Discover a deeper sense of purpose

As we become more aware of the many challenges we face – inequality, unemployment, and climate change, just to name a few – sustainable leadership has never been more necessary to create a better world and drive business growth.

With 16-year-old activist, Greta Thunberg, doing more to shift the conversation about the climate crisis than anyone, how will you respond and what are you going to do?

Explore this and other 21st-century leadership challenges around the fire with a diverse group of like-minded business leaders. You’ll leave each session with insight on how to become a better leader, inspired to take action, and with a network of people to support you.

2020 Dates TBC

​Learn from nature and each other

Fusing immersive nature activities with productive conversation, we use the power of the group to explore leadership issues from a different perspective and draw from nature to spark creative thinking on the bigger questions about the world as it is now.

Can’t make the next date? Register to be notified of future campfires

Next date: tbc

During Lead with Purpose, you'll discover:

• Your value and impact as a leader
• How time spent in nature increases creative thinking, helping you open up and make meaningful connections with like-minded business leaders
• How to manage and overcome difficult leadership challenges
• ​New ways of solving problems, and what strategies to use to create impact in your business  
• How to build a strong peer network to support you
• How to be a force for good in your life and your business

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The best way to describe it is “Business unplugged”... I left the group with renewed commitment and new ideas to explore. Excellent value and an experience I would recommend to all.

Steve Creed, Sustainability Consultant

The Benefits

A facilitated session for founders, leaders and pioneers, in the wild, to explore your values and your impact with other business leaders; the only people ​who really understand what you’re going through.
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● Share with other business leaders
● Feel the support of your peers
● Have honest, authentic conversations
● Make meaningful connections
● Get some headspace

● Inspire your own leadership development 
● Learn from, and be inspired by, nature
● Identify new solutions, strategies and actions
● Work on your impact and your legacy 
●​ Leading to real growth for you, your business, & society

It's been proven that nature increases creative thinking by 50%, dramatically improves long-term decision making, and enhances interpersonal connections.

Who knew nature could help you focus and give such clarity on strategic decisions.

Sara Osterholzer, Good Business Club

Who is it for?

You're a CEO, business owner, founder or co-founder of an SME, a ​key player in a large organisation, or an entrepreneur from any walk of life, who feels called to make a difference and wants to understand and explore how to do something purposeful for the future.

How it works

How It Works

Leading with Purpose is an emergent campfire programme for business leaders. It's facilitated by Nigel Berman and includes a series of processes that help you work through 21st century leadership challenges, including how you impact on the world.

• Half day campfires, one a month
• Limited to a max of 10 founders and/or leaders
• Facilitated conversation and immersive activities in nature
• Peer-to-peer mentoring and sharing
• Snacks and hot drinks included
• In wild nature close to Brighton

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Why Join the programme

• Business as usual is no longer sustainable. Your business may be successful, but has your passion, your real values, and the bigger picture got lost amongst the details, the day-to-day pressures, and short-term thinking?
• You’re not alone, 60% of business leaders say they get caught up ​in small details, and avoid the decisions that really matter.
• On Leading with Purpose you’ll be able to take some time for yourself to look at what you’re doing and be inspired to make some practical changes that bring you back inline with your values and your purpose, in order that purpose, people, planet and profit can thrive collectively.
• Purpose is, and has always been, critical to building a culture where everyone feels connected to a larger story, where everyone feels they’re working towards a higher aim.
• ​The programme involves a collaborative and experimental process using the intelligence of the group, held by nature, that allows practical wisdom and creative insight to emerge, so that you can commit to actions.
• "The most effective leaders I’ve seen in any setting - business, government, nonprofit - are driven by purpose, mission, and the sense that their work is making ​the world a better place."
  ​Brian Gallagher, Harvard Business Review

WHERE IS IT HELD

The 'Leading with Purpose Catalyst Campfire' is held at carefully chosen outdoor venue inside Stanmer Park, close to Brighton. It is easily accessible by public transport and there is parking close by. The private site is self-contained, has a fire pit, and cover in case of wet weather.

FEEDBACK FROM PARTICIPANTS

“It was quite something, really. I'd highly recommend it - as a leader, a founder, an individual, with your team. Whatever your reason. It gave us all the freedom to talk and share, removed the restrictive confines of buildings and meeting rooms - and not a post-it note or whiteboard in sight!”
Bonamy Waddell, Bon Insight”

“100% recommend.”
Alice Reeves, Joyful Web

“I felt my barriers came down… this event was more honest, more human and more personal. And therefore I made better connections.“
Lauren Psyk
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Join a Lead with Purpose campfire

Price: sliding scale from £30 to £60

Register for Free Here

Lead with Purpose is a series of monthly outdoor sessions based around a fire.
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I went away feeling happy, invigorated, more ‘alive’ than usual and more connected

Jill Woolf, Chimera Communications

I left this session feeling inspired and uplifted... The setting allows you, or even persuades you, to think big!

Cara Delaney, Think Productive

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About the Facilitator
Nigel Berman has spent over 20 years creating and leading businesses that communicate different ways of seeing the world. Before School of the Wild, he founded several organisations including an environmental publisher, and Nigel's Eco Store, an award-winning online retailer. Now Nigel specialises in bringing leaders and teams into nature to create a space for meaningful conversations that change how we live and work. Nigel has facilitated sessions for NatWest Business Accelerator, the Green Growth Platform, and works with a variety of purpose-driven businesses, agencies, and international NGOs.
Watch his latest talk - on the Call of the Wild, here.
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