Systems leadership
Create shared purpose, work across boundaries and lead when authority, information and control are distributed.
Training and development
Build the capability to transform your own services
Public-service change is rarely held back by a shortage of frameworks. The harder task is helping people make good decisions together when the work is contested, uncertain and already under pressure.
Our programmes combine rigorous ideas with live organisational challenges. Participants learn by applying systems thinking, leadership and transformation practice to the work they are responsible for now.
Discuss what your people need
Thousandsof public-service people trained
24 modulesin the Leading Transformation curriculum
Over a decadedelivering commissioning leadership development
The useful difference
Learning that stays in the system
We design development around the outcomes you need, the work already under way and the conditions people are operating in. That may mean an intensive academy, a team practice lab, a longer cohort programme, coaching alongside delivery, or a combination of all four.
Experienced practitioners lead the work. They bring theory, direct public-service experience and honest challenge, then help participants turn that learning into changed practice. The aim is not dependence on a course or a consultancy. It is stronger internal judgement, relationships and capability.
What we develop
Capability for difficult, real-world change
Leading transformation
Build the judgement, resilience and practical methods needed to mobilise and sustain change in complex organisations.
Commissioning for outcomes
Move beyond process and compliance to strategic, relational commissioning that responds to complexity and improves outcomes.
Organisational development
Connect strategy, leadership, culture and delivery so that new ways of working become part of the organisation, not a temporary initiative.
Coaching and mentoring
Give leaders and teams a trusted space to think, test difficult choices and strengthen their practice while the work is live.
Transformation practice
Develop hands-on capability in service design, system mapping, adaptive change, programme leadership and sustainable improvement.
Established programmes, tailored delivery
A strong foundation, adapted to your context
Leading Transformation
A 24-module curriculum grounded in systems thinking and practical application: shared purpose, power, complexity, system mapping, organisational design and sustainable change.
Commissioning leadership
Through the Public Service Transformation Academy, we deliver the National Commissioning Academy, originally developed by the Cabinet Office, and cross-sector programmes focused on outcomes, systems, complexity and collaborative commissioning.
Level 7 systems thinking practitioner apprenticeship
A route for funded, long-term development that connects advanced systems practice to genuine organisational challenges.
Designed with you
We can combine existing material with diagnostics, live projects, coaching and specialist input from our national practitioner network.
How learning can work
Choose the shape that fits the challenge
We can start small, build a connected programme, or weave development into a wider transformation commission.
- Focused workshops and practice labs
- Open and in-house academies
- Nine-month and longer development programmes
- Action-learning sets and peer cohorts
- One-to-one and team coaching
- Blended online and in-person learning