Establish a failure culture & strengthen psychological safety.
The Corporate Fuckup Night as the strategic icebreaker for your organisation.
When a Corporate Fuckup Night is your next strategic step.
Whether you want to take an already strong culture to the next level or need to clear acute blockages in your organisation — this format begins exactly where conventional meetings stop.
When you sense that your teams could act with more courage, more agility and more creativity, in order to achieve real breakthroughs in the market.
When failures are communicated too late, explained away, and become extremely expensive for the organisation after the fact.
When you want to break open departmental boundaries and make sure that valuable knowledge and lessons learned are shared transparently across the whole organisation.
When the fear of missteps and loss of face inside teams or at leadership level is greater than the will to try something new together.
What happens at a Corporate Fuckup Night?
Picture a leader or a board member standing in front of the entire workforce. Not with a polished success story, but with an authentic failure story. Entirely real.
What happens in the room afterwards is something we have observed over more than 12 years and hundreds of events worldwide: the audience breathes out. Because the leadership has credibly shown that failure is part of growth. That breaks the paralysing façade of perfection.
A Corporate Fuckup Night is not merely a motivational programme, and it is not a comedy show. It is a strategically hosted space that changes your organisation’s failure culture at its core.
Our impact — made visible.
At the start of the evening we ask the audience what failure culture means to them. After 90 minutes we ask the same question again. These are the answers — unchanged, exactly as they were typed in the room.
At the start of the evening · size = how often it was named
After 90 minutes
Cognitive insight versus emotional block: even beforehand, the largest word is “learning” — rationally, we know that failure is an opportunity. But right beside it stand shame, fear and stress: we still feel failure as a threat. What is missing is not insight, but psychological safety — and that is exactly what this evening creates.
Collected via Slido at the start and at the end of the event. Aggregated across numerous Corporate Fuckup Nights.
In the same vein: leadership vulnerability raises measured psychological safety in the team immediately by +25% (HR Performance Institut). Before-and-after measurement with the validated Edmondson scale (TPS-7) available on request.
How could your organisation benefit from a positive failure culture?
Let us find that out together.
The setup for your event.
Two to three speakers (internal, external or mixed, depending on the strategy) each tell one precise failure story and the lessons they drew from it.
Dejan Stojanovic | The Failure Enthusiast briefs all internal speakers personally beforehand, works out the storylines and the presentations, takes away their apprehension and hosts the event. He asks the questions the audience does not dare to ask, and brings the individual stories together into one clear picture for the business.
What happens at the Corporate Fuckup Night stays at the Corporate Fuckup Night. No recordings, nothing leaves the room. A protected space for your workforce.
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Ready for the cultural icebreaker?
Send a clear signal for courage, innovation and psychological safety. Write to us with your context in brief and your plans for the next event. Together we will develop the perfect line-up and a tailored setup for your Corporate Fuckup Night.
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