GamaVida is a NC-based company founded on the idea that experiential learning in the form of scenarios can help organizations overcome unprecedented challenges today.
Our approach is grounded in innate human capabilities for perceiving new patterns, interacting with others for greater understanding, discovering ideas that are meaningful as well as practical, and tapping intuition to creatively address complex issues.
Our products and services are for anyone who has a topic or an idea they would like to share as an experience with others.
GamaVida delivers Scenarios onsite and online.
A Scenario can take you to other places and solve real-world problems.
Our Vision is to help individuals, organizations and communities transform for the betterment of the world.
Our Mission is to deliver scenario-based tools, know-how, and customizable templates online or in person to learners, educators, coaches, and counselors for personal transformation, organizational development, and community building.
Our Value Proposition
The GamaVida Scenario Approach:
Improves learning outcomes from 10% to over 70% through an experiential learning approach
Lowers the cost of development of scenarios through access to templates that can be applied to any theme, sector, company, and language
Increases organization’s ability to meet complex challenges such as onboarding, culture change, and circular economy with customizable, scenario-based content
Provides an ever-increasing marketplace of scenarios and templates for reuse
Our Core Values
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Integrity.
Acting with strong ethics is a priority for everyone representing the organization as well as our company’s behavior as a whole.
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Honesty.
It’s not just the best policy. It’s our core business practice to act in a transparent, trustworthy manner that earns the respect of colleagues, customers, and the public.
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Fairness.
We strive to treat everyone with the common decency we all deserve and expect.
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Accountability.
Accepting responsibility for your actions (and inactions) is the ultimate way we build trust internally and externally.
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Promise to Customers.
Creating a great customer experience begins with staying true to the words we speak and the bonds we make.
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Diversity and Inclusion.
We all succeed by bringing different lived experiences and a range of backgrounds into a shared environment where everyone has equal opportunity.
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Learning.
No one has all the answers. We encourage a culture of humility and continuous learning as a bedrock principle of our company.
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Teamwork.
When we work together, we can create something greater than as individuals.
Meet the Team
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Jonathan Estes
CEO
30+ years as an adult educator and EdTech entrepreneur, applied to empowerment of individuals, organizations, and communities through experiential learning in the public and private sectors worldwide.
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Wayne Harvey
CTO
Wayne has over 20 years’ experience in digital game development for the entertainment industry for clients including Disney, Warner Brothers, DreamWorks, Namco and Universal Studios (to name a few.
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Chris Faulkenberry
Lead Game Designer
Chris has over 15 years experience in game development for entertainment and educational purposes. He has a Master’s degree in Educational Counseling and has developed dozens of digital and analog scenarios for multiple companies and on a variety of themes.
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Michiel Doorn
Business Development
Michiel has over 28 years’ experience as an environmental engineer and project manager in the public and private sector. He has a passion for overcoming the challenges needed for behavior change and personal transformation through experiential learning.