A corporate training programme by W.I.P Labs

Behaviour isn't taught. It's rehearsed.

Working artists from theatre, music, movement, sound and code train your teams in leadership, inclusion, sales and mindful AI. Diagnosed with your HR team, built from your real work, measured after.

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A performer on a dark stage holding an empty wooden frame around his face
What it is
Corporate learning led by working artists
For
CHROs, L&D, DEI, sales and business leaders
Formats
Half-day to 2 days, residencies, leadership studios
Group
12 to 30 per facilitation team
Timeline
3 to 6 weeks, diagnosis to delivery

Corporate learning designed and led by working artists.

ART Immersion is the corporate training programme of W.I.P Labs, an artist-run collective in New Delhi whose founders and faculty bring more than twenty years of practice. We bring genuine artistic practice into organisational learning, rather than dressing corporate training up as art.

  • Diagnosis first

    We name the behaviour before we design anything.

  • Working artists

    Practitioners of national standing, matched to your problem.

  • Built from your work

    Your real meetings, pitches and scenes. No off-the-shelf content.

  • Measured

    Indicators agreed up front, reviewed at 30 to 90 days.

Authentic

Not a forced combination of corporate training and art.

Beyond icebreakers

Not superficial theatre games or generic team-building.

Deep

Not an introduction to an art form. We work at the depth artists train at.

Practice-led

Not art repackaged as corporate entertainment.

Who we are

Artists first. For more than twenty years.

Practitioners, educators, producers and curators, with training in engineering, law and management too. This is what a W.I.P room looks like.

A rhythm workshop circle at W.I.P
Two participants playing hand drums together on the floor
Kabira Khada Bazaar Mein on stage
Artists and faculty at Listening Otherwise, CEPT University
  • 25years of practice in the founding team
  • 500+performances programmed
  • 700+artists across art forms and programmes, the network we trust and cast from
  • IIM A · CEPT · Ashokawhere our team teaches

Everyone agreed with the slides. Nothing changed.

The behaviours that cost teams most happen faster than anyone can think about them. You can't lecture them away.

In the meetingThe same three people speak first.Some voices are interrupted, or their idea comes back later with someone else's name on it.

In the pitchSix weeks on the deck. No rehearsal.The content is right. The transitions, the timing and the recovery from a hard question were never practised.

In the teamNobody assigned the role.Someone takes the pen, the front and the summary within seconds. It is usually the same person.

Telling people about a dynamic rarely changes it. Making them experience it does.

Artists have spent careers on exactly this.

Rehearsal, ensemble, listening, presence, status, improvisation. In a well-designed session, people watch themselves do the thing, then practise a different way of doing it, several times, before they take it back to work. We bring the practitioners, not a trainer who borrowed a few theatre games.

A performer in white seated at a microphone, arms raised mid-song
How someone holds a roomTheatre and voice work on presence, pace and the moment a speaker loses the audience.
A percussionist performing with an ensemble on a lit stage
When to lead and when to followEnsemble music cannot be held by one person. Handing over the lead is the skill.
A sound artist patching a modular synthesiser on the floor
When to let the system runLive coders and sound artists decide, second by second, when to step in. That is the AI question too.
Never tell people something about themselves that the room can show them instead.

Programmes

Six areas of work. Start with the behaviour.

All modules, durations and formats →

From the room

Not slides. People, doing it.

Participants in a rhythm circle with hand drums
Participants seated on the floor playing drums
A facilitator leading a group with a guitar
A corporate group working outdoors in a circle
Corporate session led by our founder
A large rhythm workshop in the W.I.P studio
Two participants playing hand drums

How we work: the W.I.P Rehearsal Method.

Five stages, in the language of a theatre production. The content changes with each organisation; the discipline of how we build it does not. The indicators set at Diagnose are the ones reported at Review.

  1. Diagnose

    We sit with HR, the sponsor and a sample of your people, and name the behaviour precisely.

    You getA one-page brief with 3 to 5 agreed indicators.

  2. Cast

    We choose the art form, then the facilitator from our faculty, and tell you why.

    You getA named team, with the reason for each discipline.

  3. Devise

    We build the curriculum on our frameworks, from your real meetings, pitches and scenes.

    You getA session plan you sign off.

  4. Rehearse

    Delivery in rehearsal conditions: on your site, at W.I.P aDDa in Delhi, or on residency.

    You getThe programme and facilitator notes.

  5. Review

    A report against the agreed indicators, and a follow-up at 30 to 90 days.

    You getPatterns (never individuals), a commitment log and a recommendation.

Two women performers singing on stage

Featured case · a large Indian FMCG conglomerate

Women in field sales. Then the men in the room.

Two-day programmes for women in male-majority sales roles: voice, body and scenes from their own working lives. The client came back for a mixed-gender programme on who talks over whom, and who takes roles nobody assigned.

More case studies

Formats

Three ways to bring us in.

  • A workshop in progress in the W.I.P studio

    Start here

    Interventions

    Half-day to 2 days · 12 to 30 people · your office or W.I.P aDDa

  • A hut in a Himalayan valley

    Away from the office

    Residencies

    3 to 5 days · 12 to 30 people · venues chosen per brief

  • Two people smiling during a session

    For the top team

    Leadership Studio

    2 to 3 days · 6 to 16 people · residential or private studio

Organisations our team has worked with

Across corporate programmes, education and performance, W.I.P Labs and its practitioners have worked with these organisations.

FAQ

What buyers ask first.

Our employees are not artists. Will they find it awkward?

They don't need to be artists. Nobody is judged on talent or asked to perform alone, and anyone can watch an exercise instead of doing it. The material is your team's real work.

Is this team building?

No. Team building aims at goodwill. We aim at a named behaviour, measured before and after.

How do we know it changed anything?

We agree 3 to 5 indicators with you before we design anything, report against them, and in the deeper options follow up at work at 30 to 90 days.

How is it priced?

Per programme for a stated group size, not per head. A fixed-fee diagnostic comes first and is credited if you go ahead. We share indicative fees on the first call.

All questions, including safety, consent and procurement →

Start with a conversation

Tell us the behaviour.

We'll tell you whether art is the right tool, and if it isn't, what is.

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The collective

The people behind ART Immersion.

W.I.P Labs is run by Kirti Sharma and Baan G from W.I.P aDDa in Lado Sarai, New Delhi, with a network of working artists cast for each programme.

Here, with artists and faculty from Listening Otherwise, our conference on improvised music, at CEPT University, Ahmedabad, including Raymond MacDonald and Jay Kreimer.

A group of artists seated and standing together on a wooden bench in a studio at CEPT University, Ahmedabad
Listening Otherwise, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 2026.
W.I.P Labs