Engaging Development Games For Leaders
Accelerated Leadership Development
Energy · Meaning · Connection
Human-AI Leadership Lab
Decision Making
Thucydides' Trap
Live through a geopolitical inflection point where the global leader is challenged by a fast-growing contender.
Entrepreneurial Leadership
Race for AGI
Run tech companies, navigate products, technologies, talent, governance and financial markets.
Coalition Building
King of Thebes
Six clans electing the new King and navigating personal, clan and city interests and values.
Decision Making
Oil Cartel
Represent oil exporting countries, navigate market dynamics and optimize your country's profits.
Partnership Evaluation
Venture Fair
Startup and investor teams consider investments. Find the right partner with shared interests.
Corporate Governance
Succession
A fintech at a crossroads. The founding CEO steps back. A tech giant, PE firm, and VCs circle.
Family Dynamics
TheWill
The patriarch is gone. The family discovers what he truly left behind — ambiguous promises and competing loyalties.
Strategic Decision Making
Barbarians At The Gates
A successful tech company faces PE-driven transformation. The board is split. The data supports both sides.
Conflict Resolution
Split
A family dissolving. Every move toward ‘winning’ makes both sides lose more. The optimal path requires vulnerability.
Diplomatic Negotiation
Deep Start
Two delegations. Three days. One treaty that could define global security.
Use Cases
The Method
The Adaptive Development Loop
Each loop builds on the last — creating a spiral of growth where development becomes an internal need, not an external push.
Simulate
Immerse in a complex, realistic scenario that mirrors real business challenges
Experience
Make decisions under pressure, observe real behaviors, navigate ambiguity
Reflect
AI-powered debrief captures patterns, blind spots, and growth opportunities
Apply
Transfer insights into actionable plans with personalized development paths
Why It Works
Beyond Case Studies
Real stakes, real emotions, and real behavioral data — impossible to achieve in a classroom.
Beyond Role-Plays
Multi-agent worlds simulate entire ecosystems with dynamic consequences that ripple across teams.
Beyond Coaching
SIMs reveal leadership patterns that only emerge in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
Beyond Assessments
SIMs measure what people do — under ambiguity, time pressure, and competing interests.
Results
All SIMs can be customized to fit your organization's context.
Companies we worked with
Moments That Matter
Who we are
The Team
Part academics, part game designers, fully obsessed with leadership.
Game Master
— Co-Founder & CEO, MetaGames
— Member of the BoD, Narxoz University, Almaty, KZ
— Advisor, Negotiationtaskforce, Boston, USA
— 2022–2024, Associate, Davis Center, Harvard University
— 2016–2022, Dean, Professor, Skolkovo Business School
— PhD in Economics, State University of Management '03
— MBA, INSEAD '02 · MPA, Harvard Kennedy School '16
Meta Strategist
— Co-Founder, MetaGames
— Research Fellow, Université de Toulouse
— Editor of Intellectual History series at NLO publishing
— Professor at Shaninka, 2007–2022 Professor at RANEPA
— Partner at Communications bureau ZDBW
— PhD, European University Institute (Florence) '10
— DEA de Pensée politique, Sciences Po de Paris '00
Growth Commander
— Business development & growth at MetaGames
Reality Operator
— Chief Operating Officer, MetaGames Lab
— Strategic Operations & Business Development Lead
— Producer in Media (film, video & experiential formats)
— Executive Education Producer
— Leadership Programs & Retreats Designer
— Executive and Group Coach (ICF track)
AI Evangelist
— AI strategy & evangelism at MetaGames
Intellectual Partners Network
Arvid Bell
Founder & CEO, Negotiationtaskforce (NTF), Boston, MA
- — Lecturer, Harvard University
- — Member of the Executive Board, ACONA
- — PhD, Goethe University '18 · MPP, Harvard '12
Moty Cristal
Founder & CEO, NEST Consulting
- — Lt. Colonel (R.) in the IDF
- — 1994–2001, Negotiation capacities in Israel's PM Office
- — MPA, Harvard Kennedy School '98
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