Expand your knowledge, improve your skills
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” - Alvin Toffler These experience-based training programmes will help you develop leadership and management knowledge and know-how to make your organisation stronger and more adaptive.
OD Skills for People Teams
Kevin delivers some of the most impactful and transformative leadership development training I’ve encountered. His sessions are expertly designed—thought-provoking, highly engaging, and immediately applicable - equipping leaders not just with new skills and capabilities, but also with the confidence required to translate insights into actions. Whether it’s about enhancing strategic thinking, building coaching capability, or improving decision-making under uncertainty, Kevin’s approach to development fundamentally shifts how leaders think, collaborate, and drive performance in teams and organisations.
I could not recommend Kevin highly enough as a seasoned leadership expert and coach, and a collaborative partner.
Dr. Lucrecia Grandolini
Global Head of Learning at Investec
Why work with me?
I’ve been teaching and facilitating better leadership of self, others and work for 30 years across sectors and organisation types, helping my clients accelerate their knowledge and know-how.
- Broad Expertise: Thorough formal study in multiple disciplines combined with teaching in business schools.
- Tailored Approach: Every training programme is designed to meet your team’s specific challenges and goals.
- Practical Tools and Frameworks: Simulated, experience based learning and actionable take-aways.
- Results-driven: Focused on creating measurable improvements in understanding and execution.
Empower your managers to execute strategy and lead people effectively. We design and facilitate accelerators from half-day to multi-module programmes.
- Enhance Management Skills - Equip managers with tools to organise, supervise, mentor, coach, and facilitate performance.
- Strengthen Communication - Improve how managers engage and motivate their teams.
- Develop Problem-Solving - Build confidence in navigating challenges, and skills for solving the right things.
- Maintain Focus in Uncertainty: Balance productivity with adaptivity when things do not go as expected.
Transcend jargon about “being more strategic” with this training in how to actually build a competitive strategy in our VUCA business context.
- Understand how to develop a compelling vision.
- Give your people a common sense of purpose.
- Build plans that are adaptive as context changes.
- Hold together direction, execution and culture.
Learn to learn from the things that happen. Think about your thinking. This training day is highly valued by corporate clients who have used it repeatedly across their leadership and management cohorts.
- Understand how our brain’s reflexes limit our perceptions, and how to overcome that.
- Recognise the cognitive biases that most sabotage your individual or team’s performance.
- Adopt a thinking process that you can use on the spot when it matters most.
- Increase your organisation’s thinking maturity in conflicting situations.
Elevate your leadership cohort’s capability to empower and develop their people’s thinking rather than direct their actions.
- Benefit from a proven training process used repeatedly by multiple clients.
- Empower your leaders and managers to empower their people.
- Remove blockers to better thinking by learning to use great questions.
- Leverage experience by scaling instead of directing.
Give your leaders the confidence and competence to use speaking and storytelling to deepen leadership influence and effectiveness with an experiential learning programme.
- Gain the skills to address large groups and inspire action.
- Build confidence to design and deliver talks and stories.
- Strengthen your ability to influence and connect with audiences.
- Develop a leadership gravitas that inspires trust and respect.
Sensitise your leadership team to the common saboteurs of high performance (based on Patrick Lencioni's model).
- Measure the status of trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and delivery.
- Commit to shifting specific high-performance dynamics.
- Evaluate progress later against these key team factors.
- Combine the training with a team assessment for greater impact.
This colourful, interactive training process helps individuals and teams understand communication preferences, working styles, and how to collaborate and influence more effectively.
- Uses colours to create an accessible language for giving feedback and dealing with team dynamics.
- Fosters stronger relationships and boosts team performance.
- Reveals personal preferences and impacts on others.
- Delivers a common vocabulary for your people to talk about ways of working.
The thing about difficult conversations is that they’re difficult. This causes most leaders and managers to either attack or avoid tensions that arise.
Learn to have difficult conversations in ways that lead to progress. This training equips individuals and teams with knowledge and tools to have productive tension:
- Understand the dynamics of conflict: Recognise how and why tension arises in workplace relationships.
- Acquire skills to navigate difficult conversations: Approach performance, behaviour, or perspective clashes with confidence and skill.
- Learn how to turn friction into innovation: Use disagreements as a catalyst for better decisions and creative solutions.
- Gain confidence to ontract a way forward that will produce a different result to the past.
Empower your leaders to assess and overcome decision-making habits and limitations with our training programme which will use relevant case studies and real decision scenarios from your business.
- Understand overused decision methods and cognitive biases.
- Upskill in different decision methods for different situations.
- Identify individual and team decision-making development areas.
- Improve judgment, problem-solving, and accountability in high-stakes or ambiguous situations.
- Focus this training further by having a pre-training assessment of your team’s decision development needs.
Upskill your leadership cohort with skills to manage change and navigate uncertainty
- Understand the difference between managing change and leading in uncertainty.
- Learn by experience in a simulated business environment.
- Establish a common vocabulary for your leaders to enhance the organisation’s capability to grow in an aligned way.
- Master change management: Develop practical skills to define, plan, communicate, and implement change effectively.
- Navigate uncertainty with resilience: Cultivate the mindset, courage, and presence needed to lead in uncharted territory.
Overcome business stereotypes about HR by increasing your People Team’s OD knowledge and know-how.
- Accelerate OD skill with workshops by a former head of OD for a FTSE100.
- Learn to think systemically about specific daily encounters.
- Become the integrator of your organisation’s innovative and operational energies.
- Leverage the experience and IP described on this website.
Myth: Certain personality types sell to customers and influence staff better.
Truth: Different personality types sell and influence differently, and have different strengths and weaknesses in influencing different customer or staff personas.
Our proven assessment based training teaches sales people and leaders to:
- Know themselves, including their normal and their stressed-out ways of thinking and relating.
- Understand how their ways impact other people.
- Recognise the personality preferences of their audience.
- Adapt their own ways of being to meet the audience - while being authentic.