Innovation Leadership

Innovation Programmes To Build Confidence, Unlock Creativity And Lead With Purpose

Our Innovation Leadership programmes are designed for individuals and teams who want to lead change, deliver results and build inclusive, forward-thinking organisations.

Whether you’re developing early-career talent, investing in senior leaders, or supporting innovation teams to grow, we deliver practical, tailored programmes that develop real capability, confidence and clarity.

Led by innovation expert Dr Jo North and our experienced team, each programme blends insight, challenge and action—so your people don’t just learn; they lead.

What We Offer

Women Leading Sustainable Innovation

An intensive programme combining personal development, leadership impact and strategic innovation. Designed and delivered by Dr Jo North and Professor Joanna Berry, this experience helps women build confidence, influence and a clear leadership identity in innovation and sustainability roles.

Innovation Mindset and Resilience

Develops the habits, thinking and energy needed to lead innovation under pressure. Participants learn how to stay creative, motivated and focused—even when results are slow, ambiguity is high, and the work is complex.

Strategic Stakeholder Engagement and Influence

For senior leaders navigating complex, high-stakes environments. This session equips them to influence without authority, manage resistance, build trust and align diverse stakeholders around shared goals.

Mastering Challenge and Difficult Conversations

Practical tools and support for leading honest, constructive conversations—especially when the topic is tough. Ideal for building stronger teams, resetting expectations, and developing a culture of trust and progress.

Chairing High-Impact Partnership Meetings

For leaders responsible for steering cross-functional or cross-organisational groups. Helps participants design and lead meetings that drive clarity, accountability and action—especially in complex, resource-stretched settings.

Intergenerational Collaboration Workshops

Helps organisations turn age diversity into innovation strength. Designed for teams spanning multiple generations, this session improves communication, mutual understanding and knowledge sharing across age groups.

Supporting Line Managers of New Graduate Colleagues

Gives line managers the tools and confidence to support graduates effectively. Helps organisations improve retention, performance and early career experience by equipping leaders to support new starters from day one.

Innovation Team Building and Away Days

Immersive sessions to strengthen innovation culture, collaboration and creativity. Ideal for innovation teams, project groups and leadership cohorts who want to energise their thinking and make meaningful progress together.

Formats That Fit

• In-person or live online delivery
• Short, focused sessions or full programme pathways
• Standalone modules or integrated development programmes
• Designed around your goals, your people and your organisation’s context

Why The Big Bang Partnership?

We’ve supported leaders and innovation teams across corporates, universities, scale-ups and public sector organisations. Every session we deliver is practical, evidence-based and designed for real impact.

Led by Dr Jo North—author of Leading Sustainable Innovation—our team brings energy, clarity and challenge to every engagement.

Let’s Talk

If you’re ready to equip your people with the mindset, skillset and confidence to lead innovation with impact, we’d love to help.

Contact us to shape a programme that fits your organisation and your goals.

Innovation Programmes Tailored to Your Requirements

We can create a tailored Executive Programme designed for the specific needs of your organisation, as we have done successfully for Costcutter Supermarkets Group’s Horizon leadership course with Emotion at Work, for which we were proud to be finalists for a national CIPD People Management Award for Best HR / Learning & Development Supplier.

We are also proud to have worked with AquaGib in Gibraltar since early 2018 on the business’ leadership and management development. AquaGib provides Gibraltar with drinking and salt water, sewage, electricity meter reading and billing services.

Your Innovation Programme Lead

Your executive development events will be designed and delivered by Dr. Jo North, Associate Lecturer for business creativity and innovation at the University of York as well as being the Managing Director of The Big Bang Partnership Limited.

Jo has leading-edge expertise in working with companies to optimise the creative potential of their people, products, services and brands and build an innovative, entrepreneurial capability into organisational culture.

She brings a truly unique perspective to teams and innovation as she combines her academic excellence, research and facilitation skills with real world, commercial business experience. Our core programmes include: