Education
The Leadership Hub
Our Leadership Hub is here to inspire and support our Unlimited Potential community and Bath Future Talent Programme alumni on their leadership journey. It's about self-leadership and the leadership of others – continuing to explore and experiment with leaning more into complexity and uncertainty.
Events and insights are a result of a unique collaboration between Farleigh Performance, University of Bath and Bath Spa University, to create a space in which to build greater insight and share experiences and reflections around leadership, specifically how we lead more consciously and become more deliberate in our practice.
The top tips section has practical actions we can take that enable us to be our best selves, in and outside our places of work.
Wednesday 21st January | 5:30pm - 8pm | Location TBC
Rebuilding Momentum: Leading with Clarity and Confidence After Change
This session offers a practical and inspiring space for leaders who are emerging from periods of change, whether organisational, personal, or market-driven and want to regain traction with renewed purpose. The event centres on building clarity, confidence, and resilience in leadership, especially after disruption.
Top Tips from past events
Leading in the World of AI
Implications and impact.
Top tips
1. Humans first – Use AI to enhance, not control.
2. Transparent by design – Be open about AI use.
3. Reputation ready – Manage bias, errors, backlash within clear governance.
4. Future fit – Build capability and leadership for smart adoption.
Navigating EDI Challenges in the Trump Era
Inclusion is everyone’s job.
Top tips
1. Lead with intention – creating psychologically safe spaces where people can speak and be vulnerable.
2. Combine Storytelling and Data – using lived experiences to humanise EDI, and data to show real-world, positive impact from EDI – from better customer outcomes to innovation.
3. Break the Echo Chamber – seeking out unheard voices and building structures that welcome diverse input – and listen without defensiveness.
4. Share the Load – support EDI networks by resourcing and respecting their efforts, without placing the burden of fixing systemic issues solely on them. Inclusion is everyone’s responsibility.
Leading for High Performance
Great leaders create conditions that:
Top tips
Enable NOT block innovation
Engender agency NOT ambiguity
Offer safety AND discomfort
Embrace NOT avoid tensions
Make tough conversations normal
Build resilience AND pressure tolerance.
Digital Leadership
The digital landscape will constantly change and challenge us as leaders, so to stay ahead of your competition:
Top tips
1. Lean into complexity and uncertainty with courage.
2. Dial up your curiosity - we can never know everything all of the time.
3. Work on culture first and make the technology work for you.
4. Recruit people with passion, resilience, and adaptability.
Improve your resilience
How do the people you lead or are alongside experience you when you are at your most resilient? What behaviours or qualities are they most likely to experience in you?
Top tips
1. Find your purpose – seek clarity on why you are doing what you are doing.
2. Adopt a growth mindset – look for the opportunities and possibilities with positivity.
3. Create a safe space to fail – explore, experiment, reflect, and learn.
4. Increase connection – attend to the relationships around you and invite participation.
Leadership during Uncertain Times
Leading and navigating in an increasing uncertain, complex, and volatile world, through
Top tips
D = Direction – holding the long-term and higher purpose while navigating today’s challenges
E = Experimentation – moving forward by creating safe-to-fail mini projects that drive learning of what works
E = Evolution – transferring learning into strategies, systems, and ways of working so that both the organisation and its people grow
P = Participation – building dynamic, often temporary, teams in which decisions are taken by those closest to the impact
Quiet Leadership
About attending to things we may not see and understanding our impact through the eyes of those we lead.
Top tips
1. Humility – recognising our leadership limitations and showing humility to enable those you lead to do the same.
2. Kindness – often unseen but over time small actions may contribute to a high performing culture.
3. Fairness – acknowledging will inevitably present challenges to be fair to all.
4. Letting go – creating space and opportunities for those we lead to learn, grow and develop.