Program Overview

Expert Leadership

Programme Overview

Organisations led by core business experts in their field are more successful than those led by generalists – tomorrow’s success depends on developing your experts into leaders.

Research shows that experts perform at their peak when they are led and managed by other credible experts – being a good manager alone is not sufficient.

Are you responsible for professionals, experts or creatives that you want to motivate and develop as leaders? Our dedicated team will work with you to understand your requirements and develop a custom-made curriculum, delivered by outstanding faculty and industry practitioners.

Our results demonstrate that this specialised approach produces the best outcomes for experts and their organisations.

What You Will Learn

We create bespoke development programmes for a range of industries including finance, insurance, engineering, law, and the creative industries.

How do you transition from being an expert, professional or senior creative into a leader who empowers people to perform at their peak? It takes the right kind of leadership development. Generic one-size-fits-all programmes are proven to be less effective.

Programme lead Professor Amanda Goodall draws on more than 20 years of research into management and expert leadership, which is summarised in her award-winning book Credible: the Power of Expert Leaders.

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

Through six core modules you will learn how to:

• Transition from an expert to a credible leader
• Utilise the insights of being an expert in a leadership context
• Understand the role of emotional and social intelligence in credible leadership
• Work on real-life challenges with colleagues to find solutions to the issues you face
• Focus on addressing personal development opportunities in your leadership style.

Elective modules

Additional elective modules are available which enable you to further customise the curriculum to your specific needs. These cover topics including wellbeing and the science of happiness, and leading through digital transformation.

Individual coaching

We can provide professional executive coaches as part of the programme to help participants embed learning in the workplace. We can also facilitate the integration of a client’s existing coaches into the programme. This can be discussed and agreed as part of the customisation process during the programme’s development.

Benefits for Your Organisation

Tailored content to the needs of your organisation

Alignment with your organisation strategy

Flexibility in terms of content, format, and delivery

Long-term impact from addressing challenges and promoting development

How Will You Learn?

We believe our Expert Leadership programmes are best delivered in person, because of their interactive design. We offer a range of rich learning experiences which incorporate peer learning, role play, simulation, group activities and live case method work.

Feedback is provided in a variety of ways throughout the course, both formally and informally, to optimise and support participant learning. We will co-design assessment processes to suit your needs, and the outcomes you are seeking as a client organisation.

Participants are awarded an Expert Leadership Executive Programme Certificate when they successfully complete the programme.

Location

Programmes can be delivered on site at your premises, or at our state-of-the-art hub for Executive Education in Finsbury Square– placing you in the heart of the City of London. The building is home to high-spec syndicate rooms, with translation booths for international clients, offering learning in your own language.