How we engage.

Six formats, one discipline: rigorously testing the assumptions a strategy is resting on. The format changes with the stakes, the timeline, and the audience - the standard does not.

Every engagement begins from the same question: what would have to be true for this decision to be the right one? Over 130 bespoke scenarios - across defence, financial services, technology, and consumer goods - have taught us the shapes that question most often takes. The six formats below are those shapes, sized from a single day to a standing advisory retainer.

Workshops

Half / full day

Tabletop exercises that stress-test a strategy against the shocks your plan does not model.

From A$12k

Decision War Room

Report + readout

A counterfactual wargame of the decision you are about to make - engine-built, run without a day of your calendar, delivered as a written report and a board-ready readout.

A$15-25k

Strategy Sprints

Fixed-scope engagement

Two weeks of principal-led work on one consequential question.

A$9k fixed

Speaking

Keynote / event

Keynotes and working sessions on strategy under uncertainty.

From A$3.5k

Masterminds

Six-month cohort

Curated peer cohorts for leaders who have run out of people inside the building to challenge them.

By invitation

1:1 Coaching

Private retainer

Confidential counsel for the decisions you cannot yet put in writing.

By referral

Not sure which shape fits?

Thirty minutes with Dr Dan Epstein - the person who will design and run your exercise. Describe the decision you are facing and get an honest read on the right format. No pitch.

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