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Mt. Harvard Everest Leadership Simulation
Experience High-Stakes Leadership Through Immersive Team Simulation
MT. EVEREST LEADERSHIP SIMULATION
The Harvard Everest Leadership Simulation is an immersive, research-based team experience developed by Harvard Business School. It places participants in a high-pressure decision environment where performance depends on communication quality, information sharing, and coordinated judgment.
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Each participant operates within a defined role, holding unique data and objectives. The simulation mirrors real organizational environments where leaders must balance risk, performance targets, resource constraints, and stakeholder priorities.
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Forward Training & Consulting facilitates the Everest Simulation across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and the GCC as part of structured leadership and team development initiatives.
HOW THE EVEREST SIMULATION WORKS
Forward Training & Consulting delivers the simulation as a structured, role-based leadership experience:
Role Differentiation: Participants assume distinct functional roles with limited visibility, reflecting cross-functional corporate dynamics.
Resource Management: Teams manage oxygen, time, health, and weather conditions, replicating real-world trade-offs involving risk, budget, and operational pressure.
Collaborative Decision-Making: Teams make progressive decisions under ambiguity, where communication clarity directly influences outcomes.
Time Pressure: Decisions are made in real time, revealing how leaders respond to uncertainty and stress.
Debrief and Learning: A facilitated debrief translates behavior into leadership insight identifying patterns in communication, influence, risk tolerance, and alignment.
LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES STRENGTHENED
The Everest Simulation develops critical executive and team capabilities:
Decision-Making Under Pressure
Improves judgment quality in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.
Communication Effectiveness
Reveals the cost of withheld data and the impact of clarity on results.
Collaborative Problem-Solving
Strengthens alignment between individual objectives and collective outcomes.
Risk Management
Builds structured thinking around consequence, timing, and escalation.
Leadership Presence
Surfaces reactive patterns and influence dynamics within teams.
Team Dynamics
Enhances shared responsibility and execution discipline.
Learning Agility
Encourages reflection, recalibration, and adaptive improvement.
APPLICATIONS
Forward Training & Consulting integrates the Everest Simulation into:
Executive and Leadership Development
Challenging senior and emerging leaders in high-pressure decision environments to surface behavioral patterns, strengthen judgment, and improve execution discipline.
Team Alignment and Performance Programs
Improving coordination, communication flow, accountability, and collective decision-making within cross-functional teams operating under complexity.
Transformation and Change Initiatives
Supporting organizations navigating growth, restructuring, and strategic shifts where disciplined leadership and alignment are critical to sustained results.
WHY PARTNER WITH FORWARD TRAINING & CONSULTING
Certified Practitioners
Delivered by certified Everest Simulation facilitators experienced in extracting behavioral insight from complex team dynamics.
Harvard-Developed Simulation
Developed by Harvard Business School, designed to strengthen decision-making, alignment, and leadership under pressure.
Performance-Focused Outcomes
Sessions are aligned to business priorities, strengthening judgment, accountability, and execution discipline.
BUILDING CAPABILITY. SUSTAINING PERFORMANCE.
The Harvard Everest Leadership Simulation provides a disciplined, high-impact learning experience that accelerates leadership insight and strengthens team execution.
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Forward Training & Consulting delivers the Everest Simulation across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and the GCC to support leadership development, executive education, and team performance initiatives in complex environments.