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Train your team
We teach your people to design, run and write up tabletop exercises for your own teams or your clients.
Answer four quick questionsOur director, Dan Epstein, who designs our games, teaches your people and runs the supervised session in the six-week program.
Is this for you?
- Your consultants get asked for tabletop exercises and want to run them well.
- Your risk team has to test its business continuity plans every year and wants to run the exercises itself.
- One leader wants to learn to design and run exercises, one to one.
- Your department has to exercise its emergency plans and wants its own people able to run them.
What you get
- An exercise your people built for a real risk you face
- Templates for the scenario, the player groups and the report
- A certificate from us for each person who finishes the six-week program
- Option for consultancies: a practitioner licence (see Price)
How it runs
Either: two days
Day one: build a scenario for a real risk you face, split the players into groups and write the briefing each group gets in each round. Day two: run it with your team playing, then write the report.
Or: six weeks online
Two hours a week online, in place of the two days. It ends with your people running an exercise for a real team or client, with us beside them, and a short written assessment.
After
Your people run their own exercises. The scenarios are yours. Use and adapt the templates in-house. Running them for clients under your brand needs the licence.
What your people can do at the end
Pick a scenario for a real risk you face. Split the players into groups and set the rounds. Run the room and keep it to time. Write a report with an owner and a date on every action. Then do it again next year without us.
Price
Two-day course: A$1,500 a person, plus GST. At your office, up to 12 people. Travel outside Melbourne is at cost.
Six-week program: A$2,500 a person, plus GST, in place of the two days. Groups of 6 to 12.
One-to-one coaching for the person who will run your exercises: A$550 a month, plus GST.
Practitioner licence for consultancies: A$5,000 a firm a year on top of course fees, up to 10 people trained on either course. Non-exclusive. Ten people on the two-day course plus the licence: A$20,000 in year one, A$5,000 a year after. Run the exercises for your clients under your own brand. Your report carries one line: "Method: The Long Game Project."
Adapt the templates as you like. The scenarios your people build are yours, including those built in training. If you stop the licence, you keep your scenarios and stop using our templates under your brand.
We will not approach, pitch or take work from any client you introduce or run our method with, for 12 months after your licence ends. It goes in your contract.
Public bodies: no deposit. We invoice against your purchase order on your payment terms.
Book about four weeks ahead.
Proof
- More than 180 people signed up to our online tabletop course in 2024.
- An introduction to tabletop exercises for Accenture consultants, 2023.
- Our director co-authored a 2025 Safety Science study on designing crisis exercises.
How we work
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 what you build
The scenarios and reports your people build are yours to keep and use.
Paying
Half to book, half within 30 days after the course. Prices plus GST.
If plans change
Move the date once, free, with 14 days' notice. Cancel more than 21 days out and the deposit comes back in full.
Full terms: How we work and terms. We carry A$1M professional indemnity and A$10M public liability cover, and more on request.
Four quick questions
Two minutes. We reply within two working days with a format and a price. If it fits, you pick a time to talk.
Keep it general here. We sign your NDA before you share anything sensitive.
Prefer to write? email@longgameproject.org