Leadership Confidence, Influence and Capability for a Changing World.
Our Executive Development programmes are designed for managers, senior leaders and professionals who want to lead with purpose, communicate with clarity, and strengthen their influence and impact across teams, organisations and systems.
From innovation and collaboration to influence and difficult conversations, our sessions are practical, engaging and focused on what matters in today’s complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
All programmes are available in-person or online and are tailored to your organisation’s goals and context.
Our Programmes
Everyday Innovation for Leaders
A two-day development experience that helps leaders embed innovation into daily practice. Participants learn to define what innovation means in their organisation, apply strategy tools, develop creative thinking, and lead a culture that supports sustainable innovation.
Influencing Skills Programme
A one-day, highly interactive course for professionals who need to influence without authority. Delegates build confidence and develop their own style using practical models, emotional intelligence and ethical influence tools. The session includes a personal influencing style diagnostic and actionable takeaways.
Collaboration Skills for High-Performing Teams
Designed for leaders and teams working across functions, boundaries or organisations. This programme builds the behaviours, mindsets and tools to improve communication, reduce friction, and get to better decisions faster—especially under pressure.
Mastering Challenge and Difficult Conversations
How to handle tough conversations with professionalism and confidence—whether with a peer, team member or stakeholder. Delegates learn how to manage emotion, clarify intent and structure conversations that resolve issues and build trust.
Business Insights for Public Sector Leaders
This programme helps public sector professionals better understand the needs and pressures of the businesses they serve or regulate. It improves communication, builds business empathy, and enhances the quality of public engagement, particularly with small, medium-sized and microbusinesses.
How We Work
- All programmes are interactive and practical, grounded in real-world scenarios
- Delivered online, in person, or in blended formats
- One-day intensives, short courses or part of wider leadership pathways
- Customisable for public or private sector, including cross-sector teams
Why Work With Us
Led by Dr Jo North, our programmes draw on decades of experience in innovation, strategy, team development and stakeholder engagement. We’ve supported senior teams across sectors to build the mindset and skillset needed for modern leadership—and we tailor every session to make it count.
Let’s Talk
Whether you’re developing a leadership cohort, supporting public sector teams, or embedding innovation culture—we’ll help you design an executive development offer that delivers.
Contact us to start the conversation.
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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:
