New & emerging leaders
For people stepping into leadership for the first time or preparing to make that move. Build the confidence, self-awareness and practical skills needed to lead others effectively.
Leadership Development
Leadership development that actually changes how people lead.
Practical, engaging leadership development built around the real challenges your managers and leaders face, helping them build confidence, strengthen their impact and turn learning into better leadership back at work.
Let’s talk about your leaders
Based in Greater Manchester. Working with organisations across the UK.
The starting point
Leadership development shouldn’t stop when the workshop ends.
There’s no shortage of leadership models, theories and training courses out there. The challenge is turning any of it into something leaders actually use when they’re back in the day job.
That’s why I start with the reality of leading in your organisation.
What’s getting in the way? What do your managers and leaders need to do differently? Where would stronger leadership have the biggest impact?
From there, I build practical development experiences that help people understand themselves, strengthen how they lead others and apply what they’re learning to real workplace challenges.
Less learning for learning’s sake. More development that shows up in how people actually lead.
Who it’s for
Leadership development for every stage of the journey.
Leadership looks different depending on where someone is in their career. Development should too.
Experienced managers & leaders
For managers who already have leadership experience but need space to sharpen their approach, challenge their thinking and strengthen their impact.
Senior leaders & leadership teams
For senior leaders navigating greater complexity, influencing across organisations and creating the conditions for others to perform.
What we can work on
What could leadership development focus on?
Every organisation is different, so I don’t start with a fixed catalogue of courses. The content depends on the people, the challenge and what better leadership needs to look like in your organisation.
- Leading with confidence
- Self-awareness and leadership impact
- Authentic leadership
- Leading high-performing teams
- Giving great feedback
- Coaching and developing others
- Building trust and accountability
- Managing performance
- Leading through change
- Communication and influence
- Emotional intelligence
- Strategic leadership
- Strengths-based leadership
- Creating a high-performance culture
These can form part of a single leadership workshop, a series of development sessions or a wider leadership development programme.
How I work
Built around your organisation, not taken off the shelf.
I don’t arrive with a standard leadership programme and try to make your organisation fit it.
We start with the outcome.
Together, we’ll understand the leadership challenge, what your people need and what needs to be different as a result of the development. From there, I’ll build the right experience around your organisation.
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Discover
Understand the business challenge, your people and what needs to change.
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Design
Build the right development experience around your organisation and leaders.
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Develop
Create engaging, practical sessions where people think, practise, challenge themselves and learn.
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Embed
Help turn the learning into action through practical application, reflection, coaching and follow-up.
Because the real measure of leadership development isn’t what happens in the room. It’s what happens afterwards.
Delivery options
From one workshop to a wider leadership journey.
Sometimes the right answer is a focused leadership workshop. Sometimes it’s a programme that develops capability over several months.
- Leadership and management workshops
- Leadership development programmes
- Manager development programmes
- Leadership team development
- Emerging leader development
- Facilitation and leadership away days
- Leadership coaching
- Strengths-based leadership development
Face-to-face Virtual Blended
Development can be delivered face-to-face, virtually or through a blended approach, depending on what works best for your organisation.
Why That Training Guy
Practical. Challenging. Human.
I’ve spent more than 15 years working in learning, talent and leadership development, both inside organisations and now through That Training Guy.
That means I understand both sides of the conversation. I know what it’s like to commission leadership development, to get leaders to engage with it and, most importantly, to prove that it has made a difference.
My approach combines practical leadership development, coaching, strengths and honest conversations to create experiences people can actually use.
No leadership theatre. No endless PowerPoint decks. No generic programme that could have been delivered to any organisation.
Just development built around your people and what you’re trying to achieve.
More about AdamWhere else to look
Leadership doesn’t happen in isolation.
Developing individual leaders is only part of the picture. Sometimes the bigger opportunity is how the team works together, or helping an individual understand their strengths and impact.
Questions
Leadership development FAQs.
Let’s talk
Let’s build better leaders.
If you’re thinking about leadership or management development in your organisation, let’s start with the challenge you’re trying to solve.
Let’s have a conversation