Leadership development covers structured programmes that build leadership and management capability, from first-time managers and emerging leaders through to the executive team. Delivery ranges from open courses and cohort programmes to fully bespoke in-house design, in person, virtual or blended.
Most corporate training spend goes on developing managers and leaders. Compare leadership and management development programmes across the UK by accreditation, programme type, seniority served, sector experience and independent ratings.
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Cambridge Management and Leadership School is a UK independent provider of management, leadership and business qualifications, delivered online and in short-course formats to professionals in the UK and internationally. Its programmes are accredited by ASIC (Accreditation Service for International Schools, Colleges and Universities), at which it holds Premier status, and it is an approved centre of the awarding body Qualifi.
Talking Talent is a coaching consultancy based in London, founded in 2005, with a second office in New York.
It works with organisations, providing individual and group coaching alongside leadership programmes. Services include executive coaching for senior leaders, inclusive and women's leadership development, coaching skills training for managers, sponsorship schemes and programmes for high-potential staff. A separate strand supports employees through life changes such as parental leave and return to work, caring, menopause and burnout. It also runs an online coaching platform, which it says is built on the Centre for Humane Technology's design principles.
Prices and programme lengths are not published. Talking Talent Limited was incorporated in November 2005 and has its registered office at 41 Lothbury in the City of London. Its website lists 59 team profiles, including executive coaches and a chartered psychologist, and states that its work has reached over 400,000 people.
Pearn Kandola is a firm of business psychologists based in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, founded in 1984 by Michael Pearn and Binna Kandola.
Its work covers talent assessment, talent development and inclusive workplace cultures. Its business psychologists provide one-to-one executive coaching for senior leaders, run development centres and design programmes for emerging leaders. Assessment work includes recruitment assessment centres and executive assessments for senior hires. Inclusion training is delivered in person, live online or through self-paced learning, and live workshops last 2 to 3 hours.
Coaching prices are not published. As a guide, it states that an in-person inclusion workshop for up to 25 people may cost in the region of £3,500 to £7,500. No accreditations are listed on its website. Its People page names 45 staff across the UK, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas. Co-founder Professor Binna Kandola, the firm's senior partner, was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2008 for services to diversity.
The Oxford Group is a London-based leadership development and executive coaching company, founded in 1987 and part of City & Guilds since 2015.
It works with organisations, mostly multinationals, on leadership development, talent management, management skills and coaching. Its coaching includes Accelerate, which offers coaching at scale across an organisation, and Transform, one-to-one coaching for leaders facing complexity and change. It also runs team coaching. Other products include ready-to-run one-day workshops and emotional intelligence tools developed with RocheMartin. Work is delivered face to face, virtually or blended, through more than 200 multilingual consultants and coaches on six continents. Programme lengths are not published.
Prices are not published. The website displays International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2015 quality certification and Cyber Essentials Plus. The business began as Oxford Training and took its current name in 1995. Alongside its London headquarters it has an office in Paris and an administrative office in New York. It states that 88% of its work comes from referrals or repeat business.
Growth Space is a Bristol-based strategy, culture and leadership consultancy founded by Polly Robinson, working with leadership teams across the UK.
It facilitates strategy off-sites, away days and workshops, runs culture change and team effectiveness work, and offers executive, leadership and systemic team coaching. Clients are mainly small businesses and scale-ups of 10 to 200 people, along with larger firms, charities and membership bodies. Workshops and off-sites last from half a day to two days, usually for 8 to 40 people, and work is delivered in person or online. Coaching usually runs as 10 to 12 sessions over six months.
Coaching is typically £300 for a one-hour online session after a briefing meeting, and other work is costed in a proposal. Polly Robinson states that she holds an Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Level 7 qualification in Executive Coaching and Mentoring and is certified in systemic team coaching with Professor Peter Hawkins and Renewal Associates. Published client work includes the Royal College of Podiatry, British Motor Heritage, the Ehlers-Danlos Society and tes. The company is registered as Growth Space Collective Ltd.
Senior leadersOrganisations
Bristol, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Impact Factory is a London training company for communication and leadership skills, founded in 1991 by Jo Ellen Grzyb and Robin Chandler.
It runs open courses of one, two or five days, usually for 6 to 8 delegates, as well as in-house programmes designed with each client, executive coaching and two-hour one-to-one skills sessions held online. Topics include leadership, management, presentation, assertiveness, influencing and negotiation. Some open courses are hybrid and can be attended in person at the Business Design Centre in Islington or remotely. Two trainers work with every group, and each trainer completes a two-year in-house development programme.
Executive coaching costs £495 an hour plus VAT, with sessions usually lasting at least two hours. The five-day Communicate with Impact course is £2,750 plus VAT per person. It is accredited as a continuing professional development (CPD) provider by The CPD Standards Office (provider number 21717), and it displays Cyber Essentials certification and a Feefo Platinum Trusted Service Award. It states that it has trained more than 175,000 delegates and worked in over 50 countries.
People Puzzles is a fractional human resources (HR) consultancy based in Duxford, near Cambridge, founded in 2010 by Ally Maughan.
It places experienced HR directors, which it calls People Directors, into businesses on a flexible part-time basis, working remotely or on site. Clients include owner-managed, scaling, established and investment-backed businesses, and it describes its market as mid-tier companies. Alongside fractional and interim HR it offers HR consultancy, outsourced HR support, people strategy, culture, organisational structure and talent management. Leadership development is delivered through HR mentoring and leadership coaching. Directors work in regional teams across the UK and Ireland. Typical engagement length and days per month are not published.
Prices are not published, and a first 30-minute discovery call is free. It states it has more than 80 People Directors and has supported over 1,000 businesses. It states it won the Best SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) team management initiative at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) awards for its work with the courier firm Today Team. It also states it won Diversity and Inclusion of the Year at the Elite Business 100 Awards in March 2024. The company, People Puzzles Limited, was incorporated on 1 March 2010.
Development Beyond Learning (DBL) is a learning and development provider for early-career staff, founded in Sydney in 2005 and based in London.
It runs development programmes for graduates, apprentices and interns, emerging managers and future leaders, designed for each client and based on behavioural science. It also runs open programmes, called DBL elevate, which employers can book for individual staff. Programmes are delivered through teams in London, Sydney and Singapore and a network of facilitators it accredits.
Prices are not published. Its website reports 30,644 participants across 47 clients in 16 industries, and it publishes case studies with Jardine Matheson, Glencore and RWE.
Corndel is a London-based provider of apprenticeships and workplace training in leadership, artificial intelligence (AI) and data, incorporated in 2016.
Its Leadership Academy runs management apprenticeships accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). They start with a Level 3 programme for new and aspiring managers, which lasts 12 months plus a month of assessment, and move on to Level 5 programmes for experienced managers (14 months plus two) and a Level 6 degree apprenticeship (30 months plus three). An Executive Development Programme with Imperial College London runs for five months and is aimed at directors and senior leaders. Each learner has a named Corndel coach for one-to-one support, alongside group workshops, masterclasses and an online learning platform. Separate AI and data academies are run with Imperial. Corndel sells its programmes to employers.
Apprenticeships are paid for through the Growth and Skills Levy and the Executive Development Programme is commercially funded. Prices are not published. The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) inspected Corndel in February 2026 and graded it Strong standard in every area it assessed. On the Department for Education (DfE) apprenticeship service, employers and apprentices both rate it Excellent for 2025 to 2026, and 78.3% of its apprentices achieved in 2024 to 2025, against a national rate of 65.4%. CMI describes Corndel as a strategic partner and named it Training Provider of the Year for 2024. Corndel states that it is a Microsoft Training Services Partner.
Transformational Leadership Consulting is a leadership training company in Etchingham, East Sussex, set up by Marcus Haycock and incorporated in 2024.
It delivers programmes from Leadership Management International (LMI), which it describes as its partner, covering manager and team leader training, strategic and personal leadership, coaching skills for managers, time management and team dynamics. It also offers imposter syndrome coaching for individuals. Programmes last 3 to 12 months depending on the one chosen. The manager programme runs for four months across eight modules, with a facilitated session every two weeks. Delivery is live online or in person on site, and a free two-hour online workshop is offered.
Prices are not published. The site states that every programme is CPD (continuing professional development) approved and comes with a 100% money-back guarantee. Marcus Haycock describes himself as an LMI accredited coach with over 30 years of experience and seven national and international awards. Companies House lists Transformational Leadership Consulting Ltd (company number 15497175) with him as sole director.
Mid-level, Senior leadersOrganisations and individuals
Etchingham, East Sussex, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Mindfulness Works is a Cambridge consultancy that teaches mindfulness and compassion to people at work, trading through a company formed in 2006.
For leaders it runs one-off Mindful Leadership sessions, the Mindful Leader Programme, which it describes as research-based and includes home practice, and The Wise Leader Course. Team Mindfulness works on team awareness and psychological safety. Across a workforce, it offers one-off resilience sessions, 30-minute guided practice sessions, Mindful Conversations workshops and the multi-session Mindfulness at Work course. Individuals can have one-to-one mindfulness-based coaching, executive coaching or counselling support. Delivery is virtual, blended or in person, and programme lengths are not published.
Prices are not published, and no accrediting body is named. The team of five is led by founding director Michael Chaskalson, author of The Mindful Workplace (2011) and Mindfulness in Eight Weeks (2014), with consultants Megan Reitz, Chris Nichols and Liz Hall and counsellor Annette Chaskalson. It states it has worked with 5 of the world's top ten accountancy and consultancy firms and 3 of the top ten pharmaceutical companies. Its home page displays logos including 3M, GSK, KPMG, Lloyds, the National Health Service (NHS) and Accenture.
Organisations
Cambridge, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
London Business School Executive Education is the executive education arm of London Business School, founded in London in 1964.
It runs open programmes for individuals and customised programmes for organisations, which can include executive coaching. Topics include general management, leadership, strategy, finance, human resources, artificial intelligence, digital transformation, marketing and environmental, social and governance issues. Courses are taught in London, Dubai and Saudi Arabia, and online through live sessions, short courses with live faculty and self-paced study. Audiences range from emerging leaders in their first leadership role to senior executives with 15 to 20 years of management experience. Participants can also build a Certificate in Management or Certificate in Finance by completing four programmes.
Published open programme fees include £8,900 for Leading Teams for Emerging Leaders, excluding accommodation, and £41,900 for the Senior Executive Programme, including accommodation. The school is listed on the register of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), and displays accreditation from the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) under its EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS). It states that it ranked first in the world for open programmes and second for custom programmes in the Financial Times 2026 executive education ranking. It says it has worked with 1,388 companies and averages more than 12,000 participants a year. Its Dubai campus opened in 2007.
