21ST CENTURY STRATEGIC LEADERS
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
-John F. Kennedy
The leadership environment of today is more volatile, uncertain, complex and demanding than at any point in recent history.
So what characterises a 21st Century Leader?
Modern leaders need to have a clear vision, to create the conditions for growth, work collaboratively and inspire trust in those around them. Such skills must be underpinned by resilience, authenticity, agility and emotional intelligence.
And this is where our dynamic, highly practical and engaging 21st Century Strategic Leaders Programme comes in.
We are now recruiting directors and senior managers for our next cohort which starts in September 2025. Book now to receive your £500 early bird discount (offer ends 27th June), or download the synopsis to find out more. We are also offering group rates for companies looking to book two or more delegates.
Each delegate will undergo a detailed diagnostic and one-to-one session which will enable us to shape each programme to ensure that it fits the development needs of the participants
The building blocks of the programme will include:
- Strategic Thinking and Foresight: Ability to anticipate market shifts, identify long-term opportunities, and align strategy with future trends.
- Agile Leadership and Decision-Making: Skills to lead through uncertainty, adapt quickly to change, and make data-informed, yet human-centred decisions.
- Emotional Intelligence and Self-Awareness: Enhanced self-regulation, empathy, and relationship-building for more effective team and stakeholder engagement.
- Building and Leading High-Performance Teams: Practical frameworks for fostering trust, accountability, and collaboration across diverse and remote teams.
- Digital Literacy and Innovation Mindset: Understanding of emerging technologies and how to leverage digital tools to drive innovation and growth.
- Values-Driven and Ethical Leadership: Ability to lead with integrity, purpose, and a clear set of guiding values in an increasingly transparent world.
- Stakeholder Engagement and Influence: Advanced communication, negotiation, and storytelling skills to influence internal and external stakeholders.
- Resilience and Wellbeing for Self and Others: Techniques to build personal resilience and promote sustainable performance cultures.
Overview
The 21st Century Strategic Leaders Programme provides you with the opportunity to evolve, update and adapt how you lead your business. It draws on lessons from small, medium, large and global businesses, and brings insights and examples from academia, psychology, NGOs, sport, and the military. The emphasis is on active curiosity, using your own leadership challenges as vehicles for learning.
Your cohort will consist of like-minded delegates who want to ensure that their businesses and teams are able to stay ahead of the curve and respond effectively to the multiple challenges that the 21st century has brought to the SME market.
Who is it for?
- CEOs, MDs and owners of SMEs
- Board level directors and key decision makers
- Graduates of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Programme
- And the highest of your high flyers
“Completing the Strategic Leaders course over the past 12 months has been a defining phase of my career and leadership journey. It has challenged me in many ways; introducing new thinking, concepts and ideas into the way I lead people, stakeholders and business performance.
I would highly recommend this course and Morgan James to colleagues, connections and friends.”
Amy Davies, Director of Sales, Optionis and Parasol Group
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WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
Peter Satchell:
Lily Newman is phenomenal. The Exceptional NED programme that she has developed and delivers for Leeds University Business School is the gold standard training for supercharging board leaders. Lily's highly-interactive training challenges all participants to grow. Developing leadership strength doesn't get better than this.
Mike Braddock:
Lily struck the right balance of great content that was appropriate for the group, along with her high energy, engaging style which made the whole experience so enjoyable and beneficial... The program fills you with confidence, knowledge plus plenty of self awareness of your role around the board table. Overall a great & very helpful experience.
Sarah Willis:
The Leadership course has had a profound impact on my professional growth. It has given me the confidence to lead with clarity, voice my ideas effectively, and support others in doing the same. Above all, it’s taught me that leadership is as much about listening and empowering as it is about decision making.Paul Everitt:
Senior leadership teams are always busily working away on the company strategy, sometimes at the detriment of self-development. Lily and her team developed & delivered a 9-month program, laser focused to our individual needs and the needs of the business. The unique structure blended subject matter experts, interactive (and fun) activities, case study sessions and conversational coaching. Although soul searching at times, I believe I have been able to apply these learnings and have changed both my thinking and behaviors for the better of my team and our organization as a whole. ‘Thoroughly recommended’ is understating the lasting changes experienced by our cohort. We had fun, we reflected, we discussed and we improved. So, thank you Lily and all at Morgan James Consulting for bringing value to our world of people development.
Michael Howard:
Following the completion of the brilliant GS10KSB Programme which Lily delivered the leadership elements of a handful of business owners wanted to continue our development and hold ourselves accountable to ensure we delivered the plans we’d put in place.
Hayley Kenyon DipPFS:
The structure of the Effective Managers Programme delivered by Morgan James has helped me to be conscious of my behaviours, given me lots of ideas to take away to implement within my team and the business. I feel much more confident now around making decisions, dealing with difficult conversations and I’ve really become more conscious around my delegation skills, something I need to keep developing as my team and the business grows.
Diana MacCarthy:
Lily Newman totally transformed my leadership style, in fact I am not sure I knew what my style was, until I embarked on her training programme. In sharing her authentic self and with caring challenge, she shaped me into the kind or caring and inspiring leader I had always wanted to be.
Jay Allen:
Strategic Leaders should be mandatory for every emerging leader. Under the exceptional tutorage of Lily Newman and her team of highly skilled and devoted associates, the level, diversity and depth of, not just theory, but supervised practical application of all the elements required to be an effective leader is unsurpassed. Over the course duration, you experience a greater sense of self, whilst building a lifelong bond with other leaders on the course from various backgrounds and experiences. The course has transformed our thinking, actions and outcomes, to which much of our future shall be in part determined by what we learnt here today.
Ajaz Rathore:
Lily Newman has worked with our group for over 15 years, consistently bringing clarity, challenge, and inspiration. Her leadership has shaped how we develop our people, strengthened our culture, and helped us navigate both change and growth.
Ed Robinson:
I thoroughly enjoyed the Effective Managers Programme with Morgan James Consulting. It was engaging, thought provoking, and has helped me in my management of myself and others. I learnt a lot regarding delegation and dealing with difficult conversations with team members. Being relatively new to managing people, I found the training invaluable.