Lead Without Authority is the program for leaders who:
Run Employee Resource Groups, lead cross-functional teams or transformation projects where nobody reports to them.
Have been given a mandate and no infrastructure to deliver it.
Are capable, committed, and quietly running out of road. They don't need inspiration. They need a system.
Lead Without Authority can be experienced as a one day strategic engagement or a six week program.
Lead Without Authority: How It Works
Format 1: Strategic Engagement
An intensive single-day session covering strategy, clarity, and collaboration — the three areas where leaders commonly lose traction.
Every exercise uses real situations. Participants work on their actual team, stakeholders and projects.
By the end of the day, each person has assembled their complete leadership system.
Investment: From £15,000
Lead Without Authority: How It Works
Format 2: Six Week Program
A structured program for organisations who want to go deeper.
Participants build their leadership system progressively across six focused weeks, with time between sessions to apply what they've built and return with real feedback.
Cohort programs run between June and September.
Investment: From £30,000
What Organisations Like Yours Say
Avantor is a Fortune 500 company with ERG leaders and cross-functional teams operating across global markets. Here's what their Head of DEI and one of their ERG leaders said after going through the program.
“After the program completed, our employee resource group leaders felt that they had the tools that they needed in order to complete the objectives that they had put forth in their charter. There were resources that the team were able to refer to, but I think most importantly, they were able to connect with each other and other employee resource group leaders to understand what worked and what worked well and even sometimes what did not work so that they could avoid that.”
Noel France, VP, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Avantor.