Individual leaders’ membership
Catalyst by Future Food Movement
Catalyst is a curated leadership group within Future Food Movement for individuals shaping decisions across the food system through periods of volatility, transition and change.
This is the room senior operators use to test judgement, compare signals and make better decisions before the stakes escalate.
Why Catalyst exists
The most important decisions in food are now being made in the tension between commercial pressure, sustainability, resilience, health and organisational change.
When you are carrying real responsibility, the gap is rarely information. It is access to high-quality perspective and a trusted peer room to think clearly before choices lock in.
Catalyst is built to provide that.
The room you are joining
Catalyst brings together a deliberately small group of leaders drawn from across retail, manufacturing, farming, finance, foodservice, technology and policy.
Conversations are shaped by people already holding decision responsibility, not observing from the sidelines.
Our first roundtable, in partnership with Redgrave, convenes this group in June as the starting point for the founding cohort.
This is not open access. The quality of the room is the point.
Who Catalyst is for
Catalyst is for senior individuals who:
Carry real decision responsibility and accountability
Are operating ahead of, or without, formal organisational backing
Navigate trade-offs where timing, judgement and credibility matter
Want access to a high-trust room that improves how they lead
This network builds my capability to make high‑stakes decisions in a food system that no longer behaves predictably.
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Membership gives you access to:
A confidential peer group of senior leaders navigating complexity, change and decision-making across the food system
Trusted relationships that strengthen your judgement, influence and long-term leadership trajectory
Closed-door leadership roundtables in partnership with Redgrave, designed for candid, high-quality discussion
Early signals and cross-system insight from across the food value chain, helping you stay ahead of emerging risks and opportunities
Exposure to perspectives, leaders and approaches outside your immediate organisational environment
A trusted network you can draw on over time for challenge, perspective, collaboration and opportunity
Priority access to Future Food Movement leadership briefings, senior convenings and curated discussions.
Founding membership includes
Closed-door leadership roundtables designed for candid, decision-grade conversation
Early, cross-system signals to understand what is shifting beneath the headlines
A trusted peer group navigating similar leadership tensions
Curated discussions spanning commercial performance, resilience and transformation
Priority access to Future Food Movement leadership sessions
How Catalyst fits
Future Food Movement is the broader leadership platform for organisations and the food system.
Catalyst sits within it as a smaller, curated group for individuals.
It is personal participation in your own name. It does not replace corporate membership. It strengthens it by supporting the individuals making decisions within it.
Typical members include
Heads or Directors of strategy, innovation, sustainability and commercial
Policy, supply‑chain and public affairs leaders
Founders, challengers and entrepreneurial intrapreneurs
Next‑generation directors inside large organisations
Chefs, culinary leaders and operators shaping demand, culture and consumption from the front line
Agri‑food and primary production leaders influencing resilience, supply security and land‑use decisions
About Membership
Catalyst is a founding cohort.
Places are intentionally limited to protect the quality of conversation and peer group.
Approved members receive a payment link and are onboarded into the Catalyst group. Monthly payments are available.
View our Catalyst membership terms and conditions
Join the founding cohort
If you are already making decisions in this environment, and want a stronger room around you while you do it, apply to join.
£1,500
per person, per year
Built by Future Food Movement, Catalyst brings together ambitious individuals from across food, farming, retail, manufacturing, hospitality, investment and policy to make better sense of change - and to build the confidence, perspective and relationships needed to act.
The future of food will not be shaped by isolated organisations acting alone.
It will be shaped by leaders who can interpret complexity, build trust, influence systems and make confident decisions under pressure.
Catalyst exists to support exactly that kind of leadership.
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