Summit Your Mind · The People

The ones who lead.

Every expedition is only as good as the person holding it. We choose our coaches for who they are as much as what they know, and for having walked the ground they now guide others across.

Expedition leaders

Leadership & what's next

Bill Williams

Leads The Second Summit · November 2026

Bill has spent his career advising founders and chief executives through the moments that decide a company and the moments that decide a life. He understands the particular quiet of the man who has succeeded and is not sure it was the right summit, and he leads with candour rather than comfort.

Read Bill's full story · See the expedition

Leadership & coping

Shereen Qutob

Leads The Clearing · March 2027

Shereen designs and leads The Clearing. She brings a lived and professional understanding of what women carry and what it costs, and shapes the expedition around real recovery and real leadership. She leads alongside her partner, so the group is held by two women throughout.

Fuller biography and photograph to follow. · See the expedition

Leadership & coping

Co-leader, The Clearing

Co-leads The Clearing · March 2027

Shereen's partner co-leads The Clearing, bringing a second voice and a second set of hands so no woman on the mountain is ever without support. Details to follow.

Biography and photograph to follow.

More to come

New coaches, new columns

Mental health · Spiritual & inspirational

As the Time Chamber, First Light, The Thin Place and Breath and Stone open their dates, the specialist coaches leading them will appear here. We are in conversation with practitioners across all three pillars.

Coaches: get in touch

Find the right person for your climb.

Tell us what is bringing you to the mountain and we will point you to the expedition, and the leader, that fits.