Actee
Actee is a digital leadership simulation - participants play through a scripted change scenario, make decisions at branch points, and live with the consequences before debriefing what it taught them about leading change.
A single row of boxes carries you from the scenario's stakeholders through each decision to the debrief where the learning actually lands.
Reach for this when…
- You want managers to feel resistance to change before it's real, not after.
- Classroom teaching on change leadership isn't landing.
- You need a low-stakes way to surface how someone actually behaves under pressure.
How to run it
- Introduce the scenario: middle managers implementing a new CRM system in a resistant organisation.
- Meet the stakeholders and see where your case starts on the game board that tracks your progress toward the destination.
- Work through the chapters: initial actions, managing resistance, anchoring the change.
- Make a leadership choice at each decision point.
- Experience the consequence of each choice.
- Debrief: what did this teach you about leading change?
A worked example
Situation. Grace Nakato led L&D at Nile Metalworks, a metals manufacturer in Kampala, Uganda, about to roll out a new CRM system that middle managers were quietly working around.
Applied. She ran her management cohort through the Actee simulation's CRM-resistance scenario before the real rollout, making them own the decisions and the consequences in role.
Result. Two managers named, in the debrief, exactly the workaround they'd planned for the real system. She fixed it before go-live instead of discovering it three months in.
The catch
The learning lives in the debrief, not the software - a rushed or skipped debrief wastes the licence fee. It's a single fixed scenario built around a CRM rollout, so a group that's run it once gets little from a repeat. And some participants dismiss it as 'just a game' before they've engaged.
If nobody asks what the choices meant back in their own team, you bought a video game, not a development tool.
Origin: Actee (Danish company)