Executive Workplace Violence Crisis Tabletop
Active assailant / workplace violence scenario for executive leadership teams.
Practice the leadership decisions your team would have to make in the first hour of a workplace violence crisis.
Most active assailant training focuses on individual survival. TTXLab focuses on the executive layer: decision rights, employee communications, accountability, legal coordination, business continuity, public response, and recovery.
Run a structured tabletop with your leadership team and receive an executive after-action report identifying gaps, decisions, and follow-up actions.
No real employee data required. Self-serve intake and reporting included.
TTXLab does not provide tactical law-enforcement, firearms, or physical security training. This exercise is designed for executive crisis coordination, communications, business continuity, employee accountability, and after-action planning. Organizations should align all procedures with local law enforcement guidance, legal counsel, and their existing emergency action plans.
Built for executive crisis coordination
The leaders who need to coordinate under pressure.
This exercise is built for the leaders who would need to make coordinated decisions under pressure, not for employees practicing physical response tactics.
What the exercise tests
Executive decisions in a fast-moving crisis.
The scenario stays at the policy, coordination, accountability, continuity, and communications layer.
Initial ambiguity
- Reports of shots, weapon, or threat near the office
- Conflicting information from employees, security, police, and social media
- Unconfirmed facts and fast-moving rumors
Authority and decision rights
- Who declares crisis mode?
- Who contacts law enforcement?
- Who activates emergency notification?
- Who owns employee accountability?
Employee communications
- Shelter / evacuate messaging at an executive policy level
- Avoiding false certainty
- Multi-site communication
- Family inquiries
Executive coordination
- CEO / COO / CHRO / GC / communications / security / facilities roles
- Internal crisis bridge
- Board notification
- Vendor, tenant, and customer impact
Legal and HR concerns
- Threat history
- Employee privacy
- Workers' compensation / leave / trauma support
- Post-incident duty of care
Public and media response
- Press statement
- Social media rumors
- Customer reassurance
- Regulator / community communications
Business continuity
- Site closure
- Remote work
- Payroll / operations continuity
- Security posture after incident
Recovery
- Reunification / accountability
- Counseling resources
- Return-to-work decision
- Lessons learned and corrective actions
How it works
A structured executive exercise without a heavy planning cycle.
Reserve the exercise
Choose the executive tabletop and complete checkout.
Complete a short intake
Share basic context about locations, roles, and existing plans. No real employee data is required.
Run the tabletop
Run a realistic 60-90 minute executive scenario in TTXLab with timed injects and decision prompts.
Receive the report
Get an executive after-action report with decision gaps, role clarity issues, communications findings, and a 30/60/90-day action plan.
Sample scenario injects
Non-tactical prompts for leadership alignment.
Each inject is designed to test coordination, authority, messaging, legal alignment, and recovery decisions.
Inject 1
Multiple employees report hearing loud bangs near the main lobby. Security camera access is intermittent. There is no law enforcement confirmation yet.
Decision prompt: Who activates the crisis team, and what message goes to employees?
Inject 2
A local news outlet posts that there is an active shooter at your headquarters. Employees' family members begin calling reception and HR.
Decision prompt: Who approves external messaging, and what do you say before facts are confirmed?
Inject 3
Police request building access details and floor plans. Facilities has partial information, but the executive team is unsure who is authorized to share it.
Decision prompt: Who owns the law enforcement interface?
Inject 4
An employee posts a live video from inside the building. It includes visible faces and location details.
Decision prompt: How do HR, legal, and communications respond?
Inject 5
The immediate threat is resolved, but employee accountability is incomplete and rumors are spreading.
Decision prompt: What are the first three recovery priorities?
What you receive
A board-ready after-action path.
The session produces a practical record of decisions, gaps, and follow-up actions for leadership review.
Structured scenario injects
Executive decision log
Communications decision review
Role and responsibility gap analysis
Business continuity considerations
Executive after-action report
30/60/90-day action plan
Sample after-action report
A workplace-violence AAR preview, not the generic IR sample.
The executive tabletop report focuses on decision rights, accountability, communications, continuity, and recovery planning for leadership review.
Sample report header
Executive Workplace Violence Crisis Tabletop
ScenarioActive assailant ambiguity near headquarters
AudienceExecutive leadership, HR, legal, security, comms
OutputDecision gaps, evidence log, 30/60/90 action plan
Sample findings
Crisis activation
Leadership agreed the COO would activate the crisis bridge, but no backup owner was named if the COO was unreachable.
Employee accountability
HR and facilities used different headcount sources, creating a gap between badge data, visitor logs, and manager check-ins.
External communications
The team waited for confirmed facts before responding publicly, but lacked a pre-approved holding statement for family and media inquiries.
Sample action plan
30 days: Assign primary and backup crisis activation owners.
60 days: Reconcile employee, visitor, and tenant accountability procedures.
90 days: Approve holding statements and run a communications-only retest.
What this is not
Clear boundaries keep the exercise at the executive layer.
TTXLab keeps the scenario at the executive decision layer so leadership teams can practice coordination without drifting into tactical instruction.
Tactical law-enforcement training
Firearms, self-defense, or room-clearing instruction
Police entry procedure training
Physical security assessment
Legal advice
A replacement for local emergency action planning
Employee survival training
Reserve the exercise
Reserve an Executive Workplace Violence Tabletop
Self-serve intake, a 60-90 minute tabletop scenario, and an executive after-action report with a 30/60/90-day action plan.
$499
60-90 minutes4-10 participantsSelf-serve intakeExecutive after-action reportNo real employee data required
TTXLab does not provide tactical law-enforcement, firearms, or physical security training. This exercise is designed for executive crisis coordination, communications, business continuity, employee accountability, and after-action planning. Organizations should align all procedures with local law enforcement guidance, legal counsel, and their existing emergency action plans.