Workshops
Your strategy looks great on paper.
Now let's see if it survives.
A tabletop exercise puts your leadership team inside the decisions your strategy does not rehearse. Market shocks, competitive moves, regulatory reversals, operational failures — compressed into a day, facilitated with the discipline of a boardroom simulation, debriefed into commitments you can hold each other to on Monday.
What we do
Tabletop exercises
Your team faces competitor moves, market dislocation, or operational failure under a live clock. Every scenario is built around your industry's actual threat surface, not a generic template. You leave with a sharpened view of where the strategy is brittle — and what you will do about it before the real version arrives.
Strategic advisory
A retained thinking partner for the questions that do not fit an exercise. We work alongside the CEO and top team between board cycles, pressure-testing the assumptions the rest of the organisation cannot afford to question in the open.
Bespoke scenario design
A library of 130+ scenarios across defence, financial services, technology, consumer goods, healthcare, and professional services. Every engagement is built bespoke on that foundation — the sharpness of a proven design with the specificity of your board papers.
Honest debrief
The exercise surfaces the gaps. The debrief closes them. Structured reflection, named assumptions, owners against actions, and a single-page record of what the team agreed under pressure — because memories fade faster than calendars.
How it works
01
Discovery
A 30-minute call with a partner. You describe the decision on the table. We tell you honestly whether a tabletop is the right shape — and if it is not, what is. No pitch, no proposal theatre.
02
Scoping
A one-page brief covering objectives, scenarios, participants, format, and investment. Agreed in writing before any design begins. No scope creep, no ambiguity.
03
Design
Two to four weeks of bespoke scenario design drawing on your industry, competitive context, and the specific question on the table. Built by a partner, reviewed with your sponsor, iterated until it bites.
04
Deliver
One day, on-site or remote. Your team runs the scenario under a live clock. We facilitate, provoke, and hold the room to the commitments it makes under pressure.
05
Debrief
A structured session within 48 hours, followed by a single-page action record. What you decided, why it matters, and what happens on Monday — in the form your board meeting will accept.
What our clients say
“The value for time of working with The Long Game Project is off the charts. The simulation helped our organisation plan for future risks and decide the most important metrics to track.”
Director, Consulting Firm
“I was impressed by the level of nuance captured in the game design. If you want an engaging, bespoke exercise tailored to your needs, work with this team.”
COO, Research
Tell us the decision you are 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. That conversation carries more value than most proposals.
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