Future Leaders 2025


What is Future Leaders?
The renowned six-month Future Leaders programme is designed for forward-thinking professionals with 5-10 years’ experience in the built environment industry. Through a mix of online and in person workshops, retreats and showcase events, participants work in teams to develop the skills and personal confidence to drive transformational change in their organisation. This transformation will not come about by business as usual, but through a radical and fundamental shift, in which sustainability and innovative thinking are strategic drivers.
Participants benefit from a range of expert inputs and high profile keynote speakers, and will work to develop an innovation idea on key built environment sustainability challenges which are developed through the programme.
Application deadline – 6th December 2024
The action-focussed programme runs across a six-month period and is structured in three parts with a number of touchpoints
Part One: Explore and Initiate
- Kick-off – 21st January (online)
- Innovation field trip – 28-30th January (Leeds)
- Check-in call – 12th February (online)
Part Two: Develop and Experiment
- Nature retreat – 18-19th March (Hawkwood, Stroud)
- Check-in call (innovation work) – 3rd April (online)
- Storytelling workshop – 28th April (London)
Part Three: Showcase and Reflect
- Showcase – 5th June (London)
- Reflection session – 17th June (online)
Participants will also benefit from small group coaching sessions and 1-1 coaching sessions.

Who should apply?
Future Leaders are drawn from a range of backgrounds from the built environment sector, and are selected based on an enthusiasm to learn, an openness to new ways of thinking, and a desire to challenge the status quo. It is not a prerequisite to have sustainability in the job title – in fact the diversity of perspectives is crucial to the programme’s success.
As with our other leadership programmes, applications for Future Leaders are highly competitive, and we accept a maximum of two applicants from each organisation. All applicants must be endorsed by a line manager/ senior director in their organisation.
When your are ready to submit your application please complete and return to leaders@ukgbc.org. Once all applications are received, they are put before a review panel for assessment and a decision will be made within 2 weeks. As part of the application process, you might be asked to participate in a short telephone interview. Applicants are chosen based upon their knowledge, experience, and desire to challenge current systems and ways of working.
UKGBC offers up to five bursary places each year to an individual from either a not-for-profit organisation, SME, or local authority. In order to be considered for this place, your organisation must be a UKGBC member. Please contact leaders@ukgbc.org for more information.
If you have any further questions, please get in touch.
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