Purpose
Governance Rehearsal provides controlled environments in which boards, committees, and senior leadership teams can practise making consequential decisions before they face them for real. The aim is to surface weaknesses in process, judgement, and coordination while the cost of failure is still low.
What it does
We design and facilitate structured rehearsals that replicate the conditions of high-stakes governance decisions. Participants work through realistic scenarios drawn from regulatory action, institutional crisis, strategic pivots, and oversight failures. Each rehearsal is built around the specific mandate, constraints, and decision-making architecture of the institution involved.
Rehearsals are not training exercises. They are diagnostic: intended to reveal how an institution actually behaves under pressure, rather than how it believes it would.
Current environment
Increasing governance load
Institutions face a growing volume of decisions that carry systemic consequences — in regulation, technology adoption, capital allocation, and public accountability. The pace and complexity of these decisions frequently exceed the capacity of existing governance structures.
Untested decision processes
Most governance frameworks are designed on paper and tested only when it matters most. Boards and committees rarely have the opportunity to stress-test their own processes, information flows, or collective judgement in advance of a real crisis or inflection point.
Status
Governance Rehearsal is in early-stage development. We are currently working with a small number of institutions to refine the format and methodology. The practice is not yet available on a general basis.
Contact
For enquiries, write to [email protected]