led by John Atkinson, director of operations

A local leadership project helps an authority to understand its capacity for leadership, so the authority is in a position to determine what it needs to do in order to develop. We can help arrange for one of the country’s top leadership advisers to work with the senior political and managerial teams of an authority to consider in situ a particularly difficult leadership issue facing them locally. The process is designed to encourage better leadership to flourish. (more)

We have set up a Practice of place, which is a community of 60 key individuals in local government who, over the next 18 months, will essentially explore what it means to shape place and actually how to go about doing it.  (more)

We have put together a short list of what we call our leadership partners, selected following a rigorous process involving 150 organisations from which we picked eight measured against the specific needs of local government that we are happy to recommend to authorities. (more)

We have compiled the country’s only leadership development supplier database to make life much easier for you when researching the best organisation to employ to deliver for you.

We have also produced The definitive guide to procuring top-level leadership development services for local government.

led by Joe Simpson, director of politics and partnerships

Our unique programme called Civic Pride is designed to encourage confident, capable and visionary local leadership among local government politicians. Civic Pride is made up of five programmes that promote and support local politicians at each stage of their political lives, helping to reinvigorate local democracy.

Working with local party groups and councils, this strand is occupied with raising the profile of what councillors do and promoting the importance of their work in order to encourage a greater pool of talent to want to stand and one that reflects more accurately the people it represents. (more)

This flagship, innovative 18-month programme – endorsed by the leadership of the three mainstream parties – is concerned with taking the very best of today’s councillors and developing tomorrow’s local government leaders. (more)

Described by all three political parties as ‘invaluable’, this innovative initiative offers the services of a top political mentor to political groups in authorities where change is likely and where groups would most benefit from external support. (more)

This unique programme has been designed to help cabinet members assess their individual strengths and weaknesses, look at areas for their own development and also to understand more about the way they work together as a team. (more)

We are working with political groups on how to create a distinctive view of place so it’s possible to distinguish a Conservative place from a Labour place and from a Liberal Democrat place. (more)

We are piloting political coaching for top leaders. (more)

led by David Bolger, programme director

The Leeds Castle Leadership Programme is a unique skills development opportunity that takes good leaders and by supporting their development, increases the leadership capacity of the sector and its ability to improve the lives of local people. It targets both chief executives and senior politicians in local government.

led by Kate Priestley, Chair

A network of possibly some of the most powerful women in the country, has been set up by the Leadership Centre. They meet quarterly at the House of Lords to share with each other over lunch the particular challenges that they face as women who work in local and national government.