— LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FOR THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

Built for creatives
who
lead.

Expert-led programmes for creative and digital professionals stepping up into leadership, into AI, into executive roles. Grounded in the realities of creative work.

3

Programmes for different leadership levels

47h

Guided learning in our most intensive programme

100%

Delivered by practitioners with lived experience

Funded

Skills Bootcamps funding available for eligible businesses

Programmes for people shaping what comes next.

Whether you're stepping into your first leadership role or running a creative business, there's a programme designed for where you are, and where you're headed.

PROGRAMMES

Creative Leadership Accelerator

For practitioners stepping into their first management role in creative organisations

  • Lead your team with more confidence and clarity

  • Handle difficult conversations in fast-paced creative environments

  • Build trust, accountability and team performance

  • Transition from creative practitioner to capable people manager

6 Weeks · Part-time In-person + online

AI for Creative Advantage

For creative managers ready to move from AI curiosity to structured, confident application

  • Build practical AI fluency for real creative workflows

  • Design and implement AI-enabled process improvements

  • Lead your team's adoption of AI with confidence and ethical judgement

  • Leave with a tested AI toolkit and implementation roadmap

8 Weeks · Part-time In-person + online

Creative Executive & Strategic Leadership

For founders, directors and senior leaders of creative and digital businesses

  • Develop Chartered Manager-level strategic capability

  • Reduce founder dependency and build leadership leverage

  • Shape culture, performance and long-term organisational resilience

  • 1:1 executive coaching + GCI 360 diagnostic included

12 Weeks · Part-time In-person + online

— SKILLS BOOTCAMPS

Funding to build the skills your team needs next

Creative and digital businesses can access Skills Bootcamps funding to invest in training their team. Funding covers between 50% and 100% of the training cost, depending on your organisation’s size. Talk to us, and we’ll help you understand what funding is available and which programme is the right fit for your team.

Built by people who've actually run creative businesses.

We didn't design these programmes from a business school. We built them from direct experience of what happens when talented creatives step into leadership roles without the tools to succeed, and what it takes to change that.

WHY FORM

Sector-specific

Every example, framework and exercise is grounded in creative and digital sector realities. No generic MBA content.

Peer community

Small cohorts of people at the same stage, in the same sector. The peer relationships that go with you as you build your career and business.

Applied learning

You bring real challenges. You leave with tested tools and outputs — not a folder of slides you'll never open again.

Practitioner-led

Delivered by creative experts who understand the sector from the inside, and know what it takes to lead creative people and work well.

DELEGATE FEEDBACK

“Informative, actionable and really well delivered. Made us step out of our comfort zone and really commit.”

Jon O’Brien - Ops Manager

EMPLOYER FEEDBACK

“The step change in their confidence internally and with clients is remarkable. Also knowing that they now have their own peer group to lean on and learn from is an asset to them and us.”

Anna Botsvine - MD

We’re proud to have worked with, supported and collaborated with organisations including:

WHERE WE WORK

Currently available in Liverpool City Region.

Liverpool City Region

Three active programmes, available through the LCR Skills Bootcamps initiative. Starting Autumn 2026. Designed with local creative employers and grounded in LCR's creative economy.

3 programmes · 90% funded for most SMEs - get access from £490 · Fully funded places available for freelancers and startup founders

Ready to build the leader your team needs?

Start with a conversation. We'll help you find the right programme and check your funding eligibility.