Connect

Wavelength Connect is a fully immersive, experiential leadership programme like no other, focused on The Future of Business. We bring together leaders from sectors that would not normally interact and provide access to the world’s most admired, successful and innovative companies.

Wavelength Connect
is our immersive, experiential, executive education programme, focused on The Future of Business

Since 2008, we’ve developed an enviable track record of experiential programmes and global content. We bring all of that global knowledge and access to our Wavelength Connect programme.

Based on our core belief that leaders learn best from leaders, over nine months Wavelength Connect equips each cohort of 60 peers from different sectors and industries, with the insights, connections and energy to tackle the challenges and opportunities facing the world today.

Business models have been upended, the purpose of the office re-invented, the environmental crisis, geo-political instability, black lives matter, and the continued rise of China are all challenging the status quo. We are now a digitally native world, connected virtually, but increasingly disconnected on many other levels.

Never has it been tougher to be a leader and the need for a new type of leadership has never been more clear.
Nor has the need for a different kind of leadership programme.

Wavelength Connect is that programme.

How Does Connect Work?

We bring together leaders from worlds that would not normally interact and provide access to the world’s most admired, successful, innovative companies and leaders.

Together we explore the opportunities and challenges in the business landscape today and how to turn those insights and lessons into tangible actions and new networks to ensure your leaders and business thrive now and into the future.

Wavelength Connect is underpinned by three pillars:

Inspiration

From Alibaba and Apple to Unilever and Xioami: unparalleled global access to an ecosystem of some of the world’s most progressive organisations.

Connection

60 peers from different industries and sectors learning together and from one another.

Application

Peer Working Groups, dedicated workshops and optional Executive Coaching sessions are at the heart of the experiential applied learning model. They draw out key insights, and shorten the timeline from inspiration to application.

Wavelength Connect 2024

Wavelength Connect is a unique executive education and leadership development programme focused on the theme of The Future of Business.

Across our nine-month, fully in-person immersive experience, we provide participants with the inspiration, education, provocation and knowledge to find solutions to core leadership and organisational challenges and to own and action them.

We are actively building our Wavelength Connect 2024 cohort right now. So do get in touch to find out more.

Leaders we've inspired on Wavelength Connect

What's the Focus of Connect?

The principal theme of Connect is The Future of Business. We will explore this topic in depth from four core angles:

Global Perspectives on Innovation & Agility

The pandemic has reinforced the need for every business and every leader to be more agile, innovative, and externally aware. Participants will be provided with access to the world’s most innovative companies from Silicon Valley, China, Africa and Europe to gain invaluable insights on innovation.

  • What are the new business models, technologies and consumer trends that every executive should be aware of?
  • How do you create and sustain an agile organisation?
  • What does it take to reinvent and reimagine incumbent businesses at speed?

Culture and Future Workforce​

The way we work has changed irrevocably raising questions about how to lead a hybrid or virtual organisation.

We will explore how traditional ED&I and Resilience has been challenged by Black Lives Matter, gender diversity, and mental health issues.

  • How do you build a strong, diverse, and inclusive organisational culture?
  • How do you lead?
  • What is the purpose of the office now?
  • Where should you be looking to recruit the best talent?

The Responsible Organisation

Climate change is the biggest challenge facing humanity right now. We will explore how the world’s leading organisations are putting sustainability and social and environmental responsibility at the heart of their businesses.

  • What is the role of business in tackling climate change and rising inequality?
  • What does the advent of consumer activism mean?
  • What other societal challenges should business leaders consider?

Personal Leadership

We believe transformation starts with the individual so at the heart of and running throughout the programme we will hear personal leadership stories from some of the world’s most accomplished and inspirational leaders.

  • How do you remain resilient and resourceful during times of unprecedented change?
  • How do you lead a virtual or hybrid organisation?
  • How do you develop a powerful, relevant personal boardroom network of mentors, provocateurs, and allies?
  • What does it take to lead with and for purpose?

Who is Wavelength Connect for?

Wavelength Connect is designed for your best – your change agents, chief enthusiasts, connectors, and doers.

Entire executive teams, groups of leaders drawn from top  talent pools and select individuals from the C-Suite have all previously participated.

Whilst individuals successfully participate, the programme works particularly well when organisations send a small and carefully selected cohort of this profile on Wavelength Connect.

 

What is the Time Commitment?

Over the course of nine months each individual participant will attend:

10 days of in-person events and immersive visits.

Optional Bolt On: 6 hours of Executive Coaching (four 90 minute sessions).

The Programme Details

In-Person Events

Dynamic and engaging in-person events for the whole cohort, setting the group up for success. These feature highly accomplished leaders from diverse worlds speaking on all our core themes of:

  • Global Perspectives on Innovation & Agility
  • Culture & Future Workforce
  • The Responsible Organisation
  • Personal Leadership

Recent speakers include senior leaders from Airbnb, Alibaba, Netflix, Unilever, The Football Association, IKEA, Timpson’s, Logitech, Amazon, Guardian Media Group, Sky, Team8, JD.com, and Xiaomi.

Immersive Behind the Brand Visits

Wavelength opens the doors to the boardrooms and shop floors of a dynamic mix of iconic brands and hidden gems for participants to experience first-hand how they create and sustain brilliant customer service, recruit and retain great talent, innovate and excel in an online omni-channel world.

Our hosts have included: Apple, LEGO, Alder Hey Innovation Centre, Elvie, ABBA Voyage, Liverpool Football Club, IKEA, Four Seasons, Pret A Manger, Guardian Media Group, Abcam, and Eden Project.

Three-Day Rural Retreat

Held at Silchester Farm, a stunning location deep in the Hampshire countryside, complete with spacious internal rooms, expansive gardens and lake, and reflective countryside walks.

This three day rural retreat is designed to drive deep connectivity amongst the cohort and will be punctuated with regular injections of inspiration from highly accomplished business leaders on topics such as:

  • Personal Purpose
  • Resilience and Resourcefulness
  • Leading for an Inclusive Culture
  • Mental Health in the Workplace

Previous speakers include senior leaders from Unilever, Netflix, W.L. Gore & Associates, Virgin America, Women of the World Festival, Samaritans, and Aravind Eye Care System.

Peer Working Groups

Small Peer Working Groups and dedicated workshops bring together participants from different organisations and sectors for sessions designed to accelerate connectivity, draw out key insights, and land key learnings.

The Peer Working Group structure is at the heart of the experiential applied learning model and helps to shorten the timeline from inspiration to application.

Optional Bolt On: Coaching to Action Sessions

Delivered in partnership with the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC), Coaching to Action is an optional bolt on to the core Wavelength Connect programme. Dedicated individual sessions with an executive coach are designed to help each participant translate the insights and learnings into concrete actions for their organisation.

Coaching to Action is ideal for those who value one to one discussions to deeply explore and reframe opportunities and barriers to action.

Each participant has four 90 minute sessions across the duration of the programme.

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