Whole-brain experiential learning · since 2010

Rewire how your people show up.

We use neuroscience-backed, experiential training to build confident, adaptable people through storytelling, outbounds, soft skills, and AI integration.

Team building session Ready for anything
Business Storytelling Outbounds Soft skills AI integration
22,000+adults & students trained across India
StorytellingTeam buildingSoft skillsAI integrationDesign thinkingEmotional intelligenceFacilitationAdaptive leadership StorytellingTeam buildingSoft skillsAI integrationDesign thinkingEmotional intelligenceFacilitationAdaptive leadership

Why human skills

Knowledge gets the job done. Human skills make it matter and they aren't absorbed from a slide deck. They're built through experience. AI raises the floor human skills raise the ceiling.

Here's how our trainings differ

Four shifts every program is built to create.

Not topics on a slide — the changes your people carry back to work.

01

Ideas that land

Complex thinking, turned into messages others grasp the first time and remember long after.

02

Trust that holds

Connection isn't a soft extra. It's what makes people collaborate, take ownership, and stay.

03

Calm in change

Resilience is a skill. We help people stay steady and lead when everything around them shifts.

04

Momentum, not theory

Clarity drives action: pitching, leading, and bringing people along with you.

Four stops on the human-skills journey

Four ways we build better people at work.

We meet people wherever they are, whether they're finding their voice, bonding as a team, sharpening everyday skills, or learning to work with AI.

What still needs a human?

Your people can now produce anything. That was never the hard part.

What AI now does, for everyone

What still only your people can do

Drafts the deck in ninety seconds.

Still human

Knows which three slides this room actually needs.

Summarises the forty-page report.

Still human

Decides what to do about it, and owns the call.

Is confidently, fluently wrong at scale.

Still human

Is the last line of verification before it reaches a customer.

Read the full argument

Gamified learning apps

Learning your team plays, not sits through.

When a programme calls for it, we build the app. A game your people play on their own phones, driven live by a facilitator, scored as it happens. Designed and coded for one client and one objective — never off the shelf.

Round 3 · 12 teams in

Everyone has answered. Show them what was really going on.

Round 3 · your call

A number in the deck came from a tool nobody has checked. The meeting is in nine minutes.

Send it. Flag it verbally.
Hold the slide back.
Check it yourself first.
The reveal

The tool had been fed last quarter’s file. Two teams sent it anyway. One asked.

one press · every phone, same second

HEARTWARE round one on a phone: a colleague asks for an AI answer, with the data file and a panel to message her back
round one, on a player’s phone
Case file

HEARTWARE

judgment in the AI era

Five rounds, ninety minutes, built for new joiners. Teams work a live case on their phones and decide what to trust, what to verify, and what to own.

On the phonesTeams answer together, and can question the people in the case in their own words.
On the facilitator’s screenEvery team’s reasoning, live. One button releases each reveal.

Every reveal lands on all phones at the same second, so no team can race ahead of the discussion. It ends on a scoreboard nobody argues with.

5 rounds90 minutesNew joinersLive scoring
Operation Keystone access screen: classified cell access only, with a field to enter a team cell code
the first thing two hundred people see
Case file

Operation Keystone

an induction, as a spy thriller

Two hundred new joiners. Sixteen teams, four clusters, five levels — and a game that runs in two halves at once.

Mental opsCiphers and deduction inside the app. Nothing unlocks until the puzzle breaks.
Physical opsFacilitator-run challenges off the screen. Crack those, earn the passcode.

A live cluster leaderboard runs on the main screen all day, and the whole thing builds to a single reveal about the company they have just joined.

200 players16 teams5 levelsHybrid
How we build them Play a live one Both were built from scratch for a single client brief.

How we work

From first brief to lasting change.

Every engagement follows the same arc, built around your people, delivered through experience, and measured for real impact.

1

Discovery & design

We learn your people, goals, and context, then shape the session around them.

2

Experiential delivery

High-energy, whole-brain facilitation, online or in person, that people enjoy showing up to.

3

Frameworks & tools

Templates, structures, and real examples participants put to work the very next day.

4

Live, real work

We workshop your actual pitches, messages, and challenges, never theory in a vacuum.

5

Rigorous follow-up

Direct feedback and follow-up sessions that turn insight into lasting behaviour change.

6

Measured impact

Outcome-based interventions with the rigour to show real, repeatable shifts.

Now included · The TDF Platform

Training you can measure.

Every program now comes with a platform that turns a great workshop into lasting, provable change.

Explore the platform Included with every program.

Measure

Growth in numbers, not hunches.

Everyone rates themselves before and after, so the shift shows up on a chart.

Learn

The whole program, on demand.

Lessons, videos and quizzes your team keeps for good.

Certify

A certificate worth sharing.

Earned on completion, theirs to keep, post, and celebrate.

15+Years of training
22,000+People trained
25+Cities across India
100+Activities to choose from
Shilpi Khandelwal, lead trainer at Tour de Force
the room-turner

The lead trainer

Shilpi Khandelwal

Founder & CEO · leads every flagship program

Fifteen-plus years turning rooms full of strangers into teams that trust each other. Shilpi sets the training philosophy behind every Tour de Force program, and still opens every flagship room herself, from graduate cohorts to the C-suite.

Formats she leads

Business Storytelling Outbound Facilitation Soft Skills Design Thinking Emotional Intelligence

Rooms she's run

  • SAP Labs India
  • Samsung
  • Bosch
  • Raymond
  • Tata Power
  • NetApp
Shilpi on LinkedIn →

The people behind it

Meet the rest of the team.

Builders and operators who make sure every engagement lands exactly as designed.

Suneel Khandelwal, Founder and CFO at Tour de Force

Suneel Khandelwal

Co-Founder & CFO

Founded Tour de Force and steers its finances and operations. From budgets to delivery across 25+ cities, Suneel makes sure every engagement lands exactly as designed and runs sustainably.

Yasheel Khandelwal, Chief Technology Officer at Tour de Force

Yasheel Khandelwal

Chief Technology Officer

Builds the technology behind the practice and leads the AI integration curriculum, helping corporate teams put new tools to work with confidence.

Where training meets impact

Feedback like this

"

The session was very lively and informative. I especially appreciated the interactive style and the learning exercises.

Debbie KrogmanVP, Human Resources · Halosource
"

A truly fabulous and informative workshop. The response was overwhelming, with real passion to help us all be better.

Kathelene SumanaHR · Raymond
"

Great energy and passion. They ensured the whole team was all in. We wish them the best for future trainings!

Siri SoodDirector · SAP Labs India

Trusted by teams at

SAP LabsHarmanBoschRaymondNetAppRinacHaloSourceGreat LakesITMTata PowerSoftware AGDNA NetworksCBBJC CollegeParammountING Vysya BankNess TechnologiesYodleeSamsungColt SAP LabsHarmanBoschRaymondNetAppRinacHaloSourceGreat LakesITMTata PowerSoftware AGDNA NetworksCBBJC CollegeParammountING Vysya BankNess TechnologiesYodleeSamsungColt

Get in touch

Let's design the right program together.

Book a 30-minute discovery call with Tour de Force to explore your goals, and we'll shape the engagement around them.

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Whether you have a brief ready or just a hunch, we're happy to explore what's possible.