A global consulting firm partnered with SimuRise to equip their laterally hired Senior Managers with an ownership mindset. Through a customized entrepreneurial mindset training experience using business simulation, the firm helped new leaders match the agility, performance, and ownership mindset of their homegrown talent. The results? Faster execution, higher revenue, and stronger collaboration across teams.
The Challenge: Aligning Diverse Leadership Experiences
This global consulting firm operates across four core services—Assurance, Advisory, Tax, and Transaction Advisory Services—and believes deeply in the power of ownership mindset to drive change, innovation, and business success.
The company hires senior leaders both through internal growth and external lateral hiring, especially from Big 4 firms. However, over time, a performance gap emerged.
Homegrown senior managers consistently showed more agility, ownership mindset, and a “go-getter” mindset compared to lateral hires.
To bridge this gap, the company partnered with SimuRise to conduct an entrepreneurial mindset training program that would:
- Instill a proactive, high-ownership attitude
- Strengthen collaboration and synergy across leadership
- Help lateral hires succeed faster and lead more effectively
The SimuRise Intervention: Building Entrepreneurial Thinking Through Simulation
SimuRise deployed its behavioral business simulation experience, built specifically to:
- Encourage multi-dimensional thinking
- Promote risk-taking and ownership mindset
- Break silos and drive collaboration
- Push leaders to take strategic action
- Reinforce the importance of seeking help, leveraging resources, and staying persistent
Through this hands-on ownership mindset training, participants experienced real business challenges in a risk-free environment while practicing behaviors essential for success.
Results That Speak for Themselves
The program was structured into two rounds of gameplay, allowing participants to reflect, realign, and apply insights in the second round.
- Round 1: 60% of participants achieved the goal in the set time
- Round 2: Over 80% achieved their goal in half the time and doubled the revenue
These weren’t theoretical gains. They were behavioral improvements that directly translated to how these leaders showed up at work.
Participants shared key takeaways that reflect the depth of their transformation:
Top 5 Mindset Shifts Reported by Leaders
1. Play a Multi-Dimensional Role
Success today requires understanding every part of the business—sales, people, finance, operations. It’s not just about doing your job. It’s about seeing the bigger picture.
2. Don’t Wait for Life to Happen
Progress happens through action. If something doesn’t work, try again. Roll the dice again. Keep moving.
3. Leverage Every Resource
Leaders realized they had more tools, people, and support systems around them than they were using. The issue wasn’t lack of resources, but underused resourcefulness.
4. Ask for Help
Coaching, mentorship, peer feedback—it all matters. Many breakthroughs come from simply being willing to reach out and ask.
5. Collaboration Is the Catalyst
When teams collaborate, outcomes multiply. Performance accelerates when people align around shared goals, not personal wins.
This shift in thinking was the core goal of the ownership mindset training, and it landed.
Conclusion: Synergy Through Entrepreneurial Thinking
This program proved that when you invest in the right ownership mindset, the results follow.
SimuRise’s entrepreneurial mindset training helped the consulting firm unlock the potential of its lateral hires, turning them into agile, strategic, and collaborative leaders.
By fostering ownership, breaking silos, and focusing on action, the company didn’t just fill performance gaps—it built synergy across its leadership team.
This is how mindset shifts become business results. This is what leadership development should look like.
