Librinth | Professional training instruments for decisions that procedures can't reach
We are a small, specialist company building for operators and experts whose work regularly takes them past the edge of what procedures can cover.
Most professional training is built on the assumption that knowledge transfers into behaviour under pressure. The evidence for this is uneven. Skills and frameworks transmit reasonably well but operating values are harder to develop or examine. The values that guide decisions (especially when options conflict and the right answer costs something to honour) are rarely addressed directly.There is a well-documented gap between the values an organisation articulates and the values its decisions reveal under pressure. This gap is the normal condition of any professional whose decision reflexes have never been examined under the conditions that activate them. Organisations that have not examined this gap only know what their decision culture is claimed to be.Librinth builds professional training instruments designed to make that gap directly observable. The question we are working on is how to surface what organisations do not yet know about how they decide, before the consequences of not knowing become visible in results.
Scaenae Interactive
Scaenae Interactive is Librinth's training software platform. It delivers rehearsable scenarios to individual practitioners within a subscribing organisation, through a standard web browser, without facilitation or scheduled sessions. Each scenario run produces a diagnostic debrief that surfaces the gap between the values a practitioner claims and the values their decisions under pressure reveal.The current scenario library comprises two formats:1. Hour of Impact rehearses acute crisis decision-making (the first hour after something breaks, where every option carries a cost and there is no way back).2. Days of Impact rehearses the ambient decisions of ordinary operating conditions (the accumulated small choices made when no single moment feels consequential enough to trigger deliberate value reflection).The current scenario library is built for retail. Additional sectors are in development.
The intellectual foundation
Librinth's approach draws on a tradition of professional scenario practice that has been applied to organisational strategy for several decades. We have adapted that tradition into a training instrument designed for individual deployment at scale rather than for group facilitation. The design principles (plausible conditions, genuine constraints, and irreversible choices) are drawn from the same body of thinking that has been used to stress-test strategic assumptions in governments, militaries, and large organisations since the 1970s.The research on how organisations actually decide under pressure has been developing in parallel. The gap between stated values and enacted decision behaviour was formalised in organisational theory by Chris Argyris and Donald Schön in the 1970s, and has been studied extensively since. Librinth's instruments are designed to produce, at practitioner level, the kind of direct observation of decision behaviour that this research identified as necessary but that no training format had yet made practical at scale.
Current work
Librinth is currently in its first active commercial phase. The Scaenae scenario library for European retail is in deployment. The company is small by design; the work requires depth, and scale follows from that, not the other way around.We are not a broad L&D platform. We do not pursue volume of clients or breadth of offering as primary goals. Our intent is to build a small library of rigorously designed instruments, deployed with precision, that produce a kind of diagnostic that has not previously been available to the organisations that need it most.
Founded by
Felipe Kirsten
Founder and General Manager, Librinth.
Research contributor, Institute for Futures Research, Stellenbosch Business School.
Get in touch
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