Most organisations train their new managers.

Very few build them into leaders.

Cultivate builds the right leadership behaviours from the start of a career.

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Our Cultivate programme is for:

First-level and emerging managers stepping into leadership for the first time.

High-potential individuals preparing for promotion.

Organisations building the next generation of their leadership.

For established leaders, Leadership in Management is the right programme.

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"My managers see how my stress and worry has gone, and how my team make decisions now. Senior leadership can see how I’ve empowered my team - even if I am not there they can handle almost any requirement.”

Bader Buzaboon, The Benefit Company, Bahrain

First-line leadership is where your organisational culture is made or broken.

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In team meetings, in difficult conversations, in the moment a new manager either steps up or steps back. When it goes wrong, the consequences are immediate - team performance drops, good people leave, and the habits that form early become significantly harder to shift later.

Most organisations invest in skills at this level. Frameworks, models, accredited qualifications. The global leadership development industry spends over £300 billion a year doing exactly this. Transfer rates from skills-based training to real workplace behaviour: 10-15%. The knowledge lands. The behaviour does not change.

Cultivate builds the habits and judgement leaders rely on every day. The impact shows up in your teams straight away - and pays back across every role your leaders hold for the rest of their careers.

The return is not 1:1. One leader affects every person they lead, now and in every team they will ever lead.

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Skills training changes what your managers know. Cultivate changes how they lead.

Most emerging leaders are given frameworks and theories and told what good leadership looks like.

The habits they actually form - how they handle pressure, how they have difficult conversations, how they show up for their teams - come from experience, not instruction.

Get them right early and the difference shows immediately, and for every year that follows.

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"The programme has given me the space and guidance to confidently take the lead over the next steps in my career and to focus on the why, what and how of what I’m trying to achieve within my role and the business”

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Twelve months. Built around three stages.

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Cultivate combines two residential modules - five days in total at Chelsea Parkfields - with virtual learning, one-to-one coaching and structured peer support. Maximum 1:8 participant-to-facilitator ratio throughout.

Before you start.

A 360 leadership audit establishes a clear picture of each leader's strengths and development priorities. You start with a focus, not a blank sheet.

Module 1 - Leading Self and Others.

A three-day residential at Chelsea Parkfields. Challenging and immersive, designed to give each leader an honest picture of how they lead and how they come across to others. The first real view of who they are as a leader.

Module 2 - Leading with Purpose.

Four virtual half-day workshops covering coaching skills, inclusion, change leadership and leading others through change. Learning applied between residentials while it is most relevant.

Module 3 - Leading with Impact.

A two-day residential that builds on Module 1. Leaders arrive with more self-awareness and sharper questions. This residential consolidates the change and embeds it.

Throughout.

Four one-to-one coaching sessions. Three triangular coaching sessions with your organisation's sponsor - keeping individual development aligned with organisational goals. Access to the Leadership Trust alumni community for ongoing peer connection and development.

See the full programme detail

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Chelsea Parkfields, Herefordshire.

Leadership Trust's private residential estate. Far enough from the office that the office stops following you.

When leaders build the right foundations early, organisations feel it immediately.

At the Benefit Company a shift in approach has led to a more confident, less stressed team that now exceeds SLAs and KPIs with smoother workflows and faster problem-solving. With more focus on team development and targeted training.

When does the next Cultivate cohort start?

Our Cultivate programme runs twice a year. Participants go through the twelve months together.

Dates below show start date and the two residentials for each cohort.

Start - 26 August 2026

Residential 1 | 14-16 October 2026
Residential 2 | 15-16 April 2027

Start - 31 March 2027

Residential 1 | 19-21 May 2027
Residential 2 | 21-22 October 2027

Start - 22 Sept 2027

Residential 1 | 10-12 November 2027
Residential 2 | 11 - 12 May 2028

BOOK YOUR PLACE

Places are limited. Early booking is recommended.

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Tell us about your organisation and your leaders. We'll tell you honestly what will work and why.

Talk to Sinead or Damian.

Sinead Daly
Global Business Manager
T: +44 (0)1989 240021
Email Sinead

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Damian Sherrard
Global Business Manager
T: +44 (0)7968 429912
Email Damian