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Strategic thinking is a skill.
Don't outsource it.
Practice it.

We design the exercises senior teams use to pressure-test their strategy under the conditions it will actually have to survive.

Strategy doesn't fail in the boardroom. It fails in the moment.

When strategic thinking gets outsourced — to a consultant, a framework, a model — the capability inside the building atrophies. And strategy is demanded in the hardest moments, not the calmest ones. The sharpest decision-makers treat it as a skill: one that needs deliberate, repeated practice.

We build the practice.

For founders, senior leaders, and teams making decisions whose consequences they will live with — who know the thinking matters as much as the plan.

Used by people at

GitHubAnthropicMarsCulture AmpDeloittePwCEYKPMGEA GlobalMonash UniversityAustralian GovernmentVictorian GovernmentALLFED

130+

Bespoke scenarios designed

Defence, financial services, tech & consumer goods

Industries served

94%

Would recommend to a peer

“The simulation helped our organisation plan for future risks and decide the most important metrics to track. The value for time is off the charts.”

Director, Consulting Firm

“We left behind our day-to-day and immersed in an eye-opening exercise. It changed the way we think about our business and how we run workshops.”

Team Lead, Global CPG

Services

Five ways to work with us directly.

Workshops

A tabletop exercise puts your leadership team inside the decisions your strategy does not rehearse. One day, partner-facilitated, debriefed into board-ready commitments.

Organisations with consequential decisions on the table

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Masterminds

A curated group of six to eight senior leaders, meeting monthly to pressure-test the decisions they are actually facing. Not networking, not group coaching — structured peer challenge under partner facilitation.

Senior leaders, founders, chief executives

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Workshops, Masterminds, 1:1 Coaching, Strategy Sprints, Speaking.

Who's behind this

Dr Dan Epstein — physician, PhD in decision science, and tabletop game designer for more than a decade. He has designed 130+ bespoke strategic scenarios across defence, financial services, technology, and consumer goods.

Meet the team →

Tell us the decision you're facing.

Thirty minutes with a partner, no pitch. If we can help, we will say how. If we cannot, we will point you to someone who can.

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