Early and emerging talent training and consultancy.
Your early talent are capable of more. We help them prove it.
From potential to impact
Early and emerging talent arrive with energy and potential, but potential only becomes performance when people understand themselves, communicate well, and take ownership at work.
We build those foundations for early talent and their managers, shaped by two decades of developing thousands of early career people and the people who lead them, across some of the UK’s most recognisable organisations.
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Early career specialist
18+ years designing & delivering programmes. Results include 90% reduction in probation failures & 32% reduction in attrition of early talent.
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Designed for impact
Training & consultancy designed to turn early & emerging potential into impactful behaviours; how people think, communicate & take ownership.
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Built around you
We partner with L&D, HR, Early Career & leadership teams to shape training & strategy that fits your context, priorities & people.
What we do
Next Wave offers training and consultancy for businesses and organisations who invest in early talent and their people managers.
Built on two decades of experience turning early potential into credible contribution and stronger working relationships.
Workshops
In-person behavioural workshops that unlock stronger thinking, communication and contribution from your early talent and their managers.
Training Design
Bespoke training design for early career, emerging talent and management programmes, shaped around your context, people and priorities.
Consultancy
Strategic support when you’re shaping your early and emerging talent approach, from onboarding and development through to performance and retention.
Training workshops
Our workshops are designed to lift your people’s energy, and sharpen how they think, communicate, and take ownership at work.
Next Wave training is built to strengthen the three behavioural foundations that get early talent and their managers unstuck and turn potential into impact.
Self-clarity
When early talent don’t understand how they’re showing up, first impressions go wrong and trust is hard to rebuild.
Our self-clarity workshops give early talent and and their managers insight into their strengths, behaviours and impact, so they show up with more confidence and build trust faster.
Connection
Early talent are working alongside people they didn’t choose. When they can’t bridge that gap, relationships stall and work slows.
Our connection workshops build the communication skills to navigate different generations, styles and scenarios, for early talent and their managers, so relationships strengthen and work moves.
Contribution
Early talent often complete the task but don't yet own the outcome. When priorities shift and direction isn’t clear, work stalls.
Our contribution workshops build the ownership mindset and critical thinking skills to manage competing demands, navigate ambiguity and drive work forward.
Who we work with
We partner with organisations who:
Run internship, apprenticeship, graduate, early career or emerging talent offerings.
Recruit and develop in cohorts.
Care about how their talent and their managers contribute, collaborate & grow.
We are early career and emerging talent development specialists. Organisations we have worked with include Publicis Groupe, Ogilvy, PwC, Google, Accenture and Teach First.
We work across sectors and industries, and tailor everything to your people and context.
About Next Wave
Founded by Sophia Swidzinska, an early careers specialist with 20 years of experience designing and delivering early careers and management programmes across global agencies, FTSE businesses, the public sector and education.
We believe the start of a career deserves excellence. When the right foundations are built early, people perform better, stay longer, and grow into stronger leaders.
That belief shapes everything we do.
Get in touch
Let’s talk about what you need for your early and emerging talent cohorts.
