Collaboration Academy
The Collaboration Academy supports individuals, teams and places to develop the skills, knowledge, mindsets and behaviours to be effective collaborators.
We have developed our leadership practice over the course of many years.
Since 2016 we have delivered the SOLACE Ignite programme, supporting nine cohorts of Local Authority Chief Executives.
Since 2019 we have facilitated Leading Greater Essex, a year-long systems leadership programme for cross-sector cohorts of 80 people from Greater Essex.
Since 2023 we have delivered four cohorts of the London Leadership Programme, London Councils’ flagship development programme investing in the next generation of senior leaders in London.
We also provide specific support to commissioners across the public sector, recognising the important role they play in creating the conditions for collaboration. In 2023 we launched the Commissioning with Communities to support commissioners to step into their role as enablers for social change.
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Leading Change Together: a collaborative leadership development programme
The most pressing challenges we face are beyond the reach and responsibility of any one organisation, programme or project. Tackling them requires collaborative leadership — people who can look up and out beyond their own roles to mobilise change across systems.
This transformative programme is for people who believe in the power of collaboration for social change, who are striving to make progress on difficult or long standing problems, and who want to develop the skills and understanding that make it possible.
This is not a traditional training programme; you’ll join a learning community where you commit to supporting your own and other people’s learning and explore and develop together.
If you’d like a bespoke programme for your place or cause, please contact [email protected].