Grow the Circle - Virtual Offsite Event 2021

In September 2021 the Global Payments Product Design team met virtually via Google Meet for their annual ‘offsite’ event.

Diversity and inclusivity are extremely important to the team with members across the U.S.A, Ireland and India.

I was part of the event organising committee tasked with coming up with a theme for the event. The idea of a Design Circle was raised and I proposed the themes of Culture, Inclusivity, Respect, Connection, Leadership and Excellence, all of which made up the acronym CIRCLE.

All events that took place throughout the week fell under one or more of these themes. The tagline ‘Grow the CIRCLE’ was an invitation to attendees to adopt a growth mindset for the week, and years ahead. If reflects growth on the team as new members join and also individual growth on a professional and personal basis.

The CIRCLE branding symbol incorporated a large ‘C’ and was based off the Insights Discovery wheel mapped to the team based on an exercise we did during the 2020 offsite event.