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Leadership & People Week London
London, UK

13 - 18 December 2026 | London

Human-Centred Leadership

Transform your team through leadership that puts people first.

14 - 16 December 2026 | London

What's in Store

This three-day programme develops the mindset and practical skills required to put wellbeing, development, and empowerment at the centre of leadership while remaining aligned with organisational goals. You will explore advanced emotional intelligence, empathy, cognitive flexibility, and inclusive leadership to build stronger connections and trust across diverse teams. Through practical activities and recognised frameworks, you will learn to create psychological safety, resolve conflict, guide people through uncertainty, and secure authentic buy-in for change. The programme also helps you embed human-centred values into leadership development, culture, and decision-making for sustained engagement, innovation, and performance.

Develop a human-centred mindset using systems thinking and transformational leadership

Strengthen emotional regulation, agility, and empathy using neuroscience-backed techniques

Lead across cognitive, cultural and generational differences while challenging limiting biases

Build psychological safety, trust, and high-performing teams using coaching and Lencioni's model

Apply adaptive leadership to change, stakeholder buy-in, resistance, and team resilience

Embed human-centred values through leadership frameworks, data, and feedback loops

Ted Wainman

Led By Annabelle Beckwith

Annabelle has been training and coaching executives at all organisational levels, as well as entrepreneurs and business founders and owners; in a wide range of sectors for 25 years. She focuses on leadership development, team productivity and business growth, working on the basis that before building the organisation you must first develop the individual.

She is the author of two Amazon bestsellers, ‘Get Your Peas In A Row – 5 key factors to propel your business forward’, written for entrepreneurs and business founders, and ‘Stepping Up to Lead – a practical guide for your first people management role’, for new and aspiring leaders and managers, and co-authored with her daughter. She is also a regular contributor to business publications and a speaker at conferences and events.

Benefits of Attending

Define human-centred leadership and distinguish it from traditional leadership approaches

Lead with purpose by aligning personal values, organisational mission, and shared goals

Use empathy, inclusion, and psychological safety to strengthen team resilience and performance

Assess culture and design strategies that embed human-centred leadership through change

Who Should Attend

Professionals with responsibility for teams or organisational culture who want to create inclusive, emotionally intelligent, and high-performing environments. Relevant roles include Emerging Leaders, Change Management Professionals, Project Managers, Heads of Department, HR Professionals, Talent Development Managers, Learning and Development Professionals, and Mid-to-Senior-Level Leaders.