Laura Whitworth

Expertise

I design and deliver award winning leadership development and management training programmes. I've had the opportunity to develop my skills across a range of business functions: Consultancy, Learning Design, Business Development, Marketing and Operations. My specialism and key focus is consulting with world class organisations to advise on learning programmes and performance improvement. I am also able to design online, blended learning programmes covering topics such as diversity and inclusion and leading change. Experienced in designing bespoke 360-degree feedback tools, and linking psychometric tests to a wider programme of work.

How do you help clients?

I help client to get their organisations where they want to be, one behaviour at a time. For example client may want to have a culture of belonging, and improve their inclusive leadership behaviours. Or perhaps they want a more consistent approach to leadership with a focus on high performance.

Through the programmes I have designed and delivered I have been able to show measurable change is areas such as retention, recruitment costs, internal succession, improved customer and employee survey results etc.

Experience

1. With my client Mitie the ‘Count Me In’ diversity and inclusion programme that I designed and delivered won the best D&I programme and the best learning programme categories.  The programme was also selected by the Top Employers Institute for use in its Best Practice Report 2022. The report showcases exemplary diversity and inclusion practises.
2. In partnership with London Underground, I designed the ‘Fit for the Future TfL programme’ – with outstanding outcomes we won a total 11 awards Training Journal Awards, Business Culture, HR Excellence and more.
3. Designed and delivered an award winning international programme, entitled ‘Leading Nuclear’ where we supported leaders across the industry in the transition from operational experts to spokespeople for the nuclear industry as a whole
4. With Sainsbury’s, I designed a multi award winning programme The reason our co-designed programmes was so successful is we were able to show a reduction in recruitment spend across the organisation, that 80% of goals set as part of the programme were achieved, and that more colleagues were able to move into higher grade roles.
5. For Jaguar Land Rover, I designed and led a leadership development programme that was delivered across 18 countries. The programme consisted of face-to-face learning, online learning tools and a comprehensive leadership toolkit that was translated into several languages.