For leaders who haven't had a gap between changes in a long time. A protected space where you bring what's actually happening — not the version you perform in meetings — and work it with people living the same relentless pace.
…before anyone's had time to catch their breath. You're expected to hold things together for your team, while nobody's holding anything steady for you.
You don't need another model for managing change — you've been managing change constantly for years. That's not what's missing. What's missing is somewhere to say, plainly, what this is costing you, and be met by people who don't need it explained to them.
Here's the bind: the more pressure you're under, the more you need to think clearly, creatively, a few steps ahead. But pressure doesn't work that way. It pulls you into protection — narrower, faster, more reactive — right when the moment calls for the opposite. You can't think your way out of that alone, because the part of you doing the thinking is the part that's been narrowed.
That's what the Circle is for.
Working in local government, housing, healthcare, or other mission-led organisations.
You're carrying real responsibility, in a system that doesn't pause between changes long enough for anyone to catch up — and you're doing it with far less invested in you than in the people above you. This is built for that reality specifically, not adapted from a generic leadership programme.
Every session starts with a real read on where you're at — not "how are you," but an honest answer, in a room where you don't have to translate it into professional language first. Once you've got a plain way to name that, you stop starting from zero every time you bring something to the group.
We call this shared language the Dynamic Energy Index. On day one, though, it's simply permission to say how things actually are.
Nobody stands at the front with slides telling you how to be more resilient.
It's coaching — yours, and seven other people living the same pace, who'll tell you the truth rather than just agree with you.
Eight people. Online. No recordings.
Before the group ever meets, so we understand your context and what you want from the Circle.
Contracting, psychological safety, individual goals, and your Dynamic Energy Index baseline.
Live challenges, hot-seat coaching, peer inquiry, and a specific action before the next session. The spacing matters — it gives you room to actually try something at work before you're back in the room.
Progress, learning, your emotional resting state, and a 90-day commitment to carry forward.
So before anyone joins, and throughout:
A short suitability conversation, to check the fit is right on both sides.
No direct manager and report placed in the same cohort.
Participants at a broadly comparable level of responsibility.
A full-programme commitment — this isn't a drop-in.
Clear confidentiality and attendance agreements from session one.
No recordings, ever.
Clear boundaries between coaching and therapy.
If your organisation sponsors your place, they receive aggregated themes only — never your individual disclosures.
You can decline any question, at any time, without needing to explain why.
The biggest risk to a group like this isn't the price or the size of the room — it's safety. Without it, people perform competence instead of doing the real work. Everything above exists to protect against that.
If you need sustained, individual attention on a complex, personal leadership challenge, 1:1 LeaderSHIFT is the right place.
If what you need is perspective, challenge, connection and accountability — hearing how seven other leaders are navigating comparable pressure, and being pushed by people who won't let you off the hook — the Circle will very likely take you further, faster.
Some leaders do both, in sequence.
All prices plus VAT where applicable. Places are confirmed after your intake conversation — you'll be sent a secure payment link, or you can pay directly below once we've spoken.
For individuals booking their own place, once the pilot has run.
Had your intake? Pay securely →For places sponsored by an organisation, alongside leaders from other organisations.
Had your intake? Pay securely → Prefer to pay by invoice / PO? →A preferential 60-minute 1:1 session, exclusively for Circle participants who want focused individual time alongside the group work.
Add this — pay securely →Built for a single organisation only — no participants from outside your organisation in the room. This buys full confidentiality, a cohort of your choosing, and live challenges shaped around your specific context. Price is for the room, not per person.
Enquire about a closed cohort →Start with a 30-minute intake conversation. We'll check the fit is right on both sides, then take it from there.
Book your 30-minute intake →