Happy Workplaces
How walnut.coach helped OLX Group — one of the world's leading online marketplaces — build a culture of happiness, resilience, and purposeful collaboration across multiple employee cohorts through a structured multi-group coaching journey.
- 4Parallel Groups
- 90–110Min Sessions
- MultipleMonths
- ICFCredentialed coaches
A Global Team That Needed Direction & Joy
OLX came to us with the complexity of scale — a large, diverse, fast-moving team where happiness and cohesion had become hard to maintain at pace.
No Unifying Culture Thread
With teams spanning different backgrounds and functions, OLX needed a way to create a shared experience of passion, wellbeing, and collaboration that felt real — not corporate.
Different Teams, Different Needs
Not all groups had the same gaps. Some needed communication tools; others needed resilience or leadership coaching. A single intervention wouldn't work.
Engagement Was Fragmented
Despite individual talent, collective morale and energy weren't where leadership wanted them. There was a need for deliberate culture-building.
Sustaining Momentum
The challenge wasn't just a one-off boost, but creating lasting change across a large, distributed organisation.
Four Parallel Coaching Tracks
Four tailored coaching tracks ran simultaneously, each delivering 90–110 minutes of interactive content paired with a specific game designed to unlock the exact learning needed.
- Group ACoaching
- Group BCommunication
- Group CResilience
- Identifying group needs and working toward shared goals
- Three defined needs aligned to team development
- Building collaborative workstyle and team vision
- Game: Fishy Equilibrium (Collaboration Over Competition)
What made this work
We didn't force a one-size-fits-all solution. OLX needed flexibility at scale — and that's exactly what the parallel track model delivered.
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Parallel Tracks for Parallel Needs
Instead of forcing one program on everyone, OLX employees were assigned to tracks that matched their team's specific development needs — making every session feel relevant and personal.
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Games That Unlock Learning
Each coaching track was anchored by a game designed to surface the exact behaviours being coached — whether collaboration, communication, resilience, or leadership.
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Consistent Quality Across Cohorts
All 4 groups received the same standard of facilitation, ensuring no team felt like a lesser priority. Every cohort mattered equally.
“The parallel format was a revelation. Every team felt they were getting something made just for them — and you could see the energy shift across the organisation, group by group.”
What changed after the programme
Across all four cohorts at OLX, the parallel program delivered measurable shifts in how teams engaged, collaborated, and experienced their work.
Tailored Growth at Scale
By running four parallel tracks, OLX was able to give hundreds of employees a deeply relevant learning experience without diluting quality. Every group got exactly what they needed.
Stronger Team Bonds Across Cohorts
Despite being different groups, participants across all cohorts reported feeling more connected to their teams and more energised after sessions.
Better Communication Across the Organisation
The communication cohort translated their learnings back to their wider teams, creating a ripple effect of clearer, more empathetic dialogue.
Higher Morale & Engagement
Employee energy and enthusiasm for work visibly improved across cohorts. Leaders noticed a shift in how teams showed up — more positively, more collaboratively.
From first call to follow-through
Every Walnut engagement follows the same five steps, run by ICF-credentialed coaches.
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Discovery
Understanding the organisation's culture, challenges and people
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Custom design
Tailoring content, examples and exercises to the team
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Delivery
An interactive, gamified session with real-time engagement
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Commitment
Each participant leaves with one action to try straight away
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Follow-through
Ongoing coaching for deeper individual growth
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