What Leader&Team Is All About
Leader&Team is a dynamic project focused on empowering founders, CEOs, and executive teams in growth-stage businesses. It’s all about building a way of working that’s intentional, strategic, and tough to replicate. Whether it’s through executive coaching, team coaching, or leadership coaching, Leader&Team helps leaders unlock clarity, trust, and focus to tackle the biggest challenges. This isn’t just about hitting high performance once — it’s about creating sustained impact that sets companies apart in their industries.
The Main Benefit of Leader&Team
Here’s what makes Leader&Team stand out:
- Works with companies typically ranging from £5m to £200m in turnover
- Supports both investment-backed businesses and independent firms
- Focuses on customer-value-driven strategies
- Helps scale up through focused growth or scale out via multiple strategies like international expansion and acquisitions
- Builds leadership clarity, confidence, and capability across teams
- Delivers a proven process for sustained executive team growth and founder/CEO development
The Forge Discipline: Executive Team Growth
Behind every top-tier executive team is a discipline that didn’t just happen by chance. The Forge discipline is exactly that — a process that builds clarity, trust, and strategic focus within leadership teams. It’s designed to push teams beyond just high performance into a realm of lasting impact. This way of working becomes a unique advantage, something competitors simply can’t copy. It’s about creating a culture and rhythm that drives consistent, exceptional results.
Rise: Founder & CEO Growth
Leading a growing business is complex and personal — fast. That’s why the best founders and CEOs don’t go it alone. Rise is a program that brings together founder/CEOs of growth-stage companies to challenge each other’s thinking and stretch ambitions. Some leaders opt for 1:1 coaching to cut through the noise and build strategic clarity, while others dive deeper into Rise to unlock long-term impact. It’s all about leading with greater clarity and intent, surrounded by sharp, supportive peers.
Coach in Residence: Organization Growth
Think of the Coach in Residence as a Chief of Staff for leadership development and strategic alignment. This role works across the organization to ensure execution matches strategy, while supporting both senior and emerging leaders. The goal? To build clarity, confidence, and capability that accelerates performance and aligns everyone around the company’s top priorities. It’s a hands-on approach to making sure the whole organization moves forward together.
Project Impact: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Linked to Leader&Team
- SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth — fostering leadership that drives sustainable business growth
- SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure — supporting innovative leadership and organizational development
- SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities — promoting inclusive leadership practices
- SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals — encouraging collaboration among leaders and teams for greater impact
Working with Growth Companies
Leader&Team partners with a diverse range of growth companies — from those scaling up with a single focused strategy to others scaling out with multiple growth paths like market diversification or acquisitions. These businesses share a commitment to mastering the basics while being bold enough to pursue what it really takes to become best-in-class. Whether backed by investors or proudly independent, they all know that unlocking their people’s potential is the key to unlocking business potential. It’s about smart, strategic growth powered by strong leadership and teamwork.
