Round One Simulations

The Team

Round One was born out of the aspiration to foster and build strategic decision-making skills.

We are a gaming and simulation agency. We use games to systematically nurture and build strategic decision-making skills. Through our workshops, participants understand the difficulties and challenges that imperil decisions, especially in the real-world. Our simulations include wargaming and tactical decision making, resource management, conflict and cooperation, and industrial problems among others.

What do we do?

We curate and facilitate strategic gaming workshops that let you better understand how participants approach decision making. Our simulations and games usually mirror real-world scenarios and, therefore, are a good approximation of participants generally approach problem solving. We position participants to deconstruct their thinking process, nurturing them to more effectively and strategically approach decision making.

Strategic thinking is both an art and skill, and requires conscious work. We will give you the fundamentals of strategic decision-making through our simulations, and participants can then use the tools we have provided to effectively hone these abilities themselves.

How do we do it?

We despise rote learning. Learning-by-doing is our thing.

Participants are placed at the heart of difficult and extremely interactive scenarios using an array of curated tabletop or role-playing games. They will have to effectively assess a variety of short-term and long-term scenarios, all the while managing their resources, circumstances, and consequences, to arrive at decisions.

By bridging theory and practice this way, we aim to eliminate the effects of cognitive biases and throw into sharp relief the impact that faulty models of thinking have on decision-making.