The LeaderBoard
where leadership gets real
Leadership development works best when it feels like something — not something you sit through, but something you do. Something that challenges you, makes you think, and sometimes makes you uncomfortable in exactly the right way.
The LeaderBoard is a facilitated leadership board game built by LCA International. It turns your leadership training into a living, breathing experience that participants actually remember.
The Game
Teams navigate a 45-space board across three escalating zones — Foundation, Application, and Crucible — each one raising the stakes and the complexity of leadership decisions required.
Along the way, every roll of the dice lands your team in a real challenge:
- Real Play — Scenario-based role play with time pressure, a structured debrief, and a four-criterion scoring rubric so no one is judged on a gut call.
- Boss Challenges — All-play, high-stakes scenarios where every team responds and the room decides together who led best.
- Rivalry — Head-to-head. Two teams. Two different leadership approaches. One question: Which leader would you trust in your organization?
- On the Spot — 30 seconds. First honest answer only. Questions calibrated to get harder as you move deeper into the board.
Built for Your Audience
Facilitators select the audience level before the game begins — Emerging Leaders, Mid-Level Managers, or Senior Leaders — and the game adapts. Scenarios, question depth, and debrief intensity shift to meet your cohort where they are.
Scoring That Actually Means Something
Points are earned through a structured rubric across four dimensions: Self-Awareness, Leadership Judgment, Practicality, and Stakeholder Awareness. No arbitrary calls. No subjective winners. Just clear, consistent criteria that spark real conversation about what good leadership looks like.
Recognition Beyond Points
Every team enters with one Peer Recognition Token. When someone in the debrief shows genuine courage, names what no one else will, or demonstrates exactly the kind of leader we all want to follow — a peer awards them the token. Five bonus points, yes. But more than that: a moment that people remember walking out.
What Happens After
The game doesn’t end with the winner. Every participant receives a personal reflection card — their score, their peer recognition story, and most importantly: one leadership intention they commit to carrying back into their work. The bridge between the game table and the real world.
Competitive or Collaborative
Run The LeaderBoard as a full competition with individual rankings, or toggle on Collaborative Mode — where the entire group works toward a shared point target. Both modes deliver the same rich facilitation experience; the frame shifts depending on your organizational culture.
Bring The LeaderBoard to your team.
partners
Learn Connect Act International
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Atlanta GA 30316
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