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Leadership Matters

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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.

Leadership Trust

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Leadership Trust is a leadership development organisation based at Chelsea Parkfields near Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, founded in 1975. Its programmes aim to change how leaders behave, using residential courses, outdoor challenges, peer feedback and coaching. Cultivate, for emerging leaders, runs for 12 months with five residential days, four virtual half-day workshops and four one-to-one coaching sessions. Leadership in Management, for experienced leaders, centres on a five-and-a-half-day residential, with coaching before and after across six months. It also designs programmes for senior leaders, executive teams and whole organisations, and offers one-to-one and three-way coaching that includes the leader's sponsor. Prices are not published, and the website lists no accreditations. The organisation was set up by David Gilbert-Smith, who had commanded the Special Air Service (SAS) Training Wing, and behavioural psychologist Janet Richardson. It is now the trading name of Leadership Trust Training and Development Limited and is part of Chelsea Group. Its case studies include WashCo, which reports turnover rising from £12m to £18m.

Learning Performance Institute

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The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) is a professional body for workplace learning and development professionals, set up in 1995. It offers individual membership at four grades, team membership and the LPI Capability Map, a framework for assessing and benchmarking the skills of learning teams. It accredits learning departments, learning providers and learning technologies, and runs certifications such as the Certified Online Learning Facilitator course, which takes 18 hours online plus 12 hours of self-study. It also runs the Learning Awards, the LEARNING LIVE conference and networks for learning leaders. Annual membership costs £109 for Affiliate, £182.50 for Associate, £192.50 for Member and £212.50 for Fellow. The Fellow grade is for senior learning leaders with at least seven years' experience, three of them at a strategic level. Entry to the Learning Awards is free. It is registered in London as The Learning and Performance Institute Limited, incorporated on 17 October 1995, and its chief executive is Edmund Monk.

London Business School Executive Education

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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.