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Leadership Matters

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Primarily Leadership Development

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Leadership Matters is an online leadership development platform for the education sector, founded by Andy Buck and trading since 2016. Members get six diagnostic tools for leaders and staff teams, along with videos, slides and templates covering around 40 leadership topics, plus events including an annual conference. Individuals can join on their own, and a school membership covers any number of staff at that school. Trusts and local authorities are quoted separately. Its Professional Education arm offers progression pathways to an MBA, an MSc or an MA with the University of Buckingham, aimed mainly at people who have finished a senior leader apprenticeship with Captiva Learning. An advisory service also works with organisations on talent strategy. Individual membership costs £99 a year plus VAT. School membership runs from £195 to £745 a year plus VAT depending on pupil numbers, with 20% off three-year terms and a 10-day free trial. The Masters pathways cost £5,995 to £7,940 plus VAT, and eligible apprentices can apply for a bursary. It states that it has over 21,000 users and 900 clients on five continents. Its brand and customer assets are held by LM Education Ltd and are due to move to a new parent company, Leadership Matters Ltd.

Hult Ashridge Executive Education

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Primarily Executive Coaching

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Hult Ashridge Executive Education is part of Hult International Business School, based at Ashridge House, Hertfordshire, with roots going back to 1959. It works with organisations on leadership and organisational development, co-designing programmes that range from a single skill to a full leadership academy. Services include experiential programmes led by Hult faculty, assessments and psychometrics, on-demand digital learning and organisational development consulting. Coaching covers one-to-one work for all levels, team coaching and help building an internal coaching culture, delivered face to face or virtually through a network of more than 300 coaches working in over 40 languages. It also trains coaches. The Postgraduate Certificate in Executive Coaching takes 10 to 12 months part-time, at Ashridge or online, and leads to a Postgraduate Diploma of 8 months and an optional 12-month Master's, about two and a half years in total. Prices for organisational work are not published. The coaching qualifications cost £9,950 for the certificate, £13,600 for the diploma and £26,650 for the Master's, excluding value added tax (VAT). Hult states that its executive coach pathway holds the European Quality Award (EQA) from EMCC Global, formerly the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), and EMCC Global confirmed a Team Coaching Quality Award for one of its team coaching programmes in January 2025. Its coaches are accredited by the Hult Ashridge Center for Coaching or the International Coaching Federation (ICF). The website states that it ranked 17th in the Financial Times 2026 ranking for custom executive education. The registered learning provider is The Ashridge (Bonar Law Memorial) Trust.

Mindtools Kineo

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Mindtools Kineo is a UK workplace learning company formed when Mindtools, founded in 1996, bought the learning provider Kineo in May 2025. For organisations it offers consultancy and custom learning design, off-the-shelf and adapted learning programmes, and learning platforms that track and manage training. Its main topics are management and leadership development, compliance and essential skills, and onboarding and induction. Most learning is digital, with short e-learning modules and mobile access to videos and articles. Some programmes add residential workshops, peer support groups, mentoring and work-based projects. Individuals can buy a separate Mindtools membership, which gives access to a content hub of articles, videos and quizzes, short Skill Bites and an artificial intelligence (AI) coach. Individual membership costs £12 a month, £30 a quarter or £110 a year, each after a 7-day free trial. Prices for organisations are not published. Mindtools is owned by Cambridge Information Group (CIG), a family-owned investment firm, and bought Kineo from City & Guilds. The combined business announced the Mindtools Kineo name in December 2025. It states its content reaches 24 million people in 160 countries. Its operating company, Mind Tools Ltd, is registered in Edinburgh.

Sponge

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Sponge is a Bristol-based digital learning company, launched in 2004, with further offices in Berlin and Brussels. It designs custom e-learning, blended programmes and facilitated learning for large employers, typically organisations with more than 10,000 staff. Formats include animation, interactive video, simulations, games and performance support tools, and courses can be translated into more than 200 languages. Topics include compliance, onboarding, leadership and management, sales enablement, and equity, diversity and inclusion. Most custom projects take about 10 to 16 weeks from discovery to delivery. A sister brand, Sponge Compliance, offers more than 400 ready-made compliance microlearning courses and the Spark learning management system (LMS). Prices are not published. Its information security policy says it works in line with ISO 27001:2022, the international standard for information security management, but the site does not claim certification. It has won Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) Learning Awards, including Gold for Learning Provider of the Year in 2019, and Brandon Hall Group awards in several years. The parent company, Sponge Group Holdings Limited (company number 11935701), was incorporated in April 2019.