Enabling Leaders

Refreshingly simple leadership development, supported by experts who care.

Enabling Leaders is a leadership development model that empowers leaders to thrive, guided by unparalleled experience and supported by simple systems.

See how leadership can flourish across your schools

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Enabling Leaders to Flourish

Brought to you by Anne-Marie Duguid and Diana Osagie,
with decades of educational leadership experience.

Enabling Leaders to Flourish

A model of strategic leadership development that demonstrates your investment in yourself and your people. Nurturing hearts and minds as well as skills and competencies.

Working with us gets you access to unparalleled expertise. With decades of strategic leadership, extensive experience writing professionally accredited frameworks and criteria with evidence of impact. We not only know the evidence, we know the academics.

Strategic insights with deeper knowledge of individual and collective strengths.
Forensic approach to professional leadership learning provision.
Precise Professional Conversations — improving your leadership through training and prompts.
Language to discuss and approach leadership in an ongoing fashion.
Ability to demonstrate and evidence impact of your investment.

Why our trust built it's own leadership pathway

The head of professional learning and talent at Windsor Academy Trust explains how the MAT developed its own leadership programme based on its strategy and ethos…

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The most authentic and impactful professional development I’ve ever had. Beautifully simple. An excellent investment in ourselves which is paying dividends.

Dr Dan Owen

Director of Secondary,
Windsor Academy Trust

Changing Conversations with Sarah Philp

Discover the thinking behind Enabling Leaders in this podcast from host Sarah Philp and founder Anne-Marie Duguid.

ith honesty and clarity, they explore why traditional leadership programmes often fall short, the power of intentional design, and how a model built with leaders—not done to them—creates lasting impact in schools and organisations. If you want to understand the thinking, practice and real-world impact behind the Enabling Leaders approach, this episode is an ideal place to begin.

Hear from the schools and organisations we are working with

Enabling Leaders is growing fast, with more schools being onboarded every week. Hear about the fantastic impact EL is having in schools across England and Scotland.

Having been part of the Enabling Leaders programme from the beginning, we’ve seen first-hand the long-term impact it has on leadership development. Over the years, it has been instrumental in shaping our leaders, deepening their skills, and building a shared language and confidence that elevates our work. This programme has grown with us, consistently adding value and supporting us as we evolve, tackle challenges and embrace opportunities.

The Enabling Leaders programme has transformed how we approach leadership at our trust. It has empowered our team to engage in deeper, more purposeful conversations that drive progress and align with our vision. This programme has not only elevated individual leaders but has strengthened our collective capacity to make impactful, thoughtful decisions.

I have just had a wonderful PPC session with Sarah from the EL team. It is definitely one of the best professional conversations I have had about my leadership. She has also offered some really interesting and poignant material (Enablers) to support my development. It is a rare treat to meet someone who can meet you, where you are, with understanding and empowerment.

The Enabling Leaders framework and system is a powerful tool for enabling us to cultivate a culture across our family which creates the conditions for all of our leaders to flourish. It provides us with a mechanism for growing staff talent, along with ensuring all of our leaders have a bespoke CPL pathway, suited specifically to their needs. The common language of leadership also enables us to apply a consistent approach to leadership development across our family. The potential, the possibilities and the promise that this approach to leadership development across our family has bought is really exciting for us.

This programme has provided us with a personalised high quality leadership framework to support our unique borough wide partnership. We are incredibly excited to have co created a Bolton common leadership language and focus to further empower our leaders to drive meaningful change Working across multiple secondary, special, independent schools and colleges and trusts, Enabling Leaders is helping us build on our shared local vision and ambition creating greater alignment and unity in our leadership approach. Driving and developing our ambitious collaborative commitment to improve the life chances and opportunities for all our young people within Bolton both at school and partnership level.

Enabling Leaders is supported by simple and intuitive tech

The purpose-built EL Tool underpins and automates the process, ensuring minimal admin for you and your team.