We help teams connect through play, and teach people leaders and facilitators how to do it too.
Become a Leadership Game MasterOur new training teaches you to run purposeful play with your own team.
Join the waitlist for the founding cohort.
Teams are moving faster, meeting less, and leaning on tools more than on each other, which leaves people more disconnected than ever.
And the standard fixes aren't working. Another coffee chat, another happy hour, another icebreaker that everyone dreads.
The problem was never the people. Connection doesn't come from information. It comes from experience.
As AI takes over the technical work, what sets a team apart are the skills no machine can replicate. None of them are built through another coffee chat. They're built through practice, together.
We would never prepare a sports team by showing them a PowerPoint. We get them on the field and run drills when the pressure is off, so they're ready when it's on.
Purposeful play is a team's practice field.
Collaborative and cooperative games give people a low-stakes space to practice how they communicate, solve problems, and trust each other. When it matters, they're ready.
In the brain, what fires together wires together. A skill practiced once in a workshop fades by Friday, but a skill practiced through play, with real emotion and real stakes, builds new neural pathways, new behaviors, and new ways of showing up for each other.
In one study of 80 teams, just 45 minutes of collaborative gaming made teams about 20% more productive on the task that came next. Teams that only talked it through felt closer, but they performed worse.
"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
Answer three questions and we'll estimate the price tag, using published workplace research.
Gallup's workplace research consistently finds that roughly half of employees are not engaged at work, and that disengagement costs an estimated 18% of an employee's annual salary in lost productivity. Your answer about how connected your team feels adjusts the share of your team we assume is affected (30% to 60%, which stays at or below Gallup's published norms).
Cost = team size × affected share × average salary × 18%. The recovery estimate assumes improvement for just one quarter of the affected group, which is intentionally conservative.
These are directional estimates based on published research averages, not a guarantee of results. Every team is different, which is exactly why we start with a conversation.
Everything above works whether you're the one running the table or the one booking it.
Learn the QUEST Method and run purposeful play sessions yourself, whether that's with your own team, your clients, or anyone who needs a better way to connect.
The founding cohort is forming now, and the waitlist gets first access.
We design and facilitate every experience around what your team needs, from a one-hour session to a full-day offsite.
Laura Khalil (KUH-lil) will tell you the best team building she's ever seen happened around a table full of dice. She spent 13+ years consulting for Fortune 500 companies like GE, Intel, and Intuit, and has delivered experiences for federal agencies including the CDC. The through line is always the same: people don't connect through information. They connect through experience.
She blends game design, behavioral science, and storytelling into something trust falls and workshops can't deliver, which is lasting change that actually feels good to practice. Now she's training the next wave of leaders, coaches, and facilitators to bring that same experience to their own tables.
The world needs more leaders who know how to bring people together. Join the waitlist for the founding cohort of Leadership Game Master Training.
Become a Leadership Game Master