The Leading Organisations Programme
A practical development programme for chief executives and future chief executives in legal advice and social justice organisations.
Applications close 7th December at 5:00pm.
This programme is:
Free for Access to Justice Foundation ‘ILTA’ grant holders
Free for City Bridge Foundation ‘Access to Justice’ grant holders
£150 for London Legal Support Trust Centres of Excellence
£300 for other organisations
Course Dates:
19th January 9:30am-12:00pm (Online)
26th January 9:30am-3:00pm (Online)
9th February 9:30am-12:00pm (Online)
23rd February 9:30am-12:00pm (Online)
8th March 9:30am-3:00pm (Online)
17th March 9:30am-12:00pm (Online)
21st April 10:30am-3:00pm (In-Person, London)
What you will need to commit to
Please plan to attend all sessions, including the final in-person symposium, and take an active part in discussions and shared learning. Come ready to reflect on your experience, consider different perspectives and connect the learning to your organisation and leadership practice. No workplace projects are required.
Build and strengthen the knowledge, confidence and judgement to lead an effective, resilient organisation, whether you are preparing for a chief executive role or already leading. Explore what resilience means, the leadership behaviours that support it and the organisational practices that put it into action.
Through realistic advice-sector scenarios and shared learning with peers, work through making timely, purposeful decisions that protect people, sustain essential services and help organisations adapt when demand is high, resources are limited and the future is uncertain.
Who is it for?
The programme is for chief executives and directors with organisation-wide responsibility, and senior leaders preparing for a chief executive role. It offers experienced leaders constructive challenge and time to reflect, while helping future chief executives prepare for the responsibilities of leading an organisation.
What you will gain
Strengthen your ability to recognise emerging pressures, weigh difficult choices and act while meaningful options remain. Connect purpose and community needs with decisions about strategy, money, people and services. Explore how to protect wellbeing, maintain essential work and create the capacity to prepare, learn and adapt.
How you will learn
Experienced sector consultants Matt Howgate and Jayne Butler will lead context-specific, scenario-based sessions exploring challenges currently facing the advice sector. You will have ample opportunity to exchange ideas, test your thinking and learn from others on the programme.
The programme is built around the Hub’s Organisational Resilience Framework, supported by its Management Competency Framework. It begins with what resilience
means: anticipating and preparing for change, absorbing pressure, responding to disruption and adapting while protecting people and advancing purpose.
You will then explore the framework’s seven leadership behaviours and the ten organisational practices that put them into action. These provide a practical basis for examining evidence, strategy, financial sustainability, culture, governance and risk. Scenarios will explore pressures such as rising demand, workforce strain, dependence on key people and the changing role of technology and AI.
Throughout, you will practise questioning assumptions, welcoming challenge and making decisions in time. You will consider how to combine care with clear expectations, share knowledge and authority, and recognise when familiar ways of working need to change.
The final symposium will bring these themes together through guest contributions and discussion, helping you identify priorities for your leadership and organisation.
Purpose and impact guide the programme throughout. You will explore when growth, partnership, service transfer, merger or responsible closure may best serve the communities an organisation exists to support.