David Villa-Clarke BEM, MBA. Executive coach, speaker and leadership adviser.
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Leadership & talent development

Leadership development built around your organisation

Programmes, workshops and facilitated sessions, built around the problem you are trying to solve.

David Villa-Clarke facilitating a leadership session with a group

Bespoke, not off the shelf

Generic leadership training is easy to buy and hard to defend twelve months later. Think DVC starts with the commercial problem instead. The retention gap. The promotion bottleneck. The layer of managers who were promoted for technical strength and never developed as leaders.

Programmes are built in your context and your language. Where it helps, cohort work is combined with one-to-one coaching and mentoring, so that the learning gets applied instead of just attended.

How an engagement runs

  • Discovery with sponsors and a sample of participants
  • Design of the programme, cohort structure and measurement
  • Delivery through workshops, coaching and mentoring
  • Application against live business challenges
  • Review against the outcomes agreed at the start
Programmes

Five starting points, every one adapted

There is no fixed curriculum. Each one is shaped around the organisation commissioning it.

Trusted AuthorityProfessionals

For people who need to be listened to in front of clients, boards or teams. Covers confidence, credibility, communication, executive presence and personal positioning. The outcome is clearer positioning and more influence over decisions.

Adviser DevelopmentFinancial & professional services

For advisers building long-term client relationships. Client conversations, trust-building, professional positioning, referrals and difficult discussions. Outcome: advisers who can hold the conversations that matter.

Emerging LeadersHigh potential

For professionals moving towards greater responsibility. Leadership fundamentals, influence, stakeholder management, decision-making and self-belief. Outcome: a pipeline that’s ready before the vacancy appears.

Inclusive LeadershipOrganisations

Practical capability for leading, sponsoring and progressing diverse talent, tied to the decisions where progression is actually made.

Bespoke ProgrammesDesigned from discovery

For a specific talent or leadership objective that no standard programme quite addresses. Cohort work, coaching, facilitation and mentoring combined as the objective requires, measured against outcomes agreed with sponsors.

Next step

Start with a conversation

Thirty minutes, no preparation needed. The first thing we work out is whether this is a good fit.

Book an introductory conversation