Scenario-Based Leadership Training
Scenario-based leadership training for executive teams. Rehearse the decisions the playbook cannot make for you, before the day you have to.
Grounded in command and doctoral research in crisis leadership at Cranfield
The Argument
When the strategy holds, anyone can lead. The test arrives when the plan fails, the information is incomplete, and the room turns to one person. That moment is decided by judgment, and the chutzpah to act when the playbook does not apply. Neither is installed by a slide deck. You rehearse them, or you meet the day cold with the cost running live.
The Method
The military worked this out a century ago. You do not learn command by being told about it. You learn it inside the decision game: a real situation, a clock, consequences, and a hard debrief after.
Kriegsspiel-style scenarios where teams act on incomplete information against a moving situation. The kind of decision the playbook was never written for.
CAOS, Collective Appreciation of Situation. Reading what is actually happening before deciding, together, so the team sees the same field.
Scenarios are abstract or drawn from your business: crisis, restructure, public failure, succession. Never combat, never political theatre. Pure judgment under load.
The decision matters less than how you led while making it. That is what we examine, honestly enough to change the next one.
One Method, Four Altitudes
A decision drill under time and uncertainty. It shows how you actually lead when the playbook runs out.
A shared appreciation drill. It shows where alignment breaks, who fills the vacuum, and whether your values hold under pressure.
A wargamed strategic decision. It shows whether the culture charter holds when the strategy is being rewritten.
Mission command beyond your own team. It shows whether your intent stays clear when you cannot control the room.
For The Avoidance Of Doubt
Not a ropes course. Not a personality quiz. Not a war game for its own sake.
A rehearsal of the decisions that define a leader.
Where It Comes From
The method is not borrowed from a textbook. More than 20 decision exercises, designed and run for the teams I commanded, now rebuilt for the boardroom.
20+
Decision exercises designed and run in command
2,000+
Live operations in command of an active military police battalion
PhD
Crisis-leadership research, Cranfield
12 yrs
Leadership in high-stakes environments
Real teams. Real decisions, rehearsed before they count.
Formats
Half or full day. One scenario, one team, one hard debrief.
Two to three days. An escalating scenario across the four altitudes. Pairs naturally with a retreat.
A scenario module set inside a longer leadership programme.
How an Engagement Starts
01
30 to 45 minutes. You describe the team, the pressure they face, and the decision they keep getting wrong. No pitch.
02
Within 48 hours. The scenario is built for your situation, not pulled off a shelf. Fees included.
03
The decision game itself, run under pressure, followed by the debrief that turns the experience into how the team leads next.
Questions Worth Asking
Leadership training built around decision games: Kriegsspiel-style scenarios where a team acts on incomplete information against a moving situation, then debriefs how it led while deciding. Instead of learning frameworks in a classroom, leaders rehearse judgment under pressure before reality demands it.
A half-day Decision Lab runs SGD 2,000 to 3,500, depending on complexity and the thought work involved. The Intensive runs two to three days across the four altitudes. Every engagement is scoped to the team, and a written proposal with the fee included arrives within 48 hours of the discovery conversation.
That depends on your organisation's eligibility and how the engagement is scoped, so raise funding on the discovery call and Prathap will confirm what applies before you commit. One date worth knowing: unused SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit from the current tranche expires on 30 November 2026.
Never. Scenarios are drawn from your business or built abstract: crisis, restructure, public failure, succession. No combat, no political theatre. The military provenance lives in the method, the discipline of the decision game and the debrief, not in the content.
Executive teams, senior leadership groups, and high-potential cohorts. Formats scale from a single team in a half-day Decision Lab to multi-day intensives, and a scenario module can be embedded inside a longer leadership programme. Group size is agreed at scoping.
Singapore first, and on-site across Southeast Asia. Decision games work best with everyone in the same room, so delivery is in person, with the venue agreed at scoping.
Insights
Decision games, wargaming, and training judgment for the moment the plan breaks.
Next Step
Tell me the team and the pressure they are under. I respond within 48 hours with a scoped proposal.
