Better Conversations.
Stronger Teams.
Smarter Decisions.
Most organizations don’t need more information. They need better conversations. At Elftal, we design and facilitate those conversations—bringing the right mix of structure and provocation. We challenge groupthink, pressure-test plans, and help smart people see differently. Our approach is built on trust, shaped by experience, and designed for teams that want to get real work done. We don’t do generic workshops. We design engagements that matter.
Solution Offerings
We help leadership teams think better together—through facilitated sessions, tabletop exercises, and strategic foresight. Our work blends structure with creativity, pressure with play, and insight with action. We design every session to get teams unstuck and moving forward—with clarity and confidence.
Tabletop Exercises
Part facilitation. Part simulation. Fully revealing. Elftal designs and leads tabletop exercises that help organizations stress-test plans, uncover blind spots, and build readiness. Our sessions are customized to your risks and realities—not just a scenario, but a platform for deeper alignment and sharper decisions. Tabletop exercises don’t predict the future. They help you prepare to meet it.
Strategic Foresight
We help organizations prepare—not just react. Through scenario planning, red teaming, and custom tabletop exercises, we surface risks, test assumptions, and build strategic resilience. Ideal for navigating uncertainty, testing long-term plans, or building institutional agility.
Executive Facilitation
We help leadership teams build clarity, surface tensions, and align around a shared direction. Whether you’re forming a new team, working through a challenge, or looking for a breakthrough, we design and guide the sessions that move you forward. Ideal for offsites, visioning, team transitions, and strategic realignment.
Team Building
We create high-trust, high-engagement experiences that go beyond the usual “team bonding.” These sessions strengthen communication, uncover dynamics, and help people work better together. Ideal for cross-functional teams, leadership development, or group reset moments.
About Hans Davies
Hans Davies is the founder of Elftal, LLC, a foresight and facilitation practice that helps leadership teams think clearly, align quickly, and prepare for what’s next.
With more than 25 years of experience in national security, intelligence, and law enforcement strategy, Hans is known for designing high-trust, high-impact sessions that unlock insight and enable meaningful action. Whether leading a tabletop exercise, a scenario-planning session, or a long-range strategy discussion, he creates space for honest dialogue, fresh thinking, and shared understanding—because in complex environments, conversation isn’t just a step in the process; it’s part of the solution.
Hans works with C-suite executives, operational leaders, and cross-functional teams in sectors ranging from defense and energy to professional sports and Fortune 500 companies. His approach combines deep expertise in foresight, a sharp understanding of organizational dynamics, and a calm, collaborative presence that builds trust quickly.
Let’s build your next big conversation.
