LeaderSim
Leadership in action.
See how leaders actually lead.
LeaderSim places leaders in realistic business situations with AI colleagues and asks them to lead the team and develop a strategic plan — then evaluates their behavior and skills in the moment.
What the leader experiences
Step inside LeaderSim.
01
The Business Case
The leader enters a realistic business situation with incomplete information, competing priorities and organizational context.
Incomplete information
Competing priorities
Strategic context
Business materials
Participant briefing · SwiftMart scenario
02
Leading the Team
The leader works with AI colleagues—asking questions, gathering information, navigating disagreement and leading the group.
Asks questions
Gathers information
Responds to disagreement
Tests ideas
Makes decisions
Leads the group
AI colleagues · the executive team
03
The Strategic Plan
The leader synthesizes what they learned and develops a strategic plan.
Board Memorandum · the leader’s strategic plan
How LeaderSim works
From situation to development, in one continuous simulation.
01
The Business Case
A realistic business situation with incomplete information, competing priorities and organizational context.
02
Leading the Team
The leader works with AI colleagues, asks questions, gathers information, navigates disagreement and leads the group.
03
The Strategic Plan
The leader synthesizes what they learned and develops the required strategic work product.
04
Scoring Capability
LeaderSim evaluates observable behavior and skills across six leadership capabilities.
05
Developmental Report
The leader receives behavioral evidence, capability evaluations, approach interpretation, skills to develop and developmental priorities.
What LeaderSim measures.
LeaderSim evaluates six leadership capabilities through 18 observable leadership skills.
3
Domains
Judgment, Collaboration and Execution.
6
Capabilities
Each one independently evaluated.
18
Leadership skills
Observable evidence beneath the six capabilities.
Judgment
Decision Approach
Thinking Style
Collaboration
Interaction Style
Information Integration
Execution
Goal Orientation
Execution Style
The 18 leadership skills
18 observable skills behind the capability evaluations.
Judgment
Decision Approach
Seeking Relevant Information
Asking Purposeful Questions
Evaluating Evidence
Judgment
Thinking Style
Testing Assumptions
Inviting Challenge
Framing the Issue
Collaboration
Interaction Style
Engaging Relevant Stakeholders
Broadening Participation
Facilitating Group Dialogue
Collaboration
Information Integration
Navigating Disagreement
Synthesizing Perspectives
Building Shared Direction
Execution
Goal Orientation
Assigning Ownership
Setting Accountability Expectations
Defining Deliverables
Execution
Execution Style
Setting Priorities
Sequencing Work
Planning Execution
Behavioral evidence
Measuring leadership in action
LeaderSim does not infer leadership from self-description alone. It evaluates leadership behavior demonstrated during the simulation.
Behavior → Skills → Capability evaluation → Approach → Development
Behavioral evidence · Sample LeaderSim output · from a sample report
Skills
Capability evaluation
Decision Approach
Approach · Acting ↔ Learning
Learning behavior
Interpretation
That question pointed at the part of the business that was working, which is the most likely place to find the answer to the category problem.
Strength
The information you did request was precisely scoped and correctly addressed, so the analysis that came back was usable rather than generic.
Capability approaches
How each capability was expressed.
Capability evaluation
How effectively the behavior was demonstrated.
Approach
How the capability was expressed, read along its polarity.
Range
The ability to flex toward either side as circumstances change.
Judgment
Decision Approach
Acting
Learning
Judgment
Thinking Style
Independent Thinking
Collective Thinking
Collaboration
Interaction Style
Focused Participation
Broad Participation
Collaboration
Information Integration
Leader Synthesis
Team Synthesis
Execution
Goal Orientation
Direction
Accountability
Execution
Execution Style
Flexible Execution
Defined Execution
Shaded band: the balanced zone. The balanced zone represents overall balance. Context determines the right emphasis.
Sample LeaderSim Report
From measurement to development.
Each leader receives a report built entirely from what they did in the simulation. There is no single ideal leadership style.
6 capability results
Six independently evaluated leadership capabilities. No single overall LeaderSim score.
Polarity scoring
How each capability was expressed, shown along its polarity. The balanced zone represents overall balance. Context determines the right emphasis.
18 skills to develop
The observable leadership skills behind the six capabilities, used to focus development.
Development priorities to extend the leader’s range
Where improving effectiveness will matter most.
Pages shown are from a sample LeaderSim report, for illustration.
Leadership development
Development is range, not correction.
Improve capability performance. Expand leadership range.
Development is not about correcting a leader toward one ideal style. It is about improving effectiveness and increasing the range of approaches a leader can use as circumstances change. Range is the ability to flex toward either side when the situation requires it.
Decision Approach
Illustrative · one capability. Open marker: Time 1 approach. Shaded band: range shown at Time 2. The balanced zone represents overall balance. Context determines the right emphasis.
Time 1 → Development → Time 2
Measure development over time.
Time 1
LeaderSim
LeaderSim establishes a behavioral baseline:
Six capability evaluations
Approach patterns
Observable skill evidence
Development priorities
Development
Examples
Focused on strengthening capabilities and extending range where it matters.
Coaching
Leadership programs
Practice
Stretch assignments
Leadership experiences
Time 2
LeaderSim
A new LeaderSim situation allows the organization to ask:
1. Did capability performance improve?
2. Is the leader less over-reliant on one approach?
3. Can the leader flex toward what the situation requires?
Each question is answered with the six capability evaluations and the behavioral evidence behind them. No overall score is added.
Uses
Where LeaderSim fits.
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