If Your Playbook Feels Dated, You're Not Alone
You’re facing pressure to move faster, integrate AI, and navigate a workforce you don’t recognise. But the ‘internal echo chamber’ provides the same thinking, and traditional learning offers yesterday’s solutions. To win, your leaders must get outside the business.
Connect is designed for senior leaders who must:
– Move faster than their competitors.
– Translate AI hype into actual strategy.
– Break out of the internal echo chamber.
– Lead org-wide change, not just manage teams.
– Justify every investment with tangible ROI.
Sound Familiar?
“I have done the MBA, I have done the business school courses but Connect is in a league of its own. A truly powerful programme which has made me think differently about my leadership and my business.”
Frederico Santos, Customer Director, Carglass Portugal
Your 9-Month Learning Journey
ACT 1: Immersion
We Bring the Future to You
Forget passive lectures. Our three retreats are high-impact immersions into the forces redefining your business.
- Global Perspectives on Innovation
We bring leaders from China, Europe, and Silicon Valley to you, from TikTok, Alibaba, Apple, and ITV. Featuring pioneers in AI and low altitude transportation, to humanoid robotics – we explore the strategic challenges and opportunities for leaders today. - Transforming Cultures and Future Workforce
As technology and innovation reshapes organisations we explore how leaders can re-engineer for speed, scale and sophistication, sharing insights from Netflix, ABBA Voyage, and Meta.
- The Responsible Organisation
From AI governance to competitive sustainability we lift the lid on some of the most successful and disruptive strategies being delivered in organisations including IKEA, BlackRock, Eden Project, and Unilever. - Personal Leadership
Connect provides the launchpad for leaders seeking to make a real impact, accelerating leadership performance.
ACT 2: Access
Go 'Behind the Brand' Where Others Can't
This is not a PR tour. You get unfiltered access to the secret sauce of the world’s most pioneering companies. You’ll walk the floor, sit in the boardroom, and experience the leadership and culture firsthand at:
- Apple
- Meta
- Pret A Manger
- Eden Project
- AllSaints
- Hearst Networks EMEA
- Timpson
- Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
ACT 3: Application
Turning Insight in to Action
Transformation doesn’t happen in a vacuum. The real work happens in between the events.
A Curated Cohort
Meet your new network of 70 C-suite peers and senior leaders. This ‘personal boardroom’ is your space to solve real-world problems with peers outside your echo chamber.
High-Impact Coaching
Optional, one-on-one Executive Coaching sessions to help you turn insight into action and make the transformation stick.
“Connect is a Gatling gun of inspiration! The best leadership programme I’ve been on.
It had a real impact on the way I lead and I still use the stories and insights”
Tom Lane, Chief Operating Officer, RBS Business Banking
It's Not Just What You Learn. It's Who You Learn With.
The real breakthroughs happen in conversation. This isn’t a passive audience; it’s an active, curated cohort of 70 senior leaders. Watch this short video to get a feel for the energy, candid discussions, and in-between moments that make Connect a reset, not just a programme.
Wavelength Connect 2026
“Having done Wavelength Connect, I’ve been rewired.”
Adrian Pilkington, COO, Hearst Networks EMEA
We are building our 2026 cohort right now!
Get in touch to find out more.
Working with FTSE and Third Sector Organisations Since 2010
Proud to have inspired more than 1,100 leaders
Since its launch in 2010, more than 1,100 leaders from over 150 leading FTSE 100 companies, mutuals, social enterprises, charities and public sector agencies have taken part in Wavelength Connect.
“This is what learning should feel like – raw, practical, expansive and deeply human”
Lara Izlan, Director of Data Strategy, ITV
What You’ll Experience
Wavelength Connect is designed as a rhythm, not a one-off event. You’ll spend more than 8 days with the cohort in deep conversations, learning from experts and leaders. Your nine-month programme is structured around key touch-points:
February
Peer Working Groups – your journey begins with small group, online sessions. A collaborative space to meet your cohort and begin exploring your own leadership challenges and select your (optional) Executive Coach.
March
Global Perspectives on Innovation & Agility – your first 3-day rural retreat hearing from an array of global leaders who’ve walked in your shoes, sharing real-world experience, successes, and failures – insights that shift your thinking.
April/May
Behind the Brand – visits inside pioneering organisations. Each immersion provides a different lens on strategic leadership challenges from transforming cultures to leading innovation, and executing at speed and scale.
June
Transforming Cultures and Future Workforce – your second 3-day rural retreat deepens the work, shifting focus to leading enterprise-level change and transformation.
July/August
Applying the Learning – time to reflect, adapt and apply your learnings to real world scenarios supported by access to curated resources and your optional Executive Coaching sessions.
September
The Responsible Organisation – your final 2-day experience brings fresh thinking around competitive sustainability, purposeful leadership and how you can align your leadership vision to your own personal leadership values.
October/November
Peer Working Groups and final Executive Coaching sessions (if selected) – final online sessions consolidate your experience as you share commitments and actions for your ongoing leadership journey.
Who You'll Learn From
You’ll meet bold, brilliant leaders sharing real, unfiltered stories including:
Sir Tim Smit KBE
Co-founder, Eden Project and environmental activist
Baroness Sue Campbell DBE
Chair of Women’s Netball, & former Director of Women’s Football, The FA & former Chair, UK Sport
Oke Eleazu
Founder & CEO, Elevate Colour & former CEO, ManyPets
Professor Linda Yueh
World-Renowned Economist
Zoe Scaman
Founder, Bodacious and specialist in AI and emerging tech
Sanjeevan Bala
Group Chief Data & AI Officer, ITV
Julie Bentley
CEO, Samaritans
Michael Bolingbroke
Executive Producer & CEO, ABBA Voyage, former CEO, FC Inter Milan, & former COO, Manchester United
The Connect Experience is Powerful and Measurable
We’ve been tracking the impact of Connect on senior leaders since its launch in 2010, and the results speak for themselves.
“Connect is everything a modern leadership programme should be – inspiring, stretching, and a critical analysis on the key issues facing leaders today.”
Matt Hyde OBE, Chief Executive, The Scouts
Connect 2026 is limited to 70 change-makers.
This isn’t a one-click purchase; it’s the beginning of a conversation to see if Wavelength Connect is the right fit for you and your organisation.
As Director of Connect, I’m here to answer your questions, understand your leadership goals, and share more about the unfiltered access and experiences that make this programme so unique.
Let’s find a time to talk.
Contact Jessica directly:
e: [email protected]
t: +44 (0) 7966 501 886
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