Program
The Fellowship
A nine-month learning journey for forty leaders building organisations of consequence. Cohort-based, immersive, and deeply human.
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September 2026 — June 2027
Lisbon
40 leaders
9-month, cohort-based
What to expect
A learning architecture designed around relationships and rigor.
Five immersive residencies
Week-long gatherings in Lisbon and beyond — designed for depth, not coverage.
A peer cohort that endures
Forty founders selected for character and ambition. The relationships are the curriculum.
Faculty as practitioners
Working operators, scholars, and artists who teach from the field — not the lectern.
Real work, real stakes
Bring the question that keeps you up at night. Leave with a sharper version of it.
Who is this for
Founders, executive directors, and senior operators between five and twenty years into building something they care about — ready to move from execution to consequence.
The curriculum
Phases that build on each other.
- 01
Residency 01
Foundations
Why we do what we do. Mapping purpose, power, and the architecture of your organisation.
- 02
Residency 02
People
Building cultures that endure. Hiring, trust, conflict, and the long arc of leadership.
- 03
Residency 03
Strategy
From ambition to bets. Choosing what to do — and what to refuse.
- 04
Residency 04
Craft
Excellence as practice. The discipline of making things that matter.
- 05
Residency 05
Legacy
What you are leaving behind. Succession, capital structure, and the story you want told.
In their words
“I came in tired and a little cynical. I left with five friendships I will keep for life and a clearer sense of why I started this in the first place.”
Marta Reis
Founder, Atelier Reis
The investment
By application only
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