Greatness isn’t born. It’s built.

BecomingX helps organisations develop exceptional people and teams through powerful learning experiences, education programmes and events that transform how people think, lead and perform.

Realise your potential.

We create learning experiences that help people and organisations achieve extraordinary things.

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Corporate training

We partner with leading organisations to develop high-performing people and teams. Our bespoke learning solutions and programmes build leadership, resilience and performance at every career stage, from early careers to executive leadership.

Celebrating completing the World's Deepest Marathon

Events

BecomingX creates powerful personal development experiences for organisations and professionals. Our events inspire participants while building teamwork, leadership and resilience through unforgettable shared challenges.

Volunteer speaking to a group in front of the X model, denoting the attributes critical to success.

Education solutions

The BecomingX Education digital platform helps educators and homeschoolers deliver outstanding personal development and PSHE programmes. Through the stories and lessons of extraordinary achievers, students develop the mindset, character, and resilience they need to thrive.

“Life rewards the dreamers, the go-getters and the resilient. BecomingX helps people to understand what it really takes to succeed and gives them the confidence to get out there and go for it. Every single day.”
Bear Grylls
BecomingX co-founder

Impact beyond the bottom line.

Because the chance to realise your potential should not depend on where you start.

BecomingX and sponsors discuss our initiatives to support Ukrainian refugees

Social impact

Our founding purpose is to create a world where everyone can realise their potential - not just those who can afford it. Working with our clients and partners, we use education, technology and storytelling to create real opportunities for people who need them most: refugees, unemployed adults prison leavers and underserved communities.Because talent is everywhere. Opportunity isn’t.

B Corporation sustainability

B Corporation

BecomingX is proudly a certified B Corporation, meeting the highest standards of social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability. We are currently the highest-scoring B Corp in the UK and the third highest in the world - recognition of our commitment to building a business that creates positive impact alongside commercial success. Always aiming higher. Always striving to make a difference.

Kenyan children talking together, a photo from the BecomingX Foundation social impact project in Kenya.

BecomingX Foundation

The BecomingX Foundation is our charitable arm, delivering our mission in disadvantaged communities around the world. We support the Foundation through education content, films and technology platforms, alongside fundraising. Following a successful pilot in Embu, Kenya supporting children from a rescue centre and local schools, the Foundation is now working to expand its programmes to other communities across Africa.

BecomingX film covers montage - images of the worlds most inspiring and iconic people filmed by BecomingX.

Insights from the world’s most inspiring and iconic people

Films

“Following your curiosity won't ensure that you succeed in the eyes of the world, or by anyone else's metrics, but you will have meaningful experience for yourself if you can follow your curiosity to its end.”
Natalie Portman
Became an Academy Award winning actress

News and developments

How Ford is powering our World’s Highest Marathon attempt

Ahead of the World’s Highest Marathon attempt, BecomingX CEO Paul Gurney writes on his experience...

Alexis Rose of BecomingX puts a medal around the neck of a runner in the World's Deepest Marathon

Organising one of the most unique events on Earth

Going into this event we weren’t naïve to the fact that staging a marathon is never simple...

Promotional image of three runners in the World's Deepest Marathon

The World’s Deepest Marathon – making history below the Earth’s surface

Our purpose at BecomingX is to help people realise their potential...

A cropped image of the X model, BecomingX's evidence based diagram showing the attributes critical to success. A cropped image of the X model, BecomingX's evidence based diagram showing the attributes critical to success.

The science of success

What does it really take to realise your potential and perform at the highest levels? Is it 'talent'? 'Mindset'? 'Grit'? Or is it something else? At BecomingX, evidence matters. Our work is informed by over 370 academic articles as well as our research with the world’s most successful people, to uncover the real ingredients of extraordinary achievement. We use these insights to help people to break through limits, and develop the skills and attitudes needed to succeed.