The (Un)Learning Academy: How to navigate your always uncertain future.
You’ve made it. You’ve navigated to the top of your company tree (and likely the company to the top of its tree). You figured out how to be personally, organisationally and commercially successful - you worked hard, and delivered on it.
Yet…
It can feel punishing. Working harder. Pulled tighter between competing demands, leaving you less strong and borderline unwell. Or worse.
The old rules increasingly don’t apply.
We live and work in a world moving ever faster, increasingly complex and less predictable. Here’s the thing: Everything that made you successful for Act I (your journey to date) might cost you your Act II.
This is why I’ve created the (Un)Learning Academy.
The (Un)Learning Academy is a journey to embrace not knowing, and letting go of the controls.
This isn’t about meeting rooms and flip charts.
It’s about being in and learning from nature; working in cycles, rooted in nature > nurture, and thinking in systems bigger than you: interconnected, grounded and calm.
“Ben occupies a rare middle ground where mindfulness and deep entrepreneurial and commercial experience meet. Working together, Ben helped me slow down to greater clarity, better prioritisation and stronger belief, helping me grow reach, value and impact (and a new business!) in the process.”
The (Un)Learning Academy and you.
Fusing 121 work (and an optional twice yearly 3 day retreat with other leaders, pioneers, visionaries), you will travel a profound journey of self discovery to create adaptable, resilient, inspiring work and companies.
Inspired by nature, in nature, if need be.
You will:
- gain rich understanding into the drivers and motivations which shape what you do
- learn how to better manage challenging and unpredictable people and colleagues
- learn how to navigate uncertainty
- develop a growing confidence in controlling less (be it complicated colleagues or uncertain markets, or an unrelenting road ahead: less control, more agency, thriving in uncertainty).
- re-find joy, inspiration for and energy in your work
Who is this for?
This is for founders, leaders, owners and visionaries. We might work with you direct. We might work with your teams.
What next?
Like any journey of profound change - in this case from a stuck, plateauing flatness to energy, insight, joy and clarity - it takes time. You first need to unlearn what’s keeping you stuck. We can help you into this journey in one of three ways:
One day immersion: a clarifying day, a reset, to help shift the trajectory of your work.
The 6 Month: enjoy the freedom from what is making you stuck and re-imagine work of opportunity and impact going forward.
2 years - partnering you through the entire journey of change.
If you’re curious, let’s talk.
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About Ben, your guide.
Ben is a long term entrepreneur, founder and leader, having founded and sold multiple businesses. He is also a 20+ year student of eastern philosophy, embodying both Daoist and Buddhist principles, and coached hundreds of leaders to create more adaptable, creative and resilient work and companies.
“When I started working with Ben, things were feeling flat. Conscious that I might have only 20 years of work and impact remaining, I wanted more agency and clarity amid seemingly immovable time pressures and financial commitments. Ben revealed blockers I hadn’t previously seen and helped me to a path and plan which is energising, exciting and motivating. What we achieved working together, given the myriad pressures on my time, amazes and inspires me. He helped me find new joy in my work, clear and excited for a new road ahead.
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