See how managers actually lead — before you promote them.
Promotion readiness, difficult feedback, conflict, and stakeholder pressure — measured in realistic simulations.
Four situations. A career's worth of signal.
Difficult feedback
Does the manager hold the line without shutting the person down?
Team conflict
Do they mediate the underlying interests or take a side and move on?
Strategic ambiguity
Can they lead when the answer is unknown — without fake certainty?
Stakeholder pressure
Do they represent the team upward without collapsing on commitments?
The conversations most training programmes avoid.
Practice the meetings that decide retention, morale, and reputation — with adaptive counterparts, not scripts.
Tough feedback
Hold the line on performance without shutting the person down.
Layoff conversations
Deliver hard news with clarity, dignity, and legal precision.
Board challenges
Defend strategy under adversarial questioning from directors.
Conflict mediation
Surface interests between two reports without picking a side.
Underperformance
Diagnose, document, and move forward — coach or exit.
Stakeholder alignment
Get cross-functional partners rowing without political theatre.
Bring your own leadership framework.
Korn Ferry, DDI, SHL, or your own — Leadify maps scenarios and rubrics to the model you already use. An alternative to Korn Ferry that doesn't ask you to abandon it, and to DDI that lives alongside it.