Leadership Development Training Courses
Tailored leadership solutions that change behaviour, not just feedback scores.
our leadership development training courses
Eleven programmes across three areas: one-to-one coaching for individual leaders, events that work on a leadership team as a unit, and skills programmes covering influence, personal impact and problem-solving. Prices run from £1,850 to £4,350, and every programme is tailored to your context before delivery.
Not sure which fits? Most conversations start with the problem rather than the course. Tell us what's happening and we'll point you at the right one, or tell you if we're not the right partner.
C Suite Executive Coaching
Emotional Intelligence Coaching For Leaders
We Win Together We Lose Together Team Event
personal impact training for leaders
360 Coaching Feedback
Leadership Team Alignment
Leadership Team Masterclass
Leadership Team Optimiser
Solution Focused Thinking
Leading with EI
Presentation skills training course
- Leadership Development Training Experts
Leadership Development - Our Passion Means Your Progress
We don't ask you to take our word for it that we are subject experts and eager to transfer our skills and expertise to your organisation. We would rather share with you what you get when you partner with Summit.
Carefully Tailored content. Course content will be tailored to match your organisation's priorities, goals and aspirations. Not 'off the shelf'.
A subject expert facilitator, not a generalist. Your training is facilitated by an experienced subject expert who is a trusted Summit team member, never someone who "dabbles here and there."
Proactive Skills transfer, not just information. We focus on enabling skills transfer so you benefit long-term, not just imparting information.
Immersive, challenging and practical. Learning is immersive, positively challenging and practical, free of theory. We focus on your reality.
30 days of support after your leadership course. Learners can contact the facilitator for support in the 30 days following their learning.
30-day access to our online programme. Every participant benefits from a 30-day access pass to our online, self-paced leadership training programme to reinforce their learning.
The leadership development programmes were facilitated in a very positive atmosphere and broke down barriers within the group through a truly unique approach.
S O'Shea, General Manager, DHL Aviation
Accredited expertise. Summit is an internationally recognised Emotional Intelligence Centre of Excellence. Every team member is a Certified EQ-i 2.0 Practitioner, Certified Leadership Coach and Accredited Leadership Development subject expert.
Straightforward pricing. A tailored one-day leadership training course for up to 10 participants starts from £1,850 exc. VAT — just £185 per participant. Clients tell us their return on investment is normally achieved within 10 to 12 days following their training course.
In person or online. In-person training is always more engaging and effective, so it's our first recommendation. Online training courses are available when your team needs them.
Google Reviews. You can see an abundance of 5-star reviews on our Google Business Profile. Plus, request original client testimonials to check us out for yourself.
Cialdini Institute. Summit is a Founding Member of the world leading Cialdini Institute, headed by Dr. Robert Cialdini. Summit includes certified Influence experts too.
Summit have been a pleasure to work with and have added huge value to the Prosperity Group of companies. We've collaborated with Summit for two years now and I highly recommend their leadership development coaching. They focused heavily on creating value for our business in partnership with us, and our collaboration has definitely delivered this.
Joe Billingham, CEO, Prosperity Wealth Limited, Birmingham
- Leadership Development Courses
WHAT MAKES our LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT training so impactful?
What is leadership development training?
Organisations invest in leadership development training courses because they want to improve skills that enable better decisions, stronger performance, and leaders who can navigate complexity with confidence.
Yet too often, leadership development training programmes become little more than a tick-box exercise. Interesting on the day, but with little lasting impact for the learner or organisation.
To achieve real return on investment from leadership development training, it must be expert-led, value-focused, and tailored to the realities your leaders face every day. Skills development has to be relevant to your organisation, not a general overview.
Expert-led leadership training matters because leadership is not theoretical. It is lived, pressured, and contextual. Leaders need development facilitators who understand the commercial, emotional, and political realities of modern organisations. People who have been there and can translate insight into practical, credible guidance and meaningful learning.
Without this depth of expertise, training risks being generic, superficial, and quickly forgotten.
Value-focused leadership development is vital because time and budgets are finite. Effective leadership development training programmes are designed with clear outcomes in mind: improved decision-making, stronger accountability, healthier performance conversations, and more emotionally intelligent leadership behaviours.
When leadership training is explicitly linked to organisational priorities, such as engagement, productivity, retention, and culture; it stops being a cost and becomes a strategic investment that delivers measurable impact.
Tailored leadership training programmes make real change happen.
No two organisations are the same. Off-the-shelf leadership training rarely reflects your culture, challenges, or strategic goals.
Leaders are far more likely to apply what they learn when it speaks directly to their context, language, and real-world pressures. Tailoring of course content ensures relevance, accelerates behaviour change, and significantly increases the likelihood that learning turns into action.
At Summit, we believe leadership development training should positively stretch, support, and genuinely transform how your leaders think and act.
Our team is staffed with highly experienced subject experts who are passionate about supporting leaders and teams to raise their game. We combine deep expertise in leadership, emotional intelligence, influence, and performance with a practical, business-focused approach that leaders respect and trust.
Your leadership development training course will be carefully designed to be engaging, challenging, and immediately applicable. leaders build self-confidence, credibility, and capability where it matters most.
If you want leadership development training that delivers real value, not just good feedback forms. we’d love to explore how Summit can support your organisation.
Get in touch for a conversation about what great leadership could look like in your organisation.
"If you are seeking a meaningful improvement in your leadership team's effectiveness, Summit is an excellent choice."
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LEADERSHIP TRAINING COURSES THAT DELIVER VALUE... QUICKLY!
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Leadership Development training programmes with Summit take you one critical, and possibly unprecedented, step further than many courses provided by the majority of leadership development consultancies. Achievement of measurable results.
Developing leaders that others choose to follow and willingly collaborate with is a serious business. But it can also be fun, intellectually stimulating, positively challenging and personally fulfilling.
Our comprehensive suite of leadership development training courses stand alone in terms of value for your organisation and its employees.
See leadership coaching in action: a senior IT leader in financial services and an Operations Director in manufacturing.
- Leadership Training and C Suite Coaching
My personal commitment to you and your organisation
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Summit was founded in 1999 because of my overwhelmingly disappointing experience of leadership development and management development consultancies.
While holding a specialised L & D management position within a UK plc, it seemed external consultancies were more focused on fee generation, and looking for the next opportunity to sell a training or coaching offering, than delivering any meaningful or lasting value for my employer.
I decided to take on the market. Leaving the relative comfort of a major employer to start Summit from scratch, with no money in the bank, but an abundance of passion, focus and expertise, Summit is now 27 years old.
My team and I bring the same passion, focus and expertise to you and your organisation. Our goal being to help you become more self-reliant - rather than dependent on an external partner.
Scott Watson
Founder & Managing Director
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- Why Us
WHY CHOOSE SUMMIT?
If you want a run of the mill training course which explores boring theory, complex psychobabble and is Powerpoint slide training, Summit really isn’t the development partner for you.
Enjoy a genuinely win-win collaboration with a carefully selected team of subject experts.
Measurable and sustainable improvements in performance in your key areas.
Our team is committed to helping your organisation change focus and quickly boost performance.
Unique blend of expert facilitation, hands-on, challenging individual and team activities.
Changing long help habits to make learning fun, challenging and feel completely natural.
Focused on your organisation plus learner priorities, we help your team develop new thinking alongside new skills development.
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