Location: Budapest, Hungary 🇭🇺
Client: International Automotive Industry Leader
Miki Island Partner: Emmanuel Saincaize, MCC, Executive Coach & Team Coach, Miki Island Partner

The Context

In a fast-evolving automotive landscape, one leadership team found itself at a critical turning point.

Over the past year, the team had been significantly reshaped — bringing together diverse backgrounds, cultures, and leadership styles. At the same time, they were facing increasing complexity and pressure in their business environment.

The challenge wasn’t just strategic.

It was human.

👉 How do you build trust quickly in a newly formed leadership team?
👉 How do you move from individuals to a truly aligned, high-performing unit?

The Objectives

This 1-day offsite was designed to go beyond conversations and create real alignment through experience.

The leadership team focused on:

✨ Creating the conditions for trustful collaboration
🤝 Strengthening team cohesion and team spirit
🧭 Aligning on the kind of leadership team they want to become to deliver on future challenges.

The Miki Island Experience

At the heart of the offsite was a 2.5-hour Miki Island session.

The team was split into two sub-teams and immersed into a dynamic, high-pressure environment — where decisions, collaboration, and leadership behaviours unfold in real time.

What made the difference wasn’t just the game itself.

It was what the game revealed.

💡 Leaders began to see clear parallels between how they played and how they operate in real business situations
💡 Patterns around communication, decision-making, and collaboration became visible — instantly and objectively
💡 Assumptions were replaced by shared observations.