Autodesk: Building High Performing Legal Teams

🌏 Breaking Silos and Boosting Agility: Autodesk Asia Pacific Legal Team’s High-Performance Journey

🔍 Context

In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing business environment, the Asia Pacific legal team at Autodesk understood that excelling required more than just individual efficiency. While regional teams operated well independently, siloed communication and inconsistent ways of working held them back from true collaboration. 

They recognized the critical need to build a high-performance culture rooted in agility, trust, and transparency – one that could respond rapidly to evolving business demands across diverse markets.

⚠️ Challenge

The team’s challenge was to move beyond isolated operations and foster a unified way of working that broke down barriers and aligned practices across the region. This transformation required them to:

• Break down silos that limited knowledge-sharing and slowed decision-making

• Establish clear roles and responsibilities to avoid duplication and confusion

• Embed agile methodologies that support flexibility and responsiveness

• Build trust and open communication channels both within the team and with external stakeholders

Achieving these goals would not only improve collaboration but also drive measurable performance improvements, empowering the legal team to be a more strategic and responsive business partner.

🎮 How Miki Island Helped

To drive this transformation, Autodesk turned to Miki Island to develop high-performance habits in an engaging and memorable way.

During the immersive Miki Island session, team members were placed in a collaborative environment where success depended on effective communication, trust, and agile decision-making. The gameplay encouraged experimentation with new strategies and behaviors in a low-risk setting, which increased engagement and accelerated learning.

This hands-on experience helped participants:

• See the immediate impact of their collaboration styles on team outcomes

• Understand how trust and clear communication fuel speed and agility

• Practice adaptive decision-making under pressure to respond effectively to challenges

After the gameplay, a guided debrief session provided a valuable space for reflection. The team surfaced critical insights about their current dynamics and jointly crafted a practical action plan. This plan focused on embedding agile practices into daily workflows, reinforcing the behaviors that would sustain ongoing performance improvement.

🚀 Outcome

The results of the Miki Island workshop were both tangible and inspiring. The Asia Pacific legal team emerged with:

• A stronger sense of unity and commitment to shared goals and high-performance principles

• Improved clarity around roles and responsibilities, which streamlined communication and reduced friction

• A detailed, actionable roadmap to embed agile ways of working, boosting their ability to respond swiftly and cohesively to business demands

• Enhanced team engagement, motivation, and a culture that values continuous learning and improvement

• More effective collaboration internally and stronger partnerships with business stakeholders, positioning the legal team as a key strategic contributor to Autodesk’s regional success

This immersive and impactful experience empowered the team to break down long-standing silos and create a culture of agility and trust – foundations essential for thriving in today’s dynamic business landscape.