You’re no longer running a startup. You’re running a stock.
Investors, board members, journalists, employees, they’re all watching.
Every word you say, every quarter you report, every slip-up, it moves markets.
This simulation throws you into the chaos of public company leadership.
Can you lead with clarity under pressure?
Or will the market eat you alive?
It’s leadership training for the real world.
During the simulation, you may encounter these topics and challenges as situations develop:
- Managing quarterly earnings pressure
- Media fallout from executive misstep
- Handling a stock price drop after a competitor’s rise
- Activist investor demands board seats
- Deciding on layoffs after a bad quarter
- Crisis comms during a product recall
- Shareholder revolt over executive bonuses
- Internal morale dip after market crash
- Navigating SEC inquiries
- Launching a share buyback
- Choosing transparency vs. spin
- Analyst downgrade reactions
- Delaying a product vs. shipping a buggy one
- Dealing with a hostile takeover attempt
- Balancing social activism and shareholder value
- Fireside chat or earnings call – narrative control
- Approving controversial merger
- CFO resignation the week before earnings
- Company leak hits Reddit – response time
- New board member wants to cut R&D
- ESG compliance or market returns?
- Aggressive competitor poaching top talent
- Firing a popular executive for misconduct
- Underwhelming IPO of a spinoff
- Overpromising in guidance – now what?
- CEO pay controversy
- Delisting threat from exchange
- External audit flags accounting issues
- Whisper campaign from ex-employee
Trading blackout vs. personal cash need
