The strength
was always
there.
A people company built on a simple truth — sport builds the best version of people. We exist to make that accessible to everyone.
19%
India employee engagement · ADP 2025
$9.6T
Productivity unlocked at 70% engagement · Gallup
-18%
Attrition delta · FORJ events 2024–25
The Evidence
This is not
our opinion.
The relationship between sport, physical activity, and human performance has been studied rigorously for decades. FORJ is not built on intuition — it is built on what the research consistently shows. Here is the evidence that shaped how we think about what we build.
University of Bristol · Journal of Occupational & Organisational Psychology
Productivity.
Tolerance.
Resilience.
On days when white-collar employees exercised during the working day, they reported significantly higher productivity, better mood, greater tolerance of colleagues, and stronger resilience under pressure — compared to days when they did not exercise.
The same person. The same role. The same team. One variable changed: physical activity. And the performance outcomes changed consistently and measurably with it.
Productivity, mood, tolerance, and resilience — these are not the soft outputs of a team day. They are the precise traits that define a high-performing team. Sport produces them. This is the evidence.
Source: J. Occ. & Org. Psychology · University of Bristol · Peer-reviewed · Widely cited
Gallup · State of the Global Workplace 2025
$9.6
Trillion.
Gallup calculates that if the world's organisations reached the engagement levels of today's best-practice companies — roughly 70% engaged — it would unlock $9.6 trillion in productivity. That is 9% of global GDP.
Today, only 21% of employees globally are engaged. In India, that number fell to 19% in 2025 — the steepest single-year decline of any country in the world.
The gap between where the world is and where it could be is not a motivational problem. It is a structural one. The organisations that close that gap are the ones who build the conditions for it — deliberately, repeatedly, at scale.
Source: Gallup State of the Global Workplace 2025 · ADP Research People at Work 2025
73%
of employees already use physical movement to manage their mental health at work.
The instinct exists. The demand is there. The question is whether organisations give it a world-class container — or leave it to happen accidentally.
iFeelOnline · Mental Health Awareness Week Report 2024
7×
more likely to be engaged at work if they have a close friend in their team.
Sport accelerates genuine human connection faster than any other workplace intervention. Not because of the sport itself — because of the shared heat, pressure, and result.
TINYpulse Workplace Research · 2024
-18%
attrition delta documented across FORJ events in the 12 months that follow.
This is not what the research predicts. This is what we have measured, across 50+ events, in the organisations that trusted us with their people.
FORJ internal data · 50+ events · 2024–2025
What We Stand For
Vision
"A world where every person has access to the forge — where the heat and pressure of sport shapes stronger people, stronger teams, and stronger organisations."
$9.6T
in productivity unlocked if the world reached 70% engagement.
Gallup 2025
Mission
"To make sport a permanent, meaningful part of how the world's best organisations build their culture — one event, one league, one city at a time."
19%
of Indian employees are engaged today.
ADP Research 2025
Purpose
"To use the forge of sport to build the best version of every person who comes through our events — and the best version of every team we work with."
-18%
attrition delta across 50+ FORJ events.
FORJ internal 2024–2025
What We Stand For
Five values.
Forged, not chosen.
The research that shapes how we think
Workday exercise improves productivity, mood, tolerance, and resilience — compared to non-exercise days in the same person.
University of Bristol · J. Occ. & Org. Psychology
73% of employees already use physical movement to manage their mental health at work.
iFeelOnline · Mental Health Awareness Week 2024
Employees with workplace friends are 7× more likely to be engaged and 50% more satisfied with their jobs.
TINYpulse Workplace Research 2024
Physical activity interventions improve work ability and productivity — confirmed across multiple randomised controlled trials.
PMC Systematic Review · 34 RCTs · 2013–2023
The Team
The people
behind FORJ.
Sport changes people. Not just physically — it changes how they think, how they lead, how they trust. We built FORJ because no one was doing this at the scale and quality it deserved.
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