Online Corporate Training Platform

About the client

AKD Solutions is an organisational change consultancy headquartered in London, UK. The consultancy offers a range of services, including leadership development, team building, customer experience enhancement, diversity and inclusion training, and cultural transformation to drive meaningful change within organisations.

Industry Education Location Reading, UK Technologies React, PHP, Node.js

Key outcomes

We helped AKD Solutions take its corporate training program online, resulting in:

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Adoption by global leaders

Used by several Fortune 500 companies for diversity and inclusion training

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Wider market reach

Enabled delivery to fully remote teams and expansion into new regions

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Stronger brand positioning

Reinforced AKD’s reputation as an innovative leader in digital corporate training

Business challenge

Adapting a face-to-face board game experience to a fully remote, digital format

AKD Solutions offers Equally Yours, a board game-based training program designed to promote inclusion and open dialogue in corporate environments. Traditionally conducted in person, the game is moderated and played in teams, encouraging participants to engage with real-world social dilemmas.

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, AKD faced a major disruption:

  • In-person sessions were no longer viable, halting the delivery of the program.
  • Replicating the physical gameplay digitally posed technical challenges, especially in translating tactile elements and real-time collaboration to a web-based platform.
  • Preserving the core learning outcomes—open discussion, team collaboration, and inclusivity—within a digital format required thoughtful design.
  • Ensuring accessibility and ease of use across different organisations and user demographics was essential for successful adoption.

To address these challenges, AKD sought to transform the Equally Yours experience into an engaging, web-based application. They reached out to GoodCore to develop this web application.

Project goals

The project entailed the following requirements:

  • Develop a web-based version of Equally Yours that replicates the in-person board game experience.
  • Ensure an engaging and user-friendly interface to support smooth facilitation and active team participation.
  • Maintain the core learning outcomes of the game—open dialogue, collaboration, and inclusivity.

The solution

System features and functionality

The web app for Equally Yours works exactly like the physical board game version. The facilitator starts a session on the app and invites participants to join. Team leaders take turns rolling the dice by pressing a button on-screen. The app automatically moves the token and pops up a question from the corresponding colour-coded stack. The discussion and point-scoring activity takes place outside of the game environment and in the video conferencing app.

Facilitator Dashboard

Facilitator Dashboard

The facilitator is the person who manages the entire training session. The app provides facilitators with their own control panel where they are given the option to either create a new session or view details for previous sessions that they moderated. When creating a new session, facilitators can choose to customise certain specifics – such as question sequence and participant details – before starting the game.

Training Session Management

Training Session Management

When a session is started, the app generates a unique link for it via which the facilitator invites the participants. Much like Zoom, the Equally Yours web app also has a waiting room feature. The game starts as soon as the facilitator changes the session status to allow participants in.

Points

Throughout the session, the facilitator stays in control. The Equally Yours game board is available as a view-only screen to all participants. However, team leaders are allowed to roll the dice. Throughout the game, the facilitator can roll the dice on behalf of the team leaders. After each dice roll, the tokens move across the board automatically. The facilitator then draws a card depending on where the token lands. The question card is displayed, leading to a discussion, after which the facilitator awards points to each team.

Points

To make the game view more appealing, interactive, and fun, we have added short GIFs to animate the rolling of the dice, movement of tokens, and flipping of question cards. The option to switch to high-contrast visuals makes the game more accessible.

The facilitator ends the session when they feel that the participants have engaged sufficiently and the key topics have been discussed. At the end of each session, the participants are asked to type in their feedback and the facilitator is allowed to take notes.

Role-Based Access

Role-Based Access

For maximum security, access to certain parts of the app is dependent on the users’ roles. Users can be assigned three roles:
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For instance, if a user logs in as a facilitator, they are allowed to invite users, manage sessions, and even view reports. Participants are not granted these permissions. They merely get view-only access to sessions they are invited to. AKD administrators have a wider range of permissions: they are allowed to manage app users and AKD clients, as well as view reports on complete session history.

Multilingual Support

Multilingual Support

The app’s default language is English. However, facilitators have the option to choose from and conduct training courses in any of the other languages offered.

Real-Time Updates

Real-Time Updates

One major achievement for us is that we have successfully been able to provide real-time interaction to all users of the app during an active session. From moving tokens to updating team scores, everything is in perfect sync. To accomplish this, we implemented custom socket-based client-server communication at the backend.

The impact

  • Adopted by Fortune 500 companies – The platform is now used by several leading global organisations for diversity and inclusion training.
  • Expanded client reach – AKD extended their services to fully remote teams and new markets.
  • Increased accessibility and scalability – Companies can easily conduct sessions across locations without physical setup.
  • High engagement and retention – The interactive digital format successfully mirrors the collaborative feel of in-person sessions.
  • Stronger market positioning – The digital shift reinforced AKD’s reputation as an innovative leader in corporate training.

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