Our Journey
The First Wave
New Wave Learning, founded in 2018 with a bold idea: that learning should feel like a shared, human experience—not a tick-box exercise. Originally built by a team of passionate facilitators and learning designers, New Wave Learning grew quickly with a desire to move beyond content delivery and create experiences that truly shifted behaviour.
In the early years, the focus was on innovation in delivery—blending tech-enabled learning with strong design principles. But as the world changed, so did our understanding of what learning really needs to be.
The New Wave
Today, New Wave Learning is led by Sarah Dena. Under her leadership, the business has undergone a profound shift—from a tech-forward approach to one centred on human connection, emotional intelligence, and behavioural impact.
Sarah brings a rare combination of emotional depth and strategic clarity. She’s unapologetically human in how she leads, designs and delivers learning—and bold in how she challenges clients to think differently about what learning can do. Her background in employee attraction, engagement and development, management & leadership development, wellbeing and inclusion, shapes every interaction, and underpins her belief in emotionally intelligent learning experiences.
We work with organisations ready to move beyond training and into transformation—supporting their people to ride the waves of transformational learning in a way that’s thoughtful, challenging, and real.
