1. Diagnostic interviews
We sit down with each participant and their direct reports for 45-minute structured interviews. No personality quizzes. We want to hear specific stories about recent decisions: what went well, what caused friction, and what was left unsaid. This gives us a baseline that generic surveys cannot.
2. Live cohort sessions
Groups of six to eight leaders meet for three half-day sessions over six weeks. Each session centres on a single leadership tension: pace versus thoroughness, autonomy versus alignment, candour versus psychological safety. Participants work through real scenarios from their own organisations, not case studies about companies they'll never visit.
3. One-to-one coaching
Between cohort sessions, every participant gets two 60-minute coaching conversations. These are practical: we pick one behaviour to change, design a small experiment, and review what happened. Most participants say this is where the real shift occurs.
4. Impact review
At week twelve we repeat the diagnostic interviews with the same direct reports. We compile a before-and-after report for each participant and a team-level summary for the sponsoring executive. This is how we measure whether the programme worked, and it is how we hold ourselves accountable.