Escape Room Update!

The other day, I walked through the shell of our new office in Singapore.

As I was looking around, I was surrounded by open walls and a mess of wires hanging like vines from the ceiling. A few stray screws were on the floor, some of the walls were starting to be put up, and the space still echoed when you spoke. Something about that moment has been playing on loop in my mind.

I’ve spent my entire career in places where everything’s already finished. You show up, greet the familiar faces at reception, and it’s all there - the glass partitions, silent aircon, and whiteboards overflowing with messy handwriting and optimism. The space was there before, and you take whomever built it for granted. You just need to figure out how to work within it.

This time, it’s quite the opposite. We’re not walking into someone else’s idea of what an office should look like. We’re literally shaping our own vision from the ground up. And for me, that feels very much like leadership training itself - building something with intention, adapting as you go, and learning how to guide a team through uncertainty.

Every wall we’re raising, every colour we’re planning and painting, every tiny choice down to the door hinges has to be designed with purpose and intention. For us, this is more than just an office. It’s a working theory and a living, breathing space built to create trust and expand the limits of our thinking. Much like our escape room training programs, the design is deliberate - every detail is there to foster team building and growth.

I can already picture that silent moment before a session starts, when a team’s not sure what they’ve signed up for. The uncertain energy changes once they first enter the Escape Room Singapore experience we’ve created. That’s what it feels like we’re building for - that lightning-in-a-bottle moment that only happens when teams step into something new together. It’s the essence of leadership escape room training: structured uncertainty that sparks collaboration, problem-solving, and growth.

I’ll be honest. There are plenty of days when it all feels too big. Where we’re deep in questions about soundproofing or fire codes, and I catch myself thinking, how the hell did my career get me to the point where I’m discussing the difference between two core wires and four core wires and electric sockets? But then I look around and remember that it ALL led to this.

This feels so different because it’s not just my work going into this. It’s everything up to this point in my career - a culmination of experiences, lessons, and a passion for helping teams grow. We’re not done yet, but we’re close.

And I can’t wait to show you around the world’s first B2B escape room Singapore experience created specifically as a leadership training and team development training program. Designed for organizations in Singapore and beyond, it’s where work meets play, and where teams discover just how much stronger they can be together.