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Welcome to LeadWright

Empowering Future Leaders

OUR PASSION, OUR MISSION

Our passion and mission is to cultivate exceptional leaders across diverse organisations. Our unique development programmes have been crafted to equip leaders with the skills to manage teams and challenges in high-reliability organisations with resilience and poise.

Our Story

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LeadWright was founded in 2016 by seasoned aviators, airline instructors, assessors and academics who recognised gaps in how contemporary training programmes prepared commercial pilots for leadership roles in high-performance teams. We observed a growing disparity between the increasing complexity of aircraft, the airspace in which they operate, and the leadership skills required to navigate this complexity effectively, highlighting a critical need for advanced leadership development.

 

Through rigorous research, we identified the competencies lacking in the aviation industry, noting that these deficiencies could pose significant safety risks. We discovered that many specialists advance into managerial roles without completing a comprehensive developmental programme aligned with the industry's challenges.

 

Expanding our research to other high-risk industries like healthcare, emergency services, maritime, defence, and transportation, we found a consistent pattern: a widening gap between 'work as imagined' - the intended strategy, and 'work as done' - the emergent or realised strategy. This gap is significantly pronounced as experienced professionals retire and less-experienced individuals assume leadership positions.

 

Recognising the broader applicability of our aviation-derived knowledge, we have developed a programme to enhance leadership across various sectors. This programme simplifies complex operations, provides immediate access to strategic frameworks, offers self-evaluation models, and creates robust crisis-management strategies. These tools, some of which originated from the US and European space programmes, are used copiously in aviation and continue to prove their effectiveness and versatility across the board.

 

Our workshops have demonstrated significant success, with participants reporting substantial improvements in leadership and decision-making capabilities. LeadWright brings the rigour and precision of aviation leadership to high-reliability organisations, fostering a unique skillset necessary for success in a volatile and complex environment.

What We Do

We teach, support, advise, and encourage leadership at every level, utilising the knowledge and experience gained from developing leaders within the aviation industry.

At our core is the belief that leaders are made, not born.

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LeadWright invites you to discover the transformative power of our interactive workshops and training programmes that will enrich your leadership potential.  

 

Our team's profuse knowledge and unparalleled experience will empower you to lead a high-performance team. We are eager to share the methods and tools enabling you to do so.

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Who We Support

Safety-Critical Stakeholders

We confidently educate and support leaders and teams working in safety-critical industries, or any industry in which crisis management skills are imperative

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Our Services

We elevate individuals, teams, and organisations through our learning workshops that encompass a unique body of leadership knowledge and tools.
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It's All About
Educating Leaders

Our educational programme is built upon a learning pyramid that cultivates significant adaptive and reflexive skills for those in leadership roles. This structured approach ensures that foundational skills are solidly established, allowing progressively advanced competencies to be built thereon. Each layer, from essential situational awareness to advanced crisis management, strategy and systems thinking, enhances leaders' ability to adapt swiftly and effectively in a high-stakes environment.

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We love the work that we do, and so do our clients

Matthew Rogers

Robert Bates

Theunis Du Toit

Airline Training Captain

Urban Planner & Project Manager,

New Zealand

Airline Chief Pilot

"The programme content is truly exceptional. It is highly stimulating, easy to follow, insightful and relevant across multiple professions."
"After going through the training module, I'm convinced that Dynamic Decision-Making is highly relevant to my and other disciplines"
"Mango Airlines recommends LeadWright to any aviation or corporate organisation wishing to improve on the skills of existing managers and leaders."

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Ready to find out more?

If there is one thing aviation has taught us in our many years of experience, it is that every day is a school day. Today's lessons can be tomorrow's solutions if you have the right foundation and tools guiding you along the path to continuous learning. Reach out to us—we know a thing or two.

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