Leadership Training

Developing high impact leaders of tomorrow.

Our ability to engage, motivate, and inspire others starts with us as individuals. I have worked with existing and aspiring leaders globally to enhance their capability, courage, confidence, and commitment to leading change.

Leadership for positive impact.

Our credibility as leaders and storytellers starts with our own self-belief and resilience. Our ability to lead, collaborate, motivate and inspire comes from ‘inner-work’ and our executive presence.

I offer a range of interactive training programmes and workshops designed to support individuals and teams in expanding their leadership capabilities and knowledge, maximising their positive impact, and creating thriving cultures for change.

Leadership development workshops

Advance your strategic leadership objectives.

The following customised programmes are designed to support participants to fully engage, deepen their learning, and build relationships with their peers.

  • Learning objectives:

    • Develop capabilities to inspire, motivate and mobilise others through storytelling

    • Create an inspiring leadership narrative using Zoë’s unique Story-Centred Leadership model.

    • Deepen understanding of importance of walking in stakeholders’ shoes

  • Learning objectives:

    • Grow the leadership capabilities to deliver sustainable success in an age of disruption (drawing on the Cambridge leadership capabilities for the 21st century report of which Zoë is a co-author)

    • Expand impact beyond one’s current sphere of influence through personal purpose and team effectiveness, including Personal Boardroom tool

    • Anchor leadership that is connected, collective, creative and courageous in daily practice

  • Learning objectives:

    • Rewire mental models about these three essential qualities to advance change

    • Develop new practical approaches that foster better solutions and innovation

    • Reframe thinking and practice to support long-term adaptability as leaders

  • Learning objectives:

    • Understand the challenges we face navigating complexity including our evolutionary biases

    • Develop awareness, capabilities and skills to thrive in complexity

    • Identify specific next steps to foster future ‘thrivability’ including safe to fail experiments

  • Learning objectives:

    • Increase knowledge of the benefits of a growth mindset when leading a team

    • Understand the synergy between growth mindset and psychological safety

    • Explore strategies for fostering psychological safety

  • Learning objectives:

    • Build awareness of the common behavioural mindtraps that impede us in our daily work

    • Explore Jennifer Garvey Berger’s five mindtraps – the desire for simple stories, the need to be right, to be in control, to seek agreement, and how our ego works against us

    • Develop strategies to unlock them

  • Learning objectives:

    • Explore how to turn uncomfortable conflict into constructive candour

    • Consider different levers of power available; how to embrace difference and diversity to develop innovative new approaches, solutions and perspectives

    • Develop mastery in deep listening and questions

  • Learning objectives:

    • Increase confidence in sharing and solving challenges through a dynamic deep listening session in triads

    • Support participants to crystallise new insights about themselves and their context to address individual challenges and shared roadblocks

    • Create an experience that helps participants foster more openness and confident humility in their team

  • Learning objectives:

    • Develop further mastery of storytelling, practise different scenarios and receive one-on-one feedback in advance

    • Nurture a listening superpower including a toolkit of ‘unlock questions’

    • Create powerful analogies and metaphors that can ‘turn the lights on’ for key stakeholders

Case studies

Enhancing the effectiveness of global leaders.

Cultivating the ‘outer game’ of leadership to find solutions to systemic challenges.

For three years, I have supported global leaders in Unilever’s flagship programme, curated by the brilliant Bramble, including guiding challenge groups on a four-month post-course exploration.

  • 4 global cohorts

  • 5 days per cohort

  • 150+ participants

Increasing the positive impact of women dedicated to thriving healthcare outcomes.

I am a key contributor to AstraZeneca’s award-winning Diversity by Design Women as Leaders programme. This innovative, learner-led initiative includes my influence, impact and leadership sessions.

  • 12 online masterclasses

  • 700+ participants

  • Championing inclusion

Expanding leadership capabilities for top team at global network meeting.

Holcim invited me to deliver Communicate Like A Leader sessions to the country's top HSE executives at their global network meeting. The sessions were among the highest rated of the week-long conference.

  • 4 interactive keynotes

  • 90 participants

  • 70 countries

What they’re saying…

  • “Zoë provided a great example of what powerful storytelling looks like. I also loved that I had the pleasure of 1-1 coaching time with her.”

    Jamie Freed - Avant Arte

  • “Zoë and I worked together to bring her storytelling genius to business audiences in Hong Kong, the Philippines and China and she established an immediate rapport with participants.”

    Pat Dwyer - The Purpose Business

  • “I invited Zoë to contribute to our innovative Diversity by Design programme because I had experienced first-hand the inspiration, passion and positive impact she brings to her teaching.”

    Latonya Ball - AstraZeneca

  • “Zoë brings her positive energy and expertise both to the foundational week and as a skilful guide supporting the challenge groups long after the foundational week is finished.”

    Tim Frost - Bramble

  • “Zoë is the first person I turn to when it comes to helping my team create a compelling narrative for change and build their skills in stakeholder engagement.”

    Esohe Denise Odaro - PAI Partners

  • “Zoë has been contributing her storytelling and leadership expertise for over three years, she is an enthusiastic partner and her sessions are always highly rated.”

    Bruce Haase - Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

  • “Zoë has supported our Masters and Post Grad students for over a decade in the art of leadership storytelling, helping them engage stakeholders in the change they wish to see in their context.”

    Dr Lou Drake - Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership (CISL)

  • “Zoë was a joy to work with. She created a highly interactive and engaging learning programme focused on sustainability leadership and innovation, working collaboratively with my team and local contributors.”

    Fatma Al Mheirim - Dubai Electricity and Water Authority

  • “All three of our online leadership courses have been curated by Zoë. She brings deep expertise, vision and energy, and her ability to find the most diverse set of expert contributors and inclusive content to the creation process.”

    Martin Roberts - Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership (CISL)

  • “We’ve worked with Zoë as a contributor to our programmes on leadership, storytelling and high performance teams. She always delivers in a way that is engaging and on brief.”

    Kate Johnson - Cambridge Judge Business School

  • “Zoë brought bucketloads of energy, integrity, insight and experience to the programmes she designed and delivered for our senior leadership team at Farfetch. She is a joy to work with!"

    Kim Wylie - Builder. Ai