The Intensive
A twelve-week season of leadership intelligence, conducted in a small company.
Introduction
Private mentorship, conducted in company.
The Intensive is a twelve-week, principal-led season conducted with a small company of senior leaders — never more than eight, by selection. Each participant brings one decision, position or transition of consequence and works it across the season in private sessions with the principal. Three convenings of the full company anchor the work. It is not a cohort, not a course, not a programme. It is a season of leadership intelligence, held in measured company.
The season
Four movements,twelve weeks.
The private work is the spine. The convenings exist to sharpen it — never to replace it.
I.
First convening — Position
Three hours, private. The company assembles and each participant names, on the record, the decision or position under examination for the season. Conducted by the principal, no audience, no recording.
II.
The middle weeks — Private examinations
Eight private sessions across the season — a sustained one-to-one line of work between participant and principal, in the same architecture as private mentorship. The convenings exist to sharpen this line, not to replace it.
III.
Second convening — Conviction
Three hours, private. Mid-season examination of the operating beliefs that have surfaced in the private work — what is being kept, what is being shed, what is being held under different conditions.
IV.
Closing convening — Position, redrafted
Three hours, private. Each participant returns to the position named at the opening and redrafts it on the record. The principal delivers a written close to each participant within ten days.
What is included
The shape of the season, named precisely.
Eight private sessions
Sustained one-to-one work with the principal across the season — the spine of the engagement.
Three private convenings
Opening, midpoint, closing. Three hours each, conducted by the principal, no observers.
Written intake
A short brief, completed before the season opens, naming the position or decision under examination.
Written close
An individual document to each participant within ten days of the closing convening: what is sharpened, what is set down, what is next.
Who it is for
Senior leaders prepared to work in measured company.
Founders, principals, partners, executives and senior operators who want the depth of private mentorship across a defined season, alongside the discipline of working in the presence of other serious leaders examining their own decisions.
The Intensive is run once or twice a year, by selection. It is not announced widely and is not marketed beyond this page. Engagements that continue beyond the season do so as private mentorship.
It is not a course, not a cohort, not a programme. It is a season — held in company, conducted in private.
Engagement
One season. One company of eight.
Format
Twelve weeks, by selection
Three private convenings of the full company; eight private one-to-one sessions across the season. Conducted in person or by video, by arrangement.
Company
Capped at eight participants
Never more than eight per season. Composition is decided by the principal on alignment and fit.
Investment
£9,500 per participant
A fixed fee for the season. Credited in full against a subsequent year of private mentorship, should one follow.
Selection
By written enquiry
A short note describing the decision or position to be worked during the season is sufficient. Engagements are accepted on alignment and fit.
One season. Eight leaders. One company.
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