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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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.
Moving Ahead is a London-based organisation, set up in 2014, that designs and runs mentoring, sponsorship and development programmes for employers.
Its cross-company programmes pair mentees with more senior mentors from different organisations and sectors over nine months. They include Mission Gender Equity, which supports the 30% Club campaign, Mission Include, The Executive Accelerator for women in the executive pipeline and Generation Valuable for disabled talent. Sector programmes cover actuarial work, defence, rail, platinum group metals and early-career researchers. Employers can also commission in-house mentoring, coaching, sponsorship and inclusive leadership programmes. Participants receive a digital toolkit of filmed sessions, masterclasses and written guides, alongside learning events.
Prices are not published. Moving Ahead states that since 2014 it has matched and supported more than 41,000 mentors and mentees across 477 organisations and 70 countries. Its founder and chief executive, Liz Dimmock, was recognised in the 2019 Queen's honours for services to gender equality. Moving Ahead Limited was incorporated on 23 October 2014 (company number 09276768) and was owned by Ricoh for three years before the founder bought it back.
Edgecumbe Consulting Group is a Bristol business psychology consultancy, incorporated in 1995, that works on leadership, engagement and performance.
Its business psychologists run executive leadership assessment, one-to-one and group leadership coaching, leadership team development and leadership programmes run with business schools. It also carries out employee engagement surveys, culture and values reviews, 360-degree feedback, competency frameworks and people analytics, for staff from the C-suite to new joiners. Coaching begins with psychometrics and 360-degree feedback, and the number of sessions, format and pace are agreed with each client. Much of the work rests on its own Primary Colours Leadership Model.
Coaching and consultancy fees are not published. Practitioner accreditation in the Primary Colours toolkit and HUCAMA personality assessments costs £650 plus value added tax (VAT) per participant per day on open online courses, £1,200 plus VAT for a one-to-one online day and £2,500 plus VAT per day for in-house groups of up to six. Its co-founders, Dr Jenny King and Dr David Pendleton, are now special advisers. Several consultants state they are Chartered Psychologists with the British Psychological Society (BPS), and case studies cover BSI, BAE Systems, Bunzl, Hargreaves Lansdown and ICA Gruppen.
Robertson Cooper is a workplace wellbeing consultancy in Chorley, Lancashire, founded by business psychologists Ivan Robertson and Sir Cary Cooper.
It works with employers of all sizes on staff wellbeing, stress and engagement. Its Good Day at Work Assessment is an online employee survey covering stress risk factors, engagement, resilience and health, benchmarked against more than 70,000 workers and available in 21 languages, with a personal report for every employee. The six Pathways are behaviour-change programmes on stress and burnout, change and resilience, psychological safety, high-performing teams, inclusive culture and leadership development. Each has four modules, for the organisation, leaders, managers and employees, and combines workshops, masterclasses, one-to-one coaching with business psychologists and consultancy over a typical 3 to 4 months. It also offers one-off talks, wellbeing champions courses and strategy work.
Prices are not published. The assessment comes as a platform licence, a project-managed option or a full service, and organisations can gain one of four levels of Good Day at Work certification. Robertson Cooper Limited was incorporated in 1997 and took its current name in 1999. The company has been part of handl Group since December 2021 and says it draws on a network of more than 100 associate business psychologists.
Organisations
Chorley, Lancashire, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Tack TMI is a learning and development company registered in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, with roots in the Tack School of Salesmanship, set up in 1948.
It runs training in sales, customer experience, leadership and management, personal development, change and innovation, and safety culture. Employers can commission in-company programmes for their own teams, delivered in person, virtually or digitally. Individuals can book open courses at venues in London, Coventry, Alderley Edge, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Its leadership and management courses are aimed at newly appointed managers through to directors. It also delivers apprenticeships at Levels 2 to 4, in areas such as sales, project management, customer experience and logistics, in partnership with Gi Group. Course lengths are not published.
Course prices are not published. Its terms say prices exclude value added tax (VAT) and that open course fees include lunch, refreshments and materials. Tack TMI is part of Gi Group Holding, an Italian staffing group, which acquired both Tack and Time Manager International (TMI), founded in Denmark in 1975, in 2016. It states that it delivers training in more than 55 countries and 37 languages. Its website displays the logos of the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM), the Institute of Sales Professionals (ISP) and the Living Wage accredited employer scheme. The UK company is Tack TMI UK Limited (company number 11781487).
First-time managers, Emerging leaders, Mid-levelOpen courses, In-house, QualificationsOrganisations and individuals
Strengthscope is a London-based company, incorporated in 2006, that publishes strengths assessments for individuals, teams and leaders.
Its core assessment identifies a person's seven significant strengths and the areas where performance risks may get in the way. Related versions cover 360-degree feedback, teams, leaders and recruitment interviews. The assessments are self-service and completed online through its StrengthsPortal, and the core assessment is available in 15 languages. Its facilitators also run workshops, report debriefs and coaching for organisations. Coaches and in-house practitioners can be accredited to use the tools in full-day sessions held online, with certificates valid for life.
Prices are not published. Strengthscope states that its assessment holds Registered Test status with the British Psychological Society (BPS), and its website displays ISO 27001 information security and Shaw Trust Accessible certification. The B Corp directory lists Strengthscope Limited as a certified B Corporation. The company was registered as Strengths Partnership Ltd and took its current name in 2018. Paul Brewerton is named as its founder.
