The Pre-Mortem Risk Assessment & Diagnostic Matrix is a structured, 60-minute implementation protocol designed for school, trust, and executive leadership teams. Grounded in research on prospective hindsight (Gary Klein) and aligned with the EEF School Implementation Guidance Report (Explore and Prepare phases), it converts strategic planning from passive risk identification into rigorous operational design.

Rather than conducting a post-mortem after an initiative fails, leadership teams operate under an assumed, deliberate failure premise: one year from today, the strategy has completely collapsed. Working backwards across four high-friction domains—Logistical & Site Constraints, Workload & Capacity, Engagement & Communication, and Pedagogical/Phase Fit—leaders diagnose root causes, stress-test core active ingredients against “lethal mutations,” and establish concrete de-implementation (pruning) and early-fidelity monitoring plans before launch.