Inspire 2026
The biggest risk to leadership today isn’t disruption. It’s insularity.
Inspire brings the world’s most accomplished leaders into your organisation – live, digitally, interactively, and at scale.
Why Inspire And Why Now
Leaders today are under relentless pressure: economic volatility, technological disruption, shifting workplace cultures, ESG demands.
The problem isn’t just disruption – it’s trying to solve it from inside the echo chamber.
For many leaders, stepping outside the workplace to access new perspectives simply isn’t viable.
Inspire is Wavelength’s digital solution.
Over six months, it brings the outside world in – giving leaders direct, live, access to extraordinary CEOs, innovators, and political leaders shaping the future of business.
This is more than passive learning.
Participants engage, question, and debate with leaders who have navigated complexity at scale – sharpening their own thinking, sparking cultural energy, and fuelling bold action.
“Inspire is a truly distinctive leadership experience. Each session blends candid reflections from world-class CEOs with strategic insight – making it both deeply personal and organisationally valuable.”
Jayne Hart, Unum UK
What's in store for 2026?
Transforming Leaders From the Outside In
Leaders learn best from leaders, not from textbooks. Inspire is your monthly dose of inspiration, provocation and education.
The Experience
From March to September, Inspire delivers six live 90-minute sessions, broadcast globally at 3pm UK time – deliberately scheduled so leaders across Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas can join together in real time.
Each session features a world-renowned leader speaking candidly on today’s most urgent issues from AI & Future of Technology, to Sustainability, High Performance cultures and leading change.
The final 40 minutes are always reserved for participants’ questions – a rare chance to engage directly with global change-makers.
And Inspire is more than a single moment:
- Before: curated content to set context.
- During: live, interactive sessions moderated for provocation, not presentation.
- After: recordings, highlights, and tools to embed insights into your organisation.
“The speakers have been of the highest calibre and quality. The discussions are powerful, rich, and thought-provoking.”
Ed Evans, CPO, Pret a Manger
The Inspire Portal
Every participant gets access to the Inspire Portal – a password-protected hub that makes Inspire a continuous six-month journey.
Inside, leaders will find full recordings and highlights, curated articles, practical infographics, podcasts, and preview content to prime them ahead of each session.
The result? Inspire becomes a catalyst for collective learning across your organisation, not just a one-off event.
A Truly Global Community
What sets Inspire apart is its reach. Each session is broadcast live, with leaders dialling in from boardrooms and offices worldwide.
This creates an international learning community where diverse perspectives collide, shared challenges come into focus, and global solutions emerge.
The Big Themes of 2026
Inspire 2026 explores the defining opportunities and pressures shaping leadership today:
Speed of Light Leadership in the Age of AI
High-Performance Cultures
Sustainability
Service Excellence
Leading Change
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Who Inspire Is For
Inspire is designed for organisations that want to bring the outside world in at scale.
Subscribers already include more than 500 leaders across Europe, North America, and the Middle East – spanning finance, retail, tech, healthcare, and more.
It’s especially powerful for:
- Senior leadership cohorts seeking sharper thinking and renewed energy
- High-potential talent pools needing global exposure
- D&I groups looking for inspiration and connection
“For our participants, Inspire is like a cultural book club – a space to learn together, reflect, and apply lessons to our context.”
Francis Lake, OD Lead, Virgin Money
Leaders we’ve inspired
When asked whether the leaders they had heard from on Inspire had helped them become a more informed, better leader – 91% said yes it had!
Source: Wavelength Inspire survey of 1k leaders, June 2023.
INSPIRE is a truly distinctive leadership experience. Its engaging and provocative format consistently challenges conventional thinking, and the calibre of contributors, best in class CEOs and senior leaders- is exceptional.
Each session is enriched by the presenters’ willingness to share candid reflections and hard-earned insights from their own leadership journeys, making it both deeply personal and strategically valuable. For organisations committed to bold, future-focused leadership, INSPIRE is a powerful catalyst for growth and transformation.
Wavelength Inspire has sparked fresh thinking and meaningful conversations- bringing the outside in and challenging us to lead with curiosity, courage and a drive to explore possibilities.
Having worked for the same business for almost 17 years, I felt my knowledge of leadership practices outside our company was limited. I have found it invaluable hearing from other leaders, across a broad range of industries. It’s good to know where we’re getting things right, and I’ve also been able to take new ideas & learnings back to our wider SLT to see how we can apply them to our own business.
We couldn’t have asked for a better concept. The speakers have been of the highest calibre and quality, the discussions are powerful, rich and thought-provoking and one of the added bonuses has been the variety of other
organisations going through the experience and the chance to share in our own breakouts.
For our participants, Inspire has become like a ‘cultural book club’ – every month our participants dial into the sessions from inspiring speakers, and then come together to discuss, reflect and think about application.
Inspire makes you lift your head, look out, and consider what the future holds. Learning from international leaders challenges usual thinking patterns and stimulates you to consider what is the art of the possible for your own organisation.
About Wavelength
Since 2008, Wavelength has taken leaders inside the boardrooms of the world’s most admired organisations – from Apple and Amazon to LEGO, IKEA, Pret a Manger and WWF.
Our mission is simple: to bring the outside world in.
Through Inspire, we combine that unrivalled global access with digital delivery – creating a six-month experience that fuels sharper thinking, stronger cultures, and more confident leadership.
The pace of change won’t slow down. What sets future-ready leaders apart is their ability to step outside the echo chamber, hear from the best, and apply those lessons with confidence.
That’s exactly what Inspire delivers: six months of world-class provocation, inspiration, and practical insight – broadcast directly to your leaders, wherever they are.
This is your opportunity to equip leaders with the clarity, courage, and conviction to meet the future head-on.
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