Shane Leaning speaking to a room of school leaders
The Leadership Intensive · In-house for organisations

The same Intensive. Run for your whole team.

When a leadership team learns the same way, with the same language, change stops getting lost in translation. The Leadership Intensive runs in-house as a private cohort for your school, trust or group, tailored to your context and delivered on your calendar.

Why run it in-house

One team, one shared language for leadership.

The open cohort brings together leaders from schools around the world, and that mix is part of its value. But there's a different kind of value in putting your own leadership team through it together.

When your whole senior team builds the same ten systems at the same time, the change compounds. People stop using different words for the same thing. Meetings get shorter because everyone shares a model. Feedback, delegation and decision-making start to look consistent across the school, not personality-by-personality. And the conversations stay honest, because the room is your own people working on your own challenges.

Two ways to do the Intensive

Which one fits you?

The open cohort

For an individual leader who wants to grow alongside peers from other schools worldwide. Fixed dates, 25 places, a mix of contexts. This is the September 2026 cohort.

See the open cohort

In-house for your organisation

For a school, trust or group that wants to put its own leadership team through together. A private cohort, tailored to your context, scheduled around your calendar, building shared language across the people who actually work together.

Talk it through with Shane
What your team works through

The same ten leadership levers. Built for your context.

The curriculum is the one that anchors the whole Intensive: ten research-backed leadership systems, drawn from 100+ peer-reviewed studies, that free up the mental space leaders lose to doing the basics from scratch.

Delivered in-house, the examples, scenarios and practice are built around your school's real situations (with your team's input), so what they learn on a Tuesday is something they can use in your building on the Wednesday.

How it works

From first call to shared playbook.

1. A conversation

We start with a call about your team, your context, and what you want leadership to feel like in a year. No template proposal until we've talked.

2. Tailored to you

Shane shapes the cohort around your school or group: your schedule, your priorities, your real scenarios woven into the sessions.

3. Delivered live

A private cohort for your leaders, run live online (or in person by arrangement), across a term. The same rhythm as the open Intensive: short live sessions, in-week practice, peer accountability.

4. A shared playbook

Your team finishes with individual Leadership Playbooks and a shared language for how leadership works in your school. The systems stay after the cohort ends.

Who it's for

Schools, trusts and groups.

In-house delivery suits any organisation that leads through more than one person:

What's included

Everything in the Intensive, delivered for your team.

Let's talk

Every in-house cohort is quoted to fit.

Cost depends on the size of your team, how much tailoring you want, and whether you'd like any in-person delivery. The honest way to find out if it's a fit, and what it would cost, is a short conversation.

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