Submit an expression of interest for Cohort Four!
Create the possible alongside your peers
Climb brings future leaders together for a 10-month programme. This course energises multigenerational networks, confronts our greatest societal challenges, and provides access to researchers, professors and leaders at the forefront of change.
Create the possible alongside your peers
Climb brings future leaders across Wales together for a 10-month programme. This course energises multigenerational networks, confronts our greatest societal challenges, and provides access to researchers, professors and leaders at the forefront of change.
“We need a revolution in leadership; not another reorganisation but a revolution.”
Professor Sir Muir Gray, Founder of the National Library for Health and inaugural Chief Knowledge Officer of the NHS
What to expect
This is a highly select programme with a very limited number of places. We choose candidates who show aptitude in the following areas:
- Emotional intelligence
- Courageous and compassionate leadership
- Hunger for innovation
- Tolerance for ambiguity
- Entrepreneurial mindset
- Cognitive flexibility
If you are accepted, the course will hone these competencies in you so you can walk into the fire, navigate disruptive change, and achieve the extraordinary. You’ll also become part of a community of like-minded leaders supporting you to make an impact on the landscape.
Climb is accredited by the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.
Requirements to apply
To apply, you will need to be able to attend the dates of the programme. These include virtual and in-person events, concluding with a summit conference where we showcase work and learning across the programme and the Pioneer community of Climb alumni.
All applicants will need to ensure they receive the support of their organisations in a variety of ways, including the provision of study leave, travel and accommodation expenses, and opportunities to implement their learning in the workplace (alternatively you may wish to explore sponsorship or self-fund).
Application process for Cohort 4
Step One
Applicants for the Climb programme will be required to submit a 90-second video application. Applicants will need the support of their organisation at this point in the application process.
Step Two
If shortlisted, you will be asked to attend an immersive selection day in North, West or South-East Wales where you will have the chance to meet other applicants and participate in group activities and exercises together. A final cohort of 30 will be selected following these days.
“I no longer feel disillusioned. I feel hope. I feel like we are starting something with Climb that we can use to make things better.”
Dr Mark Knights
Meet your teachers
Hahrie Han
Director of the SNF Agora Institute and Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University
Professor Sir Muir Gray
Honorary Clinical Researcher at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Evidence-based Medicine
Mark Prain
Founding Director of the Hillary Institute of International Leadership
Programme dates
The dates for Climb Cohort 3 have been scheduled as follows.
- 2023
- 29 August 2023: Virtual Introduction
- 25 – 28 September 2023: Climb Cohort 3 Orientation and Radical Immersive session
- 4 – 5 December: 2023: Virtual 2-day learning session
- 2024
- 29 – 30 January 2024: In-person 2-day learning session
- 5 March 2024: Virtual 2.5-hour learning session
- 11 – 12 March 2024: Virtual 2-day learning session
- 15 – 16 April 2024: In-person 2-day learning session
- 14 – 16 May 2024: In-person 3-day Residential session
- 11 June 2024: Climb Cohort 3 Summit
“This was the moment that things changed for me… it is like no other leadership programme. This network has become the necessary scaffolding that I needed.”
Anita Pierce, Deputy Medical Director MHLD and Consultant Psychiatrist
Programme fees
Individuals who work in health and care in Wales will have their course fees covered in full by a bursary provided by the Welsh Government.
The fee for candidates from outside of health and care in Wales is £9,950.
All applicants will need to ensure they receive the support of their organisations in a variety of ways, including the provision of study leave, travel and accommodation expenses, and opportunities to implement their learning in the workplace (alternatively you may wish to explore sponsorship or self-fund).
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