Scientists who can hold power, not merely advise it.
The Vanguard Science Society is a professional body for scientists and engineers who intend to lead: to own the company, the fund, the lab and the decision, not only the paper behind them.
Our story MembershipMove the best-trained minds on the planet out of the advisory seat.
Scientists are convened, consulted, thanked and ignored. Not because the science is weak, but because nobody taught the rest: capital, commerce, story, leadership, craft and strategy. The Society teaches it, measures it, and puts its members to work.
Rank scientists by what they have done
Seven skills, scored on outcomes that left a record, never on titles or enrolment. Your rank is your handle in the Society, and it grows with you.
Learn what nobody taught you
Commercial thinking, capital, communication, leadership, production and strategy, learned with peers and measured every quarter.
Do real work with your name on it
Analyst mandates on live deals, venture studio roles, scouting briefs, and a place on Dr Ben Miles's channel.
Why a society, and why now: the argument, the claim and the nine tenets every member is held to.
Five minutes, free. Find out where you stand across the seven skills and which one to work on next.
Bring the Society to your university. Three members and one institution is enough to start.
The founding cohort: 150 places, with applications opening on 28 October.
What the Society runs
Everything a member does maps back to the seven skills, and everything is measured by one number: how much its members improve.
Standing, a room of peers and real work, for scientists who intend to lead.
Membership → The rankSeven skills, scored on what you have done. Five tiers, from Ω to V.
Take your rank → Engineering SerendipityThe course every member takes: how scientists create their own luck, one term at a time.
The course → ChaptersThe Society in your university or lab, led by members, competing for a visit from Dr Ben Miles.
Chapters → ConvocationsFour gatherings a year, on the solstices and equinoxes. The first is on 21 December.
Convocations → DeploymentAnalyst mandates, studio roles and scouting briefs. Earned by members, never sold.
Deployment →The people building it
Founded by Dr Ben Miles. The seats beside him go to the founding cohort's first Chapter Leads.
The founding cohort
150 places. Applications open on 28 October and close at midnight on 7 November, and the close will be honoured. The founding cohort keeps its entry rate for life, charters the first chapters, and builds the Society's first course alongside Dr Ben Miles.