Leaders in discussion around a recording table with microphones

Independent. Always on. Open agenda.

Independent.
Always on.
Open agenda.

Coming soon: a new approach to how senior leaders drive global progress

The defining problems and opportunities of this decade will be shaped by dialogue between the people with the power to act on them. The Mantle exists to make that dialogue happen.

The Mantle is an independent, invite-only place for senior leaders to debate the issues and opportunities that matter to their organisations, in private and on the record. Every on-the-record discussion is filmed and published on The Mantle’s YouTube channel, podcast and newsletter, with clips across social. Private sessions are never filmed or attributed. Your organisation gets a voice in the debate and airtime for its leaders, alongside peers from business, government, finance, NGOs and academia.

AI & technology

Health

Energy & climate

Economy

Resilience

and more

Join the waitlist for a founding place

The founding cohort is limited to 100 organisations. The waitlist is free to join, takes under a minute, and there is no commitment to pay.

Hear why we are building it

The people who can move global challenges forward rarely work on them together.

When they do meet, the conversation tends to stay in the room, and progress stalls with it.

Today’s options each leave a gap.

Once a year, with little in between

Global forums such as Davos bring leaders together for a few days a year. Momentum fades between meetings, and many of the people needed to act are never invited or can’t make it.

Sponsor-led

Business convenings and events are largely shaped by the sponsors who fund them, behind closed doors, and little of what is said reaches the wider world.

Noisy and unfocused

Social platforms are open to everyone and too noisy to build anything on. Conventional media follows the news, when global challenges need sustained attention.

Bring the right people together. Give their ideas a wider audience.

Bring the right people together.
Give their ideas a wider audience.

The Mantle is built to close the gaps that today’s options leave. It is always on, combining curated senior membership, regular and varied debate and its own media.

Independent by design.

Debates are never sponsored. Sponsors can back the flagship and advertise around our content, and they never control the agenda, the guest list or the editorial.

No fixed cause. If a global challenge is big enough, it is on the agenda.

Members help set what comes next, and we do not shy away from difficult debates.

Drive progress on what matters to your organisation.

Every organisation has causes it wants to advance, for moral reasons, commercial ones or both. Whatever the motive, it needs the same thing: a credible, independent place to raise awareness and build momentum.

Trust & Influence

Lead on the issues and opportunities you care about, from where your sector is heading and where investment flows to the policy that shapes both, through debates whose recommendations are published. The Mantle is editorially independent and fronted by hosts with real editorial clout, so what your leaders say carries weight.

Profile

Every named member gets a filmed 1-1 interview to bring an issue or idea to The Mantle’s audience, published on its YouTube channel, podcast and newsletter and promoted to the people who care about the topic. Clips are cut for your own channels, building the profile of your key leaders.

Access

Build relationships with senior leaders across business, finance, government, NGOs, philanthropy and academia, including off the record, with introductions to other members on request.

A founding role

The Mantle is being built for its members, from scratch. Founding members work with the team more closely, so it delivers more value as it scales, and their founding rate is locked for three years.

Your organisation joins, and its named members take part at the level that fits their role. Each one gets a 1-1 interview, a place in the debates and access to the flagship. You can add more members as you scale your involvement with The Mantle.

Principal

C-suite leaders and equivalents.

Operator

Senior comms, corporate, government and external affairs leaders and equivalents.

Get your leaders heard, in the open and behind closed doors.

What happens in the open is published. Some of it is free to everyone, and members get all of it first. What happens behind closed doors stays there, and members alone receive an anonymised digest.

1-1 interviews

A filmed conversation with a host, one for each named member.

Published

Promoted to relevant audiences, with clips cut for your own channels.

Illustrative

Debates

Curated debates between senior peers, online and around the table, hosted by the founding team. They begin in early 2027.

Published

Filmed and published, with the recommendations that come out of them. Clips go to social.

Annual flagship

London, September 2027. No panels, no keynotes. The day combines on-the-record sessions, filmed in a working media studio, with off-the-record conversations. More closed-door sessions follow as The Mantle grows.

On the record

Filmed and published.

Off the record

Not filmed or attributed.

Illustrative

What joining the waitlist gets you

When you join the waitlist

When you become a founding member

First call on a founding place

Hear the full membership offer, and apply for a place, before it opens more widely. Founding places open in early 2027 and are limited to 100 organisations.

The founding rate

Your founding membership rate is locked for three years.

Behind the scenes

Follow the build, and tell the founding team what would make The Mantle most useful to your organisation. Calls with the founders are available.

Set the opening agenda

Nominate topics for the first debates, with first sight of the agenda.

First access to the flagship

Be first to hear when flagship places open.

Priority at the flagship

Founding members are first in line to take part. Details to follow.

You are invited to apply for one of 100 founding places.

We intend The Mantle to become one of the most influential media and membership brands in the world, and we take the organisations that back us first seriously. More cohorts will follow as we grow. Our founding team and hosts will be announced before the first debates.

We expect far more interest than places, so we choose with care. We look for a spread of sectors and organisation types, and for organisations we believe will add the most to The Mantle. Please join the waitlist only if you are genuinely interested in membership and want to hear the full offer when it is released.

Join the waitlist

Tell us who you are and which organisation you represent. We review every request personally and will email you once your place on the waitlist is approved.

Joining the waitlist is free and carries no commitment. Membership is paid for by organisations and is by invitation.