Client story: Cultural Leadership Programme - Leadership Development Days

An audacious plan…

In the autumn of last year I received an e-mail from a colleague inviting me to join her in an audacious plan to pitch for a significant piece of work with the Cultural Leadership Programme. This would be to set up, recruit for and then deliver ten Leadership Development Days for black, Asian and ethnic minority leaders working in the cultural sector. I decided that if we were going to go for it, then our idea needed to be ambitious, challenging and like no other leadership workshop we had ever seen. So we set to thinking about how we could really engage a wide range of people and their combined experiences into a powerful tool for their ongoing learning and networking.

We needed to find a way to discuss leadership theory without getting too academic, give participants a real sense of their own leadership style and then give them accessible tools to set off on their own journey of leadership development. So, by looking at leadership in popular culture, using MBTI, offering telephone coaching sessions and creating an on-line community we came up with our plan.

Anyway, that first ambition is now a vivid reality and we are working with over 180 people across England who are a lot clearer about their own leadership aspirations within the cultural sector. Our audacious plan is starting to grow too - we are delighted to have been asked to run a further programme later this year that will be three times as large!

For more information on this specific Leadership Development programme feel free to visit: www.leadershipdevelopmentdays.org.uk