We listen to, understand and respond accurately to your need.  We then tune our designs quickly to be relevant to your world.  We write and adapt experiential scenarios which are relatable to the participants.

Always, our development solutions are creative and experiential, with professional actors bringing learning to life.  

We can deliver standalone workshops, but our best client programmes are immersive and extended.  We initiate programmes with participants owning their own learning. We bring our own 360 tools supported by coaching.  We follow-up training workshops with coaching and action sets to make the learning stick. We implement accountability mechanisms so that clients sustain their own learning and avoid becoming dependent on us.

We are light on theory, strong on application. That’s said we have a small number of proprietary learning frameworks. We are not precious about these.

How we design and deliver

Our work concentrates on the human challenges of delivery and our leadership development is always experiential with professional actors bringing learning to life.  Our process work is straight forward, just enough to get the job done, and no badges.  Our best client programmes follow-up training workshops with sustaining mechanisms, including coaching and action sets, to make sure the learning stick. We help our customers to sustain their own learning and avoid becoming dependent on us.

If you look inside our tailored development programmes, you are likely to see some of these ingredients:

• Influence without formal authority
• Winning ownership and commitment
• High performing relationships/collaboration
• Engaging stakeholders
• Building trust
• Collaborative problem solving
• Presenting with impact
• Difficult conversations and positive conflict
• Influence through the screen (Zoom/Teams)
• Effective Sponsorship (& SRO)
• Listening with empathy
• Consciously inclusive leadership
• International cultural diversity
• Client-centred services

Any large audience which has a need to be engaged and to learn. It could be:

• A community with a shared learning theme
• An organisational group (or whole organisation) going through a change
• A large team mobilising or working on their behaviour and performance

Or you may have an awayday planned and are looking for a solution which will both engage and hit home.

The great thing about a purpose-designed event is that you can put YOUR most important learning or change theme at the centre of the day.

We have delivered over 250 large events for 80 clients (At last count) 

Examples of core themes we work with and some of those clients:

• People and Projects – Digital Catapult, Centrica, DHL, John Lewis, LV, MOD, Nationwide, Sellafield, Virgin Media, Welsh Assembly
• High Performing Collaboration – Arm, Leaseplan, MPA, National Highways, Network Rail, Renishaw, Thales, Royal London, Sellafield.
• Leading Change – Atkins Realis, National Physical Laboratory, NHS, National Nuclear Laboratory, OSB, UKRI
• Project/Change Sponsorship - BBC, Cooperative, Environment Agency, Oxford University Press, Metrolinx, National Physical Laboratory, Nationwide, Royal London, Network Rail, Sky, TFL, TFGM, UK Parliament
• High Performing Teams – Arm, Nationwide, Quilter, Royal London
• Stakeholder Relationships – Anchor, Arm, Domestic & General, EDF, HMGCC, Sky
• Framework partnering – Environment Agency, Friends Life, GWR, Nationwide, Network Rail

Clients who love our events have asked us to diversify into adjacent themes:

• Embedding Company Values – BPP, Burgess Salmon, Royal London, Arm
• General leadership – Bombardier, Sellafield, Sky, Zenith,
• Science & Technology Leadership – Arm, National Physical Laboratory
• Operational services – Environment Agency, Burgess Salmon
• Client Relationships - EDF, Diligenta, Nationwide 
• Diversity and Inclusion Ebay, Oxford Instruments, Digital Catapult, Zenith
• International Cultural Inclusion - Arm
• Safety Behaviour - Carillion Enterprise, Amey, Exxon Mobil

All the above are ready to be refreshed and tuned to your specific context and need.

We design and deliver powerful events for audiences of all sizes. We create characters and scripts which are improvised by professional actors. Your audience interacts with the characters (from where they sit) and determines the outcome of the story.

In so doing they take ownership of the debate and their learning. Important conversations take place which otherwise are too often skirted around. We make sure that everyone gets stuck in, whereas normally only the vocal speak out.  There is energy, pain and laughter, instead of shuffling feet and glazed eyes.

It’s more than just a learning experience.  Real change happens, live in the room, through engagement, shared honesty and (above all) collective and individual accountability.

Your team may be a project or leadership team, either within your business or across a stakeholder/supplier network. You can have any team issue which inhibits delivery, such as: A stuck pattern of behaviour, difficulties in collaboration, ownership, or fractured relationships. On the other hand, it may not be a problem; you may want to celebrate team successes or to build relationships beyond the work.

We always start with you (and sometimes the team) to understand the need accurately. The solution is co-created with you. The facilitator, format and duration are chosen to fit.

We do not do lightweight ‘Team-Building’ events. We facilitate important team conversations, drawing out transparency, commitment, accountability and trust.

• Rebuilding high performing team relationships Oxford University Press, Nationwide, BT, Sellafield 
• Celebrating team success EBay
• Building stronger supplier/partner relationships Sellafield, Nationwide, BT
• Post acquisition integration Oxford Instruments
• Collaboration across teams in Programme Delivery Leaseplan, Old Mutual, Network Rail and Department for Transport 
• Deepening relationships beyond the work DHL, Oxford Instruments