Leadership Development

Empower your leaders to transform the future of your business - today.

Transform Vision into Action: Leadership Excellence Starts Here

Our leadership programmes are designed to unlock the potential of your teams.

We focus on your ability to lead, influence, and inspire others effectively. It involves building skills like communication, decision making, and emotional intelligence, fostering self-awareness, and cultivating strategic thinking.

Leadership Excellence starts here – let’s shape the future together.

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How We Can Help

For over 20 years we have supported Leadership Teams globally to design, to get ready for, and deliver the change ahead. We bring tried and tested tools that make change simple and give confidence to your team.

Our client list includes FTSE 100 Global Organisations to UK based start-ups in Global Financial Services, FMCG, Retail, and Construction industries.

Leadership Development Programmes

We work with you to design tailored leadership and team development programmes and workshops that fit your needs. We support Aspiring Leaders, First-time Managers, and Experienced Senior leaders, to help them build the competencies required to engage their teams and drive innovation and growth.

Our programmes are tailored to your needs. With a focus on understanding best practice methods, psychology, and how to put it into practice, we ensure that participants return to work ready to implement their learning and deliver maximum impact.

We are licensed partners of a variety of personality assessment tools that bring greater insight into self-awareness, better understanding others, improved communication and collaboration, and reducing conflict. These include Hogan, Firo B, Insights Discovery and MBTI.

Coaching for Individual Leaders

Coaching helps leaders to perform more effectively and fulfil their potential faster.

In one-to-one coaching sessions we work with C-Suite Leadership and first line managers to:

  • Increase self-awareness of their unique strengths, and development priorities.
  • Gain practical knowledge of how to leverage their potential and boost personal performance and productivity.
  • Plan to successfully lead the organisational changes ahead.
  • Take ownership for their development via a plan to continue making progress after the coaching ends.

Team Communication and Collaboration Workshops​

We enable teams to have better working relationships and a focus on growth and delivering business results.  We show them how each team member thinks and behaves. It starts with self-awareness, followed by awareness of others, and the motivation and skills to work better together.

Using Insights Discovery we can help your team have more effective conversations with clients and colleagues, build trust, and manage conflict. Overall it builds productive and positive working relationships.

We can design and run bespoke team building workshops to fit your needs.

Engage Your People

We bring simple solutions to help your Team to deliver improved team performance:

  • performance management tools
  • talent management tools
  • succession planning tools

We train in effective feedback and courageous conversations, and support your management teams to build talent and succession management strategies that work.

Diversity & Inclusion

We help you to put in place the right Diversity & Inclusion strategy for where you are now and where you want to be. 

Provide Data-Based Personality Insights

Gain deeper insight about your current and future talent to maximise organisational success.

We are licensed partners of a variety of personality assessment tools to fit your needs including Hogan, Firo B, MBTI and Insights Discovery.

Objective

A fast growing Global Financial Services Organisation required leaders to be equipped and ready to lead business growth internationally, engage their teams and maintain the current culture.

Solution

We worked with the Senior Team to build a Leadership Development Programme with a focus on the behaviours driving the current culture. The programme included Insights Profiling. It built self-awareness of what it is like to be led by them as a leader. It focussed on building high performing teams and leading successful change.

Outcome

  • Leadership felt motivated and ready to lead teams to reach the company’s ambitious growth plans.
  • Maintained existing company culture and values through expansion.
  • More engaged teams, able to meet and exceed KPIs.

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Develop Current and Future Leaders

Meet our Lead Consultants

Lisa Pilkington and David Crack lead our team of highly experienced and sought after consultants.

David Crack
David Crack MSc, LLA, FICA

As a specialist in technology innovation and compliance, David is a business and technology hybrid, with a focus on transforming how organisations can simplify compliance, risk and financial crime management. He has over 40 years’ experience designing customer systems in retail banking, and has a strong focus on making products user-centric, ethical, and inclusive.

He is Chairperson of CDD Services, using his extensive experience to propel CDD’s products and services to provide meaningful change for both individuals and communities. He also chairs the Association of Document Validation Professionals, regularly meeting with government policy makers to understand and advise on current issues and solutions.

Lisa Pilkington
Lisa Pilkington BA, MBA

Your guru for Change & Leadership development, Lisa has 20+ years in Global HRM, Talent Management and Business Transformational Change. With experience of operating globally with C Suite executives and their teams, she supports businesses undergoing change to improve employee and business capability.

As CEO of CDD Services, Lisa brings a wealth of specialist knowledge surrounding HR, employer branding and candidate experience, shaping CDD’s product development to not only be fit for purpose, but exceed client expectations.

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