--- title: "Our values: how People Tech Revolution builds and behaves" description: "The values and mindset traits: the standard People Tech Revolution holds a piece of work to, and how the team behaves while getting there." canonical: https://peopletechrevolution.com/about/values --- [About Us](https://peopletechrevolution.com/about) # Our values Our values and mindsets: the standard a piece of work is held to, and how the team behaves while it gets there. They are the reason a client can trust what gets built with them. Leonie Sanderson, PTR co-founder and Design and Engagement Director. Leonie talks about values and VR PTR co-founder Leonie Sanderson speaking about PTR's values, from PTR's YouTube channel. ## The standard a piece of work is held to Four values, four mindset traits. The values are the standard we hold a piece of work to; the mindset is how we behave while we get there. They sit alongside the principles on our [About](https://peopletechrevolution.com/about) page: psychological safety designed in rather than bolted on, every scenario co-designed with the people who will use it, and human judgement kept human. ## Values that inspire change The words that decide what gets built, how, and with whom. Community. Building connections and collaboration. The co-design workshop is where it starts: your practitioners in the room, listened to, before anyone builds. Excellence. Striving for the highest quality in all we do. Independent, peer-reviewed research examines the work; it is collected on [Research and evidence](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/research-evidence). Trust. Building reliable and transparent relationships. Informed consent, a pre-brief and a structured debrief sit inside any scenario that touches something painful. Creativity. Encouraging original thinking. Carked It!, the card game from the founders' Ageing Revolution work, won a 2024 Australian Good Design Award for making conversations about death easier to have ([Good Design Australia](https://good-design.org/projects/carked-it-a-card-game-about-life-death-and-beyond/)). Want to see these values at work on your own project? [Open the contact form](https://peopletechrevolution.com/about/values#contact) Ask our CEO Simon Lowe’s Digital Twin a question ### Collaboration is a thing you can watch happen It shows up in what both sides are willing to put on the table before anyone commits to a build. One problem, held between two people. ### One problem, put where both people can see it The workshop is the value in practice. Your practitioners describe the situation as it really goes, PTR says what a build can and cannot do with it, and the scenario is written from what both sides agree is true. Trust is the same habit later on: the informed-consent step, the pre-brief, and a debrief built into any scenario that touches something painful. > "We began with a small team of former interns and people whose values align with ours. We've grown the team slowly over the past two years with a strong focus on diversity." Leonie Sanderson Co-founder, People Tech Revolution. [Startup Spotlight, Aerospace Xelerated, 2023](https://medium.com/aeroxelerated/spotlight-people-tech-revolution-62d11e4ae535) ## Mindset to drive results How the team behaves while the work gets done, on the days nobody is watching. Curious. Always exploring and learning: a phone, a controller and a set of models on one table until the right format shows itself. Empathic. Understanding and valuing diverse perspectives, starting with the person the headset goes on. Collaborative. Working together to achieve common goals: the whiteboard, the sticky notes and everyone in the room. Action-oriented. Turning ideas into something people can use: a rough build in someone's hands early, rather than a finished product they have never seen. Leonie Sanderson and Simon Lowe on the panel at the PTR VR Library launch, Townsville, 2024. ## Values in public Community: PTR's CEO Simon Lowe has mentored around 30 game-design interns through SAE Institute's program, more than 10 of whom have moved into paid roles. Creativity: Carked It!, from the founders' Ageing Revolution work, won a 2024 Australian Good Design Award for making conversations about death easier to have. Excellence: peer-reviewed research examines PTR's work, collected on [Research and evidence](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/research-evidence). Trust: lived experience treated as equal to professional expertise, set out on [Our approach](https://peopletechrevolution.com/about/approach). - [Our approach](https://peopletechrevolution.com/about/approach) - [Research and evidence](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/research-evidence) ## Values you can see in the room Patience from a facilitator, courage from a learner and curiosity from a designer, in the rooms where the work happens. Two people talk during an atrium headset trial. Explaining the method to a room. A clinician rehearses hand movements above a tray. ### The mindset that keeps the work honest A build is only finished when the people it is about say it rings true, which means listening past the point where it is comfortable. Two screens, one interaction. ### Rebuilt until it plays the way the room really goes A designer and a developer adjust the same moment until it plays the way the practitioners described it. Then it goes back to those practitioners for another round, and the scene is only signed off when they say it rings true. - [Our story](https://peopletechrevolution.com/about/story) - [Rehearse it in VR](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr) - [Practise with AI](https://peopletechrevolution.com/ai) ### Where these values are put to work The method step by step, the years behind it, and the projects it produced. [Our approach. The DICE test, five stages and the co-design behind every build.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/about/approach) [Our story. From The Ageing Revolution to the PTR VR Library, told a year at a time.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/about/story) [Our work. Case studies, industries and the research behind them.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work) Want to see these values at work on your own project? [Open the contact form](https://peopletechrevolution.com/about/values#contact) Ask our CEO Simon Lowe’s Digital Twin a question