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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.

Make UK

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Make UK is a London-based membership organisation for UK manufacturers, founded in 1896 as the Engineering Employers Federation (EEF). Alongside advice and campaigning for its members, it runs training in leadership and management, employment law and human resources (HR), health and safety, and technical skills. Its Leadership and Management Development Programme is aimed at line managers and people moving from peer to manager or from manager to leader. Employers pick from around 25 modules of three hours each, on subjects such as communication, conflict, decision making and managing performance, delivered virtually or at their own site. Shorter open courses run in a virtual classroom, and engineering apprenticeships are taught at its Technology Hub in Aston, Birmingham. Members pay less for open courses. Critical Thinking and Decision Making, for example, costs £175 plus value added tax (VAT) for members and £220 for non-members, while the modular programme is priced on enquiry. The courses are described as continuing professional development (CPD) accredited. The trading company, EEF Limited, is an employers' association and a company limited by guarantee, and Ofsted (the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills) graded it Good in its latest report, dated December 2023. The website displays Good Business Charter, Cyber Essentials and LRQA certification badges.