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EcoCrisis simulation

You are the Chief Sustainability Officer. The crisis starts now.

EcoCrisis is a 10-week immersive simulation that places you inside the world's most consequential corporate sustainability failures. Deepwater Horizon. Conflict minerals in the Congo. Palm oil deforestation. Coca-Cola's plastic crisis. You inherit the hot seat. You make the calls.

EcoCrisis. Playable demonstration

You are the Chief Sustainability Officer

Decision 1 of 3

Reputation
68
Regulatory trust
72
Stakeholder confidence
65
Finance
74
Operations
70

Week 1

The satellite saw what your records cannot

An investigative outlet publishes satellite analysis linking three mills in your palm oil supply chain to clearance inside a protected peatland. Your own traceability data stops at the refinery. You cannot confirm the claim, and you cannot refute it. The reporter wants a statement by 17:00.

You have ten hours and no verified facts.

Your call

Select an option to see its impact.

A three-decision demonstration, built on the simulation's own mechanics. The full simulation runs five real cases across ten weeks with a facilitator. The company here is a composite, not a real firm.

Grounded in Situational Crisis Communication Theory and built from fourteen years of field research, every week surfaces a new task: stakeholder mapping, capital allocation, structural reform, and the moment every leader dreads, a whistleblower who knows what the public doesn't.

What participants get

  • 5 real-world cases, from boardroom cover-up to community collapse

  • 10 weeks of live decisions, reputation, regulation, and trust move with every choice

  • Decision DNA debrief, your strategic orientation mapped against SCCT-prescribed leadership

Built for postgraduate cohorts. Facilitator-led. Built on research by Shukla & Swami.

Enquiries

Running this with a cohort?

EcoCrisis is facilitator-led and built for postgraduate programmes. Enquiries about running it reach the authors directly.