17 November 2026 16:00 - 16:45
Interactive workshop: Break your own plan, a live stress test of your 2027 numbers
Bring the plan you just got signed off.
In small groups, you'll get hit with a sequence of curveballs in real time, a new round of tariffs announced in February, a CEO who quits in March and wants the entire sales model changed, a key customer that walks, an AI vendor contract that blows up, and you'll have minutes, not weeks, to decide what actually changes. No slides, no theory, just the plan in your hand and the reality nobody accounted for when it was approved.
This is the whole premise of the day made physical: not whether your 2027 plan is well-built on paper, but whether you can actually move when it stops being true.
Format: 45 minutes. Groups of 4ā6, working from a real or template finance plan. A facilitator reveals a new curveball at set intervals, each group has a short, timed window to react before the next one lands. A few groups present their calls at the end for reaction from the room.
Key takeaways:
- Where your own plan is actually brittle versus genuinely built to flex, tested against scenarios you didn't pick yourself.
- How fast a room of peers can actually reprioritize capital and headcount when the ground shifts mid-plan.
- What it feels like to defend a changed call to peers on the spot, the same pressure you'll face with your own board.