The Visionary Leader
Mottram Hall, Cheshire
14th - 15th July 2025
Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th July
2025
Mottram Hall Hotel
Early Bird Investment £895 exc. VAT
The Visionary Leader course is an immersive 2-day transformative experience that provides a safe space for senior leaders to share your own leadership experiences, unleash your potential, and re-ignite your love of leadership. Join engaging leadership trainer and coach Gilly on a 2-day immersion into Visionary Leadership which delivers actionable results to drive the performance of your people.
Gilly Thompson works with leaders to become exceptional and then show you how to unlock the same potential in your teams creating empowered and engaged individuals. There’s plenty of evidence that shows engaged employees equals profit and productivity. According to Gallup's 2023 engagement survey, only 23% of UK employees are actively engaged at work.
Keeping employees engaged involves a real and ongoing commitment from organisations. It doesn't work to shove a few perks and an off-the-shelf yearly review in colleagues' faces. A huge part of getting employees engaged is strong, stable and inspirational leadership. I have a fanatical belief that as a leader you have so much capability waiting to escape. I help you to look at the features, habits, and skills that enable you to be more, deliver more, be happier, and love being a leader and that in turn creates employee experience
What Will You Learn?
BECOMING A VISIONARY LEADER
Discover how to blend your vision with practical strategies.
MASTERING COMMUNICATION AND PRESENCE
Build unshakeable confidence that radiates from within, allowing you to lead with inspiration.
BUILD A HIGH-PERFORMING TEAM
Learn how to build a culture of trust and motivation, where you team exceeds expectations with passion and purpose!
UNDERSTANDING SELF THROUGH YOUR OWN BEHAVIOURAL PROFILE
A DISC profile can be beneficial for self-understanding, helping you to understand your areas of strength, and areas for growth, leading to improved communication, relationships, and self-awareness.
Why Should You Attend?
Effective contemporary leadership is hugely different from our approaches of the past. Creating engagement and performance in teams today requires leaders to show up every day caring as much about developing their people as well all the stuff they have to get done – and to be great at it.
Leadership is changing and so is our landscapes – as leaders we need to embrace the complexities of hybrid working, an ageing workforce and neurodiversity.
As our world becomes increasingly hi-tech and with it a fast pace, how is this impacting our communication and connection? We explore how to create high trust and have deep connection conversations.
Leaders now need to manage and drive performance using the psychology of coaching, feedback, and delegation. We show you how.
Getting confident in communicating and setting short and medium-term, team and individual goals.
What is the Magic of This 2 Day Training Course?
By combining proven behavioural models such as DiSC as well as coaching development sessions and tactical workshops on leadership and communication, you will leave The Visionary Leader course will re-ignite passion for leadership and a clear plan that will enable you to drive the performance of your team and embrace the role of a visionary leader.
The magic of the Visionary Leadership course is that it delivers lasting and breakthrough results both intellectually and emotionally. Collaborate amongst the other leaders share experiences and create new relationships. There is enormous value in executives getting together and building a sense of community with solidarity of intent as well as taking advantage of objective feedback from other ambitious executives that have similar experiences.
What is Included?
2 Days of transformational Content In A High Level Mastermind
Workbooks, Worksheets And Done For You Templates Throughout
Access to Champneys Spa at the end of each day - time will be allowed for reflection and relaxation
2-course Lunch & Refreshments Provided Throughout
Personalised 22-Page DiSC Behavioural Profile
60-minute Post Course Coaching Session with Gilly or Becky (worth £300)
Coaching:
The retreat is followed up with a 60-minute 1-2-1 coaching call with Gilly or Becky.
This provides an opportunity for personalised support to grow and explore what’s stopping you as well as to follow up on commitments made and set next steps. I know that following training with this coaching call can double the amount of action people take.
EXCLUSIVE EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT £895 exc. VAT
available until 31st May 2025
Who is Gilly Thompson?
Hi I’m Gilly and I’m on a mission to ensure everyone has access to great leadership, I spent much of my early career in several of the top FTSE100 companies including BT, Railtrack and Marks and Spencer, where I led teams in many of the core functions of the business.
I made every leadership mistake there was to make in my early leadership so I understand the complexities which leaders have working with people across functions, locations and levels can bring. I have had first-hand experience of working in high-performing teams and delivering exceptional results .
I have been an Executive Coach for seven years and I am a member of the EMCC.
I work with Manchester Metropolitan University as a mentor on the Help to Grow Scheme and work with leaders to strengthen their performance and leadership skills.
I have a natural training style developed from my leadership roles and my coaching style might be described as inspiring, honest, open and direct, curious and respectful, with humour, energy and empathy.
I hold a Leadership and Management Associate Degree and a Masters Degree in Executive Coaching with the Institute of Leadership and Management, I am also a certified DiSC behavioural profiling trainer resulting in an understanding of behavioural, strategic and tactical elements of leadership.
Who Is Becky Field?
Hi, I’m Becky, and I am a group specialist who is passionate about the adaptability of mindset and behaviour to get the best out of leaders and their teams.
Over the last 8 years I’ve had the chance to work with incredible business leaders and their teams to encourage better communication, better relationships, self-awareness turning unhappy leaders into confident ones with enhance skills to lead their teams.
With 25 years of working in groups creatively, I love to see dynamics change positively within the space of a single day with lightbulb moments driving change. I love the fast pace and creativity that comes with working in groups and the power in direct, honest conversations.
As an experienced and qualified Coach and coaching supervisor, as well as a successful entrepreneur, I am a brilliant problem-solving and creative thinker.
What you’ll get from me: honesty, energy and creative ways of thinking and I’m excited to be part of the Visionary Leader programme and can’t wait to connect with you all.
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The Visionary Leader Retreat
The Itinerary
Monday 14th
9.00am. Day One Training Starts
Join us for day one of The Visionary Leader course.
1pm. Break For Lunch Refreshments will be available throughout
The Visionary Leader course but we will be breaking at 1pm on day one for lunch.
4pm. Conclude Day One Training
We will conclude day one with an understanding of the actions you will need to implement the day's learning. Enjoy time in the Champney's spa on us.
Tuesday 15th
9.00am. Day Two Training Starts
Join us for day two of The Visionary Leader course.
Please arrive at 8.45am so we can begin the course promptly.
12pm. Break For Lunch Refreshments will be available throughout
The Visionary Leader course but we will be breaking at 12pm on day two for lunch.
4pm. Conclude Day Two Training
We will begin to wrap up The Visionary Leader course at 3pm to ensure you leave with a detailed action plan for instant implementation. Conclusion time of 4pm.