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Sixteen, always
Sixteen is the largest cohort one principal can hold to a real standard. Anything larger is a conference.
Founded in Birmingham in 2019 by three former heads of leadership development from FTSE 100 companies. We started teaching because the conference industry was failing the senior practitioner.
We left the corporate route because it was no longer serving the people we believed it should serve. Senior practitioners were being shipped to conferences, given certificates, and returned to the same plant floor expecting different behaviour.
So we built a school. Cohorts of sixteen. Faculty drawn from the practice. Programmes built around single transformations. We admit by interview, not application form, and we refund the second half of any programme if a Fellow does not finish measurably different.
We are direct about all of this because the alternative is a brochure, and we are not in the brochure business.
Sixteen is the largest cohort one principal can hold to a real standard. Anything larger is a conference.
Our faculty are senior practitioners writing on the disciplines they ran for twenty years.
Programmes are structured but not scripted. Faculty respond to the cohort they are reading with.
If a Fellow does not finish measurably different — defined by their own pre-stated criteria — we refund the second half.
A first-floor school house above a printing house, five minutes from New Street and Birmingham City University.