Leadership Learning

Learning to lead.
Supported along the way.

Companis helps organisations develop their leaders through practical learning, thoughtful reflection, and opportunities to apply ideas to everyday leadership challenges.

Leadership learning is shaped around your people, priorities, and context, connecting new perspectives with the conversations, decisions, and relationships of real work.

Talented people are often promoted because they are excellent at what they do. Consistent support helps them develop the confidence and capability to lead others well.

When support is missing, the impact spreads.

When leaders are left to learn alone, uncertainty can turn into hesitation. People practices become inconsistent, difficult conversations are delayed, decisions are second-guessed, and pressure flows upward. The leader feels isolated; the team experiences the inconsistency; the organisation carries the impact.

When leaders are accompanied, the benefits spread.

Leaders have space to work through challenges, build confidence, and strengthen their practice. The benefits reach beyond the individual: clearer communication, more consistent people practices, and stronger teams.

Embark · Our Signature Leadership Programme

Embark

Build the capabilities needed to lead well.

Six months · Fully virtual · Up to 10 leaders

Organisations onboard people to their work. Embark onboards them to leadership.

Leadership is a journey and an adventure—an opportunity to grow, contribute, and create meaningful change. Yet people are often promoted into leadership without being fully equipped for the shift from doing the work to leading others. Embark accompanies new and early-stage leaders with up to three years in the role as they begin that journey and develop the confidence, capabilities, and everyday practices to lead others well.

Six connected capabilities for leading others well.

Each month focuses on one capability, supported by practical learning, peer conversation, and opportunities to apply ideas to participants’ own leadership challenges.

Managing Yourself

Build self-awareness, emotional regulation, resilience, boundaries, and priorities as you shift from individual contributor to leader.

Building Trust and Relationships

Use emotional intelligence, empathy, active listening, and inclusion to create trust, psychological safety, and stronger team relationships.

Communicating and Influencing

Communicate clearly, adapt to different audiences, use storytelling to bring ideas to life, navigate difficult conversations, and influence without relying only on authority.

Thinking, Solving, and Deciding

Apply critical thinking, sound judgement, and structured problem-solving to make timely decisions and take appropriate accountability.

Enabling Others to Perform and Grow

Delegate with purpose, coach for growth, set clear expectations, give constructive feedback, develop capability, and address performance in ways that create ownership.

Thinking Strategically and Leading Change

See beyond immediate tasks, understand the wider organisational context, set priorities, translate strategy into action, and help others navigate change.

“Lianne has a remarkable gift for nurturing new leaders, helping them build strategic confidence and bring their best selves to our mission.”Tricia · Director of Support Services

How Embark works

Four connected ways to learn.
Continuous action and reflection.

What accompaniment looks like

The four elements connect learning with work. Leaders bring real challenges: a conversation to prepare for, a decision they are weighing, or a team dynamic they want to understand.

Ideas are introduced, explored with peers, tested in practice, and supported in the moment. Leaders decide what to try, then return to reflect on the result—so support stays connected to the work between sessions.

Individual Coaching

Two individual sessions set learning goals at the start and leadership goals at the end.

Personalise + plan

Weekly Learning Nudges

Timely prompts connect each theme to real leadership situations.

Maintain momentum

Capability Labs

A monthly 2.5-hour facilitated session introducing leadership content, using interactive activities to build capabilities, and exploring live challenges with peers.

Practise + connect

24/7 AI Leadership Companion

Darcii is an AI leadership companion that helps leaders explore options, prepare for conversations, and reflect between sessions. Darcii is built using Lianne Picot’s own leadership content, bringing her approach to learning and accompaniment into the conversations between sessions.

Support in the moment

The Embark approach