Boardwave X WellFounded AI Leadership Retreat

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What is real leadership for an artificially intelligent world? Whether you’re building AI-native from day one, or transforming an existing business, the challenge is the same: how do you design a resilient company, and human agency, that thrives in the AI era?

This retreat, in the spectacular sacred ancient woodland of the Wasing Estate, is for founders and CEOs who want to step out of the noise, reset how they think, and lead what comes next.

Boardwave is partnering with WellFounded to invite you to the AI Leadership Reset, a two-day immersive retreat navigating one of the most profound shifts in technology history.

Following our Silicon Valley Insider Week, where we heard a shared consistent message: the old playbooks are over, this retreat is designed to help European leaders translate that insight into action.

This retreat creates space to step out of that cycle.

Why this experience and why here

In a world being reshaped by AI, it’s easy to lose sight of what remains fundamentally human and natural and feel stuck in reaction mode, overwhelmed by the noise, urgency, and ever-changing advice.

This retreat takes place at Wasing Estate, one of the UK’s most unique natural environments, twinned with a protected rainforest in the Amazon and designed around deep connection to nature.

For this experience, the estate is exclusively reserved, creating a private and uninterrupted setting for reflection, conversation, and deeper thinking.

Because as AI accelerates, human connection, judgment, and our relationship with the natural world become more, not less, important. We are not hosting this at a hotel or conference venue for a reason.

This environment is designed to create space for clearer thinking, forward planning, and enable thoughtful, quality conversations around one of the biggest business shifts in decades.

What this is...

An intimate, residential experience designed to help you:

  • Move from reactive, incremental AI adoption to real business transformation.
  • Cut through AI noise and identify what actually matters for your business.
  • Rethink your product, pricing, organisation, and talent model.
  • Learn from peers navigating the same shift.
  • Reset your thinking, energy, and clarity as a leader.
  • Learn from the world’s leading experts on where artificial intelligence is really going.
  • Understand the reasons for and power of human agency at the core of future industries.

What makes it different

Most AI conversations give you more inputs. This experience is a deliberate pause and designed to change how you think and what you do next.

We combine:

  • High-calibre AI operators and practitioners.
  • Founder-level discussions and decision frameworks.
  • Guided workshops on real strategic questions.
  • Nervous system reset sessions through nature, movement, and stillness: A reminder of what it is to be human.

What you'll walk away with

Practically applicable ideas you can implement immediately
A peer group to share the journey with - staying accountable and connected beyond the retreat
A sense of calm from which to lead with clarity

A Breakout style cohort

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Agenda Day

Contributors

This retreat is a rare opportunity to hear directly from both tech leaders, and wellness experts. Take a look at who you will meet: 

Professor Anil Seth

Professor, University of Sussex
Co-Director, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Program on Brain, Mind and Consciousness

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Rob Elkin

Founding Partner,
Rational Partners

Rob Elkin is the co-founder of Rational Partners and a technology leader whose career spans CTO and senior engineering roles across consumer technology, edtech, and mobile - from leading technology and product for the world's largest social language learning network at Busuu to running cross-functional engineering, product, and UX teams of 80 across the UK business at Just Eat.

He is a leader in the AI space, giving talks on the future of AI and its implementation within businesses, and coaching large development teams on their adoption of AI tools. The Rational team, via their Mindstone partnership, have delivered AI enabled engineering training to over 1800 engineers globally, allowing teams to unlock the capabilities of AI in revolutionising their engineering processes and Mindset.

Islam Ibrahim

Director, Product
Cruxy

Islam is an experienced data and growth strategy expert, with a proven track record of delivering impact across various sectors. He’s led data science, analytics and consulting teams for over 7 years within both advisory and B2B tech. At Cruxy, Islam leads Product, owning the roadmap and driving end-to-end product development. Over the past year, he has shaped Cortex's product strategy and delivery, aligning innovation closely with client needs. Alongside accelerating product development, he continues to lead client engagements, ensuring strong integration between commercial insight and platform evolution.

Nathalie du Preez

People & Leadership Advisor
Executive Coach

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Heather Taylor Portmann

Leadership Coach
Community Programme Manager,
Boardwave

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Dr Jack Kreindler

Founder, CEO, Principle Physician, Extreme Environments Physiologist

Jack’s medical career spans 25 years as a physician and extreme environments researcher, with an academic interest in computational modelling for predicting and improving public health. He is Founder and CEO of WellFounded Health, the world’s first health service dedicated to founders, CEOs and their investors globally, born out of the Centre for Health and Human Performance, which Jack founded in London in 2007. Jack has a parallel life as a tech entrepreneur – since 1999 he has been innovating in the space of human health, performance and flourishing for the workplace, extreme environments and clinical settings. His credentials include: veteran healthtech founder, investor and advisor in US and UK health/biotech – Mosaic Ventures (Venture Partner), Founders Forum Healthtech (Co-Founder & Chair), Headspace (First Advisor), CIGNA Vielife (founding team, product owner) and led several expeditions in healthcare, including Klarismo (affordable MRI), Certific (self-directed healthcare), and Sentrian (remote patient monitoring AI).

Meet the participants

This is an invitation-only experience to bring together a carefully curated group of founders and CEOs navigating the AI era from different vantage points, some building AI-first, others transforming established businesses.

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Hotel Information

Our Venue

Wasing Estate

Wasing Estate, Aldermaston, Berkshire, RG7 4NG
19-20 May
Check-in from: 09:00
Check-out: 17:00
Accommodation: Coach house and Stables
Workshp space: Garden Room, Castle Barn and Lake

What three words: Estate Office  |  Wasing Park  |  The Mount  |  Lower Park   Solstice |  Home Farmhouse  |  Kitts Cottage  |  Walled Garden  |  The Bothy | The Pavilion | Woodland  |  Pumpkins  |  Frouds Bridge Marina  |  Well Read Literary Festival

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Sauna and Swim Waiver

Your health and safety is our top priority. Open water swimming and any use of the sauna can be potentially hazardous.

Please read and sign the waiver below.

Our Partner

WellFounded is the first and leading Health and Performance Medicine service specially designed for Leaders and Founders and those performing in extremes — or living with extremely complex challenges. Originally CHHP, The Centre for Health & Human Performance, London, founded in 2007 by British Physician and Entrepreneur, Dr Jack Kreindler, WellFounded launched as a global service in 2019.

We’re a team of doctors, scientists and concierge care professionals dedicated to tech-enabled excellence in medicine, performance & survivorship.

As founders, explorers, soldiers and athletes who know extremes well, we’re passionate about ‘Health for Improbable Success’.

We are researchers of human hyper-endurance and functional longevity who thrive seeing extraordinary, purpose-driven people achieve their work & life goals.

Find out about our 6 month heath programme below.

Heath programme