Namitha Vijayakumar
Moves individuals and organizations from ideas to innovation through design thinking, experiential learning, and gamified simulations.
Namitha Vijayakuman began her career as a project engineer before shifting into learning and people development, where she now designs and facilitates experiential learning that turns ideas into action. With a strong foundation in Design Thinking and behavioral skills training, she has created facilitator-led workshops, blended programs, coaching sessions, and game-based simulations for organizations across multiple sectors.
Namitha is a certified Design Thinking Practitioner (MIT Sloan and Society of Design Thinking Practitioners, UK) and has delivered more than 150 highly engaging workshops, certifications, and design sprints using hands-on methods such as LEGOĀ® Serious Play, simulated design labs, and creativity huddles. She is deeply passionate about creativity, innovation, and gamification, and has co-developed digital simulations and gamified learning programs, including two copyrighted leadership games, to make learning practical, interactive, and impactful.
Designing Card Games for Learning
This session invites participants into a high-stakes, story-driven assessment where they experience personality insights through action rather than questionnaires. Guided by Namitha Vijayakuman, participants step into a gamified Everest expedition, making decisions about purpose, preparation, teamwork, risk, fear, and recovery, each choice shaping the outcome of the climb.
Behind the scenes, the experience maps decisions to the Big Five personality framework, not through self-report scales, but through lived moments of pressure and uncertainty. After the exercise, players receive a personalized report that reveals what helped them reach the summit and what nearly held them back. The session unpacks how this assessment was designed, allows participants to experience key moments live, and examines why adventure-based assessments surface more honest, meaningful insight than traditional tools.
Takeaway: When assessment feels like an experience, insight becomes clearer and more truthful.
