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12 WEEK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Lead Like This

The Fundamentals of Brilliant Leadership for Aspiring, New, & Junior Leaders

 

12 WEEK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Lead Like This

The Fundamentals of Brilliant Leadership for Aspiring, New, & Junior Leaders

 

What is Lead Like This?

Lead Like This is a 12-week online leadership development programme designed to grow confident, emotionally intelligent leaders—without the jargon, theory overload or off-the-shelf frameworks that tend to miss the mark.

Centred around six practical, evidence-informed leadership fundamentals, the programme tackles the real challenges leaders face today— from how teams work and understanding others (including all personalities and neurotypes), to handling conflict.

Created and led by Anna Jester, founder of Lead Happy, Lead Like This is a mind-altering, energising and results-driven journey. Participants leave with sharper self-awareness, increased confidence, and leadership behaviours that stick.

It’s a powerful and accessible option for organisations that want to develop their people managers when it matters most. High-impact leadership development—without the heavy lift.

 

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“Anna’s sessions brought a brilliant and uplifting new perspective… inspiring and energetic & interactive – she achieved a very high level of engagement.”

Sarah Jackson, Head of MBA & Alumni Careers, Warwick Business School

What Participants Will Learn

This programme equips leaders to handle the real stuff: hybrid tension, interpersonal friction, stakeholder wrangling and team performance. No fluff. Just tools, insight, and mindset shifts that stick. By the end of the programme, your leaders will be able to:

  • Lead with presence, clarity and emotional intelligence—not just manage the to-do list
  • Empower others to perform by building trust, not resorting to control
  • Communicate with greater clarity, confidence and impact—across all levels
  • Hold productive, human conversations around performance, feedback and change
  • Think beyond their role – collaborating more, working in siloes less
  • Create psychological safety and accountability amongst those they manage

 

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Lead Like This Programme Format:

Blending live sessions, ongoing stimulus and a 24/7 leadership coach in the digital pocket of every participant, Lead Like This includes:

  • 8 x Live 60-minute online sessions (held fortnightly)
  • Live Intro & Wrap-up sessions to bookend the experience & create change that sticks
  • Lead Happy Lowdown – curated content, insiration & stimulus between sessions
  • 24/7 access to Navianna – our AI-powered support coach – throughout the programme
  • Complimentary ticket to Lead Happy Live (our annual in-person celebration of leadership)

 

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“The relaxed and fun environment allowed full involvement by everyone – even the introverts.”

Taryn Ward, Platform Compliance Manager, NEXT

Who Lead Like This is for:

  • New and emerging leaders you want to equip with strong foundations from the start
  • First-time people managers navigating the shift from doing to leading
  • Mid-level leaders managing teams or functions who need greater confidence, clarity and consistency
  • Leaders in transition—whether promoted quickly, managing change, or stuck in the “messy middle”
  • People with influence but no formal authority, who still need to lead others effectively

 

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“I cannot recommend the programme enough.” 

Jess Rickhuss, Head of Power Platform, Zenzero

Programme Details

Your Breakdown of the course content

 

Week 1 | Kick-off & Connection
Welcome to the tribe. We’ll set the tone, cultivate trust, introduce the experience, and collectively agree on our transformational outcomes.

Week 2 | Step 1: Leading in today’s world
Reimaging leadership in today’s diverse, complex world and understanding what it truly is to lead brilliantly.

Week 4 | Step 2: Who Am I?
Who we are determines the way we lead and unlocking the brilliant leader within starts here.

Week 6 | Step 3: Who Are They?
Now we understand ourselves in leadership better, it’s time to understand how to unlock performance in the humans around us.

Week 8 | Step 4: The Architecture of a High Performing Team
Using our own unique IP developed over 20 years, we reveal and explore the science behind all brilliant teams.

 

Week 10 | Step 5: The Communication Secret
Brilliant communication looks different for every leader and we unlock the secret that will turbocharge yours.

Week 12 | Step 6: You – Leading with Courage
Navigating the tough stuff is a part of every leader’s journey and this session explores those ‘difficult’ conversations, moments, decisions we face and ensures they define our leadership in the right way.

Finale | Wrap-Up & Reflect
Final session to consolidate learning, share growth, and set your leadership trajectory moving forward.

 

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Meet Your Course Leader

Anna Jester is the founder of Lead Happy and the creator of Lead Like This. With her own leadership career and over 15 years’ experience in and supporting leaders across sectors—from FTSE 100 firms to scaling start-ups—Anna combines deep expertise with a refreshingly human approach.

She’s a qualified executive coach (ILM Level 7), facilitator and leadership strategist, known for creating learning spaces that are high-impact, high-trust and highly engaging. She’s also the mind behind Lead Happy’s signature frameworks, including the Lead Happy House™ and Jestology™—tools that make leadership practical, memorable and genuinely enjoyable.

Whether working with senior executives or first-time managers, Anna’s style is warm, clear and quietly transformative. Read: The lowdown on why we created Lead Like This

 

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“The programme helped us all communicate more effectively, lead with confidence and, for me personally, gave me ideas and answers to a number of areas I wanted to work on in my leadership journey.”

Jemma Woolfall, Finance and HR controller, Node4

£995.00 per leader (minimum tribe of ten)

 

Individual Participants

Got an individual leader (or a handful) that Lead Like This sounds perfect for?

Get in touch to talk to us about our open programmes or topic sessions.

 

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