The Weave Founder Academy
A year to build what matters,without losing yourself in the process.
The Founder Academy is a practice ground for experienced professionals who want more than a course. Over twelve months, you’ll develop the mindset of a founder, turn a cloudy sense of what you want to change into a tested side hustle, and lay the foundations of a business that is genuinely yours.
01 — Who it is for
Built for people with a career behind them — and plenty ahead.
The Academy is designed for experienced professionals — people who have led teams, delivered real work, and now want that experience to serve something of their own. You will not be asked to delete your past or start from zero. Everything here is peer-to-peer: your decades in the room are the raw material, not the obstacle.
If you have wondered whether your best working years could still be ahead of you, they can be. This is where you prove it — steadily, with evidence, alongside people making the same move.
02 — The year, in practice
Twelve months. Four movements. One business taking shape.
Ground
Sophrology-informed mindset practice builds the inner stability and sustainable rhythm everything else stands on. You learn to pause, recover, and lead yourself before you lead anything else.
Explore
From a cloudy sense of what you want to change to genuine clarity — your values, your direction, and the shape of a business that would actually fit your life.
Test
Small, real-world experiments with real customers. Your side hustle leaves the notebook and meets the market, gathering evidence instead of opinions.
Build
Strategy, operating rhythm, and the makings of a solid business — built at a pace a full life can sustain, alongside peers making the same transition.
03 — What is woven in
Not a course. A practice ground.
- Sophrology-informed mindset and leadership practice
- Fortnightly real-world experiments with customer evidence
- Mentoring and a practitioner network
- A peer community of people making the same transition
- Practical business education — no startup theatre
- A flexible, modular rhythm that fits around work and family
Find clarity. Test possibility. Build what matters.
Not sure whether founding is your next chapter? You don’t need to decide that today.
Personal Clarity gives you ten structured weeks — including the Founder Capacity Index — to explore what you want, understand what you bring, and work out whether building something of your own genuinely fits your life.
£499 including VAT. At the end, leave with clarity, or continue into the full Academy year for £2,501 — £3,000 in total.
Ready to commit now? A £300 deposit secures the £2,600 Early Bird Academy place, including lifetime access to The Weave’s 1% Club. Pay the £2,300 balance before 31 December 2026 to save £400.
Register your interest
Leave your details and we will keep you posted as the first cohort takes shape. No obligation, no hard sell.