Sponsor the leaders you can't afford to replace.

The Business of Longevity Academy is application-only executive education built around the physiology of sustained leadership. CHROs and Heads of Talent use it as a precision retention tool for senior people in their forties, fifties, and sixties — the cohort where invisible attrition is most expensive.

The senior-leader retention problem is biological as much as cultural.

The textbook story is that senior executives leave for better titles or pay. The data underneath is messier. In the 45–60 cohort, the variables most predictive of attrition and capacity decline are not compensation. They are sleep architecture, cardiometabolic risk, perimenopausal symptom load, and chronic-stress recovery — variables that companies do not measure and do not insure against.

The cost is structural, not anecdotal

Replacing a sitting executive runs at multiple times annual cash compensation when you account for severance, search fees, deferred deals, and lost institutional knowledge. Even one preventable senior departure per year pays for the Academy at corporate-cohort scale.

The window is wide but specific

The five years on either side of a leader's fiftieth are the highest-leverage years for physiological intervention. After it, capacity decline accelerates non-linearly. Before it, the work compounds for decades.

Female-executive risk re-prices around menopause

The single most under-treated transition in corporate health benefits. The Academy is one of the few executive-education programmes with a dedicated, application-only Female CEO Longevity track addressing it directly.

It is leadership development, not a wellness benefit

The Academy reads as continuing executive education on the CV. Same register as INSEAD or Said. That matters for participant uptake — senior leaders accept it where they would refuse a "wellness" intervention.

Three formats for company sponsorship.

Pick the one that fits the seat count and the timeline. We're flexible on cohort start, billing schedule, and confidentiality structure.

Individual seats

Sponsor an executive

1–3 leaders per company per cohort, mixed with peers from other organisations.

  • Cross-company peer dialogue
  • Highest selectivity and breadth
  • List price applies; invoiced to the company

From £4,000 per seat. VAT extra.

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Group rate

Cluster of four-plus

A group of senior leaders from one company joining a mixed cohort, with a private peer channel.

  • Group discount of 15% on list
  • Private intra-company channel inside the cohort
  • Quarterly debrief with the sponsoring CHRO

From £3,400 per seat (4+). VAT extra.

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Bespoke cohort

Single-company cohort

A full 25-seat cohort drawn from one company. Curriculum lightly customised to your context, calendar set around your operating cycle.

  • Custom curriculum overlay
  • Faculty briefing on your sector and language
  • Joint CHRO + faculty review at completion

By quote. Typical engagement £80–120k.

Discuss bespoke

The deployment plan, in three steps.

1

Scope call (45 min)

You bring your situation; we bring the standard programme structure. We map seat count, cohort timing, and any curriculum overlays. No prep needed.

2

Internal pitch artefact

We supply a 4–6 page memo you can put to your CFO, your CEO, or your board. Includes the cost case, the participant profile, and our quality controls.

3

Cohort kickoff

Participants apply individually so we can vouch for fit. Live sessions begin on the agreed start date. CHRO gets a quarterly summary, never participant-level data.

The single hardest decision an HR director makes is which preventable executive departure to absorb this year. This programme moves preventable into manageable.

Judith Mueller · Co-founder, Expand Education

Talk to us about a corporate cohort.

Most of these conversations start with a 45-minute scope call. We don't ask you to prepare anything — bring the situation, we'll bring the structure.

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