The Absent Stranger
The Leadership Course of the Year
A Cautionary Tale
A Cautionary Tale
The Absent Stranger delivers an immersive, narrative-driven learning experience built around six downloadable teleplays that form a continuous, evolving storyline. The theme: widespread corruption at the Kelkor Corporation. Each teleplay is paired with a focused lecture that breaks down the behaviors, ethical dilemmas, and decision-making patterns revealed in the episode.
Students first engage with the drama, then step into an analytical lens as the lectures guide them through what went right and what went wrong. The result is an innovative approach that blends storytelling and scholarship, allowing learners to both experience and understand leadership in action.
Miles Stranger: Idealistic, Young, Naive
Readers inhabit the world through Miles Stranger, a young executive who still believes business can be principled, humane, good. When he accepts a position at Kelkor Corporation, he imagines a place where talent and integrity are rewarded. Instead, he finds himself drawn into a quiet machinery of ethical compromises and decisions that corrode slowly, then all at once. What begins as a promising career path becomes a test of who Miles is willing to become… and what he is willing to lose to remain himself.
Julian Foster: Corrupt CEO
Helmed by the ruthless CEO Julian Foster, the Kelkor Corporation has one thing in mind: profits above everything else. What choices will Miles make during his journey? Will he do the right thing, or capitulate for the almighty dollar? The Absent Stranger is a compelling story about the age-old battle between good & evil.
High Stakes & Ambition
With each subsequent episode, the tension deepens and the stakes rise. Ethical and leadership lapses grow more severe, unraveling both the company’s integrity and the lives entangled within it. Miles Stranger stands at the center of the chaos, a man torn between ambition, loyalty, and conscience. As the corporation spins further out of control, one question looms over every decision he makes: will Miles do what’s right, or will he fall with the rest?
The Absent Stranger
Main Cast
Miles Stranger
Young Executive
Julian Foster
Kelkor CEO
Sutton Whittaker
Kelkor President