London · 9th & 10th November 2026
JOIN THE LAST IMMERSIVE PX OF 2026
Immersive PX is a practical, two-day learning experience for People practitioners who want to apply product thinking to real People work. Learn how to define problems worth solving, discover what actually drives value, and rapidly test ideas before investing heavily in solutions.
THE CHALLENGE
You know there’s a better way to work. But what does that mean on Monday morning.
Maybe you’ve been introduced to product thinking, design thinking, agile concepts, employee experience or human-centred design.
You understand the principles.
But when you’re back in your actual role, facing a real People challenge, things get harder.
The theory doesn’t map to your lived reality.
Instead of clear priorities and a repeatable problem-solving system, you end up with more questions, more work, and less confidence to act. Default behaviours kick-in and your back to busy, reactive, safe, support activity.
Immersive PX is designed to close the gap between understanding product thinking and being able to put it into practice on real People work.
We are running one more Immersive PX in 2026, so this is your last chance to close the gap ahead of the 2027 planning season.
This experience is for People Leaders close to the work, helping shape the aspects of work and organisational design that affect employees, managers, leaders and business outcomes.
The Real Questions to Answer
Immersive PX exists to help you answer all of these questions and crucially start to take action towards them.
SEE AND FEEL THE EXPERIENCE
We ran a version of this Immersive PX back in May this year. It was a beautiful couple of days spent with a fabulous cohort of People Leaders. We would love to share this experience with you in the November and see what you create!
THE EXPERIENCE
Rather than spending two days listening to presentations about product thinking, you’ll become part of an immersive organisational challenge.
Working in a small team, you’ll move a People problem from ambiguity to evidence, insight and prototype.
You’ll be introduced to practical tools and methods, then use them for real, in the moment.
Immersive PX is the practice ground. Your organisation is where the learning needs to work. So you’ll be actively applying what you learn, not just listening.
Learning is great. Application in context is better.
You will be guided by a trio of PX, Product, and Design experts working at the intersection of where People work meets Product practice.
WHAT YOU LEARN
During the two-days we will focus on equipping you with three core capabilities.
CAPABILITY ONE – PROBLEM DEFINITION
Understand the problem before
designing the solution.
People work often starts with a request.
“Can you just…”
“We need to…”
“I want to…”
But these are solutions disguised as requests, and they are not always the right solution, or the right problems to solve.
In Immersive PX, you’ll practise moving from a broad challenge or assumption towards a clearer, evidence-informed problem definition.
You’ll explore how to understand the people involved, the progress they are trying to make, the business outcomes connected to the work, and the assumptions that need to be tested before deciding what to build.
You won’t just be shown the tools. You’ll use them in the room.
CAPABILITY TWO – DISCOVERY
Uncover what’s really going on.
Discovery helps you move beyond stakeholder opinion, inherited assumptions and surface-level feedback. It’s the second layer of problem definition.
In Immersive PX, you’ll practise how to talk to people, observe behaviour, gather evidence and listen for the real needs that sit underneath what people say they want.
You’ll learn how to make sense of messy qualitative evidence, identify patterns and tensions, and use what you discover to sharpen your understanding of the problem.
The goal is not to validate the first idea.
The goal is to understand what is actually happening, what progress people are trying to make, where they are getting stuck, and what might be worth solving.
CAPABILITY THREE – PROTOTYPING
Test the idea before investing in the solution.
People teams often invest heavily before they have learned enough.
The real learning then happens after launch, when the cost of being wrong is much higher.
In Immersive PX, you’ll practise turning solution hypotheses into low-fidelity prototypes that help you learn before spending big.
You’ll explore how to make an idea tangible, put it in front of people, gather feedback, and improve the direction before committing significant time, money or organisational energy.
I loved every minute of Immersive PX. The content was immediately applicable; I went back to work and started implementing right away. We’re empathy mapping as I write this. And did I mention it was such a joy to be in a room full of people who treat work as a product?
Marina Horner
PX Product Manager @ RetailNext
Immersive PX fostered a real feeling of community and connection amongst People leaders on the frontier of applying product management principles to our work. Plus, you’ll walk away with actionable frameworks and notes you can apply the first day you’re back in office.
Melissa Theiss
Head of People @ Kit
IMMERSIVE OUTCOMES
This is not a conceptual introduction to product thinking. It is a practical experience designed to help you build capability, confidence and agency.
After Immersive PX, you will be able to say:
Prioritise
Move beyond briefs, requests and assumed solutions to frame a clear idea of the real problems preventing the progress people and the business actually need.
Understand
Talk to people, observe behaviour and gather evidence that helps you understand what is really happening — rather than simply validating what you already believe.
Insight
Make sense of qualitative evidence, identify patterns, pains, needs and jobs-to-be-done, and use those insights to improve the problem definition.
Ideate
Explore multiple possibilities, test assumptions, and converge with confidence, without jumping immediately to the first plausible solution.
Test
Turn a hypothesis into something tangible enough to put in front of people, learn from user behaviour and improve — without needing to launch the perfect finished solution.
Action
Know how to take the three core capabilities and product practices back into the messy reality of your role, team and organisation, and apply them with confidence.
WHO IS THIS FOR
This experience is for practitioners whose job is to design, improve or deliver People products, services and experiences within the organisational system they operate in.
Practitioner does not mean junior. It means you are close to the work. You are helping shape the aspects of work and organisational design that affect employees, managers, leaders and business outcomes.
You may be a Head of People, PX Practitioner, a Fractional Consultant, or Functional Specialist. That part doesn’t matter. Your job title matters less than the job you are trying to do; Solve real problems where they matter most.
Individual People Leaders
Heads of People, People Leads and hands-on practitioners looking for practical tools, fresh thinking and a community of peers shaping the future of People work.
Functional Specialists
Talent, L&D, OD, and People Ops, specialists looking for practical ways to define better problems, gather stronger evidence and test ideas before building.
Fractional Consultants
Independent and fractional People consultants looking for product-led methods they can use with clients to frame better problems, run discovery and test ideas faster.
Immersive PX is deliberately focused on practitioner capability. It is probably not the right fit if your primary challenge is redesigning or transforming the operating model of an entire People function.
If you are looking to shift the whole system, stand up product teams at scale, redesign governance or build a full People product operating model, SapienX can support that work through Activate or Transform.
THE TEAM
Luke O’Mahoney of SapienX, Alicia Grimes of The Future Kind and Chris Metcalfe of Red Oak have spent their careers helping organisations build scalable operating systems, design better products, and evolve how people learn, work and grow. Immersive PX brings together their combined expertise in People Experience, Product Leadership, Service Design and Organisational Change to create experiences grounded in practice, not theory.
Luke O’Mahoney
FOUNDER, SAPIENX
People Experience &
PX Product Transformation
Alicia Grimes
FOUNDER, THE FUTURE KIND
Service Design &
Learning Experience Design
Chris Metcalfe
FOUNDER, RED OAK
Product Leadership &
Product Operating Model
TICKETS
Whether you’re attending on your own or bringing others from your team, this is your chance to step out of the day-to-day and practice a product-led way of doing People work.
This is the last Immersive PX of 2026 and places are limited, so book early if you want to be in the room.
London
9th & 10th November, 2026
INDIVIDUALS
Turn a real People challenge into a tested solution through rapid experimentation.
£987 / person
TEAM
A shared experience can help build common language, confidence and momentum around product-led ways of working.
If you want to bring a small group from your People, PX or People Ops team, buy a three-ticket bundle today, or contact the SapienX team to discuss bespoke team pricing options.
£2,897 / bundle
If you need approval from a manager, budget holder or learning team, we want to make that easier. We can help you create a simple one-page business case you can use to prove the value of attending Immersive PX and how what you learn will directly lead to better people and business outcomes.
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Immersive PX completely exceeded my expectations. I’ve come away with fresh ideas, practical frameworks, new perspectives and actionable insights. Most importantly, the confidence to apply all of this in a meaningful way within my work. What made the experience stand out wasn’t just the content, it was the energy, openness and passion in the room. A reminder that when people professionals come together to learn, challenge thinking and share experiences, incredible things happen.
Pauline Taylor
VP of People @ HowNow
The experience forced me to examine what HR’s role actually is in a fast-growing company, something I hadn’t questioned traditionally. Immersive PX confronted us with a business problem and asked us to think like operators, not HR practitioners applying standard playbook. That’s uncomfortable. It’s also the work we’re supposed to be doing but rarely do. I’d tell any People Leader considering it: go. You’ll leave with a clearer picture of what your role actually requires.
Charlotte Adams
Chief People Officer @ Ofelia
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
Most workshops give you inspiration. Immersive PX gives you something to use on Monday. Leave with practical tools, tested frameworks, a network of peers and the confidence to apply product thinking to real People challenges.
Tools
Proven frameworks for testing and improving People experiences.
Templates
Ready-made assets that save weeks of starting from scratch.
Canvases
Visual tools for mapping problems, ideas and opportunities.
Practice
Real practice applying product thinking to People challenges.
Cofidence
The certainty that comes from testing, not guessing.
Community
A trusted network of peers doing the same work.
Support
Access to expertise and resources long after the experience.
Alignment
A shared language between People teams and C-suite.
COMMON QUESTIONS
No.
Immersive PX is designed for People leaders and practitioners who want to understand and apply product thinking in the context of People Experience work.
You do not need to have worked in product before.
Yes.
Most participants attend as an individual and become part of a small, active learning group during the experience.
The room is designed to create connection, conversation, and peer learning.
Yes.
Small groups from the same organisation are welcome. This can be a powerful way to create shared language and understanding across a leadership group or People team.
For larger group bookings, speak to us and we can help you choose the right experience or bundle.
Not right now.
Whilst we have delivered Immersive PX in other locations, like Amsterdam, previously the current Immersive PX offering is being delivered in London only.
Let us know where you want us to bring Immersive PX next!
Yes, absolutely.
If you are looking for team capability building and team level product-mode activation, you should look at our Activate 90-day engagement model.
If you are exploring a full product operating model transformation for your whole People / HR function at scale, you should look at our Transform offering.
IMMERSIVE SPONSORSHIP
Immersive PX is supported by a handful of trusted partners whose products, ideas and expertise genuinely help People teams do better work.
previous sponsors include:
Join the last Immersive PX of 2026 and start applying product thinking to People Experience.
