The Beyond Personal accelerator

Beyond was designed using OneLeap’s Harvard Business Review-featured methods and expertise from senior leaders at Fortune500 and FTSE100 companies.

The Beyond Initiative Personal Accelerator is a year-long wrap-around programme that nurtures, inspires and accelerates the work and leadership skills of do-ers, innovators and changemakers.

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What do you get as a member?

Future-fit and immediately actionable leadership development to keep you relevant, knowledgeable, plugged-in, and valuable in any executive team.
Guidance and coaching from OneLeap experts who have led major innovation, transformation and venture projects in Fortune500 and FTSE100 companies.
Critical challenge and inspiration from your own personal advisory board of award-winning entrepreneurs. Expertise from multiple $MM ventures, not just PowerPoints.
Support from senior peer mentors in non-competing organisations, who provide practical advice and invaluable connections.
An HBR-recognised approach combined with proprietary resources and diagnostics developed from our work with dozens of FTSE100/Fortune500 size companies around the world.

All participants of the Beyond Personal Accelerator become a member of our wider Beyond Initiative – a community of senior leaders, reputable peers, successful entrepreneurs, global executives and experts.

What people say

“There is an incredible opportunity to be entrepreneurial in large companies. This is exactly where The Beyond Initiative can help.”

Sahar Hashemi OBE
Serial entrepreneur, best-selling author Beyond Advisory Council

“Intrapreneurial leaders bring something vital and rare into large companies. Beyond is exactly what is needed to support this critical talent and in doing so enable large companies to stay relevant for their customers.”

Anju Sethi
Director Talent, Google UK
Beyond Advisory Council

"Entrepreneurialism runs through many of our leadership behaviours. It’s a mindset that can create huge value. In supporting intrapreneurial leaders, The Beyond Initiative is doing something very important and timely.”

James Goodman
People Director, Tesco

How it works

Members are provided with a year-round framework to amplify and accelerate their current projects and business goals, as well as an Intrepreneurship Playbook and personal introductions to expert coaches, a bespoke entrepreneur advisory panel, and peer ‘intrapreneur’ network.

Who should apply?

Do-ers, innovators and intrapreneurs can come from anywhere within a business.

We welcome expressions of interest from:

Highly motivated ‘intrapreneurs’ – ambitious managers, dreamers and do-ers looking for “beyond the black box" thinking and strategic guidance for career growth
Senior individuals charged with creating massive new value, seeking best-in-class opportunities to challenge their knowledge, or wanting to grow their leadership skills
HR and people leaders exploring new ways to provide inspiration and training to their senior talent and function leads
People from all business functions who been given a mandate to reinvent or fundamentally change a key part of the business

Hear from those who have been there

"Working through the OneLeap experience to unlock a bold new opportunity for a FTSE100 and have it literally on sale in 72 hours was exhilarating - it was one of the most satisfying things I've ever done professionally."

Brett Akker, Serial Entrepreneur,
Start Up Investor and Advisor

“I was searching for inspiration to stretch and challenge my teams and OneLeap answered the brief perfectly. I would recommend this crew to light a fire under your business plan or accelerate the development of your people.”

Former CEO, TESCO International

"I’ve worked with the OneLeap team to help senior executives develop their entrepreneurialism and seen the impact first-hand. Beyond is invaluable for any company that wants to get behind those it is looking to for its future growth.”

Oli Barrett MBE, Entrepreneur, Founder of StartUp Britain, Beyond Advisory Council

who you’ll learn from

Bontle Senne
Director at OneLeap London office

Bontle leads people, business, and digital innovation and transformation engagements with a particular passion for leadership development, coaching, capability building, rethinking Design Think, and practical implementation of organisational agility.

Bontle has led Transformation Office in three industries and led teams on 4 continents to deliver massive transformations including the £31bn merger of Virgin Media and O2, the 10,000 person global Agile and DevOps transformation of CIB Tech at Deutsche Bank, and the relaunch of schooling for 1.8m children in Sierra Leone during Ebola while at McKinsey and Company.

Hamish Forsyth
CEO & Co-founder of OneLeap

Co-founder and CEO of OneLeap, Hamish is responsible for OneLeap's development and client impact. He works personally to oversee engagement with C-level executives at listed companies across UK/Europe and the US.

He speaks globally on innovation leadership and strategy and has guest-lectured at Cambridge and Harvard. He has a passion for business model innovation and the hands-on role of leadership development in driving sustainable innovation.

Hamish also co-founded and is executive chair of The Family Institute, which helps families navigate intergenerational wealth and leadership transitions.

Diana Verde Nieto
Founder of Positive Luxury
Beyond Advisory Council

Sustainability pioneer and co-founder of Positive Luxury. WEF Young Global Leader. Global Agenda Council member, Sustainable Consumption & Circular Economy

Anju Sethi
Director Talent, Google UK
Beyond Advisory Council

Executive hiring, leadership and development expert. Experience includes senior HR leadership at TESCO, BT Group, King, and Google.

“The most connected man in Britain” - WIRED. Serial entrepreneur and founder of StartUp Britain. Tech London Advocates advisor and host of London Tech Week.

Oli Barrett MBE
Serial Entrepreneur & Connector
Beyond Advisory Council