06 · Programme 2026 · June to December
Slower thinking for sharper work.
A small events practice for senior practitioners in the United Kingdom who already know the basics and are looking for an honest few hours with peers who do too.
What we programme.
№ 01The Programme
We run eight events a year. Conferences in London, a working summit on applied AI, a residential retreat in the Cotswolds, two writing programmes, a workshop on commercial negotiation, and one online masterclass we keep deliberately small. The rooms are capped by venue rather than by tier, and the post-event materials are printed and posted, never live-streamed. If you have ever left a conference wishing the speakers had been briefed properly and the lunch had been longer, you may already know what we are for.
№ 02How we work
Three things that make the day different.
Depth over breadth
We programme fewer sessions and longer Q and A. Six speakers in eight hours, not sixteen in six. Each speaker is briefed by the chair three months in advance, and each attendee receives a printed reader before the day. The point is to leave with two ideas you will actually carry forward, not twenty you will forget by Friday.
No vendor stages
We do not sell speaking slots, we do not host sponsor pitches from the floor, and we do not put product logos on session backdrops. Sponsors support the programme, they do not direct it. The chair writes every brief. The reader is independent. The questions from the floor are not vetted.
A working alumni network
Roughly a third of our seats each year are returning attendees, and we run an alumni breakfast every six months in London and Edinburgh. We do not call it a community. We call it a list of people whose direct lines you will want, and who will want yours, after you have spent eight hours in a room together.
№ 03The Position
We are not in the content business. We are in the considered-conversation business.
We started Think Professionally because the events that taught us most are getting harder to find. The day with six well-prepared speakers, the workshop where the chair actually chairs, the retreat where the phones stay in the lockbox until tea. The trade has drifted, for understandable reasons, towards bigger rooms, more sessions, shorter slots, sponsor stages, and content packaged for replay.
Our rooms are smaller. Our days are longer. The breaks are deliberately unprogrammed, and the speakers know they will be questioned by peers who have read their brief. We do not record sessions, we do not livestream, and we do not invite vendors to pitch from the floor.
№ 04The Calendar
Eight events between June and December.
Each event is capped by room.
Patron seats tend to go first.
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Jun 11 2026
Communication Under Pressure
A three-and-a-half-hour online masterclass for senior executives who have to speak well on the day a corporate or public-sector crisis breaks. One tutor, two live exercises, no recording, no replay.
From £80 -
Jun 25 2026
Speak Plainly
A one-day masterclass on plain English at the top, for thirty senior executives and partners whose writing is read by boards, regulators, and the press.
From £380 -
Jul 09 2026
Boardroom Letters
A one-day writing workshop for senior communicators, with eight hours of drafting, peer critique, and tutorial on the four document forms that actually move boards.
From £380 -
Aug 20 2026
Negotiation in Practice
A one-day workshop on commercial negotiation, taught from real cases by two senior practitioners, with thirty participants and four live exercises.
From £380 -
Sep 17 2026
The Slow Retreat
Three nights in the Cotswolds for twenty senior practitioners, with two facilitators, structured mornings, unprogrammed afternoons, and no phones from supper Thursday until breakfast Sunday.
From £1,800 -
Oct 15 2026
The Strategic Pause
Our annual flagship conference. One room, six speakers, and eight hours of unhurried strategy conversation for one hundred and twenty senior practitioners.
From £580 -
Nov 12 2026
AI for the Considered Executive
Two days of grown-up conversation about applied AI for senior executives who are tired of the product demo and want the operating questions, the procurement questions, and the labour questions instead.
From £980 -
Dec 03 2026
The End-of-Year Review
Our year-end conference. Five speakers, one hybrid room, eight hours of intelligent and experienced people quietly admitting what they were wrong about in 2026.
From £580
№ 05What you do next
If that sounds like a day you would clear the diary for.
Each event page tells you who is speaking, what the room is, and what you will leave with. The patron seats tend to go first, and the standard tickets close when the room is full.
From the briefing note, sent to subscribers each month.The room you would actually want to be in. A working day rather than a content day. Useful, slightly inconvenient, and worth the train fare.