A peer community I'm convening alongside my advisory practice — for cross-sector operators, strategists, investors and challengers to:
Forming later in 2026. Get on the early list — no commitment, no charge. Founding cohort kept small on purpose.
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The edge of your industry is a lonely place. The people thinking at the same edge sit in other sectors, other geographies, other companies. The best ideas travel across industry lines before they show up inside one.
This is the community where they meet — visionaries, disruptors, challengers and trailblazers coming together to sense-make what is coming, share what is working, challenge each other's frames, and shape their thinking through conversations that matter, across industry boundaries.
Members leave with sharper questions, earlier signal on shifts their industry has not priced in yet, and a handful of peers they can think with. The community runs under the Chatham House Rule — what is said in the community can travel; who said it, and which organisation they came from, do not. So the talking can be real.
Visionaries, disruptors, challengers and trailblazers at the front edge of their fields. Founders, operators, strategists and investors rewriting how things get done.
FTSE 250+ companies — writing the next growth chapter.
Typically £10m+ revenue. The early playbook is behind them. The next one isn't written yet.
Mandate-led functions inside big companies — paid to ask the questions no one else has time for.
People who back the next thing before it's obvious.
They look further out than the next quarter — and say the thing the community is avoiding.
What the community shares: the willingness to challenge peers, and the work to back it up.
Recognise yourself in the community? Get on the early list — no commitment, no charge.
Get on the early list →Members come together for what doesn't sit inside any one organisation. Cross-sector signal. Best practice that travels. Peers thinking at the same edge. Early read on what is emerging. Conversations that don't happen anywhere else.
Curated conversations on what members are wrestling with right now. Rotating cities — UK, Western Europe, Romania — plus an online edition each month. Member-led. No keynotes, no panels.
Sector-specific sensemaking — TMT, FinTech, Insurance, CleanTech, HealthTech, public innovation. The shifts hitting each industry in the next two to five years. Half-day. Three to five a year per sector.
Smaller groups of six to eight, challenging each other on the frames behind the questions they're sitting with — not the confidential specifics, the assumptions underneath. Chatham House Rule. Structured. Accountable.
One in-person summit a year, by invitation. Deeper conversations across the membership, with a handful of outside voices — founders, researchers, contrarians.
Future Makers is convened by Diana Spiridon, alongside the independent advisory practice — which works under the opportunity architecture method. The advisory is the main offer: helping leaders decide what to back, test, stop or scale before capital, teams and credibility are committed. The community is something separate — a place to think out loud with peers, not a route into client work. See the services →
Seventeen years inside Sky, Citi Ventures, Shell Energy, Virgin Media O2, Discovery, WarnerMedia, Arqiva, NN and Innovate UK — at the moments when the next direction had to be found, the next venture built, or the engine sharpened. Romanian-born, London-shaped. Read the longer bio →
If this sounds like your kind of community, get on the early list. No commitment, no charge — just a note from Diana when the founding cohort opens for sign-up.
Kept small on purpose. No fee for founding members. You help shape the first rhythm of topics and formats, and keep your seat when membership goes paid.
Diana curates the community herself, drawing on seventeen years of operator and investor relationships across Sky, Citi Ventures, Shell, Virgin Media O2 and Innovate UK. The bar is how a person actually shows up in conversation — sharp, candid, useful to peers.
Most members will show up two to four times a quarter, in the formats that fit. No mandatory attendance. Designed to fit around a busy calendar.
Show up to the conversations you choose. Contribute as much as you take. Respect the Chatham House Rule that makes the conversation possible.
Three short lines to register interest. I'm looking for operators, strategists, investors and challengers — peers who'll be honest, future-facing, and ready to push back.
I read every note myself and reply inside ten days.
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