Our Services
Bespoke Leadership Development for Individuals, Teams and Organisations
Every engagement we design is shaped around your context, your culture and your goals. From immersive programmes and executive coaching to organisation-wide transformation — we work alongside you to build leadership that lasts.
NHS Experience
60+ Years Combined Experience
UK-wide Delivery
In-Person, Virtual & Hybrid
Flagship Programme
Compassion in Action Programme
A 3-day bespoke leadership development programme that equips leaders with the practical skills, embodied tools and systemic awareness to lead with compassion under sustained pressure. Designed to be delivered in-house and tailored to your organisation's specific challenges.
Overview
The Compassion in Action Programme combines evidence-based frameworks, experiential learning and reflective practice across three immersive days. Each day builds on the last — moving from self-awareness and emotional regulation, through team dynamics and compassionate relationships, to whole-system culture change.
Outcomes
- Regulate under pressure and lead from a calm, resourceful state
- Understand the systemic drivers of stress and burnout in your organisation
- Build psychologically safe, high-performing team cultures
- Reduce friction, increase trust and improve cross-team communication
- Create immediate, sustainable behaviour change back in the workplace
Who It Is For
Senior leaders, leadership teams and cohorts in the NHS, public sector, charities, B-Corps and corporates. Particularly valuable for organisations navigating significant change, high staff turnover or compassion fatigue.
One-to-One Coaching
Executive Coaching
Confidential, evidence-based one-to-one coaching for senior leaders and executives who want to lead with greater clarity, courage and compassion. Each coaching engagement is bespoke — shaped around your specific goals, pressures and context.
Overview
Our executive coaching draws on compassionate leadership frameworks, somatic awareness and systems thinking. Sessions are typically 60–90 minutes, delivered in-person or virtually, across an agreed programme of six to twelve sessions. Between-session reflection and action steps support continuous progress.
Outcomes
- Increased self-awareness and emotional regulation under pressure
- Stronger leadership presence and decision-making clarity
- Reduced stress, burnout risk and reactive behaviours
- Improved relationships with teams, peers and stakeholders
- Greater confidence navigating complexity, ambiguity and change
Who It Is For
Senior leaders, executives, directors and aspiring leaders across the NHS, public sector and corporate organisations. Ideal for leaders preparing for a step-up, managing high-stakes transitions or seeking a trusted confidential space to think.
Organisational Transformation
Consulting & Strategy
Whole-system organisational diagnostics and culture change consulting. We work alongside senior leadership teams and boards to understand the root causes of organisational challenge and co-design sustainable compassionate cultures.
Overview
Our consulting approach begins with deep diagnostic listening — surveys, interviews and facilitated sense-making sessions — before moving into co-designed change strategies and supported implementation. We do not impose frameworks; we work with what is already alive in your organisation and help you amplify what works.
Outcomes
- Clear diagnostic picture of leadership culture strengths and gaps
- Board and senior team alignment around a shared cultural vision
- Reduced staff sickness, turnover and complaints
- Improved morale, psychological safety and organisational trust
- Sustainable change embedded across systems, not just individuals
Who It Is For
NHS Trusts, public sector organisations, large charities and corporate boards seeking sustained cultural transformation. Particularly suited to organisations experiencing leadership dysfunction, high sickness absence, poor staff survey results or following significant structural change.
Keynotes & Workshops
Speaking, Workshops & Webinars
High-impact conference keynotes, interactive workshops and virtual webinars on compassionate leadership, psychological safety, burnout prevention and high-performance culture — tailored for your audience and context.
Overview
Jane and Nicola are experienced facilitators and speakers who bring the evidence, the stories and the practical tools to life for audiences of ten to five hundred. Engagements range from 45-minute keynotes and half-day workshops to full conference programmes and bespoke virtual webinar series.
Outcomes
- Audiences leave with practical, immediately applicable tools
- Shift in leadership mindset and language across entire cohorts
- Increased awareness of compassion fatigue and burnout risk
- Momentum for wider culture change conversations
- Highly-rated sessions that generate further organisational interest
Who It Is For
Conference organisers, NHS leadership academies, HR and OD professionals, and learning & development teams looking for a speaker or facilitator who combines credibility, warmth and practical expertise.
Group & Team Development
Learning Together, Leading Better
Two complementary offerings that harness the power of peer learning and collective intelligence to embed compassionate leadership across teams and leadership cohorts.
Action Learning Sets
Facilitated peer-learning groups where real workplace challenges become the curriculum. Sets of five to eight leaders meet regularly — typically monthly — to question assumptions, shift perspectives and generate new approaches through structured inquiry and reflection.
Outcomes
- Peer accountability and support across the leadership community
- Practical problem-solving applied to live workplace challenges
- Deepened listening, questioning and relational skills
- Reduced isolation for leaders navigating complex roles
Leadership cohorts, middle managers and senior teams across all sectors seeking ongoing peer support and structured reflection.
Team Accelerator
A focused, facilitated team development programme — typically one to two days — designed to rapidly improve team dynamics, trust and shared purpose. Combines psychometric insight, team coaching and experiential learning activities to unlock collective performance.
Outcomes
- Improved psychological safety and honest communication
- Shared language and commitments around how the team leads together
- Resolution of underlying tensions and friction points
- Renewed energy, clarity and collective momentum
Established or newly formed teams — including boards, executive teams and clinical leadership teams — seeking step-change improvement in how they function together.
Community Offering
Compassion Leadership Circle
Build confidence, strengthen compassionate leadership skills and become part of a supportive community through regular monthly sessions.
Join the Circle
Join our facilitated Compassion Leadership Circle and grow alongside a supportive community of like-minded leaders.
- Facilitated group sessions once a month
- Access to all session resources
- Ongoing community access between sessions
- Join for six sessions or stay as long as you wish
- Flexible participation with no long-term obligation
Frequently Asked Questions
Your Questions, Answered
We know that choosing a leadership development partner is a significant decision. Here are the questions we hear most often — answered honestly.
Do you tailor the training for our sector?
We will work with you to tailor the Compassionate leadership approach to your specific organisational and cultural context. Whilst we work in health and care, based on our previous backgrounds, we also have delivered Compassionate Leadership for Government organisations, Local Authorities, Universities, private sector organisations and charities.
Part of partnering with Compassionate will be the care we take so that we fully understand where you are, what you want to be different and together we will work with you and your people to help develop compassionate leadership.
Will we have to do role play?
Absolutely not! We are experienced in adult learning techniques and you will be using real live examples from your context to work through as ‘real play’ to get insights and practice compassionate leadership techniques. No Oscars, just curiosity and willingness to be open to different ideas and approaches.
Is this suitable for mixed groups or specific teams?
Yes and Yes! We will recommend the combination of Compassionate support that will give you the greatest impact and it is generally a combination or specific teams e.g. Executive, delivery teams as well as providing skills and awareness for mixed groups. Valuing difference and others understanding perspectives and experiences is also a key part of compassion in practice.
We learn at our best when we feel safe and able to be vulnerable, so we will work to explore the right configuration for your requirement
Can Compassion in Action be combined with Coaching/Leadership Development?
Yes, you can build your Compassion in Action ‘stack’ to include leadership development, coaching and action learning, which provides the optimum opportunity for individual and collective behavioural change. We can discuss the right combination and sequencing for your compassion journey.
Do you offer virtual delivery?
As so much about compassion is about connection and being human together, we offer both in person and virtual delivery. In our experience, you will get more impactful and sustained behavioural shifts when people meet, connect, share and learn together in person and recommend this particularly for the for the workshops and team coaching. We can provide virtual coaching, webinars, speaker sessions, Action Learning and Compassion Circles.
Both Nicola and Jane are experienced and skilled in creating rapport and psychological safety in the room and virtual room
What group sizes do you work with?
This depends on the work we’re doing with you. Team coaching is generally best with teams of 8-12. Group learning is best with groups of 12-30. Speaking can be much larger audiences.
Have a question that isn't answered here? We're always happy to talk.