Culture Immersion
Most culture immersion events are designed to entertain. Ours are designed to challenge. We place leaders and teams in unfamiliar, high-pressure situations where real behaviours surface and meaningful learning happens.
Where traditional away days fall short
You know your organisation needs leaders and teams who can think differently, adapt quickly and make good decisions when conditions are unclear. The challenge is that most development activity happens in environments that are too safe, too familiar and too far removed from the realities people face when pressure is on.
Traditional away days rarely expose real behaviour. With little urgency or consequence, learning stays theoretical and habits remain unchanged. What’s missing is an experience that mirrors the complexity and ambiguity leaders actually deal with, and gives them the chance to experience, not just talk about, what needs to change.
Mission Control is an interactive, live command simulation for senior leaders and teams, delivered inside a fully immersive spaceship in central London. Participants step into a live, time-critical mission where leadership behaviours surface quickly and naturally.
Leadership behaviour is revealed fastest when pressure is real. Most leadership development happens in low-risk environments, where people have time to explain themselves and little incentive to change how they operate. That’s not how leadership shows up when stakes are high and plans start to break down.
Mission Control is designed to create uncertainty, urgency and shifting priorities, allowing core leadership capabilities to emerge in real time.
Real leadership rarely comes with perfect data. Yet most development programmes allow people to pause, debate and optimise in ways that don’t reflect reality.
Pressure exposes how teams really work together. Assumptions, communication patterns and informal authority become immediately visible.
The value isn’t the experience alone. It’s what you learn from it. Mission Control is deliberately not positioned as team building.
Still relying on away days that feel good but change very little? Download the Mission Control overview to understand how this experience works, who it’s for, and why it delivers a very different outcome to traditional leadership and team development.
What leadership capabilities surface under incomplete information and high pressure
How immersive, time-critical simulations reveal real leadership behaviour
Why most team-building and leadership programmes fail to change behaviour
How the insight-led debrief turns experience into practical, take-back-to-work learning
When Mission Control works best and how organisations use it to reset how teams operate
We don’t just create memorable experiences; we surface real leadership behaviour. From newly formed leadership teams to organisations navigating complexity and change, our immersive simulations reveal how teams actually operate when pressure is real.
Award Winning
A Fortune 100 division needed a unified culture for strategy and DEIB across five continents. We helped leadership co-design and commit to clear cultural tenets in an immersive workshop.
Award Winning
As Brigade Electronics faced market saturation, it needed a renewed mission, values and leadership behaviours. We helped redefine them and embed clarity across teams.
Award Winning
Varied leadership styles were causing inconsistency at Aquila. We helped design a leadership framework that improved alignment, communication and performance.
Our Team
Culture Consultancy delivers creative, innovative and impactful immersive events
DIRECTOR
Jo
Ex-head of HR for Goldman Sachs, speaker, and author on the topics of high-performance leadership, culture and employee experience.
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Ed
An organisational psychologist with more than 15 years experience working with clients like the BBC, HSBC, and Expedia.
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Gillian
Gillian is a leadership coach and facilitator with 25+ years’ experience helping organisations thrive, leaders grow, and people excel.
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Cris
A world renowned thought leader on innovation and how to align strategy, leadership, and culture to drive sustainable growth.
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Emma Rose
Experienced brand design, cultural transformation and employee experience strategist, with clients across the globe and sectors.
DIRECTOR
Derek
Former AXA Head of Customer Service, thought leader, and author with over 20 years experience leading teams and delivering results.
Let’s talk about your culture and what’s next
You’ll be speaking with Jo Geraghty, our founder and culture expert. She’ll personally guide you through your next steps
Frequently asked questions
Most leadership development never shows how people actually behave when pressure is real. Mission Control creates a time-critical, high-stakes environment where decision-making, authority, communication and collaboration surface quickly and honestly, giving you insight you cannot get from workshops, surveys or away days.
The simulation is designed to surface adaptive leadership, decision-making under pressure, delegation and re-delegation, communication across roles, collaboration, self-awareness and complex problem solving. These capabilities emerge naturally as the scenario unfolds, rather than being self-reported or discussed hypothetically.
Participants operate from a fully immersive spaceship command environment with working controls, real-time system feedback and trained actors maintaining realism throughout. Because the environment feels credible, leaders engage seriously, decisions feel consequential and behaviour mirrors how people operate under pressure.
Culture Consultancy observes leadership behaviour throughout the mission and facilitates a structured debrief focused on what happened, where clarity and confusion emerged, how authority shifted, and how communication affected outcomes. The emphasis is on practical insight, not theory.
The value sits in clarity. Leaders leave with a shared, evidence-based understanding of how they lead under pressure and what needs to change. That insight becomes a reference point for improving decision-making, collaboration and leadership effectiveness back in the real organisation.
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