The Circles Initiative
Convening the UK's best and brightest for today's challenges
The scale and speed of complexity has outpaced what siloed experts and narrow specialization can manage. Innovation is increasingly shaped by private interests, where competitive incentives crowd out shared responsibility. But structural problems cannot be solved in isolation. They demand coordinated intelligence—something our current institutions are neither designed nor incentivized to deliver.
Framework
Participants share firsthand experiences of the problem from their sector's perspective, establishing a shared set of assumptions grounded in reality. This ensures everyone understands the true nature of the challenge from multiple angles.
The group identifies the systemic constraints preventing the problem from being solved. With all components of the system represented in the room, participants uncover barriers that might remain invisible to any single sector working alone.
The Circle establishes specific actions to address identified constraints and assigns them to participants. This creates a practical roadmap with clear ownership and accountability.
About the
Initiative
The Circles Initiative aims to reignite the flame of collective effort through a series of intentional, curated collaborations between technologists, researchers, business leaders, policy makers, and frontline practitioners, directed towards finding actionable solutions. We pair these participants with the most pressing systemic challenges and equip them with the sharpest tools, strategic support, and the freedom to think beyond institutional constraints, resulting in idea generation that moves decisively towards implementation.
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