Practical Leadership Insights to Elevate Your Impact
What works in cohort programmes?
What Makes Cohorts Truly Accelerate: Insights for Programme Designers by Horizon37 & Future Worlds Startup Accelerator Leadership skills often make or break great ventures. We’ve been working with cohort programmes for over a decade, supporting founders and leadership teams on their journey by helping them upskill in leadership, and coaching them to reach their key milestones…
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My Leader Self
How to unleash your unique leadership potential: a dive into My Leader Self What is My Leader Self™? It’s the unique, best version of you that allows your business as a whole to thrive and yield positive, tangible results. According to our definition at Horizon37, leadership is the generation of positive results through other people. There comes…
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How Do We Unlock Even More Value From Cohort Programmes?
If you’re a programme director or accelerator manager, you know the challenge: how do you design and run programmes that actually move the needle for your cohort? How do you go beyond activity and engagement metrics to create real, measurable value? In mid-February, we brought together key ecosystem leaders and shapers from Cambridge, Oxford, Manchester, Southampton,…
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A Programme Director’s Guide from Horizon37
At Horizon37, we help accelerators, innovation hubs, and investors design and deliver leadership and growth programmes that actually deliver results. Our work turns leadership theory into business traction — helping founders lead confidently and scale successfully. We’ve partnered with some of the UK’s most forward-thinking innovation ecosystems — including Science Creates, Harwell Innovation Centre, Lucy Cavendish…
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Leadership Mindsets Festival
Author: Horizon37 During June, we brought our community together for our first Leadership Mindsets Festival. We celebrated our alumni’s business achievements and personal successes of the past decade — and looked ahead to a future of even greater impact, connection, and results, powered by leaders using Mighty Mindsets in their most high-stakes moments. This work presented…
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Uncertain Times Require Innovation: How Your Leadership Mindset Can Make It or Break It When The Stakes Are High
Author: Katy Tuncer and the Horizon37 Leadership Coaching Team Editor: Ilaria Pellegrini You’re in charge of leading your innovation business to success. Let’s face it, the odds are against you. We’re living in an era of economic uncertainty (source) and funds are being careful with where they put their money. This is where you need to…
Keep reading1000km on from our leadership work together – how’s your journey going?
1000km on from our leadership work together – how’s your journey going? As our cherished alumni, we would love to offer you a complimentary leadership checkup to celebrate your progress, prepare for the next growth phase, and explore what’s next for your scaling business. What is it? By participating, you’ll: Please let us know if you…
Keep reading5 Tips to Get the Best Value from an Impact Day
5 Tips to Get the Best Value from an Impact Day In the fast-paced world of entrepreneurship, a handful of mission-critical decisions really count. Alignment is vital. Time and energy are not for wasting. You’ve decided to invest in a team day, maybe off or on-site – we call them “Impact Days” (see footnote). You’re bringing…
Keep readingHow To Produce Great Board Packs
How To Produce Great Board Packs – Simple Hacks to get ahead in the Board Game – Co-written by: Katy Tuncer, Joanne Roberts, Rosemary Harper, Richard Gibson A great board pack gives the members clarity on the state and needs of the business and the ability to direct their input efficiently – for maximum business value…
Keep readingHow to make decisions at the right time, without stifling innovation
How to make decisions at the right time, without stifling innovation – An effective approach to decision-making – In business leadership, poor decision-making is the most insidious enemy that lurks in boardrooms, strategy meetings, and leadership discussions. When the platform is burning, the runway is getting shorter and everyone is counting on results, teams can tend…
Keep readingFollow the four steps to good, clear, aligned decisions
Follow the four steps to good, clear, aligned decisions A systematic approach to decision-making for boards and teams isn’t rocket science, but it takes commitment and practice to get good at it. To make the best decision together, you need to get the right people involved in the process, and have them work effectively and efficiently. Here’s our…
Keep readingDecision-making Roles
Decision-making Roles: Is this my decision? Even for the most empowered, committed and purposeful leadership team, having ambiguous or overlapping roles and decision-rights is a major time drain on decision-making. When there is no clarity around roles, most organisations1 default assumption is that the most senior person is the decision-maker. (Hint: that’s usually the CEO!) Avoid…
Keep readingLeadership Transformation, Measured with Precision
Leadership Transformation, Measured with Precision Success is not a coincidence; it’s a carefully mapped and consistently monitored journey. At Horizon37, we ensure that every leadership transformation programme is designed to deliver measurable and meaningful results, tailored to the unique needs of the unique businesses we work with. “It is leadership that ultimately defines the difference between…
Keep readingReignite Momentum: Horizon37 for Established Businesses
Reignite Momentum: Horizon37 for Established Businesses Established businesses are the backbone of the economy, driving sustained value through experience, scale, and operational excellence. However, even the most successful organisations face challenges. Legacy systems can slow down progress. Entrenched processes and increasing market complexity can also stifle innovation. At Horizon37, we’ve spent years partnering with established organisations.…
Keep readingDifference Bootcamp
How to leverage the healthy differences in your team as a competitive advantage
Our new Difference Bootcamp programme is the fastest way to capture the benefits of healthy differences within your business, using the famous Dimensions of Difference exercise.
Keep readingBoards: too much delving, or just doomed?
Katy Tuncer, Joanne Roberts, contributing authors from Ecosystem Altruist event (July 2023) Boards: too much delving, or just doomed? Why the current focus on boards? Ten “Ecosystem Altruists” gathered to consider boards at the Horizon37 and Harwell Innovation Campus/ ARCl summer event. We challenged them: “Are some boards just doomed?” Their conclusion: “Some boards, but very…
Keep readingHow to connect with your audience and build a story that they want to be part of
How to connect with your audience and build a story that they want to be part of The Horizon37 Team with contributions from Liz Rivers “No matter what job you have in life, your success will be determined 5% by your academic credentials, 15% by your professional experiences and 80% by your communication skills.” Yahya Alamari,…
Keep readingTwo quick checklists to turn paralysing feedback conversations into purposeful performance step-ups
Introducing Fresh Feedback Two quick checklists to turn paralysing feedback conversations into purposeful performance step-ups Authors: Katy Tuncer, Vojislava Cekerevac, Joanne Roberts Feedback is like food, it fuels individuals, teams and businesses to grow and develop. However, as we place more focus on compassion, inclusion, innovation and mental wellbeing, in the face of a stressful global…
Keep readingFive scale-up leadership trends that will trash results in 2023 (and what you can do about them)
Authors: Richard Gibson, Katy Tuncer, Jo Roberts The good news is that successful scale-up leaders can stop these trends from trashing results. The bad news is that there are five important trends that will challenge scale-up leaders like never before in 2023, putting business outcomes at risk. We worked with 56 businesses in 2022*, and have…
Keep readingAlign teams through closed-loop planning
Align teams through closed-loop planning Insight shared by Paul Anson, Katy Tuncer and Jo Roberts Are you anti-planning? “No time to plan, we are doers around here.” “No plan survives contact with the enemy anyway!” “Everyone already knows what we need to do in our business!” “Planning” gets bad press. It’s boring, time-consuming and unfashionable. It…
Keep readingProve, Defy, Generate
Prove, Defy, Generate Leader: “Things are very tough….” [The very eloquent and articulate leader gives a strongly analytical and robust description of the impossible situation he is in.] Coach: “Wow, the stakeholders REALLY ARE that stuck in their ways/slow?” Leader: “Yes, I’ve tried everything. And you would not believe how dysfunctional they are.” Coach: “Have you…
Keep readingResilience
Generating Resilience in Teams Do you want to be on your A-game when it matters? Or your B-game 24/7? Leaders are valuing resilient teams more and more right now. They can adapt and innovate in the face of new challenges; beat the competition when the unexpected happens; and stay motivated and collaborative when the going gets…
Keep readingEcosystem Impact Review: The Pandemic Period 2020-22
Ecosystem Impact Review: The Pandemic Period 2020-22 Why are we doing this review now? We have always been committed to contributing positive and meaningful impact for scale-up leaders and their businesses. We want to be sure we are deploying our products and time where we have the greatest positive impact. As 2022 gets underway, we want…
Keep readingAll on the same side: as business moves out of the bunkers, it’s time to focus on contribution and strengthen relationships
All on the same side: as business moves out of the bunkers, it’s time to focus on contribution and strengthen relationships As the pandemic restrictions lift, businesses will look to surge ahead with their plans, be it launching a new product or moving into new markets. One thing is for certain – there will be plenty…
Keep readingHow to stay laser-focussed by handling distractions more powerfully
How to stay laser-focussed by handling distractions more powerfully Do you ever end the day frustrated with the amount you have achieved, or irritated with yourself for wasting time on the wrong things? No matter how organised you are, we all face a constant stream of opportunities to shift focus away from our planned work. Whether…
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