Lasting impact, tailored to your needs

  • Created specifically for senior teams to develop as both individuals together and as a collective and cohesive unit.
  • Not a one-off intervention, but a journey delivered over 6-12 months, combining themed development days with space to tackle your organisation's challenges.
  • Learning that drives impact, with expert facilitation and structured impact strands that ensures learning translates into lasting change.

Align your team's learning with organisational strategy 

1. Choose your learning themes

Choose from a wide selection of half-day modules that can be tailored into the right development journey for your senior leadership team. 

We'll work alongside you to understand where your organisation is today, where you want to be tomorrow and how your leadership team can help get you there.

Empowered leadership

High performing teams

Team dynamics

Leading positive relationships

Culture and values

Strategic planning, vision and mission

Systems leadership

Adaptive leadership and leading change

Managing risk - Quality

Managing risk - Finance

2. Explore impact journeys

Leadership development is most powerful when it tackles real challenges. That's why impact is woven throughout the programme, giving your team the opportunity to address live organisational issues while building confidence, capability and trust.

Research project

Research project: coaching and support

1-1 leadership coaching

Group leadership coaching

Investment for long-term impact

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Strengthen your organisation

Focus on the biggest strategic challenges and enhance collective impact that benefits the learners and communities you serve
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ALIGN YOUR TEAM TO WORK TOGETHER

Create a coherant, collaborative senior leadership unit that pulls in the same direction and solves problems collectively.

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Invest in your leaders for the future

Build skills, confidence, and resilience to thrive - improving retention and strengthening your succession pipeline.

Why ETF?

As the professional body for the further education (FE) and skills sector, ETF brings a unique combination of sector expertise, credibility and insight that sets our programmes apart.

Our leadership development is shaped by a deep understanding of the challenges facing FE providers today—from workforce development and succession planning to organisational change and learner outcomes. Trusted by organisations across the sector, participants benefit from evidence-informed practice, experienced facilitators with extensive sector knowledge, and access to a powerful network of peers from across the FE and skills community.

With ETF, you're investing in more than professional development—you're investing in the future strength, resilience and leadership capability of your organisation.

United leadership. Shared ambition. Lasting Impact.

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