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OTA MEDIA GROUP · LONDON · 2026

The infrastructure of global leadership.

OTA Media is the first vertical AI platform for human leadership IP. We measure leadership rigorously through the Leadership Index, rank it editorially through The Fifty and the Global 100, calibrate it conversationally through Hello Li, and by 2027 open it as a marketplace through the OTA Network. The ambitious are not content. They are infrastructure. We build the rails.

Calibrating
London Stock ExchangeFeaturing Sir Kenneth Olisa OBE, Sir Charles Bowman, Afua Kyei, Edwin Danso, Ezechi Britton MBE, Gavin Lewis, Jennifer Thomas and Michael Eboda.
The Method

Six dimensions of how you lead.

01

Strategic Vision

How far ahead you see, and how clearly you translate the horizon into a direction others can follow.

02

Influence Architecture

How you build the coalitions, trust and leverage that turn a position into real organisational power.

03

Decision Intelligence

How you hold uncertainty, weigh evidence, and commit under incomplete information without freezing.

04

Adaptive Resilience

How you absorb shock, recover, and keep a team steady when the plan meets the real world.

05

Operational Gravity

How reliably intent becomes outcome. The mass that pulls plans into finished, shipped reality.

06

Innovation Catalysis

How you provoke new thinking, and give an organisation permission to try what it has not tried before.

Six dimensions. Fifteen archetypes.

Every pairing of the six dimensions resolves to a distinct leadership archetype. Take the assessment and the machine tells you which one is yours, and what it means for how you build, decide and lead.

The ArchitectThe CatalystThe NavigatorThe OperatorThe StrategistThe AnchorThe ConvenerThe BuilderThe Pathfinder+ 6 more

THE PRODUCTS · THREE LIGHTS

Green for the agent. Blue for the rail. Violet for the record.

TRUSTED COLLABORATORS · 2021 to 2026

Trusted from central banks to frontier AI labs. Built on the modern AI stack.

A partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group, a collaboration with HM Treasury on The Next Agenda, video collaborations with the Bank of England. Built on the modern AI stack: NVIDIA, Anthropic, Google, ElevenLabs, Stripe.

EDITORIAL & INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATORS

PARTNERSHIP
THE NEXT AGENDA
Off The Agenda

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THE EDITORIAL CANON · TWO SURFACES

Who the leaders are. What the leaders think.

FEATURED LEADERS · OFF THE AGENDA · 2024-2026

The leaders we’ve featured.

Two hundred leaders have sat with us. At the Bank of England, at the London Stock Exchange, in the boardrooms of John Lewis and the National Theatre. A small selection from the past two seasons.

OFF THE AGENDA · FEATURED01 / 06
BUSINESSWOMAN · TRANSPARENCY ADVOCATE
Gina Miller
FORMER CHAIR · JOHN LEWIS PARTNERSHIP
Dame Sharon White
CHAIR · NATIONAL THEATRE
Sir Damon Buffini
CFO · BANK OF ENGLAND
Afua Kyei
CROSSBENCH PEER · GLOBAL ADVISER
Lord Michael Hastings
FOUNDER · ENTERPRISE NATION
Emma Jones CBE

These are a few. The Leadership Terminal holds every leader we’ve read, from Off The Agenda to the Forbes billionaires, each with their Leadership Index archetype. Search it, screen it, compare.

Open the Leadership Terminal →

FEATURED · LONDON TECH WEEK 2026

OTA Media at London Tech Week.

The UK’s largest annual gathering of technology leadership. We were on the floor, capturing the keynote moments and the corridor conversations the wires missed. Four signature clips from the 2026 edition.

· HRH Prince William
· Edwin Danso
· Hazel Detsiny
· Sebastian Mitchell

FEATURED COLLABORATION · 2026

Off The Agenda × Bank of England.

Recorded inside Threadneedle Street with Afua Kyei, Chief Financial Officer of the Bank of England. The first OTA Media editorial production hosted at a UK central bank.

Watch Off The Agenda on YouTube

THE FIVE PILLARS · 2026-2028

01LEADERSHIP INDEX

The methodology.

A six-dimension psychometric assessment, twenty-four scenario-based questions, fifteen archetypes. The empirical layer beneath every other OTA product.

02THE FIFTY · GLOBAL 100

The editorial cohort.

The annual ranking of the most influential leaders shaping UK economic growth, and its international companion. Calibrated by the same methodology that grades the Index.

03HELLO LI

Your Agentic AI Thinking Partner.

Calibrated to how you actually lead. Voice-first, archetype-aware. Measured by the Leadership Index, the methodology behind The Fifty 2026. Live on the App Store.

04OTA NETWORK · 2027

The marketplace.

Configure your Boardroom of avatars from The Fifty and Global 100. Run real-time simulations on strategic decisions. Leaders earn royalties when their avatars are invoked. The Mandate Quotient becomes the first market-priced leadership ranking.

COMING 2027
05OFF THE AGENDA · OTA LIVE · THE CIRCLE

The editorial layer.

The podcast, the events programme, the leader network. The original surfaces, now the cultural substrate of the platform. Where the methodology meets the people it measures.

THE THREE-YEAR ARC · REUTERS NEXT 2026-2028

One narrative. Three keynotes. A category created.

REUTERS NEXT · 2026

The coach.

Hello Li launches as the first voice-native AI executive coach calibrated to the Leadership Index methodology.

REUTERS NEXT · 2027

The marketplace.

The OTA Network goes live. The Fifty and Global 100 leaders become accessible avatars. Leaders earn royalties; consumers run Boardroom simulations.

REUTERS NEXT · 2028

The ranking.

The Mandate Quotient replaces editorial leadership lists with empirical authority, computed from real-time platform demand, refreshed daily.

BUILT IN LONDON · BY EDWIN DANSO

Founded on a single question.

Founded by Edwin Danso in 2021 as Off The Agenda, a podcast for the conversations that don’t make it onto a corporate diary. By 2026, the company building the infrastructure underneath leadership itself.

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