Best way to test a plan? Play it.
We design and run business wargames and tabletop exercises for leadership teams, boards and conferences.
Directed by Dan Epstein · facilitators with defence wargaming experience · more than 130 scenarios designed
Australian Government
What we run
Test a strategy
Your leaders play your market against competitor teams. You leave with a written record of what held.
Booked twice by Mars, 2023 and 2026
Test my strategy →Test a crisis plan
For aged care, hospitals and boards. A dated report and action register at the end.
Our director co-authored a 2025 Safety Science study on designing crisis exercises
Test my crisis plan →Conference or offsite game
Everyone decides, six to a table. A write-up of every table.
EAGx Melbourne: 55 people, two hours
Plan my session →Train your team
We teach your people to run exercises for your own teams or your clients.
Run for Accenture
Train my team →Run a research game
A scenario game with a written method and findings for your funders.
Sample report: Before the Rising Sun
Plan my study →What players said
Dan and the team at LGP were willing to do a really quick turn-around for us - designing an entire 90min game within a week!
ALLFEDHaving so many relationships to consider and information to integrate felt like a good simulation of the kind of decisions and pressure that governments would be under in a crisis.
Delegate, EAGx Melbourne 2023It helped change the way we think about our business and how we run workshops.
Mars, 2023How we work
Who runs your game
The person who designs your game runs it. One to three facilitators with defence wargaming experience keep every table moving.
What you tell us stays private
We sign your NDA, and so does every facilitator. We only name you with your written OK.
You own the findings
Show the report to your board, regulator or funders. Want to publish it? You can.
Paying and dates
Half to book, half within 30 days after the game. Move the date once, free, with 14 days' notice. Prices plus GST.
Full terms: How we work and terms.
Read a real one: Before the Rising Sun
A volcanic winter, nine stakeholder tables and two hours to keep Australia fed. The scenario, every table's moves, what happened next and what players said.
Read itPast games and writing
Insight Check
The newsletter. New field notes and reports when they are ready.