The programme includes both professional services and academic staff. Its focus is turning strategy into impact through people while working with uncertainty. Understanding organisations as systems is a key foundation.

As this year sees the launch and first planning cycle of the new University Strategy, we will frame the learning experience around participants’ responsibilities under the new Strategy. Participants will gain self-awareness through a Strengthscope® Leader Profile with individual coaching feedback, and work with peers in four whole-day in-person workshops to form a collaborative network of peers and apply some key models and methods to their own leadership practice.

These typically include:

• analysing and describing strategy
• complexity in organisations
• human system dynamics
• change
• leading generously

Participants are nominated by their Faculty / School or professional service head, with a limit of 16 places. These candidates are typically already in leadership or management roles, usually at Department level, and have shown the potential for cross-University leadership in their current or next role.