The history of Workz

Works wins a German Design Award for our work on the education project Demokratispillet developed in collaboration with Kammeradvokaten end Gyldendal.

Workz enters into a strategic partnership with IMD Business School in Switzerland. As part of the partnership the school starts using our leadership simulations in their education and consultancy and Workz helps gamify some of the schools frameworks.  

We celebrate our 10 year aniversary as Workz A/S.

With the translations to Spanish, Arabic and Chinese during the Spring of 2018 Wallbreakers® is now available in more than 10 languages.

We launch our latest leadership simulation Bridgebuilders®. The simulation focus on the leadership challenges of working in global teams. The same year the game wins gold at the anual Serious Play-conference.

The strategy game we helped develop for ISS win a gold medal at theis years Serious Play Conference. Red more about the game and award.

Sanne Suvanto-Harsaae joined Workz as new Chairman of the Board

Our international network of local consultancies, who are certified to use our leadership simulations, has grown to more than 20 partners. 

Launch of Gamechangers®, a new leadership simulation about strategy execution and stakeholder engagement. The game wins gold at the anual Serious Play-conference two years later.

We leave Filmbyen and move to downtown Copenhagen next to the King’s Gardens. With this move we cut the last ties to the movie industry.

Establishment of our international network of partners, starting with France and Sweden. 

Wallbreakers® is a finalist in the 2009 INDEX: Award for designs to improve life. Our french partner Carewan discovers the game at an exhibition and later becomes one of our first international partners because of this.

Zentropa Interaction, Zentropa Workz and RIA are fused into Workz A/S. No longer a part of Zentropa, we are now an independent company with a sharpened focus on change through involvement.

Zentropa Workz pioneered co-creation and innovation training with two intensive summercamps in 2006 and 2007. Here top students helped large companies to solve essential challenges through co-creation.

The first version of our best selling leadership simulation Wallbreakers® is designed and produced by the company Reflection-in-Action (RIA).

A new family-member, Zentropa WorkZ, added a new focus on innovation, co-creation and entrepreneurship.  

The founding of our company, then named Zentropa Interaction, as a part of Zentropa, Scandinavia’s largest movie company. 

The movie company and Lars von Trier needed help with involvement, game-design and interactive storytelling and turned to Ask Agger (along with a few others) for help. This collaboration was the seed of what would later become Workz.