For Companies

AI is changing how your team works. Connection is your edge.

The tools keep getting smarter, and somehow teams feel further apart. We use purposeful play to help your people reconnect, realign, and redefine how they work together, whether you need one great afternoon or a year of real development.

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Three Ways to Play

Which one fits your team?

Every engagement starts at the table. The difference is what you need from it.

Level One  ·  One Event  ·  1 to 4 Hours

Purposeful Play Session

Bring your coworkers around the proverbial campfire to connect without hierarchy or job titles.

We customize your session with collaborative board games or a story-driven adventure where titles fade, the org chart disappears, and people actually talk to each other.

And if you're picturing someone on your team groaning at the word "games," we've thought about that. The two things that turn people off games are complexity and competition, so everything we run is collaborative and intentionally simple. Nobody competes, nobody gets put on the spot, and no experience is required.

Ideal for

  • New hire onboarding
  • Team celebrations
  • Holiday parties
  • Affinity groups and ERGs
  • Morale boosts
  • Welcoming interns
  • Any time you want your team to walk away with a story they'll still be telling six months from now
"If just 30 people made 2 connections that helped them see a colleague more three dimensionally, that's 60 stitches in the fabric of our company. That's a big deal."
Kirby Moyers · President, Guden
Level Two  ·  Ongoing  ·  3 to 12 Months

Team Development Experience

Build culture, communication, and collaboration habits that actually stick.

Your people are smart, capable, and well-intentioned. But maybe decisions stall, accountability gets passed around, and everyone agrees in meetings while nothing actually changes.

Traditional training won't fix that. Research shows people forget 90% of what they're taught within a week. Think about how we prepare athletes. We don't hand a sports team a PowerPoint about teamwork and wish them luck on game day. We get them on the field and run the play until it becomes second nature. Your team deserves the same practice time.

Using tabletop games as the vehicle, we create a low-stakes space where your team practices the real thing: making decisions, navigating conflict, communicating across differences, and leading from wherever they sit. Neuroscientists have a phrase for why this works: what fires together, wires together. Repeated practice in play is how these skills become habits instead of handouts.

This is perfect for

  • Teams that are functional but know they could work better together
  • Managers who see the silos but don't know how to break them down
  • Organizations navigating a merger, restructure, or rapid growth where the culture hasn't caught up yet
  • Teams rebuilding trust and momentum after a layoff
  • Leadership teams settling into new roles after a reshuffle
  • Teams where old friction keeps resurfacing and getting in the way of the work
  • Leaders who are tired of having the same conversation in every retrospective
  • HR and L&D professionals who are done throwing budget at training that doesn't move the needle
On Stage  ·  Keynotes & Conference Sessions

Speaking at Your Event

Skip the standard lecture. Bring an interactive practice ground to your next event.

We've all been there. The traditional corporate keynote looks great on a PowerPoint slide, but by Monday morning 90% of it is forgotten. High-performing organizations aren't built through information. They're built through intentional, shared experiences.

Laura Khalil blends game design, behavioral science, and storytelling to deliver high-energy, unforgettable sessions that melt away invisible walls, leave egos at the door, and give your leaders the psychological safety to innovate. With over 13 years of consulting experience across hundreds of organizations, she has taken the stage at NASDAQ, Forbes 30 Under 30, CreativeMornings, Startup Week, and dozens of conferences and companies.

Signature Keynote Tracks

Choose Your Character: The Personality Assessment Your Team Will Actually Remember

Most personality tests hand people a label and a PDF nobody opens again. You don't need to know a thing about D&D for this one: this talk maps familiar workplace types to the twelve classic Dungeons & Dragons character classes and shows how your team really operates under pressure. Your audience will leave knowing who their problem solvers, protectors, and diplomats are, and how to combine them so every person plays an essential role.

Fix Your Meetings: What Game Designers Know That Agendas Don't

Game designers are experts at keeping a room engaged, and most meetings could learn a lot from them. This talk applies the structure of great tabletop games to turn passive status updates into active problem-solving, where every person has a role and the best ideas win instead of the loudest voices.

Manage Like a Game Master: How to Unite Different Personalities

The best game masters don't control the table. They build an environment where very different personalities want to work together. This talk shows managers how to spot the unwritten rules quietly hurting team culture, match different work styles to complementary roles, and unite everyone around a shared mission.

"I've been to a lot of events, and it's rare to see a room that engaged. You impacted every single person in that room."
Karen Klimara · Paylocity
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Not sure which approach fits your team?

Tell us what's going on and we'll point you in the right direction, even if the answer is that you should start small.

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