Leadership Development Programme:
Give your staff the confidence to lead

Increase confidence and unlock the career potential of your research leaders

Support, engage and accelerate critical members of staff with a highly practical and transformative talent and leadership development programme that invites your people to explore and workshop important aspects of personal leadership, effectiveness and career management.

Leadership Development Programme Overview

What our delegates can expect

Develop and refine personal leadership skills, including the ability to handle difficult situations, influence others and build relationships.
Learn how to increase mental and physical capacity when working under pressure.
Gain practical tools and the confidence to support meaningful career moves.
Catalyze meaningful connections with colleagues.
Strengthen current work performance and future potential.

3 months of powerful learning that lasts

Day 1
Strengthen leadership

Practice listening and noticing for immediate impact
Explore key leadership challenge
Unpack values and motivation for growth
Turn ideas into action

Day 2
Boost effectiveness

Identify healthy models of workplace leadership
Build a meaningful leadership roadmap
Strengthen connection with others
Explore personal career anchor

Day 3
Chart a viable career path

Build values and purpose-led leadership narrative
Practice making requests
Address confidence, mindset and resilience
Start to navigate your career

Strengthening the entire ecosystem

We help our delegates strengthen relational leadership
and teamwork over time

Applying learning to real life with the help of a peer coach
Making ambitious strides with executive group coaching sets
Advancing career goals with a 12-month Goal Getter Bootcamp

The key benefits for the institutional sponsor

Engaged and motivated leaders
Improved morale and teamwork
Strengthened workplace culture
Improved health and wellbeing
Talent pipeline + EDI champions

WHAT OUR DELEGATES SAY

This is a must-have course for technicians and assistants at every stage of their careers! It empowered me in a way that my industry has been unable to do before. Support for us is so important and this course has been great for me!

Past Leadership Delegate

The course has given me such clarity and has transformed my ability to juggle different tasks and demands in my life. I love how it has taught me to think holistically about leadership both personally and professionally.

Past Leadership Delegate

Meet Your Facilitators

Meet your facilitator for the Leadership Development Programme, Dr Magdalena Bak-Maier.

Dr Magdalena Bak-Maier – Programme Creator and Lead

Magdalena is the go-to leadership developer for academics and researchers worldwide, creator of the Grid work-life balance method described as a “complete life-saver” by academics and students.

Katie Conley – Executive Career Coach Facilitator

Katie is a licensed career coach with over 25 years’ of experience supporting people in navigating careers. She loves working with people to help them gain career clarity, along with an understanding of the career path that is right for them.

Katie Conley is a career coach and ALS facilitator on the Leadership Development programme.

Mourijn Bok is a career coach and ALS facilitator on the Leadership Development Programme.

Mourjin (Mourine) Bok – Executive Career Coach Facilitator

Mourijn is a certified Executive and Career Coach and a psychologist by training. She has extensive experience supporting doctors and other health and clinical professionals as a career coach for Health Education England (HEE) and brings a stellar supportive challenge with a creative flare.