Leadership Performance Academy (LPA)

Build the leadership and team capabilities your organisation needs

LPA brings together leadership development, team development, coaching, diagnostics and transformational experiences—helping leaders and teams turn learning into practice and sustain performance.

The leadership context

Today’s challenges demand more from leaders—and from teams

AI is reshaping work, expectations are shifting across generations and organisations are changing faster than many leaders and teams can absorb. Sustainable performance now depends on how people think, relate and act together—not simply on what they know.

Leading in the age of AI

Leaders must make sound decisions, redesign work and keep people engaged as technology changes roles, workflows and expectations.

Bridging generations and differences

Teams need shared ways of working that make diverse experience, cultures and perspectives a performance advantage.

Making the transition from expert to leader

New managers must move from individual contribution to setting direction, enabling others and leading through conversations.

Sustaining performance through change

Leaders and teams need the resilience, clarity and adaptability to deliver today while building readiness for tomorrow.

LPA responds through connected development, coaching, diagnostics and transformational experiences—designed around the realities of your organisation.
Six connected offerings

One academy. Multiple ways to build capability.

Each offering can stand alone or combine into a coherent journey for a leadership population, intact team or critical organisational priority.

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Leader as Coach

A focused, in-depth programme that equips leaders with coaching skills to strengthen conversations, ownership and personal and professional effectiveness.

ConveraLab practice · Optional pathway towards IAC designation or certification
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Leading Teams

Help first-time managers move successfully from individual contributor to team leader by building the foundations of direction, trust, communication, accountability and performance.

Designed for new and emerging people managers
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Executive & Team Coaching

Confidential, context-specific coaching for senior leaders and leadership teams navigating complex roles, strategic priorities, transitions and stakeholder demands.

Individual, team and integrated coaching engagementsExplore Executive & Team Coaching →
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Assessments & Diagnostics

Use the right evidence to understand leadership, team and culture dynamics—from Hogan, Spotlight and DiSC to 360s, psychological safety, team performance and organisational culture.

Selected and interpreted for the decision at hand
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DeepCycle

A transformational leadership experience that creates the space to step back, see more clearly and make purposeful shifts during a significant transition.

Prepare · 3–4-day expedition · Integrate over approximately 90 days
Our development journey

From organisational priorities to sustained capability

We design the work around the change that matters—not around a fixed catalogue of workshops.

01 · DETERMINE

Establish what matters

Clarify the organisational priority, desired shifts, leadership population and evidence of success.

02 · BUILD

Create the right capability journey

Combine learning, practice, coaching and diagnostics around your context and constraints.

03 · APPLY

Move learning into real work

Use live challenges, deliberate practice and feedback so new capability shows up where it counts.

04 · SUSTAIN

Turn behaviours into practices

Reinforce, review and embed the shifts through workplace routines, manager support and evidence.

A connected learning ecosystem

Capability grows between formal learning moments

Workshops can create insight. Lasting capability comes from what people practise, apply, review and reinforce afterwards.

ConveraLab augments our human-led development with additional opportunities to practise conversations, receive structured feedback and reflect between live sessions. Explore ConveraLab

Human expertise

Experienced facilitators, coaches and organisational practitioners create challenge, safety and contextual judgment.

Deliberate practice

Leaders rehearse real conversations and behaviours rather than only discussing models.

Workplace application

Action learning and live priorities connect development directly to the work.

Evidence and reinforcement

Feedback, diagnostics and follow-through help people see progress and sustain new habits.

Who LPA supports

Designed around pivotal leadership moments

The right intervention depends less on title alone and more on the transition, challenge or responsibility leaders and teams are carrying.

Leadership moment

Stepping into leadership

For people moving from individual contribution into their first formal leadership role.

Leadership moment

Expanding leadership impact

For experienced leaders who need to influence more broadly, lead through complexity or prepare for greater scope.

Team moment

Leading together

For intact leadership teams that need stronger alignment, trust, decision-making and collective accountability.

Transition moment

Navigating a turning point

For leaders or teams facing strategic change, a new mandate, rapid growth or a significant personal and organisational transition.

Evidence and impact

Evidence is agreed at the start—not added at the end

Together, we define what meaningful change should look like and choose proportionate evidence to track learning, application and organisational value.

Agree outcomes

Name the priority, desired behaviours and practical signals of success.

Establish a starting point

Use stakeholder insight and fit-for-purpose diagnostics where they add value.

Observe application

Look for evidence in real decisions, conversations, routines and team practices.

Review and sustain

Reflect on progress, address barriers and reinforce the practices that matter.

150+organisations supported
Globally informed, culturally groundedEvidence-based practice adapted to each organisation’s cultural and operating context
Context firstdesigned around real organisational priorities
Start with the change that matters

What do your leaders and teams need to do differently?

Tell us about the organisational priority, leadership population or team challenge. We will help determine the right starting point and build a connected journey.


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