About APEX

APEX – the Boardroom Board Game™ – is the Institute’s game to help executives learn how to achieve excellence. Key learnings include:

How to be strategic
How to make decisions in the face of uncertainty
How to managing your organization to deliver outstanding results for its stakeholders
How to work as an effective team
Lessons on leadership, risk, communication, and resource management

Feedback on APEX

Dianne Tyers

Dean, Dalhousie University, Faculty of Open Learning & Career Development (Halifax, Canada)

APEX provided an engaging, stimulating and fascinating way to explore the complex and dynamic interaction of factors that influence our business decision-making and then affect the outcomes of those decisions. As players, we became conscious of our decision-making processes as well as the factors we could and couldn’t control. Playing APEX also shone a light on how our team interacted and the strengths and weaknesses of that interaction with respect to our business outcomes. I highly recommend the APEX game experience

Gillian Morrison

Serious Games Ph.D. candidate, Swinburne University (Melbourne, Australia)

A highly useful tool for training… I particularly liked that being a board game, rather than a digital game, players sit next to each other physically allowing them to build the fun, friendship and positive camaraderie that comes through experiencing wins and losses together in a non-risk environment.

Barbara Chappell

Registrar & Director candidate, Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians & Technologists (Toronto, Canada)

What an effective way to explore risk, strategy, leadership and conflicting priorities and demands in a fun and innovative manner. I didn’t want to stop playing!.

Demid Tishin

CEO, All Correct Group (Samara, Russia)

There are so many facets to APEX – you learn to work in a team, stay focused, mitigate risks, exercise integrity, and most of all, keep your business balanced to achieve great results. And it was so much fun

Mia Goetvinck

Director Business Excellence & CSR, Ricoh Europe (Belgium)

We had fun playing APEX, I think any leadership team will get benefit from it …and I think any player will be surprised at how fun and engaging it is.

Mark Coyne

Best Practice & Innovation Director, Veolia UK & Ireland (Dublin, Ireland)

APEX creates an environment for businesses, but more importantly, individuals to learn …a really good mixture between the long-term strategy of the business and managing the day-to-day…making decisions in an environment where you’re mixing the views of different people, learning listening and verbalization skills, in an amazingly fun environment.

Gavin Denn

VP Operations & General Counsel, Intellectual Ventures – Invention Investment Ireland

We had fun playing APEX, I think any leadership team will get benefit from it …and I think any player will be surprised at how fun and engaging it is.

Dr Eoghan O’Grady

Technological University Dublin, College of Business (Dublin, Ireland)

Provides an excellent learning experience…There is no doubt that thinking and decision-making skills are enhanced…I strongly commend and recommend APEX