Leadership Leap

Empowering entrepreneurs & business owners to scale their leadership.

Building on your leadership experience, Leadership LEAP helps you strengthen your leadership, develop an executive mindset, and lead with clarity, confidence, and impact. Empower your team, scale your business and drive sustainable growth.

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You’ve put in the work to build a strong business — and you’ve spotted the team members who could lead it into the future. So, what’s next?

You’ve built something great — and you know future growth depends on more than just you. You’ve identified team members with real potential. They're smart, driven, and deeply invested in the business. But they’re not quite ready to step into executive-level leadership — yet.

You want to keep them engaged. You want to grow their confidence, expand their perspective, and prepare them to take on more — so they’re ready when the time comes. This isn’t just about filling roles. It’s about building a strong, sustainable business with the right people leading the way

Nurture talent

Harness the qualities from your current internal team and develop their mindset for executive-level leadership.

Plan for the future

Prepare your future leaders within your business for advancement by building readiness and confidence for executive-level roles.

Retain talent

Strengthen your internal talent pipeline, enhance succession planning, and retain your key talent – it offers better value than recruiting.

Key outcomes of Leadership LEAP.

Understanding

A greater understanding of what an executive mindset is and how to tune into their character strengths to achieve this.

Awareness

A greater awareness of sabotage patterns and the adoption of new empowering mental models.

Recognition

A greater recognition of knowledge, resources and strengths that have been under-utilised.

Responsibility

A greater sense of responsibility to address areas of mistrust or miscommunication that are hampering performance.

Commitment

A greater commitment to their role, consequence and future in the organisation.

Performance

A greater passion and focus for lifting performance.

3 ways to access affordable, accessible and transformational development.

For individuals

Tailored for each individual, this programme provides personalised development within a supportive group cohort. Each individual is guided and supported to reach their unique leadership leap goals and achieve success alongside their cohort peers.

Provides insight into understanding what is an executive-level mindset
Includes a leadership assessment that measures thinking and behavioural styles to enhance self-awareness and leadership effectiveness
Explores sabotage thinking patterns and provides support and actionable strategies to overcome these.
Uncovers and further reinforces skills, strengths and resources that are enabling and empowering the leader to take the Leadership LEAP
Builds an executive performance focus plan to drive greater performance outcomes and strategies for success.
Includes self-guided learning for learning key concepts
Group Coaching
Individual Coaching
An Executive Performance Focus Plan
A benchmarked assessment of executive level mindset
Manager/Mentor learning action reviews
Conducted over 12-weeks

For groups

The ideal way to develop a group of executive successors. Personalised development for each individual within a supportive and collaborative group cohort. This approach ensures that successors develop peer-based support and cross-functional collaboration essential to executive-level success.

An aligned and cohesive understanding of expectations of executive-level performance
Includes a leadership assessment that measures thinking and behavioural styles to enhance self-awareness and leadership effectiveness.
Explores sabotage thinking patterns and provides support and actionable strategies to overcome these
Greater exposure to vulnerability and courage to share strengths and talents and have these reflected back to them and built upon by others
Increased perspective and challenges to growth when presenting their Executive performance focus plans
A deeper understanding of executive mindset strengths and barriers to performance
Includes self-guided format for learning key concepts
Group Coaching
Individual Coaching
An Executive Performance Focus Plan
A benchmarked assessment of executive level mindset
Manager/Mentor learning action reviews
Conducted over 12-weeks

Alumni

Many of our graduates from Leadership LEAP take on more leadership and project responsibility during and following the programme. This is an expected and encouraged part of the programme, but comes with it increases in expectations, demands and challenges.

The Alumni programme is a 12-month extension and ensures that the Leadership Leap graduate not only remains but thrives in delivering these increased performance expectations

Provides additional bite-sized learning content
Provides the conditions and environment for peer-based support
Reinforces learnings and supports the application of the Leap content to new settings and challenges
Provides continued access to Individual coaching services as and when needed
Provides the opportunity for retesting of mindset reports

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The Leadership LEAP programme is designed to equip executive successors with the tools, resources and direction to develop executive-level leadership.

Through self-guided learning, group coaching clinics and individual coaching sessions, participants are supported each week around key topics and a structure that builds over time. Delivered virtually to individuals anywhere, in any time zone.

Self guided learning

90 minutes in total per week
Provides context for learning
Tools/worksheets for reflection and action
Preparation for the group coaching clinics and individual coaching sessions

Group coaching clinics

90 minutes in total per week
Includes preparation via self guided learning
Share challenges and wins
Learning frameworks from coaches

Individual coaching

90 minutes in total per week
Includes preparation via self guided learning
Sharing and refining action plans and commitments for change
Deep dive into areas of challenge and growth
Building insight and understanding of strengths and resources

Guaranteed results

Leadership LEAP provides individuals with a structured programme of development that’s proven to improve retention, growth and a performance lift in participants.

With multiple touch points throughout the programme, we are able to regularly assess each participants progress, stay attuned to any challenges, and address key needs as they arise.

This approach ensures every participant is well supported and encouraged to achieve their leadership leap goals, and if not we work with them until they do.

"Looking forward to more collaborations"

“Always a privilege to partner with Sarah Friis & Megan Davies who are simply fantastic. Thrilled to see the growth and bonds this group of Executive successors made over the programme (and beyond!). Looking forward to more collaborations with Key Talent Coaching in the future!”
– Sam Ford, CPO Awanui.
"Thanks for your wonderful care and commitment toward our leaders”

“You have both been a joy to work alongside and your robust evaluation following this programme is indicating huge leaps in confidence and competence as they continue their journey towards building their executive mindset. Thanks for your wonderful care and commitment toward our leaders”
– Heather Compton – Learning & Development Manager Awanui.
"Rapport built with my Leap Coach in 1:1 sessions has been fabulous"

The rapport built with my Leap Coach in 1:1 sessions has been fabulous and the people in my small group sessions spoke so openly and honestly and were inspirational.
I have greater self-understanding on how to manage myself and overcome self-sabotaging barriers.
- Programme Participant

**Designed by experienced key talent leadership coaches to expand awareness, build confidence, cultivate respect and inspire performance.**

Co-Founder

Sarah Friis

Sarah is a highly experienced executive coach. Sarah’s expertise is working with CEO’s and their Executive team to achieve the professional accomplishments and legacies to inspire the next generation of leaders.

Over the past 25 years, Sarah has worked extensively in the HR industry, both as an external consultant supporting a range of organisations globally to achieve cultural change, and in-house, in senior roles developing leadership and cultural change.

Sarah brings to her leadership coaching a unique blend of psychological insight, practical solutions, and a huge depth of experience in developing high-performance teams and cultures. Her extensive experience in advanced group leadership and facilitation ensures that the group process is a challenging, rewarding, and rich experience for all.

Sarah is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

MA (Hons) in Psychology. Member, New Zealand Psychological Society (NZPsS)

Sarah is the co-author of The Power of Team, A practical guide to breakthrough performance.

Co-Founder

Megan Davies

Megan brings to executive coaching her extensive experience in leadership and team development, combined with her psychological and education-based foundation and HR/People and Culture knowledge and expertise.

Megan is an award-winning HR professional in the design and delivery of development programmes that identify and invest in leadership and emerging leadership talent. She has over 20 years’ HR/People and Culture experience at a strategic level, in both in-house HR Manager positions leading HR teams in complex environments, and as an external HR consultant, with her own HR consultancy, supporting business leaders and HR teams to design and deliver on their people plan.

Megan is based in Wales, United Kingdom.

Bachelor of Social Science (Double Major – Psychology and Education)

Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD).