ELEVEN SCENARIOS · PLUS ONE BUILT FOR YOU
Dramatic scenarios, engineered for the leadership moment that actually matters.
Each one is built around a real leadership fault line — the moment a team goes quiet, a plan breaks in public, or the wrong person gets heard. Pick one, or build yours from scratch.
017 roles
The Jury Room
Inspired by a classic courtroom standoff
One holdout has to slow a room that's already comfortable with a quick verdict — and earn its attention without ever raising rank.
Best fit for
Committee-based decision cultures, panels, and teams with a history of premature consensus.
You'll leave with
A concrete way to challenge a majority view without becoming combative.
025 roles
The Mission Control
Inspired by a real-world space rescue
A crisis breaks in fragments faster than anyone can verify them — someone has to lead the room through it in real time.
Best fit for
Frontline and newly promoted leaders owning incident response, on-call, or delivery under pressure.
You'll leave with
A calmer, more structured instinct for triage — and when to escalate vs. contain.
036 roles
The Missing Leader
Inspired by a classroom coming-of-age story
The manager is pulled away an hour before the deadline, with no handoff. Nobody appointed who leads next.
Best fit for
High-potential employees, flat teams, and organizations building a succession pipeline.
You'll leave with
A clearer read on your own step-up vs. step-back default — and how to shift it.
045 roles
The Angry Customer
Inspired by a high-pressure workplace drama
A key client escalates, emotionally, while the team quietly disagrees about how to respond — with the client watching.
Best fit for
Client-facing roles and managers who sit between clients and delivery teams.
You'll leave with
A steadier default response to provocation, and faster internal alignment under pressure.
056 roles
The Unspoken Risk
Inspired by a real-world engineering tragedy
The data already shows the risk. However, the people across different teams who see it each have their own reason to stay quiet.
Best fit for
Senior leaders, and safety, quality, risk, or compliance roles in regulated industries.
You'll leave with
A practiced, low-status way to raise a risk early — before it becomes a crisis.
064 roles
The Investor Pivot
Inspired by a Silicon Valley origin story
Funding falls through. The team must abandon the plan and reframe the story, live, in front of a skeptical room.
Best fit for
Founders and leaders navigating a pivot, restructuring, or fundraising conversation.
You'll leave with
A practiced ability to hold a room's confidence when the story changes mid-sentence.
075 roles
The Silent Genius
Inspired by a Wall Street overnight thriller
The fact that changes the decision is sitting with the person least likely to be heard in the room.
Best fit for
Meeting chairs, and managers of technical, junior-heavy, or steep-hierarchy teams.
You'll leave with
Concrete techniques for building a room where expertise outranks seniority.
085 roles
The Deadline Crisis
Inspired by an elite-conservatory drama
A few hours before a hard deadline, a key teammate leaves the team. The work still has to continue.
Best fit for
Project and delivery leads in deadline-driven industries — agencies, media, consulting, finance.
You'll leave with
A sharper instinct for when to reorganize the work vs. push through it.
094 roles
The Credit Dispute
Inspired by a Silicon Valley origin story
The project just succeeded — and the team is quietly fracturing over who gets the credit for the win.
Best fit for
Team leads managing high performers, and teams coming off a major joint deliverable.
You'll leave with
A practiced way to name inequity in the room before it festers or goes public.
106 roles
The Culture Clash
Inspired by ensemble dramas about crossed wires
Neither side is wrong. Neither can see what the other doesn't know it doesn't know — until someone names the gap.
Best fit for
Leaders of global or cross-regional teams, and organizations mid-merger or joint venture.
You'll leave with
Concrete language for naming what the other side genuinely can't see.
115 roles
The Reluctant Leader
Inspired by a wartime true story
The designated leader steps back. The room turns to someone who never wanted the job — and needs an answer now.
Best fit for
Newly promoted leaders, and high-potential employees who avoid visibility despite real ability.
You'll leave with
Felt evidence you can lead well before you feel fully confident.
12Flexible roles
Your Scenario
Co-created with you
Built around the situation your leaders are actually walking into — a restructure, a merger, a team that's stopped working.
Best fit for
Organizations with a specific situation to work through — not a generic off-the-shelf fit.
You'll leave with
A scenario built only for your room, and yours to run again with future cohorts.
SCENARIO 12
Or we build the twelfth one with you.
Every scenario above started as a real situation someone brought us. Yours can too.
BESPOKE
Your Scenario
Built around the moment your leaders are actually walking into — a restructure, a merger, a team that's stopped speaking to each other.
STEP 1
Discover
A scoping call with your sponsor. We map the real pressures your leaders face and agree what the scenario needs to test.
STEP 2
Design
We write the scenario, roles, and briefing packs. You review a draft and tell us what rings false — we recalibrate before anyone sits down.
STEP 3
Deliver
Facilitated live, in person or remote, with a debrief framed in your own language. The scenario stays yours to run again.
What we need from you: one real situation, the behaviors to shift, who'll be in the room, and roughly three weeks' notice.
“Communication was top-notch and the final outcome was even better than we imagined. A great experience all around.”
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