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British exploration brand Shackleton is partnering with the Financial Times to deliver the ultimate leadership development programme for modern C-suite executives, combining extreme polar survival with business strategy.

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Shackleton x FT Leadership Challenge
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  • 1: Ability to hike for a day of 6 hours with a backpack
  • 2: Ability to hike for 4 consecutive days of 6 hours with a backpack
  • 3: Ability to hike for over one week in consecutive days of 6 hours with a backpack
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  • Discover (L1): Learn fundamental skills that enable you to operate in extreme environments
  • Explore (L2): Develop your capability with longer, more demanding and self-sufficient expeditions Pioneer
  • Pioneer (L3): Create your own chapter in the history of exploration with long-range expeditions along untrodden paths
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Shackleton x FT Leadership Challenge

The Shackleton x FT Leadership Challenge explores the proposition that, with the right mindset and adequate preparation, almost anyone can summon their inner leader when called upon. Through the lens of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s philosophy, the Challenge reframes leadership not as heroism, but as judgement, adaptability and care for others under pressure.

With first dates launching in April 2027, The Shackleton x FT Leadership Challenge will build resilience in Finse, Norway where Amundsen, Scott and Shackleton all trained a century ago. The five-day courses will include full polar expedition training on the Hardangervidda glacier, including cross-country skiing and camping out in sub-zero temperatures, combined with a carefully developed series of inspiring lectures, workshops and coaching sessions from a FT-picked team of experts in the legendary Finse1222 hotel.

Shackleton x FT Leadership Challenge

Jon Slade, the FT’s new CEO is behind the initiative. “Significant uncertainty has become part of global and domestic business in today’s world. Sir Ernest Shackleton understood that unforeseen events and extreme environments do more than just test leaders, they shape and make them. His outstanding leadership of the ‘Endurance’ expedition to Antarctica in 1914-17 has made his name a by-word for courage, determination and ingenuity; - traits we would all do well to cultivate’ said Slade.

LEADERSHIP THROUGH ADVERSITY

Shackleton x FT Leadership Challenge

DEVELOP AN EXPLORER MINDSET

Shackleton Co-founder Ian Holdcroft said, ‘The Boss (Shackleton) showed us that effective leadership is built on personal resilience - an ability to dig deep and make good decisions even in the most difficult of times. This will be a unique opportunity to develop an explorer mindset in an epic and challenging environment. Whatever happens, it will be unforgettable.’

Shackleton x FT Leadership Challenge

The expedition component of the Challenge will be led by Louis Rudd MBE (the first Briton to cross Antarctica, solo, unsupported and unassisted).

The course does not require any prior experience of exploration or snowsports, but a minimum level of physical fitness is essential.

POLAR EXPERTISE

Shackleton x FT Leadership Challenge

Full details of agenda and guest speakers will be released on June 26th 2026 and the final selection of explorer guests will be by June 31st 2026

SPECTACULAR HOSPITALITY

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Included

  • Foundations expedition preparation programme
  • All Challenge specific expedition & camping equipment
  • Loan of Challenge specific clothing (Pulk jacket & Down jacket)
  • Accommodation, food & drink
  • Food whilst on expedition
  • In-country travel & logistics throughout the duration of the Challenge

Not Included

  • Return flights to Norway
  • Expedition Kit List
  • Personal Insurance

SHACKLETON DESIGN & MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD (“Shackleton”) BOOKING CONDITIONS 

These Booking Conditions (“Booking Conditions”), together with our Privacy Policy, Acknowledgment of Risk form and any other written information we brought to your attention before we confirmed your booking, form the basis of your contract with Shackleton of Flint Buildings, 1 Bedding Lane, Norwich NR3 1RG with company number: 07169051 (“Shackleton” “we”, “us”, “our”). Please read them carefully as they set out our respective rights and obligations. In these Booking Conditions references to "you" and "your" include the first named person on the booking and all persons on whose behalf a booking is made or any other person to whom a booking is added or transferred.

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Current Season Price

$12,700.00

Following Season Price

$13,123.00 SGD

WHY COME WITH SHACKLETON

PREPARATION, FITNESS, SUITABILITY

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AUTHENTIC EXPEDITIONS

Every Shackleton Challenge has a central mission designed to develop the physical, mental and emotional strength required to access our untapped performance potential. While all challenges will stretch us to a degree, none will defeat us. We come through as a team.

 

SHACKLETON SPIRIT

Shackleton Challenges embody the enlightened leadership so central to the Boss’s own ethos, with empathy and encouragement at the centre. Our committed guides come with invaluable experience in tackling multi-day expeditions and a deep well of environmental wisdom and lively anecdotes. The contrast between daytime achievement and team-wide conviviality in the evenings is a distinctive feature of Shackleton Challenges that marks us out as different in kind.

LIFELONG RETURNS

The trials overcome will evolve into resources that you’ll draw on for the rest of your life, applicable to all kinds of situations where you’ll need to take the lead.

 

Memories made will abide. Like most of our Challenges alumni, you’ll probably stay in touch with the rest of the team.

While this Level One Challenge can adapt to a wide range of fitness levels, the Boss came here for a reason: it can easily catch out the unprepared. Our Foundations programme details exactly how we recommend all team members make ready to play their part in helping everyone come through smiling.

"It was probably the best experience of my life so far."

"Inarguable proof that my physical and mental strength is far more than I ever gave myself credit for."

"It had only been a short expedition but I was already planning my next – it turns out there’s no turning back once you’ve had a taste of real adventure."

"The journey is as much inward as it is outward."

"I felt a huge appreciation for the natural world and people who encompass the spirit of endurance."

PREPARATION, FITNESS, SUITABILITY

While this Level One Challenge can adapt to a wide range of fitness levels, the Boss came here for a reason: it can easily catch out the unprepared. Our Foundations programme details exactly how we recommend all team members make ready to play their part in helping everyone come through smiling.

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Shackleton x FT Leadership Challenge

DEVELOP AN EXPLORER MINDSET

Shackleton Co-founder Ian Holdcroft said, ‘The Boss (Shackleton) showed us that effective leadership is built on personal resilience - an ability to dig deep and make good decisions even in the most difficult of times. This will be a unique opportunity to develop an explorer mindset in an epic and challenging environment. Whatever happens, it will be unforgettable.’

Shackleton x FT Leadership Challenge

LEADERSHIP THROUGH ADVERSITY

Jon Slade, the FT’s new CEO is behind the initiative. “Significant uncertainty has become part of global and domestic business in today’s world. Sir Ernest Shackleton understood that unforeseen events and extreme environments do more than just test leaders, they shape and make them. His outstanding leadership of the ‘Endurance’ expedition to Antarctica in 1914-17 has made his name a by-word for courage, determination and ingenuity; - traits we would all do well to cultivate’ said Slade.

Shackleton x FT Leadership Challenge

SPECTACULAR HOSPITALITY

Full details of agenda and guest speakers will be released on June 26th 2026 and the final selection of explorer guests will be by June 31st 2026

Shackleton x FT Leadership Challenge

POLAR EXPERTISE

The expedition component of the Challenge will be led by Louis Rudd MBE (the first Briton to cross Antarctica, solo, unsupported and unassisted).

The course does not require any prior experience of exploration or snowsports, but a minimum level of physical fitness is essential.

Shackleton x FT Leadership Challenge

PREPARATION, FITNESS, SUITABILITY

While this Level One Challenge can adapt to a wide range of fitness levels, the Boss came here for a reason: it can easily catch out the unprepared. Our Foundations programme details exactly how we recommend all team members make ready to play their part in helping everyone come through smiling.

TOTAL PRICE

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$12,700.00

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“The journey is as much inward as it is outward.”

"At the end of this experience I truly felt as if I had conquered a side of myself that didn’t believe intense physical challenges were something for me."

“It was probably the best experience of my life so far."

Sign up to find out more about the Shackleton x FT Leadership Challenge

Shackleton x FT Leadership Challenge
Shackleton x FT Leadership Challenge

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