LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
We develop the leaders that the world needs now; leaders who tackle our complex and dynamic problems, leaders who empower ambition and achievement.
So our programmes go beyond the traditional. Yes, we develop knowledge and understanding, but we also explore how leaders think and the assumptions that may limit possibilities. Of course, we expand skills and techniques but we also build the courage to use them. Certainly, we explore styles and attitudes, but we also ground leaders’ authority in their values and identity.
Our programmes enable leaders to understand what it’s like to be led by them, enabling purposeful leaders to exercise their influence for positive impact.
Clients say that our leadership development programmes are powerful and unique because they:
Integrate learning with real work
Expose leaders to new relationships and fresh experiences
Build strong developmental networks
Engage the whole person; head, heart and will
Work with unconscious processes that play out within and around us
Frame development as a process of sustainable, incremental change
Some examples of our leadership development work
Medical Education Supervisors
Living Potential worked with postgraduate deans nationally (creating leadership resources, designing and facilitating half-day workshops for hundreds of supervisors and producing films about integrated leadership learning) to integrate leadership learning for junior doctors into Medical Education Supervision through training supervisors to incorporate reflective practice into their work. This is a radical change and important step in ensuring that BAME and all junior doctors see themselves as leaders and can consciously develop their leadership competence and confidence through everyday practice. Over time it will fundamentally change medical trainees’ perceptions of their readiness and entitlement to senior leadership positions, redressing the presumptions of fit and privilege that characterise the current medical hierarchy.
Bar Standards Board
Living Potential developed and facilitated a bespoke leadership programme for the senior team and all board leaders to change culture and impact.
GfK
We ran the company’s first UK based talent scheme, identifying and developing senior talent for future leadership roles throughout Europe.
Chief Executive Development Network
Louisa is programme director for the Chief Executive Development Network (CEDN), designed to support chief executives with accountable officer responsibilities across health and care, with their development and ensure they are the best they can be in these challenging roles, both for themselves and for patient care.
Top Management Programme
Louisa is programme director for AdvanceHE’s Top Management Programme, a development opportunity specifically created for those in an executive role in a higher education institution. Over 60 of the current UK vice-chancellors and principals are TMP HE alumni, with many of the other past participants of TMP HE holding some of the most senior posts throughout higher education.
Prostate Cancer UK Clinical Champions’ Programme
We continue our successful partnership with PCUK and are currently launching the fourth cohort of this ambitious and innovative programme.
ACTivate
Living Potential ran a unique, three-day self-catering residential programme for groups of new Primary Care Network leaders to develop the collective leadership and relationships required to deliver their shared vision for the future of primary care.
“Louisa took my professional development to a completely different level. Her ability to understand, to anticipate, to ask probing questions at just the right time, made me think and comprehend leadership, management, and my own humble place in these hallowed halls in a completely different way. I cannot speak highly enough about the positive impact she has had on my experience at the BBC.”
Head of Persian/Pashto Service, Editor, BBC