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Rise Collaboration Accelerator (RCA)
For organisations serious about building stronger collaboration across teams, functions, and geographies.
Why it matters
Collaboration is a strategic necessity in today’s organisations — but many struggle to find approaches that meaningfully strengthen both the skills and relationships needed to collaborate well. The RISE Collaboration Accelerator (RCA) builds these core capacities. It helps individuals lead with greater presence and connection, and supports teams to work across silos and adapt together.
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Who's it for?
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Cross-functional leadership groups needing to work more cohesively across silos
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Teams spread across regions or business units who must build alignment and trust remotely
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Leaders driving transformation or culture change who want to increase influence and effectiveness
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Emerging and senior leaders ready to lead more intentionally and collaboratively
“90% of leaders say our work improved
collaboration across their organisation.”
The value of this programme
The RISE Collaboration Accelerator (RCA) develops the human and relational capacities that underpin high-performing, collaborative organisations. It enables a shift from siloed effort to coordinated, trust-based action across functions and levels.
Here’s what it strengthens:
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Cross-functional collaboration
Builds shared language and trust across silos, improving coordination, information flow, and innovation. -
Relational capacity and culture
Deepens connection and understanding across the organisation, creating conditions for more open, honest, and human ways of working. -
Collective leadership
Develops the mindset and practices needed to move from individual heroics to systemic, collaborative leadership. -
Sustained performance and adaptability
Supports teams to navigate change together, boosting productivity while strengthening the culture that enables it. -
Lasting infrastructure for change
RCA groups often become self-sustaining peer networks, embedding new behaviours and ways of working over time.
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Builds practical collaboration skills
Develop habits and practices to communicate more clearly, build stronger professional relationships, work with conflict, and make better decisions. -
Enhances self-awareness and presence
Deepen understanding of your impact and influence within your team or organisation, notice patterns under pressure, and show up with more intention and integrity. -
Offers a rare space for reflection, connection and learning
Take time to pause, think differently, and grow alongside peers, away from the pressure of the day-to-day. -
Expands influence through trusted relationships
Build meaningful, cross-functional connections that support both personal development and wider organisational impact. - Sharper organisational and strategic thinking
See the bigger picture more clearly, connect the dots, and better understand your role within the wider system.
Hear from RCA participants
Shift in behaviour
"It became clear which leaders had been on the RCA as there definitely was a shift in behaviour in meetings and project work"
Andy WeaverBruntwood
Trust improved
"Helped us commit to each other and the business on a more profound level. There is far more empathy and pateince between the accelerators."
Caroline KochCorinthia London
Unbreakable trust
"For me the biggest thing was the self awareness we all gained and the unbreakable trust we built."
Mike WilliamsGraham & Brown
Better understanding of challenges
"provided a space to get better understanding of the challenges we are facing and how to tackle them"
Kitty EscobarScan Computers
What makes the RCA different?
Most leadership programmes finish. The RCA is designed to last.
The RCA experience is designed to evolve into a self-sustaining peer learning network across the organisation. Some clients we’ve partnered with still have their networks going strong eight years on. These ongoing RISE Circles create ripple effects well beyond the initial programme, deepening trust, shared understanding, and more collaborative ways of working across the organisation
Programme Outline
The intiial programme typically runs over 12 months and is designed to integrate with the busy schedules and demands of leadership. Depending on your organisation’s context, it can be delivered fully virtually (ideal for distributed or global leadership groups) or as a hybrid experience combining in-person retreats with ongoing virtual sessions.
Content Overview
The RCA is shaped around our Collaboration Compass, which identifies four essential domains of effective leadership and collaboration: Being, Thinking, Doing, and Relating.
Each module is rooted in peer learning blending practical tools with shared reflection and real-time experimentation, focused on the everyday challenges participants face in their roles.
Together, the modules support participants to:
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Deepen self-awareness and presence (Being)
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Strengthen critical thinking and sense-making (Thinking)
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Take thoughtful, coordinated action (Doing)
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Build stronger, more honest relationships (Relating)
This integrated approach helps leaders shift how they show up, how they work with others, and how they make progress on what matters.
The RCA can also be tailored to focus on specific developmental needs, whether that’s enhancing cross-functional collaboration, supporting new leadership behaviours, or embedding shared practices across teams.
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Small-group, peer-based learning
Each programme cohort is made up of RCA Circles, small, diverse groups of 6–8 peers representing different functions, regions, and perspectives across the organisation. These Circles are the heart of the experience, offering a trusted space for reflection, challenge, and shared learning.
Module 1: Leading with Presence (Being)
Develop self-awareness, emotional regulation, and practices to show up intentionally, even under pressure. Includes presencing, reflection, and wellbeing habits.
Module 2: Making Sense in Complexity (Thinking)
Strengthen your ability to think critically, challenge assumptions, and make informed decisions in complex, uncertain environments.
Module 3: Working with Dynamics and Difference (Relating)
Learn to navigate power, tension, and group dynamics with empathy and skill, building the foundation for psychological safety and trust.
Module 4: Turning Conflict into Connection (Relating)
Develop tools for holding difficult conversations, offering and receiving feedback, and transforming conflict into constructive engagement.
Module 5: Taking Collaborative Action (Doing)
Focus on iteration, coordination, and shared ownership, building habits that enable thoughtful and aligned action across silos.
Module 6: Sustaining Change through Peer Learning (Integration)
Embed learning through collaborative projects and ongoing peer support, with many groups forming self-sustaining RISE Circles that continue well beyond the programme.
+ Live Project Sprint (optional)
Organisations can choose to include a live cross-organisational sprint, where RCA participants collaborate on a real business priority alongside the programme. Sponsored by the executive team, the project provides a shared focus to apply learning in context, work across silos, and deliver visible value to the organisation.
Interested? Let's talk
If you’re curious about how the RISE Collaboration Accelerator could support your organisation, we’d love to talk.