Your board.
Under pressure.
For real.
This is not another CPD talk following a set of PowerPoint slides. Because standard presentations cannot adequately prepare you for an emergency, there is no framework handout or anyone telling you what good looks like from the front of the room. The Boardroom Crisis Simulator instead puts you inside an active meeting where incomplete facts directly complicate your assigned roles. Facing this reality forces you to do the one thing most director development never practises: make decisions when it matters.
Over three hours, your board are tasked with working through a live regulatory crisis, addressing two escalation injects, which will then then lead naturally into a structured debrief that holds a mirror up to how the group actually behaved. The lessons you leave with are yours, drawn from your own decisions in the room.
Who should attend?
- Non-executive directors across trust, fund, banking and private client firms
- Independent directors on regulated entity boards
- Chairs of boards and audit, risk and governance committees
- Company secretaries and governance professionals
- Compliance officers at board or near-board level
- Senior executives who attend or report to the board
- Anyone who wants to know how they behave when the pressure is real
Group and in-house bookings
Running this as a private exercise for your own board is an option. Get in touch to discuss a bespoke delivery tailored to your sector, scenario and governance context.
How the morning unfolds
Three hours. One board. Every phase builds on the last.
Framing and role assignment
Once ground rules are established, the chair assigns each participant a confidential role card such as CFO or SID. Because every assignment carries a specific behavioural orientation, you do not choose your own seat.
25 minThe crisis lands
Overnight, a formal regulatory notification arrives alleging a material governance failure. The board convene without preparation, forcing you to manage the immediate fallout using entirely incomplete information.
45 minEscalation inject
As regulatory pressure increases, a formal response becomes necessary. The situation then complicates further when a secondary problem such as a whistleblower surfaces, fundamentally altering the tension in the room.
45 minFinal decisions
The board must agree on actions and a formal governance response to determine the immediate path forward. Resolving inevitable disagreements requires difficult judgement calls that place your final position on the record under intense pressure.
20 minFacilitated debrief
Structured reflection examines the specific behaviours observed during the simulation so you can extract practical lessons. This review is built entirely around what happened in your room – rather than relying on a standard framework.
30 minMeet the facilitator
Heather-Anne Hubbell
Lead Facilitator & Session Chair – BPP International Finance
Heather-Anne is one of Jersey's foremost corporate governance trainers, bringing more than two decades of experience across financial services, regulatory risk and board-level advisory work. She has delivered bespoke governance and directors' training for international financial services organisations across the Crown Dependencies and beyond.
Her background spans law, banking, risk management and digital transformation, giving her a rare ability to hold a room of experienced directors to account ‒ while keeping the discussion firmly grounded in the practical realities of the boardroom.
Heather-Anne chairs the session, assigns roles, manages the simulation injects and leads the facilitated debrief. She has worked with BPP International Finance as a lead facilitator across its professional development programme in the Channel Islands.
Pricing and registration
Only 20 tickets available for this exclusive event.
- 20% discount for CGI members
Please enter the discount code that has been communicated to you during the checkout process to apply your savings.
Radisson Blu Waterfront Hotel, Jersey
The Le Hocq Suite sits on the fifth floor of the Radisson Blu Waterfront Hotel, overlooking St Helier marina. Complimentary parking is available on site.