Are you ready to move beyond the “ditch of despair” and climb towards a future where humanity, morality, truth, and real change define the workplace?

The Hill of Hope is more than an event. It’s a leadership movement. Born from a desire to confront corporate norms, fear and “business as usual,” this community is for those who believe in the power of honest conversation and collective accountable action. 

Here, we don’t shy away from the hard truths. We share challenges, embrace intensity, vulnerability, and the discomfort that leads to growth.

Together, we face into each other's toughest obstacles, challenging the status quo to build a new narrative for leadership. One rooted in the trust of our community, psychological confidence, freedom to speak your mind and lead fearlessly.
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What is the Hill of Hope?

It’s not a course. It’s not a retreat. It’s not a conference.

It’s a community-powered senior leadership accelerator, that starts with an offsite day of active inspiration and specific problem solving, for those who want to: 

Face uncomfortable truths about modern workplaces
Learn how to move from fear to freedom
Practice critical thinking and moral reasoning
Find practical solutions to pressing challenges
Build inclusive, high-trust, sustainible environments
Co-create rituals that make accountability and courage repeatable

Each cohort gathers for a powerful day of curiosity, connection and co-creation. In small, hand-picked diverse groups drawn from across industries, public, private, not-for-profit, creative, healthcare, government and sport.

Guided through facilitated workshops, moral reasoning frameworks, interactive role-play and honest dialogue. Together, you’ll challenge assumptions, swap practical tools and start co-creating real change for your specific challenges.

But this isn’t just a day. It’s the beginning of belonging to a brave, supportive community, built to outlast the day and outsmart the status quo.

Who are your guides?

Your educator

Roger Steare

Roger Steare is a renowned British ethicist known as “The Corporate Philosopher.” He’s an Associate Professor at Headspring Executive Development, a partnership between the FT and IE Business School in Madrid., He’s an adviser to boards , regulators and government. He’s co‑designer of the MoralDNA® psychometric tool. Author of Ethicability® and Thinking Outside the Inbox, he writes for the IOD’s Director magazine, the Financial Times, and Management Today, and brings deep research, systems thinking, moral reasoning and pragmatic insight to build more humane, values‑centred workplace cultures.

Your facilitator

Nick Bennett

Nick Bennett is the founder of Rituals for Performance, a workplace training system designed for culture-first, fast-growth organisations. With a background as an award-winning agency partner, mental fitness startup founder and Chief Product Officer, he’s helped over 60,000 people build skills for life and work. Nick designs practical, human-first rituals that unlock connection, clarity and collective accountability, equipping leaders and teams to thrive under pressure without burnout.

It's far more than just a day

Benefits for Hill of Hope members:

Networking and connection with like minded leaders
Good food and closing drinks
A customised ritual toolkit co-created on the day, designed to meeet your challenges and drive real change
A confidential long read from the day. Insight and ideas from the cohort, capturing trends, challenges and shared solutions
Membership to an exclusive micro-community keeping you all in contact to lean on, learn from and grow with
A copy of Rogers book Ethicability® and access to the MoralDNA® thinking diagnostic
Rituals for Performance card systems to continue the work inside your organisation
Priority access to future cohorts, masterclasses and our annual Hill of Hope Celebration

Each cohort gathers for a day of community, facilitated workshops and interactive role play, in small, hand-picked cohorts from across industries. Public, private, not-for-profit, creative, healthcare, government, sport, to challenge assumptions, swap tools and design real change. However, it’s far more than just a day.

How to find out more

The Hill of Hope is an invite-only community, bringing together leaders from different sectors, backgrounds and generations to foster learning, reverse mentoring and new perspectives. 

To ensure diversity, depth and dialogue in each cohort we interview every applicant.

Step 1: Complete a short application.You’ll tell us about your current challenges, hopes, and what drives you.

Step 2: Join a short introductory conversation with Roger. We’ll make sure you are assigned to the right cohort to ensure the experience will meet you where you are.

Step 3: Receive your cohort assignment, where we will coordinate with you and your cohort to plan your day to join the ascent.

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