Leadership Development Workshops
For leaders at every stage of their career arc — from rising talent to senior executives.
Strong leadership isn't a fixed destination. It's something leaders keep developing throughout their careers — and the moments of greatest growth are often the moments of greatest pressure. A new level of responsibility. A culture that needs shifting. A conversation that keeps getting avoided.
These workshops create the space for that development to happen — practically, honestly, and grounded in real organisational experience rather than theory. Each session is half a day, designed to fit around the demands of a working week rather than compete with them, and tailored to the specific context and culture of your organisation.
For organisations looking to invest more deeply in their women leaders, our Women in Leadership programmes offer a sustained alternative — combining facilitated workshops, 1:1 coaching, and peer learning over six months.
Empowering Others Authentically Let go to lead.
The shift from doing to enabling is one of the hardest transitions a leader makes. It requires trusting others to deliver, releasing control without abdicating responsibility, and finding a way to empower your team that is true to who you are rather than a management technique you're performing.
This workshop explores what genuine empowerment looks like in practice — how to build real autonomy and accountability in your team, how to delegate in a way that develops rather than just offloads, and how to hold the tension between giving people space and maintaining standards.
Participants leave with a clearer understanding of their own empowerment style, practical frameworks for delegation and accountability, and commitments to specific changes in how they lead.
Half or full day — suitable for mid-level and senior leaders.
Fuel your thinking
Start here:Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman — research-based exploration of why some leaders amplify the intelligence of those around them while others inadvertently diminish it.
Go deeper:Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink — draws on decades of behavioural science to argue that autonomy, mastery, and purpose are more powerful motivators than reward and control.
Watch:The Puzzle of Motivation — Daniel Pink, TED 2009. One of the most-watched TED talks on leadership and motivation — distils the Drive research into 18 compelling minutes.
Resilience for Senior Leaders Leading at the top.
The pressures of senior leadership are specific — and most generic resilience content doesn't address them. The weight of responsibility for others. The isolation of the top. The difficulty of switching off when the stakes are high and the decisions are yours.
This workshop is designed specifically for senior leaders navigating those pressures. It goes beyond the surface-level advice that fills most wellbeing programmes to address the real challenges of sustaining performance, energy, and perspective at the top — without burning out or losing sight of why the work matters.
Participants leave with practical frameworks for energy management, a clearer understanding of their own resilience patterns, and specific strategies for leading sustainably over the long term.
Half or full day — suitable for senior leaders and leadership teams.
Fuel your thinking
Start here: The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time by Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz — reframes resilience as energy management rather than endurance. Particularly relevant for senior leaders who can no longer rely on willpower alone to sustain performance.
Go deeper: Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure — Shawn Achor & Michelle Gielan, Harvard Business Review, 2016. Challenges the dominant narrative that resilience is about pushing through, arguing that recovery is the real skill.
Watch: The Happy Secret to Better Work — Shawn Achor, TED 2011. Counterintuitive and evidence-based research on the relationship between positivity, performance, and sustained leadership effectiveness.
Strategic connections Navigating Your Network.
For many leaders, networking feels inauthentic — transactional, uncomfortable, and at odds with how they like to operate. But the research is clear: the quality of your relationships is one of the strongest predictors of career progression and leadership effectiveness.
This workshop reframes what networking actually means — and gives leaders a practical approach to building and leveraging the strategic relationships that accelerate careers, with intention and without feeling like you're playing a game that doesn't suit you. It addresses the specific barriers that hold many leaders back from building strong networks, and offers a more authentic model for relationship-building that works for people who aren't natural networkers.
Half or full day — suitable for emerging and rising leaders.
Fuel your thinking
Start here: Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by Herminia Ibarra — challenges the idea that we must first know who we are before changing how we act. Ibarra's research shows that action comes first and identity follows, which reframes how we think about building new relationships.
Go deeper: A Lack of Sponsorship is Keeping Women from Advancing — Herminia Ibarra, Nancy Carter & Christine Silva, Harvard Business Review, 2019. Original research on the difference between mentoring and sponsorship, and why the latter matters far more for career advancement.
Watch: How to Find the Work You Love — Scott Dinsmore, TED 2012. A compelling reframe of networking as finding your people rather than collecting contacts.
Leading Courageous Conversations The conversation you've been avoiding.
The conversations that matter most are often the ones leaders avoid longest. The underperformance nobody has named. The dynamic that is obvious to everyone but unaddressed. The decision that needs to be made but keeps being deferred.
This workshop strengthens the ability to have those conversations — with direct reports, with peers, with senior stakeholders — with confidence, clarity, and the kind of courage that builds relationships rather than damaging them. It goes beyond frameworks to address the emotional and psychological reasons why leaders avoid difficult conversations, and what it actually takes to change that pattern.
Participants practise the skills in the room so they leave ready to act, not just aware that they should.
Half or full day — suitable for mid-level and senior leaders
Fuel your thinking
Start here:Dare to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts by Brené Brown — the result of a seven-year study on courage and leadership, making the research case for why brave conversations distinguish great leaders.
Go deeper:Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen — developed from the Harvard Negotiation Project, the most rigorous academic treatment of why difficult conversations go wrong and how to redesign them.
Listen:Dare to Lead Podcast — Brené Brown's podcast covering courageous leadership, difficult conversations, and vulnerability in organisations with researchers and senior executives.
Building Leadership Confidence Show up.
Confidence is not a fixed trait — it's a practice. And for many talented leaders, the gap between their capability and their confidence is quietly limiting what they achieve, how they show up in rooms that matter, and whether they put themselves forward for the opportunities they deserve.
This workshop identifies the specific confidence patterns that hold leaders back — imposter syndrome, perfectionism, fear of visibility, over-preparation as avoidance — and builds practical strategies for leading with authenticity and presence rather than performing a version of confidence that doesn't feel like them.
Participants leave with a clearer picture of their own confidence landscape, practical tools for managing the moments that trigger self-doubt, and a more grounded sense of their own leadership identity.
Half or full day — suitable for emerging and rising leaders.
Fuel your thinking
Start here: The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women by Valerie Young — the most thorough and research-grounded treatment of imposter syndrome available, written specifically for women in professional contexts.
Go deeper: Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy — Harvard social psychologist Amy Cuddy's research on how our relationship with our own mind and body shapes the confidence we bring to high-stakes situations.
Watch: Listening to Shame — Brené Brown, TED 2012. Explores how shame undermines confidence and what it takes to build genuine self-belief rather than performed confidence.
Lead without the title Influence Without Authority.
In complex organisations, the ability to influence outcomes without formal authority is not a nice-to-have — it's essential. Whether you're leading cross-functional projects, managing senior stakeholders, or trying to drive change without positional power, influence is the skill that makes everything else possible.
This workshop builds the practical skills to lead with impact, create momentum, and bring people with you — even when you don't hold the formal authority. It addresses the specific dynamics of influencing upwards, sideways, and across organisational boundaries, and gives participants a framework they can apply immediately to the real situations they're navigating.
Half or full day — suitable for emerging and rising leaders.
Fuel your thinking
Start here:Influence Without Authority by Allan R. Cohen & David L. Bradford — the classic text, now in its third edition. Introduces the Exchange Model of influence and practical frameworks for getting things done across organisational boundaries.
Go deeper: Exerting Influence Without Authority — Harvard Business Review, 2013. A practical guide to building credibility, coalition, and momentum as a leader without positional authority.
Watch:How Great Leaders Inspire Action — Simon Sinek, TED 2009. A masterclass in how influence works when you lead with purpose rather than position.
Not sure where to start?
How to choose the right workshop.
If you're not sure which workshop is right for your leaders, here are a few starting points:
If your leaders are struggling to let go and develop their teams, start with Empowering Others Authentically.
If there are conversations that aren't happening but should be, Leading Courageous Conversations is the most direct intervention.
If your senior leaders are showing signs of fatigue, burnout, or diminishing energy, Resilience for Senior Leaders addresses the specific pressures they face.
If confidence or visibility is holding talented people back, Confidence creates the space to address that directly.
If your leaders want to build more strategic relationships, Navigating Your Network gives them a practical and authentic approach.
If your leaders need to drive outcomes without formal authority, Influence Without Authority is the most immediately applicable workshop.
And if you're not sure — that's what the ignition conversation is for. Tell us what's happening with your leaders and we'll help you work out where to start.
These workshops work powerfully as standalone sessions and can also be sequenced into a sustained leadership development programme. Many organisations combine two or three modules delivered over several months, with peer reflection and accountability built in between sessions.
If you're looking for a more sustained investment in your women leaders specifically, our Women in Leadership programmes offer exactly that — a six-month journey combining workshops, 1:1 coaching, and peer learning.
Ready to bring a leadership workshop to your organisation?
Every workshop starts with a brief conversation to understand your leaders, your context, and what you want to be different. That conversation is free, takes thirty minutes, and means that what we design is right for your people rather than just right in general.
“Kate’s expertise in facilitating an engaging agenda, guiding discussions - and keeping them on track - fostered collaboration amongst a diverse group of senior leaders. The experience was exceptional.”
