass" by Octo Design on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
