Mastering a Digital Mindset
Leadership Mentoring Programme
An 11-week programme to enrich your digital mindset and leadership, delivered through one-to-one mentoring, expert inspiration, and facilitated learning in a small cohort.
Interested in knowing more?
Unthinkable’s mentoring programme will support you to:
Reflect on your organisation's and team’s digital mindset
Identify strengths and weaknesses in your digital approach
Consider where to focus technology innovation and how
Gain and practice practical strategies you can apply immediately
Map out a personalised route to more effective digital leadership
“I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who wishes to reflect on, explore and extend their digital mindset.”
Lynda Gibbs KC (Hon), Dean, Inns of Court College of Advocacy
Join us on our next run in Spring 2025.
We are offering an introductory price of £2,800 for those signing up to our first cohort by 20 February (a 12.5% discount on our standard price of £3,200).
We understand your challenges
Working with uncertainty and constant change
You need to create a clear vision for the future while everything about the digital world shifts around you. You want to focus on the things that matter whilst astutely navigating change.
Creating the mental bandwidth to imagine change
You don’t want to outsource the most important thinking about the direction of your organisation, but you need time, support and access to some fresh perspectives.
Leading teams with confidence and shared purpose
You want to strengthen a productive relationship with your team, to deliver digital outcomes together more effectively.
Without a focus on a digital mindset leaders can risk feeling disempowered, a sense of role stagnation and a potential loss of competitive edge for their company or organisation.
Our approach
Applied learning
Our programme offers 18 hours of delivered learning across 11 weeks. You will have access to five one to one sessions, four collaborative group sessions and four inspiration sessions with leading experts.
Thinking frameworks
We’ll teach you practical new frameworks for digital thinking so you can grow your own toolkit of approaches to apply to your real world challenges.
Personal mentorship
You will work online with an experienced mentor 1:1 throughout the programme, to strengthen your awareness, goals and strategies for personal and team development.
Expert inspiration
You’ll have access to exclusive inspirational talks from industry experts to help you rethink your digital challenges from a broader perspective, relevant to your sector.
A collaborative cohort
You won’t be doing this alone. You’ll join a small cohort of critical friends and valued fellow travellers who you can connect and learn with during this experience. Our participants have told us they loved learning from each other’s distinctive experiences.
The Programme
Discover
The first weeks of the programme are all about mapping the digital landscape that matters to you, your relationship with technology and your operating context. We introduce you to our framework for the digital mindset, before a one to one session in which we delve into the impact and implications of the relationship with technology you’ve built across your lifetime.
We host inspiration sessions from four industry experts who will bring us up to date with critical trends in digital. And in a group workshop we’ll explore the important questions we can all ask to strengthen a digital vision and strategy.
Two Group
SessionsTechnology lifeline sessionFour Inspiration SessionsDefine
Building on the learning of the Discover phase, we’ll support you to define the most useful questions to carry forward. You will work with your personal mentor to formulate goals that address the specific context of your day-to-day or strategic challenges, and give you a platform to strengthen your own digital leadership.
A one to one goal setting
sessionDevelop
The centrepiece of our programme will be a day spent physically together with your fellow programme participants and Unthinkable hosts, where we will work together in a highly interactive set of exercises to help us broaden our focus.
The day will be in two parts: in the first part, we’ll apply our framework of ‘six lenses’ to identify opportunities and challenges based on your chosen goal. And in the second part we’ll shift focus to working on your leadership practice.
An intensive and creative day of workshopping and ideas exchange in London.Deliver
In this final phase, you’ll work with your mentor to reflect on your learning and how you’re applying that to your own context. At its heart is a structured session to create the outline of your own plan of action.
Turn ideas into action in dedicated one to one planning and reflection sessions
Lynda Gibbs KC (Hon), Dean, Inns of Court College of Advocacy
“Having worked successfully with Unthinkable in the past when we were in start-up mode, I was delighted to be able to take part in a pilot for their new Digital Mindset Programme and it did not disappoint. It enabled me to have the time to reflect on my own and my organisation's current attitude to digital knowledge and to explore the need for transformational change. It provided me with direction to focus on gaps in our digital approach and I was able to identify specific areas of weakness and good practice. I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who wishes to reflect and explore their organisation's digital mindset.”
Neal Shasore, Head of School/CEO, The London School of Architecture
“The programme was compelling on two fronts: of course, the subject-matter expertise which challenged conventional thinking about embedding a digital mindset across an organisation; but as importantly, the mode of teaching and engagement, with dynamic exercises that mapped out a route to more effective digital leadership, switching between group exchanges and 1:1 discussion was engaging and hugely stimulating. ”
Laura Kirsop, Director of Product, Raspberry Pi Foundation
“The Unthinkable Digital Mindset Coaching Programme was transformative in helping me identify my core strengths and build confidence in my abilities. I left with a clear path forward and have already enacted many of the strategies we developed together—it truly felt like we manifested the ideal future!”
Kate Atkinson, Head of Programmes, Clore Leadership
“The programme created a refreshing and illuminating opportunity to consider my own digital experiences and attitude, and with input from the team to consider my future digital aspirations and goals”
Chris Baldwin, Head of Digital Learning, Regent College London
“It was a very rewarding professional development experience reflecting on my mindset with the Unthinkable team as well as a group of industry professionals – I strongly recommend the “Digital Mindset Programme” to any leader in digital technologies wrestling with issues of digital transformation and change management.”
The Facilitators
The Team
Our core group of facilitators have spent their lives delivering a wealth of digital products, projects and leading multidisciplinary digital teams.
Leigh is an experienced Digital Product leader with many years of delivery at the BBC, accredited Leadership Coach and Team Coach - and enjoys bringing these practices together to support people to deliver more positive impact with lasting personal growth.
Leigh Aspin
Charlotte works at the intersection of technology, creativity and ethics. She draws on her experience as an educational developer, consultant and co-founder of tech-equity collective, Feminist Internet.
Charlotte Webb
Justin is one of Unthinkable’s directors with many years experience of digital strategy and delivery. He often supports clients as an advisor for their senior team, helping them develop creative and effective approaches to leadership and articulate their digital vision.
Justin Spooner
The Experts
We have put together a team of experts to draw on to provide you with inspiration, new perspectives and ways of working.
Richard Davies - CT/IO
Richard is an entrepreneur, NED, and co-founder of IMM, an advisory and consulting firm. As a seasoned CT/IO, he brings experience from global corporations and purpose-driven, brand-led SMEs. He will introduce key principles driving technology disruption and guide attendees on strategies to build optimal organisational value.
Dr. Ronda Železný-Green - Ethics & Technology Expert
Ronda is a digital changemaker creating social learning systems to empower Black people, women, people with disabilities, and other marginalised populations in the technology and education sectors. Ronda’s nearly 20 years of professional experience spans five continents and the public, private, and civil society sectors with extensive experience delivering action-oriented training that integrates the themes of racial equity and justice and gender with global perspectives.
Prof. Rose Luckin - AI Expert
Rose Luckin is an internationally respected academic and influential communicator across multiple stakeholders about the future of education and technology, particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI). With over 25 years of experience, she is a recognised expert on AI in education, serving as an advisor to policymakers, governments, and industry.
Julie Wilson-Dodd - Transformation Expert
Julie is an experienced executive director and consultant with a track record in organisational transformation. Her work is about improving lives and modernising organisations through people-focused change programmes, technology, data enabled services, great comms and improved ways of working — focusing on the non-profit sector.