What we offer

We provide a safe, trusted space for today’s and tomorrow’s leaders to engage in strategic dialogue, build collaborative leadership skills and networks, and exchange insights and best practices - all aimed at driving the UK’s long-term growth and prosperity.

Across the UK - whether in government, business, charities, or education - leaders face daily uncertainty and complexity. In today’s fast-changing, interconnected world, those shared challenges can feel overwhelming.

That’s why cross-sector collaboration matters. By working beyond boundaries, leaders unlock fresh thinking, spark innovation, and create lasting impact. Yet in our 2025 WIG State of Cross-Sector Collaboration in the UK survey, while 92% saw cross-sector collaboration as vital to economic growth, only a third felt they had the skills to do it confidently.

We’re here to help close that gap.

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WIG CEO Dr Neil Bentley-Gockmann OBE on how WIG provides a trusted space for leaders across sectors to convene, exchange insights, and build collaborative skills, networks and confidence to navigate complexity together and drive lasting impact.

Enabling leaders to collaborate across sectors with confidence and deliver lasting impact

We offer three pathways to support leaders in building the mindset, skillset, and capabilities needed to collaborate across sectors with confidence and deliver lasting impact. Through strategic dialogue, immersive leadership development, and evidence-based best practice, we enable leaders to tackle shared challenges together.

Strategic dialogue

Strategic dialogue is the foundation for trust, collaboration and collective progress. Through our hybrid policy dialogue events and networking sessions— from member-exclusive policy briefings, senior roundtables and dinners to webinars, panel discussions, and reports—we provide a safe, trusted space for leaders and decision-makers from across the sectors to exchange insights, build meaningful relationships, and address shared policy challenges together.

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Collaborative leadership capabilities

Collaboration requires more than intent—it requires skill. Our suite of leadership development programmes and masterclasses is designed for all career stages, helping leaders learn through action, exchange insights with peers from across sectors, and develop the confidence to lead through complexity. We also offer cross-sector secondments, bespoke mentoring and NED and trustee placements to enhance cross-sector experience and learning.

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Evidencing best practice

Effective collaboration is built on evidence. At WIG, we work with our global and regional collaborators to benchmark successful cross-sector initiatives that drive meaningful impact. Through our in-depth evidence-based Collaboration playbook, case studies, leadership series, and organisational raids, we showcase what’s working—and what isn’t—across sectors. Our goal is to empower leaders with actionable insights to improve their own impact while driving progress across the system.

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Policy Dialogue

We convene leaders from across the sectors in a safe, trusted space to tackle the UK’s key policy challenges through strategic dialogue.

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Leadership Programmes

We equip the leaders of today and tomorrow with the collaborative mindset, skills, and cross-sector networks to stay ahead, lead with purpose, and shape a better future.

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Organisational Raids

Step outside your world and unlock new ways of thinking by immersing your team in a different sector with our tailored cross-sector leadership visits.

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