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Leadership Accelerator

A leadership simulation built around your business. Deployed in weeks, not a year.

A facilitated cohort experience: your functional experts take the seat and run a business under pressure, shaped to your roles, your strategy, and your competency model, so they rehearse the enterprise call before the role is real.

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Why it works

Custom-built fidelity. Without the custom-build timeline.

A simulation built from scratch takes a year and drains your experts. Capsim shapes a proven engine to your structure and your strategy in weeks. Your leaders get a program that feels like your business, running on a platform that already works.

The experience

Enterprise decisions build enterprise leadership.

Your content and frameworks stay. Run it with our facilitators or your own. Capsim wraps a business around what you already do and puts your leaders in the seat, so the program connects to your world on both ends and tests judgment in the middle.

The simulation a cohort runs: the Capstone Research and Development screen with sliders for each product, a perceptual map, customer buying criteria, and cost charts, every function reachable from one screen.
The business your cohort runs together: Capsim's actual interface.
  1. Before

    Frame it in your world

    Your strategy, your priorities, and your competency model set the stakes. Leaders walk in knowing what they're being developed toward, and facilitators tie every move back to your business.

  2. The simulation

    Run the business together

    Teams take the seat and run a company under pressure. Each round is a year, and every call ripples across marketing, operations, finance, and people. They stop defending their function and start weighing the whole business, with your senior leaders in the room, watching how each person leads.

  3. After

    Defend it to the board

    Teams present their results and defend their calls to a board of your senior leaders, the ones who watched it unfold. They walk out with coaching grounded in behavior, not a satisfaction survey.

Keep the business familiar. Make the capability uncomfortable. That's where leaders grow.

At a glance

What running it actually looks like.

The shape of a program before you ever book a demo: how long it runs, who takes part, who delivers it, and what you get back.

  • Format & length

    A one-day workshop, a multi-day capstone, or sessions spread across months. In person, online, or hybrid, built to your calendar.

  • Who's in the room

    Functional experts moving into enterprise roles, high-potentials, and intact leadership teams, run in cross-functional teams.

  • Who runs it

    Capsim facilitators, co-delivery, or we'll train your trainers for a hands-off approach.

  • What comes out of it

    Behavior-based coaching for each leader, plus evidence of who's ready, scored against the competency model you already use.

Customization

Start small. Prove it. Scale.

Customize only what changes the judgment you're building. You don't have to commit to a full custom build to get a simulation that fits: Capsim works in building blocks, each tested with a real cohort before the next.

  1. Your measures

    A custom assessment

    An assessment built around your own competency model, so you score the behaviors your organization already values, not a generic framework that feels bolted on.

  2. Your decisions

    A custom module

    A new department or decision your leaders actually face, built onto the existing engine.

  3. Your world

    A full custom simulation

    Your industry, shaped to your structure, and deliberately simpler where realism would get in the way.

  • 2–3 weeksfor a custom module, after scoping
  • 3–4 monthsfor a full custom simulation
  • 4–8 hoursof your team's time, start to finish
  • Piloted firstproven in a live cohort before you scale

Proof

Real programs, built around real businesses

Armanino
Case studies → a custom capstone

Armanino retired dated case studies for a custom Capsim capstone built on its Vision 2030 priorities. Cross-functional leaders left their specialty behind and made the enterprise call.

 Diageo
~60% promoted

from the first two cohorts of Diageo's GM program, into senior roles, including 11 into General Manager seats.

 Eli Lilly
A 10-year partner

Eli Lilly has run the program for its manufacturing leaders worldwide, in person and virtually, and is now expanding it across its leader population.
“If you’re looking for a package deal that you can customize, you should definitely contact Capsim. It is not a one size fits all that you do the same thing over and over. I saw that the customization has so much value.”
Ann Marie GordonLead Facilitator, Learning & Development · Armanino

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What you measure

Where leadership becomes evidence

A cohort shouldn't end with a smile sheet. Capsim measures leadership through multiple sources of evidence, all mapped to your own competency model, so you walk away knowing how each person decides and how much they've grown, not just that they attended.

Measure leaders individually, at scale →

  • Decision scoring

    Every call your leaders make becomes a record of how they think under pressure.

  • Observer rubrics

    Senior leaders and facilitators score behavior live, against your competency model.

  • Peer & self assessment

    Structured ratings from the people who work with each leader, mapped to the framework you already use.

  • Pre & post assessment

    A validated inbox simulation, off the shelf or built around your roles, taken before and after the program, so you can show the lift.

Scale

Tuned to every cohort. Comparable across all of them.

Most programs scale by flattening: every cohort gets the same generic version. The Accelerator runs on one proven engine, so you can shape it to each level and region and still measure every leader the same way.

Tiered by level

Run a simpler cut of the simulation for regional cohorts and a more demanding one at HQ. The same engine, dialed to the audience.

One measure, everywhere

Every cohort is scored against the same competency model, so "ready" means the same thing in every region and the data rolls up into one view.

Global by design

Delivered across 40+ countries and 9+ languages, each region running the same program in its own language and context.

Intact teams or cohorts

Run real teams together, or mix functions to break silos. The conditions hold either way.

Where to next

Build judgment here. Measure it next door.

Measures readiness

Leadership Assessment

Develop a cohort here. Measure the bench at scale there. A validated, simulation-based assessment leaders take individually, mapped to your competency model.

Explore the Assessment →
Corporate L&D overviewThe full picture: build judgment, then measure it. The business simulationsThe engine behind the Accelerator, for academic programs.

Questions

What leaders ask before they build

How does an engagement typically work?

Most start with a pilot, a single test cohort to prove the fit. From there you run the program, and it typically stays iterative: we refine and customize cohort to cohort as you see what lands, so it sharpens as it scales rather than locking you into a fixed design up front.

How long does it take to customize?

It depends on the layer. A custom inbox assessment or a new decision module is typically two to three weeks after scoping. A full simulation set in your industry takes three to four months to build, not the year a from-scratch program usually runs. Once it's live, we refresh the content each year so it stays current.

How much of our team's time does it take?

Less than most people expect. We keep subject-matter expert involvement to roughly four to eight hours spread over a couple of months: a scoping call or two, then a review once or twice a month. We come with a prescriptive concept, and you tell us where to realign it.

Can you map it to our own competency model?

Yes. We build the measurement stack around the framework you already use, so the simulation scores the behaviors your organization values rather than a generic model that feels separate from everything else you measure.

Do we have to replace our existing program?

No, and you decide who runs it. Your content and frameworks stay, delivered by your own facilitators or ours. The Accelerator adds the business your leaders run, where that reasoning has to hold up under real pressure.

Can you deliver virtually and globally?

Yes. Programs run in person or virtually, across 40+ countries and 9+ languages, delivered by Capsim facilitators or co-delivered with your own. You can tier a simpler version for regional cohorts and a more demanding one at headquarters.

How do you measure leadership readiness?

From behavior, as a stack of evidence: the decisions your leaders make in the simulation, observer scoring against your competency model, and structured peer and self ratings. It's evidence of how they actually lead.

Who is it for?

Functional experts stepping into enterprise roles, high-potentials you're investing in, and intact leadership teams. The flagship use case is the move from running a function to running a business.

How is a cohort structured?

It's a facilitated, cohort-based experience, usually run as a multi-day immersive (a recent capstone ran two and a half days). Teams run the business together across rounds, then debrief on how they decided. Format flexes to your calendar and audience.

See how enterprise leaders are made.

Book a 30-minute demo. We'll walk through a cohort, the customization path, and exactly what you'd be able to measure.

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