Namitha Vijayakumar

Leveraging the power of strategic play for learning.

 Namitha is a Strategic Play evangelist and Founder of  Beyond Walls Learning Solutions, a learning firm that leverages the power of play for upskilling corporate employees. An Engineer by qualification, Namitha started her career with Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. While working in the IT field she discovered her passion towards training and coaching people, and went ahead to chase and accomplish her dream of being a facilitator.

She is known for the enormous amount of energy she infuses into her sessions and the creative methodologies used for facilitation. She has received many accolades for her passionate facilitation style, ‘The Most Energetic Trainer Award’ by Dale Carnegie Training being one.

Her mission has been to make learning highly engaging and impactful through highly experiential methodologies like strategic play, Lego Serious Play(LSP), simulations, gamification, game-based learning, storytelling, etc.

She has worked with clients from various sectors, like IT, Retail, Banking, Hospitality, Healthcare, and Automobiles, to deliver focused training solutions for their workforce. She has worked extensively on different phases of the training cycle from Needs Analysis, Content Development, to Evaluation & ROI.

Namitha has a total of 19 years of work experience and 11 years in the Learning & Development domain.

Namitha is a Dale Carnegie certified trainer and an NLP practitioner. She is certified in training and development in hospitality from the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) and Transactional Analysis. She also holds an executive management diploma from IIM Calcutta specialising in People Management. She has been a speaker at international forums on Innovation, Design Thinking, and Game-based Learning.

Namitha likes to spend her free time reading, traveling to new places, and pursuing her passion for dance. 

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Narrative Alchemy: Transforming Educational Themes
into Engaging Gameplay

"A strong narrative gives players a reason to care, transforming a game from just mechanics into an emotionally resonant experience."
– Jane McGonigal, Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us

Through this interactive session, we explore some prompts and insights that can inspire your story world and game mechanics. Ultimately, the goal is to create a game that doesn’t feel like a lecture and instead allows players to interface with your impact theme of choice in entertaining, challenging, and compelling ways.