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Intro · 1 day Day Tack One-day intensive
Morning theory in our Vienna studio. Afternoon on Lake Neusiedl. A first taste of the methodology with no need for sailing experience.
€600 / person
Academy · Programme 04 · Crew of six
When boats teach
what slides can't.
A working week at sea for senior leaders, process owners, and decision-makers. Strategy ashore in the morning. Crew on the lines in the afternoon. Reflection on deck after dinner. We bring the methodology — you bring a real organisational problem and the discipline to sit with it for five days.
JV/SAIL · est. 2026 01 · Why this exists
Process management, only with weather.
Sailing is not a metaphor for leadership — it is leadership, with the slide deck removed. Navigation under uncertainty. Crew coordination without authority cues. Risk assessment with consequences. Reading conditions you didn't pick.
We've spent twenty years building decision-support systems for organisations that get this wrong. We've also been sailing for almost as long. The seminar combines them.
— Not a perk. Not a retreat. A working week.
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Navigation
Decisions under uncertainty, with incomplete data and an unforgiving deadline. The same shape as every strategic call you make on land — just with consequences you can feel in the rigging.
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Crew
A six-person crew on a 45-foot boat is the smallest functional org you can run. Roles overlap. Communication is forced to be precise. Hierarchy bends to expertise. Your organisation in microcosm.
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Weather
Conditions change. The plan from yesterday becomes the wrong plan today. You learn — physically — to update beliefs, hold light, and act anyway. The same muscle every senior decision-maker needs.
02 · Three programmes
Pick your depth.
Every passage capped at six. Skipper is a certified RYA Yachtmaster Offshore with twelve years of process-management consulting.
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Most chosen Process Crew Five-day intensive
Adriatic week. Each morning we work through one real case from one participant's organisation. Afternoons sail. Evenings reflect. You leave with a working roadmap and six honest peers.
€5,400 / person
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Advanced · 10 days Open Ocean Ten-day passage seminar
A real Mediterranean passage. For senior leaders only. Real weather, real watches, real fatigue. The methodology lands deeper when the conditions push back.
€8,900 / person
03 · How a day looks
Mornings ashore. Afternoons aboard. Evenings honest.
07:30 — 12:30
Theory ashore
A short framework, then one participant's real case worked through with the group. We treat the case as a process-management problem with weather attached.
- Decision frameworks
- Risk & weather mapping
- Stakeholder routing
13:30 — 18:30
Applied at sea
A passage with a stated objective and an unstated constraint. The crew works the boat. The morning's case is held in the back of the head. Decisions on deck mirror decisions on the case.
- Watch rotations
- Navigation drills
- Live re-routing
20:00 — late
Reflection on deck
Dinner in harbour. One participant facilitates a structured retrospective on the day's case and the day's sail. We write what we learned. Sleep on it. Repeat.
- Structured retro
- Written takeaways
- Next-day brief
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By the third afternoon I stopped seeing the sailing and the case as separate. The same instinct I was trying to build with my team — wait for more signal, then commit — was sitting right there in the cockpit.
Anna K. / Operations Lead · Pharma · Hvar week 2025
Six seats. Two passages a year.
Apply with a paragraph about what you'd bring as a case. We reply within a working day, including the ones spent at sea.
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