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Design
A bespoke crisis scenario co-designed with your team, calibrated to your operations, sector, and risk profile, and matched with expert role players.
Developing leaders for real-world geopolitical crises
Immersive crisis simulations that help your organisation prepare for an uncertain future
- Conflict
- Energy shock
- Supply disruption
- Market volatility
- Political instability
- AI disruption
- Disinformation
- Disinformation
- Environmental disaster
The problem
Organisations today face compounding crises, from trade wars to infrastructure attacks, natural disasters and hybrid threats. Few have rehearsed how their team would actually respond.
What we do
KairoSim puts your leadership team inside a near-future crisis simulation built around your organisation, run by people who have managed real ones. Developed through a decade of exercises at Cambridge University, our simulations reveal how your team decides under pressure before a real crisis does.
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Simulate
Your leadership team steps into a situation room: live intelligence injects, AI-generated breaking news, real-time dis/information feeds, and competing priorities under genuine time pressure.
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Debrief
A rigorous, facilitated post-exercise analysis that maps individual and collective performance to concrete resilience and preparedness actions.
What you gain
Better decisions
Sharper judgement under pressure, with the blind spots exposed in the room.
Reduced risk
A clear view of your organisation's vulnerabilities, with steps to close the gaps before capital is on the line.
Stronger leadership
A team that has been tested together under pressure and knows how it performs.
Learning & development
A unique executive training experience that takes teams out of their comfort zone and gives them stories to tell.
Why KairoSim
KairoSim was born from the Strategic Simulation Programme at the University of Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics. For over a decade, historian Professor Brendan Simms and former British diplomat Adam Wurr have run closed-door crisis exercises for politicians, military commanders, intelligence professionals, ambassadors, and many former and serving UK Cabinet Ministers.
Who it's for
For leadership teams with high operational and geopolitical exposure, in sectors including critical infrastructure, government, energy, transport, telecommunications, and financial services.
People
Founded by practitioners, not consultants.
