“The times are urgent...
Let us slow down.”
- Báyò Akómoláfé
Welcome to Deep Wave
We help leaders better influence the complex systems around them.
Wisdom | Agency | Collaboration | Transformation
20+ years supporting thousands of purpose-led leaders and teams around the world.
Collective Enquiry | Training | Coaching | Network
“What we do makes a difference.
We have to decide what difference we want to make”
- Jane Goodall
“You really understand how to get a group of disjointed leaders to move. I really appreciate your authenticity, your openness and your insight. Humble. Determined. Inspiring. Thank you.”
- Senior Executive, Global FMCG
“I’m in awe of your ability to focus our efforts on maximum impact, to break down complex problems, and to motivate execution. Excellent coaching & facilitation.”
- Senior Executive, International Non-profit
“Richard is one of those people who asks the right questions, in the right way, at the right time. He holds a unique ability to identify and unleash individuals’ potential for growth.”
- Founder & CEO, national Impact Association
Point of View
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The state of the world is largely a reflection of the wisdom of cumulative decisions previously taken.
The intertwined crises we are now facing reflect a stark, and long-growing wisdom gap.
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We are part of a giant, nested, interconnected, interdependent, complex, adaptive, living system.
Yet we have been taught to see, think and act from a largely siloed, fragmented, machine-system worldview.
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The leadership work of our time is to cultivate a deeper understanding of the nested systems we are part of, and to improve our ability to steward transformation.
Deep Wave was established to support this work.
RICHARD GORVETT, PRINCIPAL
I have spent the past 20 years coaching, training, advising, consulting to, and helping build support ecosystems for thousands of purpose-led, transformation-focused business and non-profit leaders and organizations across 25+ countries.
7 of those years were spent in Southern & East Africa and 5 were spent as the Global Impact Director at the international non-profit Reach for Change, where, in partnership with the Swedish investment company Kinnevik, the World Bank, IKEA Foundation, GIZ and many others, we set up and ran incubators and accelerators for impact entrepreneurs all over the world.
I currently work on a broad range of leadership and impact development initiatives at both international and local levels, from senior leadership programs for the UK Civil Service & one of the world’s largest FMCG companies, to a range of community initiatives here in Freeport, Maine where I live. I am also a cofounder of the Regenerative Maine network.
I work both alone, and in concert with others from my diverse and deeply experienced network of local and international consultants, facilitators, coaches, impact entrepreneurs and other purpose-led leaders.
A deep curiosity to understand how we individually & collectively shape change led me to study and practice Social Entrepreneurship at the London School for Social Entrepreneurs, Transformational Leadership with Tim Munden (Lucca Leadership), Executive Coaching & Mentoring with Chapel House, Regenerative Development & Design with Pamela Mang & Bill Reed (Regenesis Group), Regenerative Leadership with Laura Storm, Three Horizons with Bill Sharpe and Rosa Sommer (Leader’s Quest), Regenerative Economics with John Fullerton (Capital Institute) and Team Dynamics with Rich Watkins (Let’s Go!).
