LeaderCoreAIAI role-play and leadership simulations where managers practice what matters
Read about leadership.
Practice it.
LeaderCoreAI's AI role-play and leadership simulations put your managers in the conversations they will face - with AI colleagues who push back, a coach on call and a score at the end. Before, after and between your programs.
The Delegation Challenge
Two weeks before launch, a key team member is out indefinitely. Redistribute the work, hold the line, and keep the team together under pressure.
Example session - sample scores
Why leadership training fades without practice
70%+ of impact lost within just a few months.1
Most of what managers take away from a course fades before they need it in a real conversation. Understanding how a conversation should go is only the start: the skill comes from the struggle of trying it, getting it wrong and trying again. Here is what changes when you add regular practice to the course.
| Attend a course | Add leadership practice |
|---|---|
| Content delivered once, in a room | Practice repeated weekly, wherever managers are |
| Success measured by attendance | Success measured by skill scores over time |
| Feedback from a satisfaction survey | Feedback after every conversation |
| One pace for everyone | Five difficulty tiers keep replaying scenarios fresh |
- 1LeaderCoreAI forgetting-curve model, built on published skill-decay research (Arthur et al., 1998; Tatel & Ackerman, 2025)
How AI role-play works
Leadership is learned in the conversation.
A manager picks the conversation they dread, has it with AI colleagues who react to every word, and gets an honest read on how it went - as often as they like.
Pick a challenge
Difficult feedback, delegation, a board meeting - or a private scenario built from tomorrow's real conversation, in any of 43 languages.
Run the conversation
AI colleagues push back the way real people do. Each of the five difficulty tiers adds more: unforeseen events, complications, and things a character isn't telling you.
Get coached
Stuck mid-conversation? Ask your coach for a question that helps you find your own way forward. Seconds after the conversation ends, your feedback and performance report shows what worked and what to work on.
See the growth
Managers follow their own scores session by session, and only they see them - so they practice without worrying who is watching. HR sees the cohort's progress in group-level reports, never individual results.
Practice difficult conversations with AI
The conversations managers avoid.
These are the difficult conversations managers tend to put off. Here they practice them one-to-one or in a group, with characters who each have their own agenda, until the real conversation feels manageable.
- Difficult feedback1:1
- Performance reviews1:1
- Delegation1:1
- New manager transition1:1
- Conflict resolutionGroup
- Change managementGroup
- Crisis meeting with peersGroup
- Behavioral-style role-play1:1
- Board meetingsGroup
- Your own scenarioAny
Your own custom scenarios
A hard conversation tomorrow?
Build it with a few clicks. Practice it tonight against a character who pushes back like the real person will.
Build a scenarioSales role-play practice with AI
Sales teams can practice their method here, too.
LeaderCore:Sales brings the same AI role-play to B2B sales teams. Each scenario library is built for practitioners of one sales methodology, with a grading rubric that measures the key behaviors it teaches.
For practitioners of SPIN® Selling
Question-led discoveryThe rubric grades:
- Implication Development
- Need-Payoff Facilitation
- Listening & Adaptive Questioning
- Discovery Discipline
- Securing a Concrete Next Step
For practitioners of Solution Selling®
Diagnose before you prescribeThe rubric grades:
- Pain Diagnosis Before Prescription
- Solution Co-creation
- Capability-to-Pain Alignment
- Stakeholder Awareness
- Avoiding Feature-Led Selling
Scenario libraries for more sales methodologies are in development.
AI role-play for sales teamsSPIN® is a registered trademark of Huthwaite Research Group Limited, trading as Huthwaite International. SPIN SELLING® is a registered trademark of Korn Ferry (US) in the United States. Solution Selling® is a registered trademark of Sales Performance International, LLC. LeaderCoreAI is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of these organizations.
AI role-play results at a European defense and aerospace firm
Will senior leaders make time for self-directed leadership practice?
"They kept going back to test different approaches between workshops. At that level, people simply don't do that with tools they don't find valuable."
Practice between leadership workshops
Leonardo UK's five-month Executive Leadership Development Programme, designed and delivered by CTG Group, added LeaderCoreAI between the workshops. 18 VPs and Senior Directors practiced voluntarily, at their own pace.
Leonardo UK case studyResearch-based leadership assessment
The science behind the grading.
Using LeaderCore:Inspire and LeaderCore:New Manager as examples
Both grade every conversation against established leadership research, not a model's opinion. Three bodies of work supply the vocabulary the simulations and the feedback reports use.
Kouzes & Posner
Asked people to describe the leaders they chose to follow, not the ones they had to obey, and found a small set of recurring practices: setting the example, giving people a direction worth working toward, questioning how things are done, letting others act, and recognizing contribution.
Goleman
Argued that what separates effective leaders is emotional intelligence rather than intellect, and that it can be learned. Described six leadership styles, and found that the most effective leaders move between several of them, sometimes inside a single conversation.
Edmondson
Explained why some teams tell their leader the truth and others don't: psychological safety, the shared belief that speaking up won't be held against you. How the leader reacts to bad news decides which kind of team they get.
Other LeaderCore products are graded against their own research base.
The research behind LeaderCoreAIData privacy, GDPR and the EU AI Act
Managers practice honestly only when they know nobody is watching. That is why we built privacy into LeaderCoreAI from the start, so your works council, IT security and procurement teams can say yes with confidence.
- Privacy by design
- Practice stays private. Only the learner has access to their scores, and employers cannot see individual practice conversations. Employers see progress on a cohort level, never one person's results. Conversations are deleted within a day, voice recordings are never kept, and nothing anyone says is used to train AI.
- GDPR
- Your people's data stays in the EU. We collect only what is required to provision the training and provide feedback and success metrics to the individual. We delete, de-identify or return all data that has served its purpose.
- EU AI Act
- LeaderCoreAI never hides that you're practicing with an AI. Every conversation is graded against a rubric, the same way a coach would grade a rehearsal: it tells you what worked, what didn't, and what to try next. That's the score's only job. It measures the attempt, not the person, and it goes to the learner, not to anyone who decides on pay, promotion or employment. No emotion inference, no automated decisions about anyone. Built in Europe, transparent by design.
AI leadership training pilot
Start with a pilot, not a leap of faith.
Try our AI leadership training software with one cohort for a few weeks, with a clear report at the end.
- Week 1
Scope
Pick one cohort, the skills that matter and the scenarios to match.
- Week 1
Launch
Learners get access. No installation, no IT project.
- Following weeks
Practice
24/7 self-paced practice. You see cohort progress as it happens.
- Last week
Decide
A cohort report on usage and skill development. Then you decide.
Eighteen years leading people in international corporations taught me that leadership is a daily practice, not a two-day event. Six years running leadership programs taught me how rarely the practice happens. The workshop ends, real work takes over, and the skills never get used under pressure.
We built LeaderCoreAI to close that gap: a practice layer that sits between the sessions, so what people learn actually gets exercised.
Frank BasinskiFounder, Blue Horizon Training - makers of LeaderCoreAIMore about usPractice makes training last.
Give your managers somewhere to practice what they learned. Start with one cohort for a few weeks and decide on the results.