Digital transformation in higher education is a leadership challenge that reshapes how universities teach, research, operate and connect with students and partners. While digital initiatives are often positioned as technical projects, their success depends on leaders’ ability to align people, culture, strategy and purpose.
This workshop builds leaders’ capability to lead digital transformation with confidence and insight. Participants examine the leadership behaviours required to enable effective digital change and develop practical approaches for engaging teams through transformation, while keeping the human, academic and educational mission at the centre of decision making.
Who are the workshops for?
These workshops are open to anyone with leadership responsibility in a higher education institution – regardless of title or seniority. If you lead a team, manage a project, or hold responsibility for others in an HE context, these workshops are designed for you.
The workshops are particularly relevant for:
- Anyone preparing for greater leadership responsibility
- Academics stepping into their first management or leadership role
- Research leads and principal investigators
- Professional Services managers and leaders
- Heads of Department and Deans
Why participate? Why choose a Leadership Skills Workshop?
Just-in-time, not just-in-case
No waiting for cohort formation or a new academic year. Attend when the challenge is live and the learning is immediately relevant.
Grounded in higher education
Every workshop is built around the Framework for Leading in Higher Education. The examples, the conversations, and the frameworks are all rooted in the sector you work in.
No time away from your institution
Three hours online. No travel, no accommodation costs, no days out of the office.
Peer connection across the sector
Learn alongside leaders from other HE institutions and build lasting networks with people facing the same challenges.
Practical from the first session
You work with your own real cases and situations. You leave with clear intentions you can act on straight away.
Visible, credible evidence of development
A digital badge for every session completed, and a series badge for attending multiple workshops – suitable for appraisals, CPD records and succession planning conversations.
Free Leadership Skills Workshop Webinars
Are you interested in attending a Leadership Skills Workshop? Join a free webinar taking place 14 September and 23 September, for an overview of our workshops, guidance on choosing the right sessions for your development goals and insights into how the workshops can support your leadership journey.
Workshop content
How the workshops work
- Duration: 3 hours per workshop, delivered fully online
- Audience: Global – open to all HE staff with leadership responsibility
- Participation: Breakout groups for discussion and networking
- Structure: Each session includes introductions and connectivity, expert input, group sense-making, and intention-setting
- Resources: Supporting digital learning environment with pre- and post-session materials for asynchronous learning and community building
- Delivery: Individual places available, or institutional bundles for groups of 10 plus
- Recognition: Digital badge awarded for each session completed; a series badge for completing multiple workshops
Booking information
Dates will be confirmed soon. Please complete the form below to be notified when dates are available.
Are you interested in bookings for your team, department or institution?
Booking multiple places helps teams and departments build a shared leadership language and culture. When colleagues attend together, they can apply learning to their own context, support accountability and use workshops to drive ongoing team development.
Group bookings also offer greater value and flexibility, with the ability to secure multiple places on different dates of the same workshop to support wider participation across teams.
Bulk booking discounts are available for groups of 10 (5%) and 20+ (10%). Please note that bulk bookings apply to multiple places on the same workshop only and cannot currently be used across different workshop types.
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