Leadership and Management Development

We design and deliver programmes that connect culture, strategy and leadership.

Our work includes senior leader programmes, as well as management development programmes for new and aspiring leaders.

We work cross-sector, often with organisations at moments of growth, change or transition.

When Do we Partner with Clients? 

Aligning leadership capability to strategy

Ensuring leaders are equipped to deliver new or evolving business priorities.

Supporting leadership transitions and succession

Developing new, aspiring, and high performing leaders to step into broader roles with confidence and clarity.

Establishing a consistent approach to leadership

Creating a shared understanding of what good leadership looks like - and how it shows up day to day.

Leading through change and complexity

Supporting leaders to adapt how they think, decide and lead in more complex, fast-moving environments.

What a programme can include

Each programme is tailored and can include a blend of:

  • Facilitated workshops
  • Executive or Leadership Coaching (individual and/or group)
  • Action Learning or Peer Support and Challenge Groups
  • Use of Insights Discovery or other diagnostics
  • 360 Feedback and Coaching
  • Real business challenges and live scenarios

Programmes are designed to fit around leaders’ busy schedules and can be delivered in-person or virtually - often in short sessions over an extended period to maximise time for application & reflection.

Our approach

Our approach to designing and delivering programmes is underpinned by a key number of principles:

  • Raised awareness brings increased choice 
  • Sustainable change comes from reflection, application and adaptation
  • We learn most effectively by working on real-life challenges
  • There’s rarely a single “right” answer in leadership situations

We favour an experiential learning approach that enable leaders to learn from experience, reflection, sense-making and to experiment with actions in a way that works for them and their organisation.  

 

Client Testimonials

It’s been fantastic to partner with Sweetmans on this important programme for the next generation of leaders at our member firms. They spent time understanding our members’ needs, and have developed a pragmatic programme offering a safe, yet challenging, space for delegates, and emphasising action-planning.

L&D Leader

Legal Sector

Their support and challenge brings fresh thinking and new ideas… a valued partner in achieving our long-term goals.

L&D Leader

Financial Services Business

This has proven to be one of the most valuable personal development experiences of my career. I had forgotten how to invest my own development or recognise the importance of doing so.

Enterprise Leader

Financial Services Business

I found the programme invaluable in terms of becoming more confident in who I am as a leader and manager. It was so helpful in developing my own self-awareness and my ability to work effectively with colleagues. It has made a huge difference to my working life.

Partner

Law Firm

We have a true partnership with Sweetmans. They have taken the time to understand our unique needs and culture, which has enabled us to achieve the outcomes we were looking for across our Executive and Leadership Community to support our ambitious and exciting strategy.

Head of L&D

Bank

Get in touch 

If you’re looking to design or evolve a leadership or management development programme – whether in-person or virtually - we’d love to explore what this could look like in your organisation.

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