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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
CEO David Pemsel on successfully
transforming The Guardian Media Group
in the face of sector-wide disruption
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What is Wavelength Connect?Organisations that have hosted Connect participants include:
Connect provides access to the world’s most admired, successful, innovative companies – providing participants with the inspiration and knowledge to find solutions to core leadership and organisational challenges and to own and action them.
Connect has at its heart four key elements:
Leaders learn best from leaders Participants access inspiring, successful practitioners who have been there and done it.
Peer-based learning Leaders from different businesses, industries and sectors learn alongside and from each other.
Learn from the world’s best Leading organisations from China, India, USA and across Europe share their stories.
A rich, relevant curriculum The curriculum addresses core business themes including:
Purpose
Innovation & Disruption
Service Excellence
Diversity & Inclusion
Sustainability
Resilience
Combining unparalleled access to world’s best companies, a new external peer group and sessions to land the learnings Connect provides a radically different model for learning and a tangible return on investment.
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Dr Wanli Min, Chief Data Scientist, Vice
President of Alibaba Cloud on the power of
big data, machine learning and AI
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Connecting with fellow leaders from
corporates, charities and government authorities was an enriching experience. Wavelength has awoken my consciousness on how I can make a difference in the world” Ming Lee, GFS Head of Programme, Jaguar Land Rover
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Connect at a glance 10 days of learning
A half-day bespoke
workshop with your Connect participants, designed to
set them up for success.
Experiential visits to the boardrooms
and shop floors of a
dynamic mix of iconic brands and hidden
gems.
In-depth conversations
with highly accomplished leaders who share their
struggles and lessons in leadership.
A two-day residential
event focusing on Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation
and the Resilience
leaders need to drive change.
A half-day bespoke
workshop back with your team focusing
on how to leverage and embed their
new knowledge.
A three-day residential showcase
featuring powerful presentations and conversations with
speakers from around the world.
We will explore themes as diverse
as Purpose, Disruption,
Sustainability, and Leading
Change.
Introductory Workshop
Behind the Brand
Leadership Masterclasses
Reconnect
Review Workshop
On Your Marks
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To ensure that Connect has a positive and measurable impact we have surveyed nearly 900 Connect participants. Here are some of the key findings:
“ I have a bank of stories and insights I draw on”
YES95%
“ I have consciously built a stronger network to support me / my team”
YES76%
“ My organisation has directly benefited”
YES76%
“ I act with more courage”
YES79%
“ I have tools/ approaches I still use”
YES89%
YES83%
“ I am clearer on my purpose as a leader”
Connect’s impact and influence
“ I actively look at what goes on outside my sector”
YES89%
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Connect is perfect for the top talent of
your business. Leaders who are tipped to
be the next board directors.
They will be people with the desire to explore and adapt their leadership styles in times of profound change. They will already have a forum to put into practice what they learn – their “own train set” as a Connect Alumnus put it.
Each year, the Connect cohort is diverse and consists of 90 leaders drawn from large corporates, private businesses, charities, social enterprises and the public sector.
That’s deliberate. We can learn so much from leaders in other sectors and industries. An engineer, a banker, a journalist and a social entrepreneur will react differently to new stimulus and content. Through that difference, everyone’s learning will be enriched.
Who is Connect for?
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Preston Lewis SVP Sales & Retail Business Development
Warner Bros. Consumer Products
Steve Hughes CEO
Who’s done it before?
Over the last decade, more than 900 leaders from 110 leading FTSE 100 companies, Mutual, social enterprises, charities and public-sector agencies have taken part.
Mark Hand Head of Business Development and Marketing
Stephen Kerr Social Security Director
Gary Keogh Marketing Director, EMEA
Nick Stace CEO
Karen Ellis Director of Sustainable Economy
Andrew Hotchkiss
President ACE Bio Medicines
Mark Hunter President & CEO
Meghavaty Garibaldi Director, Consumer Strategy
Jill Brady Executive Vice President
Customer
Luca Peyrano CEO Elite
Kevin Heath
Category Trading Director
Vice President
Andrea Wareham
People Director
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Six reasons to do Connect
Some of the world’s best companies and speakers will share the secrets of their success, challenges and lessons in leadership.
Develop a powerful bank of new stories to inspire and engage others and evidence insights.
With a team of peers, develop understanding, shared purpose and a more collaborative approach.
Learn from organisations and leaders from outside your sector providing powerful new insights and perspectives.
Forge valuable connections with peers from different industries and sectors and expand your personal boardroom.
Learn from the best
Powerful new stories
And gain a renewed sense of purpose and energy.
Break down silos
Bring the outside in
Be more resilient and resourceful
An invaluable new network
Learn how leaders look after themselves and others in times of change.
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Landing the lessons: Our learning structure
Two bespoke in-house workshops
Help participants prepare, leverage and embed the lessons.
The sponsor role
A key individual within your organisation who chooses who goes on the programme and why. They will agree what are the key outputs for your organisation, and support your participants during Connect. They also attend the programme.
Extensive resources
Articles, videos and a private digital platform help participants connect and share the lessons learnt.
Wavelength 9 framework
High performing organisations share certain characteristics. The Wavelength 9 framework distils these into a powerful collection of stories Connect participants can share with colleagues.
Tangible structures and a robust
pedagogy combine to ensure the maximum ROI. We don’t do pointless inspiration” Jessica Stack, Connect Director
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Sari Brodi, Global Equality,
Diversity and Inclusion
Manager, Ingka (IKEA)
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The learning – and teaching – style of Connect has remarkable similarities in approach to the respected educational pedagogy from Italy, Reggio Emilia.
David Gram, Head of Ventures EMEA,
LEGO & Co-founder, Diplomatic Rebels
Landing the lessons: Our learning pedagogy
Key elements include:
Reciprocity of learning
The Wavelength team and participants collaborate to ask questions, seek value, and find transferable lessons.
Multiplicity
Themes are explored through different stories bringing a holistic understanding of the many and varied ways an individual or organisation can address challenges.
Amplification of learning
We emphasise the importance engaging the wider community in what has been learnt to drive maximum value and impact.
The environment as the third teacher
We harness the power of the environment to signal different types of conversations and learning, and to stimulate and inspire.
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Connect in Detail
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The Reunion:
Baroness Sue Campbell CBE,
John Steele and Peter Keen
share the story of London 2012
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Connect starts with a workshop at your company designed to set your participants up for success.
The session identifies the personal and professional leadership challenges of the group and what their shared team mandate and focus will be during their participation in Connect.
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Introductory Workshop February
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Our new cohort of leaders comes together for the first time at this three-day residential event in the retreat-style location of Sheepdrove.
At On Your Marks we will:
Expose your participants to global leaders who share their experiences of Disruption, Sustainability, Purpose, and Leading Change
Kick off the honest and collaborative conversations which will run through the six months of the programme
Make new connections and build networks
Secluded in the Berkshire Downs, at Sheepdrove Conference Centre, your participants will have the perfect opportunity to absorb all they are seeing and hearing. It is a learning experience and environment like no other.
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On Your Marks 17 – 19 March
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Lessons in leadership from
Baroness Sue Campbell CBE,
Head of Women’s Football,
FA & former Chair, UK Sport
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In depth visits 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. An unbeatable learning experience.
Each Connect participant has the choice of one of four modules, each comprising three company visits.
Our hosts have included:
A marvellous chance
to learn from the best.
It is a grown up programme
for grown up people.
I recommend it highly” Michael Andrews, Director, Ambient Buying, Waitrose
Inside Liverpool Football Club,
hosted by CEO Peter Moore
Behind the scenes at LEGO
Behind the Brand April
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Leadership Masterclasses May
They have an
astonishing
capacity to get access
to extraordinary people” Rob Burnet, Chief Executive,Well Told Story
Our Masterclasses give unique access to experienced and successful leaders from a variety of sectors and industries.
They share off-the-record insights into how high performance is achieved and sustained, what they do day in and day out to keep their vision alive, to engage the hearts and minds of their people, to balance private and professional lives, and to deal with setbacks.
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Mary FitzPatrick, Head of Diversity & Inclusion, NatWest Markets
Jude Kelly, Founder, WOW Festival & former Artistic Director, Southbank
Nick Stace, CEO, The Prince’s Trust
Michael Bolingbroke, former CEO,Inter Milan
Alison Platt, former CEO, Countrywide
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Sue Garrard, former EVP Sustainable
Business & Communications, Unilever
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Participants return to the beauty and calm of Sheepdrove. Over two days, leaders bring stories:
of how to drive Diversity and Inclusion across all aspects of business;
of Innovation and Leading Change;
and together we explore the Resilience leaders need to drive that change.
Reconnect 23 – 24 June
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My industry is facing
massive disruption
and we have to change.
Connect was world-class and
the opportunity to reflect on
my purpose and leadership
was invaluable. I approach my
challenges differently now” Kaela Fenn-Smith, Head of Commercial, Land Securities
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Wavelength return to your business to reconnect with the team.
There is one topic of conversation: how will your participants use their new knowledge, insight, connectivity and confidence to bring about meaningful sustainable change?
Review Workshop July
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Wavelength is a world-class leadership company. Our purpose is to make the world better through business by profoundly improving the quality of leadership.
We believe leaders learn best from leaders and scour the world for progressive companies at the forefront of: innovation, disruption, employee engagement, service excellence, leadership resilience, social impact, transformation and change.
Experiential learning is at the heart of what we do and our programmes provide ambitious leaders with unique insider access to inspiring, successful practitioners – enabling them to develop their knowledge, connectivity and resilience and providing a radically different model for learning and a tangible return on investment.
About Wavelength
In addition to Connect, each year our global programmes take top business leaders from around the world into the heart of Silicon Valley to visit the likes of Airbnb, Netflix and Tesla; to India to see inside Aravind Eye Care System; and to China to meet Alibaba.
Our Bespoke proposition delivers interventions tailored to the individual needs of our clients and our SpeakersHub provides unique access to highly accomplished business leaders and innovators who can speak at conferences and off-sites.
Our clients and partners include: Apple, BBC, Dyson, The Guardian, LEGO, Pret A Manger, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, Rolls-Royce, Tesco, Tesla, Netflix and Liverpool Football Club.
We like to think of ourselves as a grown up, no nonsense, transparent business creating and curating transformative experiences for leaders. We don’t do purposeless inspiration. We help deliver change.
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Connect is a team-based programme and the cost depends on the number of people in the team. The minimum team size is four people and the maximum is eight.
EXTRA SPONSOR’S PLACE
In addition to places purchased, with teams of four of more members Wavelength will provide one additional place at no extra cost to be utilised by a key ‘Sponsor’ within the business.
The Sponsor’s role is to help select and brief participants and support them in landing and sharing the learnings with the wider organisation. It is typically undertaken by Head of Talent/HR or an exec team member.
Costs: Corporate
Members
Four £70,500 £63,450
Five £83,500 £75,150
Six £95,000 £85,500
Seven £104,500 £94,050
Eight £112,500 £101,250
2020 rack rate
2020 early bird
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT
Sign up and pay for Connect 2020 before 26th July 2019 and receive a 10% discount.
NB: Membership fees quoted do not include: VAT, travel to and from activities, and overnight accommodation if required.
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I found Connect profoundly useful, both in the short term and for my own career development. I’m a flag-flyer for Connect”
Aidan Geary, Director of Operations (Digital), Condé Nast International
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1. Confirmed dates of all Connect 2020 events will be communicated to Members no later than 31 December 2019.
2. In exceptional circumstances Wavelength may need to alter the details given in this brochure or to change dates and locations of events. If any changes to these details are required then Wavelength will make these changes clear to Members.
On Your Marks 17 – 19 March 2020
3. Members are responsible for booking and paying for their hotel accommodation if required.
4.1. Connect Members are responsible for organising their own transport to the venue for the beginning of On Your Marks on Day 1, and their return transport home at the end of the event on Day 3. Please note that we do not accept any liability to Connect Members if they are unable to enjoy part or all of the event because of the delay or failure of transport that is not provided by us.
4.2. As Connect Members are responsible for their own outward and homeward transport no arrangements have been made by Wavelength in the event that those outward or homeward journeys are delayed.
5. Wavelength will provide light refreshments and dinner on Day 1 of the event, lunch and dinner on Day 2 and lunch on Day 3. Members are responsible for their own breakfasts.
6. There is no minimum number of persons required for the event to take place.
Behind the Brand Modules April 2020
7. Behind the Brand Modules events will take place in London, Manchester, and The Netherlands. Any accommodation required will be booked by Wavelength and invoiced to you.
8. Members are responsible for their transport to and from the start and end points of the events. Wavelength will provide Members with coach transfers to and from and between the company hosts.
9. Members are responsible for the costs of all meals except lunches.
10. For events outside the UK, all Members are responsible for their outward and homeward transport and no arrangements are made by Wavelength Connect Ltd in the event that those outward or homeward journeys are delayed or cancelled. It is the Member’s responsibility to ensure that he or she holds a valid passport and if he or she is a citizen of a non-EU country that the relevant Visa is acquired.
11. All monies paid to Wavelength Connect Ltd in respect of the Behind the Brand Modules will be held in a trust account.
12. A deposit of £550 plus VAT per delegate will be required. The deposit covers the estimated cost of the hotel accommodation and subsistence (e.g. hotel extras) for the Behind the Brand Modules. The actual cost of the hotel accommodation and subsistence (e.g. hotel extras) may be more or less than the deposit and at the end of the Behind the Brand Module we will issue you with an invoice which either requires payment of additional money to cover the actual cost of the hotel accommodation and subsistence (e.g. hotel extras) or provides a refund from us of any unused balance from the deposit.
Leadership Masterclasses May 2020
13. These events will take place in central London.
Reconnect 23 – 24 June 2020
14. Members are responsible for booking and paying for their hotel accommodation if required.
15.1. Connect Members are responsible for organising their own transport to the venue for the beginning of Reconnect on Day 1, and their return transport home at the end of the event on Day 2. Please note that we do not accept any liability to Connect Members if they are unable to enjoy part or all of the event because of the delay or failure of transport that is not provided by us.
15.2. As Connect Members are responsible for their own outward and homeward transport no arrangements have been made by Wavelength in the event that those outward or homeward journeys are delayed.
16. Wavelength will provide light refreshments, lunch and dinner on Day 1, and light refreshments and lunch on Day 2. Members will need to organise their own breakfasts.
17. There is no minimum number of persons required for the event to take place.
The Small Print
Adrian Simpsone: [email protected]: +44 (0) 7966 193 343
Jessica Stacke: [email protected]: +44 (0) 7966 501 886
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The cover image is of the Bengal Delta.
In the early days we went to Bangladesh and while there had many of the ideas which now underpin Wavelength.
This image reminds us of those inspiring experiences but is also a metaphor for what we do with leaders from different worlds.
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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
