Cymraeg

Academi Wales

Senior Leadership Experience

  • Audience
    Senior leaders in Welsh public service organisations

  • Dates
    January to July 2026

  • Location
    Blended learning, mix of virtual and in-person events
    North Wales cohort
    South Wales cohort

  • Duration
    2.5 days (5 sessions over 7 months)

  • Cost
    No fee

Overview

If you are a dynamic and courageous senior leader, determined to have a wider impact by leading and driving change within a culture of trust and compassion, then this Experience is for you.

The Experience combines diagnostics with personal development feedback and coaching, offering support and challenge in a comprehensive coaching session to deepen personal reflection and learning transfer.

As One Welsh Public Service, we have a shared purpose and shared drivers to achieve a better and lasting quality of life for us all.

Benefits to you

You will be able to:

  • explore your personal behaviours and leadership styles, team climate, relationships and emotional intelligence
  • identify areas for personal and team growth, and leadership development
  • meet and work with colleagues from other Welsh public services

"... very positive in looking at the next stage change within our service, and my role in this, useful to understand better the organisational culture and how this impacts on my team"
Previous participant

Leadership behaviours

This learning Experience will help you to develop your leadership behaviours in the following areas:

Learning and self-awareness

Drive and resilience

Championing innovation and change

Building collaboration and partnership

Sharing leadership

Target audience

  • Approaching senior leadership - professionals with leadership responsibilities, and are approaching senior leadership (typically with 5 or more years’ leadership experience)
  • Senior leadership: senior / top-tier leaders and executives, such as Chief Executives and Directors.

Open to senior leaders in Welsh public service organisations who:

  • want to lead through uncertainty, growth and change in their organisations
  • want to re-visit and refine their own assumptions and understanding, to improve their leadership practice
  • lead a minimum of 3 people
  • manage other managers
  • have a minimum of 3 peers
  • have a minimum of 3 other colleagues

Time commitments

Virtual briefing (1.5 hours, virtual) - 13 January

Profiling (1 day, in person) - 24 March

Coaching session 1 (1.5 hours, virtual or in person) - by 31 March

Coaching session 2 (1.5 hours, virtual or in person) - by 8 May

Learning into action (1 day, in person) - 14 July

Virtual briefing (1.5 hours, virtual) - 15 January

Profiling (1 day, in person) - 19 March

Coaching session 1 (1.5 hours, virtual or in person) - by 27 March

Coaching session 2 (1.5 hours, virtual or in person) - by 8 May

Learning into action (1 day, in person) - 16 July

Cost

We are pleased to announce that for this cohort we are waiving the usual fee of £350+VAT.

Please note that should you be awarded a place and then withdraw, your organisation will be required to pay the full cost.

How to apply

You must be able to take part in all of the activities that make up the Senior Leadership Experience, and your application must be authorised by your line manager.

Please complete the application form by 20 November 2025.

Information

Please note you cannot apply for both cohorts.

To find more details and apply, please see our detailed information

More information

To find more details about the Experience, please see our detailed information.

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