Leading and managing in higher education

Leadership development

About this programme

Are you a manager or leader in higher education who:

• Wants to fully take up your role as leader
• Wants to support improved team dynamics
• Wants more meaningful and effective conversations with your staff?
• Wants to help staff develop their own solutions to everyday problems?
• Wants to help your team to cope better with uncertainty?

If the answers are yes, then this leadership development programme may be for you.  This course provides an opportunity to reflect upon your leadership style, understand how to lead in a way that builds resilience and confidence both in yourself and your staff and develop skills to lead and manage in a way that enhances productivity.

What previous attendees have said about this course:

I started the course feeling depleted, deskilled, marginalised and undermined as a leader.  The balance of reflection, experiential learning and theory has helped and supported me to feel more skilled and has given me a rounded understanding of the context I work in.  I feel better able to consider and understand the challenges, changes and the structure of the services that I work in.

Head of Mental Health and Psychological Therapy Services

This programme increased my confidence and capability in understanding team dynamics and the role of leadership in generating and maintaining healthy, performing teams

Academic Director

Programme overview

The online programme will focus on the following:

• How to fully take up your role as leader; how to manage your authority in role, hold individuals and teams to account, manage boundaries, and encourage quality engagement with the work.
• How to understand team dynamics, create and maintain an environment that supports wellbeing and enhances performance and outcomes.
• How to understand dynamics across different parts of the organisation and the impact on your team / department.
• How to understand the impact of external influences upon your institution, your team / department, your staff and your role.
• How to lead and support teams through change and uncertainty.
• How to use a coaching style approach to enhance performance and develop staff and students.

Participants will have the opportunity to build a supportive peer learning group as they progress through the programme. There will be work to complete in between modules.

Programme facilitators

• 

  Midge Seymour-Roots

  Senior organisational consultant

• 

  David Sibley

  Organisational consultant

Who is this programme for?

This programme is for you if you are a manager or leader in an academic department or support services in Higher Education.

Introductory seminar

Join Midge Seymour- Roots and David Sibley for a free introductory seminar. This session offers a comprehensive overview of the programme, allowing you to engage with the facilitators and have your questions addressed to assess how the programme fits your personal development ambitions.

Date: 18th June 2025
Time: 12:30 to 1:30 GMT
Location: Online via Zoom
Cost: Free​

To secure your spot, please complete the registration form below.

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Dates and times

• Module 1: 14th and 15th October 2025
• Module 2: 11th and 12th November 2025
• Module 3: 10th December 2025

This programme is also available to be run as an in-house, bespoke programme for your organisation. Please contact us for more details.

Pricing

£2,700 standard rate

You will receive:

• 5 days of programme delivery in a cohort of 16 participants
• 2 hours of one to one coaching
• Programme workbook, slides, handouts
• Certificate of attendance
• Network of higher education leaders