GREATNESS GAMES KL · SEASON 1

SO YOU'RE AN AI LEADER?

PROVE IT.

30 days. 25 slots. One arena.


Build a real AI innovation project. Pitch it to your own management. Earn KL's most credible AI leadership title.

Prove yourself as a Leadapreneur in the

Greatness Games

KICKOFF

KICKOFF

22 JUNE

22 JUNE

SEATS

SEATS

LIMITED TO 25

LIMITED TO 25

DEADLINE

DEADLINE

18 JUNE

18 JUNE

35Days
18Hours
38Minutes
28Seconds

APPLY NOW

HRDC claimable · Most companies pay zero out of pocket

TRUSTED BY ASIA'S MOST
DEMANDING LEADERS

THE PROGRAM BEHIND THE LEADERS.

60,000+

professionals trained

25+

enterprise clients

20+

years of expertise

"With the world changing so fast, the imperative is to future-proof the business. But before you do that, you must future-proof your people. This program does exactly that."

— Nisha Padbidri, APAC Head, Human Resources, Citi

"The program that actually changes how leaders think about AI — not just use it."

Toshiba Participant,

Toshiba Greatness Games Season 1

THE 5 STEP JOURNEY

HOW THE GAMES WORK

HOW THE
GAME WORKS

STEP 1

PORTAL

STEP 2

PROBLEM

STEP 3

IDEA

STEP 4

PROJECT

STEP 5

PITCH

YOUR QUEST

YOUR 30-DAY JOURNEY TO
LEAD IN THE AGE OF AI

YOUR 30-DAY
JOURNEY TO LEAD
IN THE AGE OF AI

Greatness Games KL is a working quest, not a training. Across 30 days you will master AI tools, build a real innovation project, and pitch it to your own management for approval.

One person. One project. One victory.

THIS IS WHAT
WINNING LOOKS LIKE

LEAD YOUR OWN
AI-INNOVATION
PROJECT.

Real projects, built by real Leadapreneurs. 

Anonymised to protect our clients. Every valuation is independently verified inside COSMOS by the participant's direct manager.

Real projects, built by real Leadapreneurs. 

Anonymised to protect our clients. Every valuation is independently verified inside COSMOS by the participant's direct manager.

SALES

SALES

AI Marketplace for Wealth Trade Ideas

AI Marketplace for Wealth trade Ideas

Industry: Banking and Wealth Management

Problem

Trade ideas were scattered across emails, spreadsheets and
SharePoint - RMs burned hours sourcing and comparing, and client cash sat idle.

Solution

A centralised AI-powered marketplace that aggregates trade ideas across products, ranks them intelligently, and gives Relationship Managers side-by-side comparisons in one view.

Experiment Results

Experiment Results

SGD 4,336,200

SGD 4,336,200

innovation value

36,500 hours

36,500 hours

saved yearly

~50%

~50%

Expected reduction in RM ideation time

SALES

SALES

Direct-to-Consumer Commerce Hub

Direct-to-Consumer Commerce Hub

Industry: Consumer Electronics & Distribution

Problem

Heavy dependence on Shopee, Lazada and TikTok meant high marketplace fees, no pricing control, and zero direct customer data.

Heavy dependence on Shopee, Lazada and TikTok meant high marketplace fees, no pricing control, and zero direct customer data.

Solution

A branded D2C commerce hub with end-to-end checkout, payment, fulfilment and customer-data capture - bypassing marketplace economics and reclaiming margin.

Experiment Results

Experiment Results

RM 505,000

RM 505,000

Estimated annual valuation

End-to-end

End-to-end

Payment, checkout, delivery flow
defined

Initial

Initial

Transaction and adoption targets set

OPERATIONS

OPERATIONS

Three-Week Process, Compressed to Two Days

Three-Week Process, Compressed to Two Days

Industry: Banking

Problem

A high-volume back-office process took 3 weeks end-to-end - bottlenecking downstream teams and burning skilled time on coordination.

Solution

An automation layer that orchestrates the workflow across legacy systems, eliminating handoffs and removing manual reconciliation steps.

Experiment Results

Experiment Results

RM 372,000

RM 372,000

Annual cost savings

93%

93%

Reduction in process time
(3 weeks → 2 days)

Replicable

Replicable

Pattern designed to apply to adjacent
processes

"I shifted from relying on others to believing in myself and making things happen."

— Toshiba Greatness Games Season 1 Participant

SEE MORE PROJECTS

HOW THE GAME WORKS

YOUR 30-DAY
JOURNEY TO LEAD
IN THE AGE OF AI

1.

PORTAL

ONLINE

22 JUNE

BUILD THE

LEADAPRENEUR MINDSET

INNOVATE OR DIE - KEYNOTE + ONLINE COURSE

Your journey begins here. The Innovate or Die 3-hour online course shifts your operating system from business-as-usual to elite AI-enabled innovation. This is not orientation. This is the dare that starts everything.

  • 3-hour self-paced online course— lessons, quizzes, workbook

  • Access the COSMOS Platform— your AI innovation command centre

  • Set your leadership standard before the physical trials begin

  • Self-paced online · 3 hours · Week 1

  • Innovate or Die keynote — Jan Bartscht live

2.

PROBLEM

PHYSICAL

1 JULY

CROSS THE OCEAN

OF PROBLEMS

DISCOVER THE RIGHT PROBLEM WORTH SOLVING

Most people solve the wrong problem. This full-day workshop is an immersive AI-powered problem discovery sprint. You use real AI tools to scan your organisation's landscape, filter signal from noise, and surface the one problem that matters enough to fight for.

  • AI-powered problem mapping — scan, cluster, prioritise

  • Learn to use AI for deep research and analysis

  • The Furious 5 problem sprint framework

  • Leave with one validated problem— your mission

  • AI-powered problem mapping— scan, cluster, prioritise

  • Learn to use AI for deep research and analysis

  • The Furious 5 problem sprint framework

  • Leave with one validated problem— your mission

  • 8-hour physical workshop · KL (Common Ground, Bukit Bintang)

3.

IDEA

PHYSICAL

2 JULY

EXPLORE THE ISLAND

OF OPPORTUNITY

DISCOVER AN EXCITING AI-POWERED IDEA

You have crossed the Ocean. Now you land. This is the creative high point — an intensive AI ideation workshop where you use cutting-edge tools to generate, stress-test, and refine ideas until one emerges that is genuinely worth building.

  • AI-powered ideation— prompt engineering for innovation

  • Use AI to simulate outcomes and pressure-test concepts

  • Opportunity mapping with the AI-Explorer framework

  • Leave with one bold, validated idea

  • 8-hour physical workshop · KL (Common Ground, Bukit Bintang)

4.

PROJECT

PHYSICAL

3 JULY

ENTER THE FORGE

OF CREATION

TRANSFORM YOUR IDEAS - 7 PILLAR FRAMEWORK

The hardest day. Your idea enters the forge and is hammered into a real project using our proprietary 7 Pillars Framework. You use AI to build the business case, model the impact, and construct a proposal that can survive executive scrutiny.

  • The 7 Pillars Framework— LEADAPRENEUR's proprietary methodology

  • AI for financial modelling, impact analysis, and risk mapping

  • Build a complete innovation project dossier

  • AI-powered pitch preparation and rehearsal sprint

  • 8-hour physical workshop · KL (Common Ground, Bukit Bintang)

5.

PITCH

PHYSICAL

31 JULY

THE EXPLORERS

LODGE

PITCH YOUR MANAGEMENT. WIN YOUR TITLE.

The final arena. You present your AI innovation project to your senior leadership — live, unscripted, under pressure. Approval is the proof. The public leaderboard records everything. KL's Top Leadapreneur is crowned here.

  • Public leaderboard— final rankings revealed

  • The crowning: KL's Top Leadapreneur — Season 1

  • Public leaderboard — final rankings revealed

  • The crowning: KL's Top Leadapreneur - Season 1

  • Individually pitch to your manager to earn approval

  • Exclusive Celebratory Dinner

WHAT YOU GET

EVERYTHING YOU NEED
TO CROSS THE PORTAL

LEAD YOUR OWN
AI-INNOVATION
PROJECT.

THE ARSENAL

• 1-hour kickoff webinar with Jan Bartscht

• 3-hour self-paced Innovate or Die online course

• 3-day physical workshop · Common Ground Bukit Bintang

• Full catering, all 3 days

• COSMOS platform access

• Innovation Coins + Hero Marketplace

• Official Leadapreneur certificate

• Shareable LinkedIn badge

• Permanent access to KL's Leadapreneur community

THE INVESTEMENT

SEASON 1 PRICING

RM 2,000

HRDC CLAIMABLE

Under HRD Corp Claimable Courses (SBL-KHAS) scheme. Most companies pay zero out of pocket. We provide every document your HR team needs.

APPLY NOW

WHO RUNS
GREATNESS GAMES KL

Jan Henrik Bartscht (MSc, BA)

Founder and CEO, Leadapreneur. Futurist.

21st Century Leadership and Innovation Expert.

Founder and CEO, Leadapreneur. Futurist.

21st Century Leadership and Innovation Expert.

Jan is a futurist and leadership innovation expert who helps organisations confront today’s disruptive reality and respond with decisive transformation. He works with senior leaders to build innovation ecosystems and transform talent into Leadapreneurs, AI-enabled innovators capable of driving measurable change. Based in Kuala Lumpur and working across industries, Jan sees the daily reality of "Innovate or Die." He identifies two types of incumbent firms: those being disrupted, and those who don’t yet realise they are. His work focuses on awakening leadership to this urgency and equipping them to transform their people, business models, and culture before disruption takes hold.

Jan is a futurist and leadership innovation expert who helps organisations confront today’s disruptive reality and respond with decisive transformation. He works with senior leaders to build innovation ecosystems and transform talent into Leadapreneurs, AI-enabled innovators capable of driving measurable change. Based in Kuala Lumpur and working across industries, Jan sees the daily reality of "Innovate or Die." He identifies two types of incumbent firms: those being disrupted, and those who don’t yet realise they are. His work focuses on awakening leadership to this urgency and equipping them to transform their people, business models, and culture before disruption takes hold.

CORE EXPERTISE

  • Disruptive innovation and industry transformation

  • Innovation ecosystem design

  • Leadership awakening and mindset shift

  • Culture transformation

  • Innovation strategy in the age of AI

  • Disruptive innovation and industry transformation

  • Innovation ecosystem design

  • Leadership awakening and mindset shift

  • Culture transformation

  • Innovation strategy in the age of AI

THROUGH LEADERHSIP AND IMPACT

  • Founder of the Leadapreneur Future-Proofing System

  • Creator of the Innovate or Die keynote and Daring To Be Great

  • A decade of research into cutting-edge leadership and innovation

  • 66 citations across peer-reviewed academic publications for leadership research

  • Founder of the Leadapreneur Future-Proofing System

  • Creator of the Innovate or Die keynote and Daring To Be Great

  • A decade of research into cutting-edge leadership and innovation

  • 66 citations across peer-reviewed academic publications for leadership research

WHO THIS IS FOR

NOT FOR EVERYONE.
FOR THE BRAVE FEW.

NOT FOR EVERYONE.
FOR THE BRAVE FEW.

Scarcity is structural. 25 slots. Application required. Selection is itself the first signal of status in Kuala Lumpur.

Scarcity is structural. 25 slots.

Application required.

Selection is itself the first signal of status in Kuala Lumpur.

THIS IS NOT FOR YOU IF

  • You want a certificate everyone can earn

  • You prefer learning over proving

  • You need a team to do the heavy lifting

  • You're looking for a safe, comfortable programme

  • You talk about innovation but avoid the test

  • You're not ready to be judged by your own management

THIS IS FOR YOU IF

  • You want to proveyou can lead AI-driven innovation

  • You're willing to do real work under real pressure

  • You want KL's most credible innovation title

  • You're ready to be ranked, publicly, in a city-wide tournament

  • You want to master AI tools that actually change outcomes

  • You dare to be great

  • You want to prove you can lead AI-driven innovation

  • You're willing to do real work under real pressure

  • You want KL's most credible innovation title

  • You're ready to be ranked, publicly, in a city-wide tournament

  • You want to master AI tools that actually change outcomes

  • You dare to be great

"With the world changing so fast, the imperative is to future-proof the business. But before you do that, you must future-proof your people. This program does exactly that."

— Nisha Padbidri, APAC Head, Human Resources, Citi

"The program that actually changes how leaders think about AI — not just use it."

Toshiba Participant,

Toshiba Greatness Games Season 1

“I shifted from relying on others to believing in myself and making things happen.”

Toshiba Participant,

Toshiba Greatness Games Season 1

THE ONLY RULE THAT MATTERS

1 PROCESS. 1 PROJECT. 1 VICTORY.

1 PROCESS.
1 PROJECT.
1 VICTORY.

GRADUATION CRITERIA

GRADUATION
CRITERIA

Secure your manager's approval for your AI innovation project valued at 40,000 MYR within 30 days.

NO TEAM. NO SHORTCUTS. NO ONE CARRIES YOU.

NO TEAM. NO SHORTCUTS.

NO ONE CARRIES YOU.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT GETTING BETTER
THIS IS ABOUT BECOMING ELITE

THIS IS NOT ABOUT GETTING BETTER
THIS IS ABOUT BECOMING ELITE

WHAT YOU GET

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO
CROSS THE PORTAL

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO
CROSS THE PORTAL

The Greatness Games is a complete 30-day quest — fully equipped, fully facilitated, and designed to give you every tool you need to win.

What's below is not a list of perks. It is the arsenal.

The Greatness Games is a complete 30-day quest — fully equipped, fully facilitated, and designed to give you every tool you need to win.

What's below is not a list of perks.

It is the arsenal.

INCLUSION

CURIOSITY

1-Hour Kickoff Webinar

Dare to Be Great — live keynote with Jan Bartscht that sets the leadership standard for the Age of AI

3-Hour Self-Paced Online Course

The Innovate or Die course — shift your mindset from business-as-usual to elite AI-enabled innovation.

Lessons, quizzes, and a workbook, completed at your own pace before the physical workshops begin

3-Day Physical Workshop in KL

Three full days at Common Ground Bukit Bintang, 9am–5pm, facilitated by Jan Bartscht.

Full Catering, All 3 Days

Breakfast, lunch, and tea provided daily — so your only job is to compete

COSMOS Platform Access

LEADAPRENEUR's proprietary leadership platform where your journey, submissions, and progress are

tracked in real time

LEADAPRENEUR's proprietary leadership platform where your journey, submissions, and progress are tracked in real time

Innovation Coins + Hero Marketplace

Earn coins as you complete challenges. Spend them on Grab vouchers, LEADAPRENEUR merchandise, and more

Official Certificate

LEADAPRENEUR certificate of completion, recognised across 25+ enterprise clients in Asia

LinkedIn Badge

A shareable digital badge that signals to your network that you lead in the Age of AI

Community of AI Innovators

Community of AI Innovators

Permanent access to KL's growing network of Leadapreneurs

Permanent access to KL's growing network of Leadapreneurs

SO. ARE YOU IN?

SO. ARE YOU IN?

Applications close [DEADLINE TBC] or when all 25 slots are filled, whichever comes first. Selection is the first signal of status in KL.

Scarcity is structural. 25 slots.

Application required.

Selection is itself the first signal of status in Kuala Lumpur.

DEADLINE

DEADLINE

18 JUNE

18 JUNE

SEATS

SEATS

LIMITED TO 25

LIMITED TO 25

KICKOFF

KICKOFF

22 JUNE

22 JUNE

35Days
18Hours
38Minutes
28Seconds

APPLY NOW

NO SPECTATORS — ONLY CONTENDERS