You want to be a great leader, but you were never taught how.

Dunholm Leadership gives insight into great leadership and the practical tools to deliver, built on a decade of experience at a world-leading university, all backed by scientific insights from peer-reviewed research.

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Designed by a leadership scientist from a world top 2% university.

Pilot evaluated across 30 managers on 4 continents.

All measures of leadership confidence, knowledge, and practical skill improved.

Verified and endorsed by eminent Leadership Professors.

Why most leadership development fails – and why this is different.

Most managers are promoted because they are brilliant at their jobs. Then they’re handed more senior responsibility without real training and advice not grounded in reality.

That isn’t a personal failing, but the system instead. Leadership development has been built on anecdotal opinions, outdated frameworks, and non-applicable advice.

All while decades of organisational psychology and leadership science sits locked away in academic journals, untranslated and unused, inaccessible to those who need it.

SCIENTIFIC RIGOUR
Robust
Weak
Executive training by academic institution Research grounded, but limited focus on practical application
  • Pre/Post Evaluated
  • Lifetime Access
  • Science-Backed
  • Self-paced, Online
  • Personal Growth Plan
  • 400 Practical Takeaways
Typical leadership training Opinion-led; well-intentioned but not well-informed
Practical training without research foundation Actionable tools, but not grounded in validated science
Lower Quality
Higher Quality
PRACTICAL INSIGHTS
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Real science
with measurable results.

here's what the evidence shows
+130%
Confidence in leadership science
+167%
Ability to apply leadership insights
+122%
Practical skill acquisition
+105%
Knowledge of leadership science

A route in for
all leaders.

For

Managers

Promoted without a manual, you want to lead well. You want what actually works, backed by evidence you can trust.

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For

Organisations

You need leadership development with measurable outcomes, not operational disruption, and the data to justify it at board level.

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For

Trainers

You want science-backed, independently evaluated programme to licence and deliver to your own clients – with the data to win the pitches your competitors cannot.

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"This is the content all leaders in the workplace should be signing up to."

what managers say

“This was a fantastic course which offered a completely different insight into leadership than other course I have done, which tend to focus more on what to ‘do’ to be a good leader rather than re-framing how to think to be a good leader. I feel much more equipped to think of the mindset of my team and support them.”

– Pilot Student

“Feeling like an imposter has always been part of my mentality, so it was refreshing to understand why I feel like that and how to overcome that feeling.”

– Pilot Student

“I am guilty of thinking my team are lazy, rather than digging into the why and motivating/inspiring them instead so that’s really reframed that in my mind.”

– Pilot Student

“Packed with insights and practical tools/tips to apply to every day, whilst not being an information overload.”

– Pilot Student

“Excellent program. This is the content all leader in the workplace should be signing up to!”

– Pilot Student

“A hugely thoughtful programme, and it’s grounded in practical tips which means it feels like I can go away and action it immediately.”

– Pilot Student

Intentionally anonymous.

Fully anonymous survey software was used during the pilot — no names, email addresses, or IP addresses were collected. This was an ethical imperative: research shows that anonymity reduces social desirability bias in responses, producing more accurate, honest data.

The science behind the programme.

Natalie Brown spent a decade as a researcher in work psychology and leadership science at Durham University — a world-leading research institution. Her research with 48 organisations and their 85,000 managers has been published in national reports, academic book chapters, and reports commissioned by organisations at national and international levels.

The Dunholm Leadership programme is the direct translation of that decade of experience into 20 modules each manager can complete in 20 minutes each. Every insight, tool and framework is grounded, peer-reviewed, and verified. Nothing is opinion dressed up as wisdom.

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Insights from world-leading, peer-reviewed leadership science and work psychology

85,000+ leaders and their teams studied

Evaluated programme — pre and post data

Verified by eminent Leadership Professors

Accreditation (June 2026)