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.
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The British School of Coaching is a coaching and mentoring training provider in St Helens, Merseyside, run by BSC Coaching Ltd.
It delivers qualifications from the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM). These run from Level 2 and Level 3 awards in mentoring and coaching for new managers to Level 7 qualifications for executive coaches and coaching supervisors. The Level 5 coaching and mentoring programme, aimed at middle managers and human resources staff, has five workshop days. The Level 7 executive programme has six, and each normally takes 12 to 14 months. Workshops run online, with some hybrid dates. It also offers continuing professional development (CPD) courses, coaching, coaching supervision, business mentoring and in-house training for organisations.
Prices are not published. The site displays European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) member, Association for Coaching and ILM Approved Centre logos, and states it has delivered ILM qualifications for more than 10 years. Clients named on its site include Shell, Clyde & Co, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Home Office. It lists training centres in the UK and the Middle East. Judith Barton is named as founder.
Warwick Business School Executive Education is the executive education unit of Warwick Business School in Coventry, founded in 1967.
It runs open programmes for individuals and custom programmes designed with organisations. Open programmes are taught face to face at the Warwick campus or at The Shard in London. They include the WBS Executive Leadership programme, 5.5 days with executive coaching, and WBS Learning to Lead, a 4-day residential course for people moving into their first management role or a wider remit. Strategy into Action runs for two days at The Shard, with a reflective day six weeks later. Custom programmes can be delivered at Warwick, The Shard or the school's base in Venice.
Published fees are £11,020 for the WBS Executive Leadership programme, £8,500 for WBS Learning to Lead and £4,360 for Strategy into Action. The school states it holds accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and EQUIS, the quality system of the European Foundation for Management Development. It reports more than 62,000 alumni in over 170 countries.
First-time managers, Mid-level, Senior leadersOpen courses, In-houseOrganisations and individuals
Positive Momentum is a management consultancy with a registered office in Shoreditch, London, which says it has worked with leaders since 2003.
Its work is grouped under the headings change, grow and lead. The lead strand covers executive teams, individual leaders and talent programmes, delivered through one-to-one coaching, group sessions and leadership development programmes designed with each client. Other work covers culture, strategy, transformation, sales and marketing, service and operations, and technology. Its partners are former business leaders, and it states that the partner a client meets is the one who does the work. Programme lengths are not published.
Prices are not published. Positive Momentum Limited is listed in the B Lab directory as a Certified B Corporation, first certified in June 2021 with a B Impact Score of 98.7, and its website says it recertified in 2024. The website also displays ISO 14001:2015, Cyber Essentials and FSQS (Financial Services Qualification System) certification, and says it takes part in the United Nations Global Compact. Its team page lists 25 UK partners and 19 partners in India.
Senior leaders, ExecutivesIn-houseOrganisations
London, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Tavistock Consulting is an organisational consultancy and coaching provider in Belsize Lane, London, set up in 1994 by Jon Stokes.
It works with boards, executive teams and senior leaders on team effectiveness, organisational change and leadership development, using a systems-psychodynamic approach drawn from group relations and psychoanalytic thinking. Executive coaching is for chief executives, directors, board members and senior leaders taking on more responsibility. It is offered online or in person, with the pattern of sessions agreed with each client. Other services include team coaching, action learning sets, board consultancy and supervision for coaches and consultants.
Fees for consultancy and coaching are not published. Its 18-month Executive Coaching Programme, which it states is accredited by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) at senior practitioner level, costs £10,840 for October 2026 entry and takes up to 12 participants. The firm was part of the Tavistock and Portman National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, which merged into North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 April 2026. Director Charlotte Williams leads a core team of six, alongside 19 associate consultants.
Roffey Park Institute is an educational charity in Horsham, West Sussex, working in leadership, management and organisational development since 1946.
It runs open programmes, in-house programmes designed with client organisations, coaching and organisation development consultancy for organisations in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Open programmes mix residential modules at its Horsham venue with virtual sessions. Leadership & Management Fundamentals lasts 3 months and is an introduction to people management, while Advanced Leadership & Management Practice lasts 4 months and is for experienced managers. Individual coaching is virtual, in packages of three 2-hour or six 1-hour sessions, and team coaching normally runs for 6 to 12 weeks. It also offers two part-time online Master of Science (MSc) degrees, in Leadership and Management and in People and Organisational Development, validated by the University of Sussex and taken over two years.
Published fees, excluding VAT (value added tax), are £3,500 for Leadership & Management Fundamentals, £4,000 for Advanced Leadership & Management Practice and £7,450 for the Senior Leadership Retreat, with some discounted places for registered charities. The MSc fees are £10,500 and £12,500. Roffey Park Institute Limited is a registered charity (number 254591) and a company limited by guarantee (number 00923975), and its site displays an ISO 14001 environmental management certificate.
First-time managers, Emerging leaders, Mid-levelOpen courses, In-house, QualificationsOrganisations and individuals
Meyler Campbell is an executive coach training organisation founded in 1999, with an administrative office in Bromley, Kent.
Its Mastered programme, formerly the Business Coach Programme, trains experienced leaders and professionals as business coaches. Teaching happens in syndicates of three participants per tutor through nine tutorials, usually four to six weeks apart, with supervised practice on real clients in between. It usually takes 9 to 12 months and must be finished within two years, and can be taken in person in London, online or as a blend. Unleashed is a leader-as-coach programme for business owners and senior managers, run over three tutorials in small cohorts. It also lists team coaching (Unlimited) and a service for finding a coach (Trusted).
Fees are not published. Meyler Campbell states that Mastered is accredited by the Association for Coaching (AC) and received the European Quality Award from the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) in 2012, and that graduates can gain individual EMCC accreditation on completion. It reports more than 1,000 alumni across Europe, North America and Asia. It is a Gold Sponsor of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Anne Scoular is named as co-founder.
Senior leaders, ExecutivesOrganisations and individuals
Bromley, Kent, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Wavelength is a leadership development company registered in Buckinghamshire, which has taken senior leaders on overseas study tours since 2008.
Its programmes are built around visits to other organisations and conversations with the people who run them. Global Tours are week-long trips for chief executives and executive committee members, with named tours including Inside Silicon Valley, Inside Digital China and The Future of Business, UK. Connect is a nine-month programme for executive committee members and the two levels below. The 2026 cohort of 70 leaders has two three-day rural retreats, a two-day final event, visits to host organisations, online peer group sessions and optional one-to-one executive coaching. Inspire is a subscription of six live online sessions of 90 minutes each, running from March to September for wider leadership groups. It also runs a speaker bureau called SpeakersHub and designs programmes for individual leadership teams.
Prices are not published, and Connect places are arranged directly with the company rather than booked online. Companies House lists the company as Wavelength Companies Limited (number 06451333), incorporated in December 2007. Clients named on its website include Tesco, Royal Bank of Scotland, Aldermore Bank, All Saints and the National Health Service (NHS). Its website says more than 500 leaders subscribe to Inspire across Europe, North America and the Middle East.
Westminster Insight is a London-based conference and training provider for public sector professionals, run as a division of Knowledge Exchange Group Ltd.
It runs more than 200 conferences and training courses a year for people in central and local government, health and social care, education, housing, policing and the third sector, with some private sector attendees. Conferences are held at UK venues, online or as hybrid events, and digital conferences can be watched on demand. Training courses are live and online over Zoom, usually half a day or one day, on subjects such as management and leadership, policy, project management, communications, human resources and artificial intelligence (AI). Any course can also be run in-house, online or at a venue the client chooses.
Open course prices are not shown on the course pages. In-house training starts at £1,995 for up to 20 people. Knowledge Exchange Group states that it is a certified continuing professional development (CPD) member, reference 16420, and courses come with a CPD certificate, for example 6.5 CPD hours for the one-day Strategic Thinking course. Trainers listed include Susan Rome, who the site says holds the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Associate Certified Coach credential. Knowledge Exchange Group Ltd was incorporated in December 2013 and took its current name in January 2018.
Emerging leaders, Mid-level, Senior leadersOpen courses, In-houseOrganisations and individuals
London, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Entelechy is an online people development and assessment platform run by Entelechy Academy Limited of Preston, Lancashire, incorporated in 2020.
It is built around its own framework of 54 human qualities in six groups: performance, impact, acumen, nurture, personal and interpersonal. Users complete a short forced-ranking self-assessment, with results in under 10 minutes, and can add optional 180 or 360-degree feedback from peers and managers. Paid users get action plans, coaching cards and a strengths report. Team and enterprise accounts add team dashboards and organisation-wide analytics by team, location and seniority, and executive coaches can follow their own clients through a coach dashboard. It is aimed at individuals, people managers, human resources (HR) leaders, change consultants and coaches, and is delivered online.
A free strengths snapshot is available, with full results for £7.99. The Plus individual plan costs £99 a year or £10 a month, while team and enterprise prices are given on request. No accreditations are listed. The site states it has been used by more than 2,500 people, teams and businesses, and lists clients including HSBC and Millwall. The company was incorporated on 19 March 2020 as ICPD Limited and took its current name in June 2020.
Mid-levelOrganisations and individuals
Preston, Lancashire, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Robert Walters Talent Advisory is the leadership and talent consulting arm of Robert Walters, the global professional recruitment group.
It offers leadership development and executive coaching, leadership and team assessment, employer branding, diversity and inclusion consulting, and career transition and outplacement support, drawing on the recruitment group's labour-market data.
Its coaching and development work sits alongside a broader talent advisory offer rather than being a standalone coaching practice.
RADA Business is the commercial arm of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), based in London and set up in 2001, which trains people in communication.
It runs open programmes for individuals, in person and virtually, covering leadership, presence and confidence, presenting and a set of courses for women such as Executive Presence for Women. One-to-one performance coaching pairs each client with a coach. The Integrated Performance Programme runs 6 to 8 months for emerging leaders, and the Elite Performance Programme 3 to 12 months for high-potential and senior executives. For teams and whole organisations it designs workshops, longer programmes and consultancy on topics such as executive presence, storytelling, pitching and change leadership.
Prices are not published and are given on enquiry. The company states that its profits are gifted to support the work of the Academy and the next generation of actors. The legal entity is RADA in Business Limited (company number 03999577), with its registered office on Chenies Street in London and its office on Scala Street.
Senior leaders, ExecutivesOpen courses, In-houseOrganisations and individuals
QA is a London-based technology, digital and professional skills training company, set up in 1985, whose courses include leadership and management.
Its leadership courses cover stepping up to management, managing high-performing teams, moving from manager to leader and leadership presence, mostly as two or three day virtual classroom courses. It offers Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) qualifications at Level 3 and Level 5, including a Level 5 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring, with the Level 3 Award taught over five days within a 25-week programme. It also sells Certified STAR Manager, a blended online programme of about six months for managers who lead a team, accredited by APMG International.
Published prices start at £2,130 plus value added tax (VAT) for the two-day Leadership Presence course, with three-day courses from £2,550 to £2,740 plus VAT and the ILM Level 3 Award from £3,455 plus VAT. Certified STAR Manager is listed from £1,347 plus VAT. Ofsted, the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills, graded QA Limited Good at a full inspection in June 2025. CVC Capital Partners bought the business in 2017.
First-time managers, Mid-levelOpen courses, In-house, QualificationsOrganisations and individuals
