The instrumented read
Team LFS — the Team Leadership Failure Simulation — is a live simulation built from your own company's reality. It surfaces exactly how your executive team coordinates and cracks under pressure, in real observed behavior with a measurable baseline. When a conversation isn't enough and you want the read instrumented, this is it.
Everyone else
Surveys & 360s
What people say about themselves and each other. Filtered, polite, and easy to game — the truth everyone already agreed to tell.
Us
Behavior under pressure
What people actually do when the stakes are real and the outcome is ambiguous. Unfiltered, unrehearsed, and impossible to fake.
How it works
Pre-engagement interviews build a scenario from your real organizational context — and a private hypothesis about where your team will break.
Each leader works the crisis on their own device. Their decisions ripple into the shared scenario — so no two people face the same simulation, and everyone lives with the others' choices.
Every action is logged. Afterward, the full state is analyzed into individual and team reports — showing who does what when the pressure is on, in observable behavior, not theory.
Up to 8 executives on individual devices · ~90 minutes, facilitator-paced · debrief immediately after · runs at your offsite or virtually.
What it stresses
The scenario is engineered to stress the four failure modes of the Flag Model™. The simulation surfaces which one is yours — and who behaves which way when it's under pressure.
Who actually decides — and what happens when no one will.
Whether the team keeps cadence, or scatters when it's hit.
What the team tolerates when the standard gets expensive.
Whether the team adapts from what's happening, or repeats it.
What you get
A trait-by-trait read on each leader, every finding backed by what they actually did in the simulation.
How individual patterns interact to produce collective breakdown — influence mapping, coordination, and the failure mode that's yours, with a FlagScore™ baseline.
One lead-measure per person to change starting immediately — the same reinforcement engine behind everything we do.
Where the read leads
$1.2B
revenue, up from $350M — seven rival firms unified into one
268%
behavioral gain in 30 days — two warring camps, one team
209%
mindset lift — Champion Iron executive retreat, AlUla
178%
teaming gain in 30 days — five poached all-stars, one team
Real engagements across a decade of retreats, immersions and partnerships. See the case studies →
De-risk it — run it on yourself first
ELFS — the Executive Leadership Failure Simulation, the solo, roughly 30-minute version for the CEO — puts you under the same pressure and returns a written report on where you default to comfort over truth. It's the low-risk way to experience the work on yourself first. If you proceed to the full team run, your ELFS fee is applied toward it.
Then — the intervention it points to
Team LFS shows exactly where the team breaks. What comes next is engineered around that fault line — never pulled off a shelf. Depending on what surfaces, that’s a multi-day retreat, a single dramatic day off-road, or a day on the water. Evidence in, transformation out.
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