ABOUT THE JOB

We're seeking an experienced, purpose-fuelled programme director to lead our ground-breaking approach to developing leaders and helping them solve their greatest challenges. You thrive in building high-trust, long-term strategic relationships with clients where you and your team have a reputation for integrity, accountability, creativity and drive.

With world-class content and a global roster of clients, you'll lead, shape, and deliver transformative projects, inspiring and motivating our award-winning, multi-disciplinary team. You thrive in solving complex business and people problems, are comfortable collaborating with senior stakeholders and enjoy owning the outcomes and leading the team. Join us to make a huge impact and help us build mindsets for the future!

Who we are

We are a UK research-based leadership consultancy, operating globally. Our work, growth, and culture are shaped by our collective purpose, ‘to be a driving force of human evolution’. Our mission is to help leaders, teams, and organisations find better ways of understanding how they make sense of and solve their greatest challenges. We do this by harnessing the new science of self-awareness to build and strengthen mindsets for the future. We aim to extend what we learn with clients and in the future share it more widely to help anyone thrive in a more uncertain world. This will be the legacy of Outside.

Our founder, Jean Gomes, led the pioneering boutique leadership consultancy, DPA for over 30 years and founded and led the global arm of The Energy Project, fundamentally changing how organisations such as Google, Facebook and Sony understood wellbeing. Today, he leads our thought leadership, research, and product development.

Our culture, at Outside, is centred around an 'Always Day One' mindset - where we are striving to learn, grow and adapt constantly. We also work hard on our inclusive mindset- ensuring everyone feels valued and safe to contribute, challenge and grow our work and how we do it. Whether we are problem-solving with clients, collaborating as a team or supporting one another, we have three core values that underpin how we show up. 1) Being comfortable stepping into uncomfortable places - challenging the status quo. 2) Uplifting others - we're in this together! 3) Balancing creativity & pragmatism - ideas grounded in real-world effectiveness.

About the work

We create custom-built programmes to help leaders solve their biggest challenges, drawing on our research and the tools we’ve created to build mindsets. We are known for quickly getting to root causes and developing solutions that rapidly create business impact. Our focus is on transformation, team, innovation, inclusion, and wellbeing.

Examples of recent work:

• A multi-award-winning global leadership programme that allows top talent to build five mindsets that will enable their company to adapt and thrive in an automated and rapidly changing market.
• A cutting-edge mindset programme to help a client become the world's most inclusive and caring company.
• Coaching the leadership team of one of the world’s most successful automotive brands to face the challenges of market transformation and new needs and realities of their workforce.
• Building and scaling an innovation growth engine from scratch, working with 70 teams globally, delivering the fastest new product growth in the company’s history.
• Delivering a next-generation wellbeing programme based on a decade’s research to help avoid burnout in one of the world’s fastest-growing companies.

About the role

Working with the CEO and head of research and development, the role of the programme director is to own a portfolio of client programmes and inspire and motivate team members to grow and do their best work.

Key outcomes:

• Inspire our clients and team to design and deliver programmes that help leaders face and solve their greatest challenges of transformation, growth, innovation, and wellbeing—showing a continuous desire to work on the hard parts of the hard problems alongside our clients.
• Embraces and embodies our purpose, mission, culture and values.
• Learns and applies our growing body of world-class ideas and tools on mindset to this work. Demonstrates openness, curiosity, and determination to grow.
• Work with our research team to pioneer new leadership and organisational performance approaches.

The Specifics

Essential experience:

• 7+ years’ experience in a leadership consultancy role, with £500K+ revenue and client delivery responsibility.
• Manage budget and resource allocation.
• Managing and motivating a consultancy team.
• Track record of maintaining long-term client relationships at senior management level.
• Designing and delivering industry-leading leadership development and change programmes.

To be successful, you’ll have/be:

• The analytical ability to understand complex commercial, political, and inter-personal issues and present clear conclusions and implications to organisational performance
• An excellent written and verbal communicator
• An accomplished platform speaker and facilitator, creating presence, authority, and demonstrating competence
• Able to design programmes, including experiential learning, capable of delivering clear developmental and business impact
• Lead and manage programmes
• Motivate and manage teams
• Account direct
• Coach
• Manage associate relationships
• Brief suppliers

What we offer

Salary: competitive + bonus

A purpose-driven role, working with an amazing team and clients with class-leading products. The opportunity to create a lasting impact at scale.

A highly flexible and autonomous work environment – we only come together in person to build and develop relationships and to share and create – we operate a minimal viable bureaucracy because we are a team of highly accountable individuals.

Pension plan

Private medical Insurance

Before you contact us, we suggest you take a moment to look at our work so we can have a great conversation:

Our website

Our LinkedIn page

Check out our podcast, The Evolving Leader

And our recent book, Leading in a Non-Linear World