Escape Rooms are one of the fastest growing entertainment trends in the United States and across the world. This Study Guide helps attendees, both novice and experienced, with important strategies for how to approach the escape room experience and provides tips for what do do once the door locks behind them.

Escape Rooms are one of the fastest growing entertainment trends in the United States and across the world. This Study Guide offers tips and hints to attendees, both novice and experienced, for what to do once the door locks behind them. Covering the Who, What, How, When and Why of the escape room experience, the School of Hard Locks Study Guide to Escape Rooms is the result of the careful study of thousands of groups INSIDE various escape rooms to see what works...and what doesn't. Who should you bring along to play? What do you do to prepare? How do you get started? When do you ask for help? Why won't this lock open?

SANDRA KEEHN:

​For the last two and a half decades, Sandra has blazed a career in management consulting and leadership education as a business consultant to Major League sports teams, major retailers and human resource organizations across North America.  As the President of GEO Advisors Consulting she has marshaled a diverse toolkit of cutting edge techniques to hone the effectiveness of both managers and their teams.    From her unique background in sport and theatre Sandra is able to harness the escape room as a way to observe and boost group dynamics in a neutral setting.   In 2015, SoHL was launched to provide today's business environment of uncertainty, competition and impending deadlines with a positive space to spur productivity and team building.

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TONY DUCKETT Tony Duckett has been a leader and team builder all his life! From his childhood in Brooklyn, to the classroom, to his time playing professional basketball, Tony has always been driven to succeed.  ​Over the last 30 years Tony has harnessed the learnings of his youth to drive corporations to reach new heights. By bridging the gap between disparate departments within a corporation, he has been able to help companies experience unparalleled effectiveness and efficiencies internally, which translates into better service delivery to their customers and helps grow their customer base. At the core of this success is the concept of team. So, the concepts you learn at the School of Hard Locks and the teamwork lessons in our books come naturally to him. He not only talks about these concepts. He lives them.