Improving Leadership Capability
across your social housing organisation
We partner with social housing organisations to build confident, consistent leaders who drive your strategic goals.
When leadership is inconsistent, teams experience disengagement, increased escalation, and operational inefficiency, creating avoidable pressure on senior leaders and impacting overall organisational performance.
We help you close that gap.
Whether through ILM Level 5 programmes, tailored team dynamics workshops, or fractional OD support, we offer interventions that fit your organisation’s needs.
Compassionate Leaders is a consultancy founded and run by one of the leading business psychology specialists in the social housing sector.
Hayley Gillard, supports leaders of social housing organisations with leadership capability consultancy and fractional OD support, Hayley helps organisations ask and answer the often forgotten question "who do we need to be in order to achieve our strategy/mission?" In order to create the psychologically safe conditions in which high-performing teams can be built, you must go further than developing a business strategy and operational plan.
Her team provides ILM accredited training and coaching that enables leaders at every levelbecome more confident, compassionate, and build remarkable teams that thrive, innovate, and truly collaborate.
As a go-to training consultant for organisations across the social housing sector, Hayley supports CEO’s, Senior Leadership Teams, Heads of Departments and HR/OD Leads, with highly effective consultancy, fractional OD support and leadership development training, for themselves and their managers with compassion at its centre.
“After a long search to find our perfect leadership development partner, we discovered Hayley. Hayley worked in partnership with our OD team to develop a tailored learning programme to support leaders in developing psychological safety within and across teams, while exploring the leadership skills required to cultivate high performance. Hayley's facilitation skills are genuinely next level! Hayley's knowledge and expertise really shine through and I would highly recommend her to any organisation looking to support leaders at all levels, whether it be a tailored development programme or broader organisational change project. Thank you Hayley!”
Anna Boag, Head of People, Culture and Communications, Calendonia Housing Association
BUILDING LEADERSHIP CAPABILITY, To Suit Your Organisation And You.
Consultancy
Work with Hayley on a consultancy or fractional basis to address leadership capability starting at Exec level. Focus on who you need to be to lead your organisation not just what or how only! Support your Exec team to embed psychological safety at every level
Self Study Programme
Manager School (Online) is a 12-week ILM accredited qualification, providing flexibility through the self-study format. Designed to support managers promoted on technical competence but perhaps lacking the confidence and skills needed to manage people.
Training & Programmes
Lunch time webinars, short courses or bespoke ILM Level 5 Accredited programmes! All our training and programmes follow our psychologically informed, science-backed and proven framework and include elements of personal, people and organisational leadership.
Coaching
Leadership coaching sessions aimed at improving your leadership capability and focused on anything that may challenge that! From Exec level to brand new managers. Can take place either one-to-one or as a team and are totally confidential.
A unique approach to Developing Your leadership Capability
Hayley’s unique approach to leadership development training involves looking inward to develop your internal self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
You’ll learn to lead and communicate more confidently and compassionately, and make and execute difficult business decisions with empathy, clarity and humanness.
Whatever combination of consulting, programmes and coaching you and Hayley feel are the right fit for your organisational needs, psychological safety principles are at the centre of her approach.
This is to enable you to strengthen the foundations on which engaged, collaborative, productive teams can thrive, and help you to develop a culture of trust and well-being across your team or organisation.
Contact Hayley To Discuss Your Leadership Capability:
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Why Choose Compassionate Leaders?
Hayley has forged a reputation as a skilled, direct and empathetic consultant and fractional OD Director and a team of trainers and coaches with a track record that speaks for itself.
Our leadership capability consulting, training, programmes and coaching offer leaders, their teams and organisations a huge number of benefits.
Including:
Enhanced effectiveness of leadership
Enhanced employee well-being
Increased employee engagement and job satisfaction
Higher talent retention rates
Improved communication (both as a leader, or across your team and wider organisation)
Increased trust
Enhanced innovation
Better conflict resolution
Reduction in errors and accidents
Creates a positive organisational culture
Improved customer satisfaction
