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QA Leadership

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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.

Tack TMI

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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).

Warwick Business School Executive Education

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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.

Wavelength

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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.