Our approach
We don’t teach leadership. We live it - then bring it to your organisation.
Every Explore Performance programme is built on a real expedition - planned, executed, and filmed by our team. That footage is the emotional backbone of every leadership experience we deliver.
When your people watch real humans navigating uncertainty, failure, and triumph at the edge of the world, leadership stops being abstract. It becomes personal. Unforgettable. Transformational.
This is the approach behind our Brandon Hall Gold Award‑winning work. It is the method that aligned 20,000 UBS leaders across 5 continents. And it is something no other leadership development company in the world can replicate.
Our clients
Trusted by leading organisations worldwide.
When we show up
The moments we partner in.
We don’t work at the edges of your leadership agenda. We show up at the moments where the stakes are highest - and the margin for an average experience is lowest.
Aligning leaders at scale
When thousands of leaders need to move in the same direction - after a merger, through a transformation, or at the start of something new.
Driving growth ambitions
When your commercial teams need to think bigger, decide better, and align behind a goal that hasn’t been achieved before.
Defining culture
When rapid growth has outpaced your ability to articulate what you stand for - and you need to define it, embed it, and scale it.
Leading transformation
When your organisation is changing faster than its people are adapting - and you need leaders who can carry others through.
Sustaining behaviour change
When a great event isn’t enough - and you need the learning to stick, compound, and show up in how leaders operate every day.
Influencing at the highest level
When your most senior leaders need to shift how they think, communicate, and show up — for boards, for clients, or for the people they lead.
The method
How we create impact.
01
Experience
Participants are placed inside a real expedition - making decisions alongside our team, under genuine pressure, with real consequences within the simulation. The experience is available face-to-face, virtually, or in hybrid format, for any audience size.
02
Reflect
The debrief is where the expedition becomes the curriculum. Our facilitators - many of whom completed the expeditions themselves- map every decision and breakthrough from the field to the specific leadership behaviours your organisation needs to develop.
03
Apply
Learning that stays in the room has no value. Every programme is designed with application in mind - specific commitments, shared language, and follow‑on structures that sustain behaviour change long after the live experience ends.
Client work
The work that defines us.
20,000 leaders.
5 continents.
8 months.
Following the UBS / Credit Suisse merger, Explore Performance designed and delivered a culture integration programme that aligned 20,000 employees across 150 workshop sessions in 8 months - using our Into The Unknown simulation as the shared experience that made it real.
Brandon Hall Gold
Brandon Hall Gold
Brandon Hall Silver
Best Leadership Development 2025
World Record
The expeditions
Seven expeditions. Seven leadership programmes.
Each programme is built on a real expedition - filmed by our team, owned by us, and unavailable to any other L&D provider in the world. Choose the expedition that maps to the leadership challenge your organisation is facing.
Everest: For Those Who Dare
Team alignment and empowerment – the ABCDE framework.
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Into The Unknown - The Tasman Crossing
Mindset and Bold Unique Goals.
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Human Power - Bay of Bengal
Leading self and personal performance.
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Peak 2 Peak
Essentialism – achieving more with less.
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Waves of Impact
Communicating and influencing.
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Charting Your Future
Purpose and values – mine, define and refine.
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Cyclone Alley
ESG and systems thinking.
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Global reach
We deliver leadership programmes all over the world. Literally.
In any given week, EP facilitators are running programmes across multiple continents simultaneously. This week alone: Las Vegas, London and Singapore. Last month: Madrid, Sydney, Tokyo, Zurich, Dubai and New York. We have facilitators based in Singapore, Sydney, London, Dubai and across the Americas - so wherever your people are, we can be there too. At world-class standard. Without flying anyone in.
Asia Pacific
Singapore - APAC Headquarters
1 Scotts Road, #24-10 Shaw Centre
Singapore 228208
Our founding home and APAC hub. Facilitators based in Singapore and Sydney. Recent programmes across Australia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Greater China and Southeast Asia.
Europe, Middle East & Africa
Winchester - EMEA
Winchester, United Kingdom
Active across the UK and Europe. Recent programmes with teams in London, Zurich, Geneva, Paris, Madrid and Amsterdam.
Middle East
Dubai
Meydan Freezone Business Centre
6th Floor, Meydan Grandstand, Dubai
Supporting multinational organisations across the UAE and GCC. Growing market with significant opportunity ahead.
North & Latin America
The Americas
Regional delivery hub - North America, Latin America.
Regional delivery hub supporting global clients across North and Latin America.
Our clients
Trusted by leading organisations worldwide.
From the field
Latest Insights
Thinking from the field - leadership lessons from the world’s most demanding environments.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does Explore Performance do?
Explore Performance designs and delivers immersive leadership development programmes built on real expeditions - from summiting Everest to rowing the Tasman Sea. We use that expedition footage as the emotional backbone of every learning experience, creating the kind of impact that traditional training rarely achieves. Our programmes help organisations align leaders at scale, define and embed culture, drive growth ambitions, and navigate complex transformation. We have delivered to over 40,000 participants across 25 countries and were recognised with a Brandon Hall Gold Award for Best Learning and Development Programme in 2025.
Can Explore Performance deliver programmes virtually as well as in person?
Yes - all of our programmes are available face-to-face, virtually, and in hybrid formats. Virtual delivery maintains the full immersive experience: participants engage with real expedition footage, make live team decisions, and debrief with our facilitators in real time via Zoom or equivalent platforms. We have delivered virtual programmes to global audiences ranging from a single leadership team to thousands of participants running simultaneously across multiple time zones.
How long are your programmes - and what format is right for us?
Our programmes range from 30–60 minutes through to multi-month learning journeys, depending on your context and objectives. A 30–60 minute interactive keynote works well for large-scale conferences and kickoffs where you need high energy, inspiration, and a shared experience - but time is limited. Half-day and full-day experiences allow us to go deeper, with more time for the debrief and application back to the team’s real challenges. For maximum and lasting impact, we also design talent development programmes that span 6–12 months, combining in-person simulation experiences with virtual team coaching and momentum sessions in between. The right format depends on what you’re trying to achieve - we’re happy to advise.
Can a session be standalone or does it need to sit inside a bigger programme?
Either works. Many clients come to us for a single high-impact experience - a conference keynote, a leadership offsite, a team effectiveness session. Others embed our content into a multi-month learning journey where the simulation is one touchpoint in a broader programme of development. Our experiences are designed to work powerfully as standalone sessions and to connect seamlessly into larger curricula. If you’re not sure which approach fits your needs, we’ll help you figure it out.
Where is Explore Performance based and where do you deliver?
Explore Performance was founded in Singapore in 2018. Our office is on Amoy Street in Singapore’s CBD, and we also have offices in Dubai and the UK. But we are fundamentally a global company - in any given week our team is running programmes simultaneously across multiple continents. We have a team of 30+ facilitators based across APAC, EMEA, the UAE and the Americas, so we deliver locally, with local expertise, wherever your people are. Recent programmes have taken us to Las Vegas, London, Madrid, Sydney, Tokyo, Zurich, Dubai, New York, Paris and Singapore. We can also deliver programmes in local language, including Mandarin, Korean, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
What kinds of organisations does Explore Performance work with?
We work with global organisations across financial services, technology, pharmaceuticals, energy and consumer goods - typically at the moment when the stakes are highest: a merger, a transformation, a growth inflection, or a culture shift at scale. Our clients include UBS, AWS, Google, Standard Chartered Bank, Trafigura, TikTok, Snap, P&G, Sanofi, AstraZeneca and many others. What they have in common is ambition - and a belief that the best leadership development has to be felt, not just heard.
Has Explore Performance won any awards?
Yes. In 2025 Explore Performance won a Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Award Gold for Best Learning and Development Programme, and a Silver for Best Leadership Development Programme - the most prestigious independent recognition in the global L&D industry. The awards were won for our cultural integration programme with UBS, where we helped introduce their culture framework to 20,000 leaders and delivered over 200 in-person sessions across 5 continents.