INNOVATOR CIRCLES

PROBLEM-SOLVING FOR INNOVATORS AND LEADERS

Bring fresh thinking and powerful tools to your demanding dilemmas and deliberations. Make unexpected and swift progress!

EXPECT… Fresh perspectives. Mindset shifts. Penetrating insights. Powerful tools. Peer connections. Fun. Challenge. Exciting new options.

wisdom at work

Why the Innovator Circles?

The quality of thinking behind strategic and complex decisions is one of the least examined risk factors in any organisation. Today’s socio-political context ups the ante.

Under pressure, perspectives narrow. Cultural familiarity means assumptions go unchallenged. And seniority brings isolation.

Sadly, the leaders who are most in need of honest, rigorous input, and exposure to a variety of external viewpoints, are often the least likely to receive it.

The Innovator Circles are designed specifically for such leaders.

The Circles provide a safe supported space for applying advanced problem-solving methodology with diverse input from respected and similarly experienced peers.

They accelerate the flourishing of leaders and give them fresh solutions to bring back to support their organisation’s response to change.

Crafted to build strategic thinking, resilience and innovation capacity.

On real issues

Fresh perspectives

Powerful Tools

Complexity Understood

Systems Mapped

Fresh Solutions Generated

Mindset Sifts

What is an Innovator Circle?

Each Circle brings together three leaders from different organisations — same level of seniority, different sectors and perspectives.

They spend a day working on a real, live challenge, using structured dialogue and implementing proven, powerful sense-making tools.

There are four Circles (four days) across the 26-27 season per stream.

The same leader can attend all, or they can be shared amongst leaders at a similar level in the organisation.

The cognitive diversity in the group does what internal meetings rarely can: it surfaces blind spots, challenges ingrained assumptions, and generates genuinely fresh thinking in a space that is confidential, rigorous, and energising.

Each participant also receives two follow-up virtual one-to-one sessions with our Founder, one of the most experienced coaches in the UK. These embed learning, explore implementation options, and provide invaluable feedback on strengths and style.

Small Groups

Allows depth of exploration, personal attention, high levels of trust, and the practice of advanced dialogue skills to bring implement with internal colleagues.

live issues

Each delegate brings a real leadership issue they are grappling with. Outputs are pragmatic and directly relevant to the organisation’s success.

4 Circle Days

Four intensive in-person days that can be attended by the same person from you business, or shared around up to four leaders of appropriate seniority.

peer input

A rare opportunity to gain from the rich experience of peers with very different background and experiences – essential for fresh thinking and new mindsets.

Advanced tools

Each participant gains valuable tools for mapping and scoping their issue thoroughly using mental disciplines that pay off enormously for problem-solving.

Expert support 1:1

Each participant has two 1-1.5hr online sessions with our Founder, for expert personalised support in processing the rich ideas generated in the circles.

Circles schedule

Master stream

1 place

£12,000

*for Sep ’26 – Jun ’27
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  • 4 in-person Circle days
  • two 1:1s with founder
  • up to 4 participants
  • cognitive diversity
  • enriched peer bonds

Captain stream

1 place

£12,000

*for Sep ’26 – Jun ’27
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  • 4 in-person Circle days
  • two 1:1s with founder
  • up to 4 participants
  • cognitive diversity
  • enriched peer bonds
Most popular choice

Master + Captain

1 place in each stream

£20,000

*for Sep ’26 – Jun ’27
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  • Up to 8 participants
  • Strategic thinking boost across seniority levels
  • More organisational exposure to cognitive diversity
  • Significant discount!
What People Say About The Circles
  • “The Innovator Circles give the support we all would like from our own organisations but rarely experience. The ability to discuss pressing work-related issues with like-minded individuals from different corporate cultures in an open, safe space is both cathartic and enabling.”
    Head of Innovation
    High Value Manufacturer
  • “It takes a ‘friendly stranger’ to point things out sometimes. The real answer is often hidden in plain sight.
    The thoughts and actions developed in the Innovators Circle have helpfully guided my approach to resolving the situation.”
    Senior Engineer
    High Value Manufacturing

Frequently Asked Questions

If your question isn’t here, please get in touch, we’ll be delighted to help.

The full-day workshops are held in a beautiful location surrounded by peaceful grounds with easy access from the M4 and A34.

Whichever works best for your organisation. If the same person attends they get four opportunities to bring a live issue to the Circle and get to practice the use of powerful sense-making, systems thinking and problem-solving tools. But you can nominate a different person to attend each if you want to share the opportunity among your leaders.

Arrival is from 8.30am for coffee and connecting. Orientation begins at 8.45am, and we finish at 5pm.

Registrations are open and expected to close end May ’26.

If a delegate wishes to have more 1:1s than the two that come included in the package, yes they absolutely can, and they are offered at a preferential rate for Circle delegates.