Tabletop Role-playing Games at Work for Fun & Profit

Tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons are co-operative storytelling games. How can these games help us at work? What can we learn about writing, professional communication, teamwork, and diversity? How can we bravely practice design thinking and build on the success of others? What are the parallels between TTRPGs and professional interactions, and how can they help our career journey and personal growth? Join a panel of creative Microsoft employees and experienced DMs who do actually play TTRPGs at work. We are members of an officially recognized Microsoft employee organization called the Storytellers Guild that uses TTRPGs to improve our communication, improvisation, storytelling, and to practice empathy. All panelists are accomplished DMs.

We have a panel of speakers from Microsoft:

• Nina Navazio (she/her, content designer, Microsoft)
• Deepti Vaidyanathan (she/her, software engineer, Microsoft)
• William Assaf (he/him, senior content developer, Microsoft)