Soft Skills Training

Orbital Chokepoint

Crisis game for practising adaptive leadership, negotiation, strategy and responses to unexpected events.

Orbital Chokepoint box artwork with the game title inside a spacecraft cabin
Orbital Chokepoint · Adriano Pantaleo.

What it is for

Crisis game for practising adaptive leadership, negotiation, strategy and responses to unexpected events.

My contribution

Scientific author, co-designer and facilitator. Session involving 20 professionals — ENI senior managers and Defence senior officers — supported by a five-person team.

20participants
5profiles
4crises
168cards
29text units

How it works

Five leadership profiles, four crisis injects, 160 Strategy cards and eight Unforeseen Event cards structure pitches, elections, decision boards and scoring.

Results and materials

Exploratory analysis of 20 professionals’ perceptions: 29 anonymous text units collected through one question and analysed by one coder using multi-label thematic coding. The contribution was accepted for the 21st SIREF Summer School 2026.