Inclusive Employers 
A flexible inclusive leadership
matters at strategic level
Senior leaders set direction, influence culture and shape the systems that affect how inclusion is experienced across an organisation.
When strategic leaders lead inclusively, they do more than role model good behaviour. They influence decision-making, create the conditions for psychological safety, strengthen accountability and help inclusion become part of how the organisation operates.
Yet many organisations still find that senior leadership engagement and confidence remain a barrier to meaningful, sustainable EDI progress.
Common challenges
this offer helps address
This offer is designed for organisations where senior leaders may be committed to inclusion, but need more support to turn that commitment into strategic, visible and consistent action.
Common challenges include:
- Senior leaders want to lead inclusively but need more confidence, reflection and challenge
- Inclusion is valued, but not yet embedded in strategic decisions and leadership behaviours
- Leaders need a safe space to explore blind spots, past behaviours or difficult issues
- Organisations want more accountability and deeper understanding at senior level
- One-off awareness sessions have not created enough practical change
- There is a need to connect personal leadership growth with wider systems and culture change
What is included in Inclusive Leadership for Strategic Leaders programme?
This offer combines three types of learning support, depending on the needs of your leaders and organisation.
Learning experiences for strategic leaders
Our learning experiences are designed for strategic leaders who need practical, challenging, and relevant learning that connects inclusive leadership with organisational culture, systems and strategy.
One-day bespoke inclusive leadership training
A tailored one-day learning experience for strategic leaders, built around your organisation’s context, priorities and current challenges.
Three-to-six-month inclusive leadership programme
A structured programme consisting of:
- 3 modules
- 3 action learning sets
This format is well suited to organisations looking for a focused leadership journey that builds reflection, challenge and practical action over time.
Five-to-ten month inclusive leadership programme
Deeper programme consisting of:
- 5 modules
- 5 action learning sets
This format gives strategic leaders more time to build capability, apply learning in context, and embed inclusive leadership practice more deeply, including adapting their leadership style to support diverse teams.
Example programme themes
Depending on your goals, the programme can include learning on themes such as:
- Why inclusive leadership matters now, and the role of strategic leaders
- Inclusive leadership, psychological safety, culture and communication
- Identifying leadership style and building self-awareness
- Cultural intelligence and navigating difference
- Diagnosing organisational culture
- Elective sessions linked to your EDI strategy, such as race, gender or neurodiversity inclusion
- Embedding inclusion through accountability, systems change and strategy review
Individual inclusion mentoring
For senior leaders
Our inclusion mentoring programme is designed for leaders seeking to evolve their leadership style through one-to-one support.
Whether a leader is striving for a more equitable culture, needs support to reflect on past non-inclusive behaviours, or wants a safe space to build confidence and self-awareness, this programme blends learning, accountability and growth.
It is ideal for a leader who needs a confidential space to dive into self-reflection and embrace the vulnerability of not having all the answers.
Reverse or Reciprocal mentoring
For senior leaders
Reverse or Reciprocal mentoring creates an opportunity for senior leaders to learn directly from colleagues with lived experience of exclusion, while also creating development opportunities for underrepresented talent.
In this model, senior leaders are the mentees and non-leadership colleagues are the mentors. Mentors share lived experience connected to race, gender, LGBTQ+ identities, caring, disability and other aspects of identity, helping leaders understand how inclusion and exclusion are experienced in practice.
For organisations looking to empower leaders to role model inclusion, develop underrepresented talent and build a more inclusive culture, reciprocal mentoring can be a high-impact intervention.
What this offer helps strategic leaders achieve
Inclusive Leadership for Strategic Leaders helps organisations build leadership capability that is reflective, practical and aligned to strategic inclusion goals.
Through this offer, leaders can:
- Strengthen self-awareness and inclusive leadership confidence
- Understand more deeply how culture and exclusion are experienced
- Build more inclusive behaviours and decision-making habits
- Increase accountability for inclusion at senior level
- Connect learning with strategy, systems and organisational change
- Move from awareness into reflection, application and action
Why choose Inclusive Employers
We combine strategic EDI expertise, practical workplace insight and flexible learning design to help senior leaders move from intent to action.
This offer is designed to respond to market complexity through interventions that match user need, support flexibility and help learning stick.
Organisations choose Inclusive Employers because we offer:
- Tailored learning rather than a fixed off-the-shelf model
- Deep expertise in inclusion, leadership and culture
- Flexible options from one-day interventions to longer programmes
- Mentoring routes that strengthen reflection and accountability
- Practical support that helps leaders apply learning in context
Explore Inclusive Leadership
for Strategic Leaders
Whether you need a one-day strategic leadership session, a longer programme, one-to-one inclusion mentoring or reciprocal mentoring, we can help you shape the right approach for your leaders.