Generic helps the keen. We turn around the reluctant.
Your managers are where culture is made or lost.
Most leadership training works for the managers who already want to learn. Ours works for every manager in the room, including the ones who don't want to be there. Each person is seen, understood and works on their real leadership struggles, in real time.
We help when:
- Managers avoid difficult conversations about performance and behaviour
- New managers are still acting like one of the team
- Good performers have become poor leaders
- Teams are firefighting instead of planning
- Leaders aren't getting buy-in for change
- Trust has broken down within or between teams
Our Approach
No death by PowerPoint. Our programs are built on discussion, real scenarios and practical models leaders can use the next day. We read your strategy, culture and sensitivities quickly, so the room stays safe and the learning stays the priority. Every leader walks away with an action plan they'll actually put into practice the very next day.
Signature Program
1 or 2 day programs
Leadership is an inside job. This is our deepest program: a transformational journey for leaders ready to grow in self-awareness, courage and impact, not just collect new skills.
- 8 training days, delivered over several months
- Leadership Circle Profile 360 and a 2-hour debrief
- 5 one-on-one coaching sessions
- Monthly leadership circles to keep the learning alive
1 or 2 day programs
1 or 2 day programs
Focused, practical programs on the skills your leaders need most right now. Run one on its own, combine several, or let us tailor them to your leadership framework.
Topics include: values-based leadership, emotional intelligence, coaching for performance, building strong teams, communicating effectively, strategic thinking, decision-making, time management and design thinking.
Optional 360-degree review available.
Webinars
Webinars
Engaging, interactive webinars that bring leaders together across locations, with no travel and no time out of the business. Expect real conversation, practical tools and ideas leaders can use that afternoon, not a talking head and a slide deck.
Ideal for distributed teams, a leadership series, or a spark before a longer program.
Learn models from the experts such as Simon Sinek, Dr Brene Brown, Patrick Lencioni, Bob Anderson, Dr Mary Gentile, David Rock, Dr Nilima Bhat and many more.
Take them in sequence or run one, or let us tailor them
Introduction to Leadership - 1 Day
Introduction to Leadership - 1 Day
Introduction to Leadership - 1 Day
For emerging, new and relief managers. Leaders learn the mindset, behaviours and language that make the step into leadership work, including how to manage people who used to be their peers and friends.
Management Essentials - 2 days
Introduction to Leadership - 1 Day
Introduction to Leadership - 1 Day
The foundations of managing people: self-awareness, building trust, managing time, navigating conflict, addressing performance and behaviour early, and creating a team where people can do their best work.
Leading Strong Teams - 2 days
Leading Strategically - 2 days
Leading Strategically - 2 days
Building on Management Essentials, leaders gain the mindset, frameworks and practice to build real teamwork, so the team shares responsibility for goals, motivation and accountability, rather than relying on the manager for everything.
Leading Strategically - 2 days
Leading Strategically - 2 days
Leading Strategically - 2 days
The next step after Leading Strong Teams. Leaders widen their view of the organisation, move beyond firefighting and busy work, and plan with an agile, customer-focused approach.
Design Thinking for Leaders - 1 Day
A masterclass for leaders who want to shape an employee experience that keeps people engaged and performing at their best, because HR can't carry the employee experience alone.
Leading with EQ - 1 or 2 days
Why emotionally intelligent leaders earn more loyalty and discretionary effort than technical expertise alone, and how to build those skills. Especially valuable in technical and expert-led environments.
Coaching for Performance - 1 Day
Giving Performance Feedback - Half Day
Leaders learn a coaching style that helps people solve problems themselves, think creatively and lift their own performance, and the organisation's.
Giving Performance Feedback - Half Day
Giving Performance Feedback - Half Day
Giving Performance Feedback - Half Day
The motivation, skills and process for one of the trickiest parts of management: difficult conversations about performance and behaviour.
Lead with your Strengths - Half day
Giving Performance Feedback - Half Day
Lead with your Strengths - Half day
Teams go further, faster when they build on what they do well. Includes each participant's Gallup CliftonStrengths top 5 assessment.
Leading Across Cultures - 1 Day
Giving Performance Feedback - Half Day
Lead with your Strengths - Half day
For leaders working globally or managing culturally diverse teams. Builds cultural intelligence and cross-cultural communication skills.
Grounded in research, balanced by design
Women's Leadership Research
Women researchers are cited far less often than men, largely because of citation bias. That means many leadership programs miss half the best thinking.
When we measured our signature program, Leadership in Action, about 30% of the research we taught came from women, already above most programs.
We've now lifted it to 50%.
Leaders learn from Brené Brown's BRAVING Trust (Dare to Lead), Nilima Bhat's Empowerment Dynamic (Shakti Leadership), Mary Gentile's Giving Voice to Values, and Tasha Eurich's groundbreaking work on self-awareness (Insight).
Men's Leadership Research
Many men have shaped how we understand leadership, and their work remains central to our programs.
Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team is our go-to model for building high-performing teams. Daniel Pink's Drive shows how autonomy, mastery and purpose bring out people's best work. Robert Anderson and William Adams' Mastering Leadership underpins The Leadership Circle Profile, our preferred 360 assessment because it's well researched and strengths-based.
Gender-balanced research gives our programs more depth and brings deserving, lesser-known voices into the room.
"A Leader embodies their values; risks their safety and security to remain integral to their values and encourages others to do the same, for the common good."
Kristyn Haywood, Senior Leadership Educator & Coach