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STORMPROOF STRATEGIES

We build resilient leaders and teams

As uncertainty and change become the defining challenges of our time, we believe resilience is the answer. Through a globally unique combination of extreme survival, strategic foresight and behavioural psychology, we work with leadership and teams seeking competitive advantage in a radical world.


Trusted by:

DISRUPTION

INSTABILITY

ACCELERATION

POLARISATION

SCARCITY

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OUR PHILOSOPHY

Things that have never happened before,
happen all the time.

Rogue Wave Scenarios is your next resilience partner, enabling your people to think clearly, decide boldly, and lead through whatever comes next.

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Our Expertise

Deploying a globally unique combination of experience and expertise

Extreme Survival
Principles forged deep inside the eye of the storm

Our methods are built on first-hand experience of high-stakes life or death decision-making. We know what it takes to think clearly when there is no margin for error.

Extreme Survival
Principles forged deep inside the eye of the storm

Our methods are built on first-hand experience of high-stakes life or death decision-making. We know what it takes to think clearly when there is no margin for error.

Strategic Foresight
World-leading scenario planning expertise

We draw on years of expertise to help organisations see around corners. Our frameworks support strategic leaders in making resilient decisions.

Strategic Foresight
World-leading scenario planning expertise

We draw on years of expertise to help organisations see around corners. Our frameworks support strategic leaders in making resilient decisions.

Behavioural Psychology
Deep understanding of the science of stress and pressure

We design and deliver interventions that shape how leaders and teams think, communicate and decide at the coalface.

Behavioural Psychology
Deep understanding of the science of stress and pressure

We design and deliver interventions that shape how leaders and teams think, communicate and decide at the coalface.

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Our Services

Our programmes are delivered through diagnostics, workshops and action-planning within:

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Scenario Planning

We help teams explore the plausible future states that will ultimately define their success before navigating them towards the most resilient and stormproof strategies to help them win.

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Leadership Training

We utilise a deep expertise and understanding in performance and psychology to equip leaders with the cognitive tools and courage to make bold and confident decisions, and take their teams with them.

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performance
development
influence
identity
Leadership Training

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Team Development

We help teams discover what they're made of. Our hands-on approach ensures strategies are implemented effectively and create lasting impact.

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culture
trust
collaboration
change
Team Development

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Keynote Speaking

We use our defining origin story to help hosts inspire and motivate their most important and valuable audiences across the themes of resilience, decision-making, leadership and more.

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storytelling
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leadership
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Keynote Speaking

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Bespoke Projects

Share a challenge you are facing within your business or team and we will endeavour to provide a solution.

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exclusive
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impact
Bespoke Projects

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Scenario Planning

We help teams explore the plausible future states that will ultimately define their success before navigating them towards the most resilient and stormproof strategies to help them win.

futures
strategy
decision-making
planning
leadership
Scenario Planning

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Leadership Training

We utilise a deep expertise and understanding in performance and psychology to equip leaders with the cognitive tools and courage to make bold and confident decisions, and take their teams with them.

leadership
performance
development
influence
identity
Leadership Training

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Team Development

We help teams discover what they're made of. Our hands-on approach ensures strategies are implemented effectively and create lasting impact.

team
culture
trust
collaboration
change
Team Development

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Keynote Speaking

We use our defining origin story to help hosts inspire and motivate their most important and valuable audiences across the themes of resilience, decision-making, leadership and more.

inspiration
storytelling
resilience
leadership
decision-making
Keynote Speaking

/ 000

Bespoke Projects

Share a challenge you are facing within your business or team and we will endeavour to provide a solution.

solutions
tailored
exclusive
custom
impact
Bespoke Projects

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Our Story

"Life or death was ultimately determined by a few inches and series of extraodinary decisions"

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Through fire and water
Through fire and water

Chris and Max were hit by a devastating rogue wave during a race to row 3000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean in 2017. What followed - amidst the worst conditions in a decade - is a battle to survive widely regarded as one of the most perilous sequence of events in the history of ocean racing. After a capsize, fire and almost fatal rescue attempt in an Atlantic storm, the difference between life and death was ultimately determined by a few inches and a series of extraordinary decisions.

Chris and Max were hit by a devastating rogue wave during a race to row 3000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean in 2017. What followed - amidst the worst conditions in a decade - is a battle to survive widely regarded as one of the most perilous sequence of events in the history of ocean racing. After a capsize, fire and almost fatal rescue attempt in an Atlantic storm, the difference between life and death was ultimately determined by a few inches and a series of extraordinary decisions.

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To the very edge, and back
To the very edge, and back

In 2019 Max went back across the threshold to orchestrate a breathtaking comeback. Just two years on from their worst case scenario, he returned to the race with Dave Spelman. They not only completed the journey but broke the world record for the fastest pair to row the Atlantic.

In 2019 Max went back across the threshold to orchestrate a breathtaking comeback. Just two years on from their worst case scenario, he returned to the race with Dave Spelman. They not only completed the journey but broke the world record for the fastest pair to row the Atlantic.

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The Thinker & The Explorer
The Thinker & The Explorer

Following their experiences, they diverged and converged. Chris developed deep expertise psychology and how people sense, process and respond to stress and pressure - forging him into The Thinker. Max became an expert in navigating external forces of uncertainty and change with scenario planning and expedition preparedness - building him into The Explorer. Together, they founded Rogue Wave Scenarios.

Following their experiences, they diverged and converged. Chris developed deep expertise psychology and how people sense, process and respond to stress and pressure - forging him into The Thinker. Max became an expert in navigating external forces of uncertainty and change with scenario planning and expedition preparedness - building him into The Explorer. Together, they founded Rogue Wave Scenarios.

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Our Team

Unique Experience Meets Global Expertise

Max Thorpe

Cofounder & Director
Expeditions // Shackleton

Max is a world record-breaking athlete and protagonist of an unlikely comeback story. He is a scenarios expert specialising in expedition and extreme environments preparedness.

Max Thorpe

Cofounder & Director
Expeditions // Shackleton

Max is a world record-breaking athlete and protagonist of an unlikely comeback story. He is a scenarios expert specialising in expedition and extreme environments preparedness.

Chris Williams

Cofounder & Director
Director // Supertri

Chris holds a decade of senior commercial leadership in professional sport, combined with deep expertise in the psychology of stress, pressure, and elite performance.

Chris Williams

Cofounder & Director
Director // Supertri

Chris holds a decade of senior commercial leadership in professional sport, combined with deep expertise in the psychology of stress, pressure, and elite performance.

Geraldine Wessing

Senior Advisor
Chief Political Analyst // Shell

Geraldine is the world's foremost geopolitical scenarios practitioner, leading the pioneering Shell team's country-level environment assessments and global scenario development.

Geraldine Wessing

Senior Advisor
Chief Political Analyst // Shell

Geraldine is the world's foremost geopolitical scenarios practitioner, leading the pioneering Shell team's country-level environment assessments and global scenario development.

Dean Rodrigues

Senior Advisor
Head of UK M&A // Greenhill

Dean is one of the UK's most respected M&A bankers, with a career built entirely within Greenhill - one of the world's leading independent advisory firms.

Dean Rodrigues

Senior Advisor
Head of UK M&A // Greenhill

Dean is one of the UK's most respected M&A bankers, with a career built entirely within Greenhill - one of the world's leading independent advisory firms.

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Our Impact

Where resilient teams and leaders meet measurable results

Clarity
The ability to think straight when the pressure is highest
Clarity
The ability to think straight when the pressure is highest
Conviction
The courage to make bold decisions with incomplete information
Conviction
The courage to make bold decisions with incomplete information
Cohesion
Teams that hold together when conditions fall apart
Cohesion
Teams that hold together when conditions fall apart