Elevate Your Leadership Development

Outward Bound delivers powerful, immersive learning experiences that equip management teams with the tools, mindset, and behaviours needed to lead effectively in today’s complex world.

Our Leadership Training Course is available only to current Outward Bound clients and supporters; employers who work with us on apprentice or graduate development programmes, partner schools and trusts, donors, supporters, and trustees, along with training providers and industry collaborators.

How it works:

  • Pre-course diagnostic: We explore your leadership goals, team needs or current challenges
  • Co-design: Our expert course directors build your programme around your context, people, and development priorities
  • Real challenge, real feedback: Activities are grounded in nature, designed to prompt reflection, not physical performance
  • Flexible frameworks: Every programme draws from proven leadership and behavioural models:
    • Adair’s action-centred leadership
    • Johari Window for feedback and self-awareness
    • Honey & Mumford learning styles
    • GROW coaching model
    • Kolb’s experiential learning cycle to turn experience into action

No two programmes are the same, but each is underpinned by shared challenge and purposeful risk, reflection and guided conversation, and peer accountability and supported action planning.

This is for leaders who are ready to press pause, step back, and step up.

Benefits at a glance

For participants:

  • Develop confidence, clarity and purpose
  • Practise giving and receiving feedback in safe, honest environments
  • Reconnect with their ‘why’ and understand their own leadership style
  • Gain fresh perspective on real workplace challenges

For your organisation:

  • Strengthen cultural consistency between early careers and leadership
  • Build a shared leadership language aligned to your values
  • Improve cohesion, communication and trust within and across teams
  • Increase performance and engagement through deeper self-awareness
  • Enable measured transfer with 90-day action plans and accountability

What makes this different?

Real challenge, not artificial simulations

Tailored content based on diagnostics, not off the shelf

Facilitated by experienced course directors, not external trainers

Grounded in values and purpose, not performance targets

Part of a whole-talent strategy, aligned to early careers

Next steps

We’d love to explore how this programme could support your leaders. Speak to your account manager to find out more or email [email protected].