Teams that keep going without us.
Training, coaching and mentoring built around live work, not classroom theory. Cohort workshops, one-to-one coaching and materials shaped to your context, so the skills and the shared language stay when we step back.
Most training wears off.
The team goes back to the work, the new vocabulary fades, the slides sit in a folder. We work the other way around: coaching on live decisions, embedded alongside the team, with enough time for new habits to settle in. The aim is skills, shared language and the confidence to apply both, across policy, digital, design and delivery teams, and across the divide between them.
AI capability gets the same treatment, because it rarely lives in one place. It needs leaders who can spot which AI bets are credible, operational teams who can shape policy and procurement, and delivery teams who can build, test and evaluate responsibly. We work across all three, from the boardroom to the eval set. And because capability building runs through every Lab we do, the measure of success is the same everywhere: a team that keeps going without us.
The programmes.
Connecting with Policymakers
Close the gap between policy and delivery. For digital, data, design and delivery professionals who need policy colleagues to understand, trust and act on their work. You leave able to read how policy actually gets made, translate delivery realities into language ministers respond to, and influence before the policy is fixed. Built on our Policymaker Archetypes framework, with live practice against synthetic policy leads.
Explore the courseStrategy Fundamentals
From vision to execution. For product and delivery managers, service owners and policy leads responsible for where a service is heading. You leave able to articulate vision and outcomes, design success indicators, and build an outcome-led roadmap you can defend to any stakeholder.
Innovation Fundamentals
Turn hunches into evidence. For teams facing problems too complex to design in full before starting. You leave able to frame problems, surface risky assumptions, run small safe tests and build the evidence to scale or stop. Makes HM Treasury’s Magenta Book test-and-learn approach operational in day-to-day work.
AI Fundamentals
Confident, responsible AI for the work you actually do. For anyone whose organisation has just put enterprise AI tools in their hands. You leave able to spot where AI genuinely helps, work within your governance frameworks, and judge AI output critically rather than trust it blindly. Applied to your real tasks, not generic prompting.
Leading AI
For managers and senior leaders: the decisions only you can make. Where to back AI, where to hold back, and how to commission and govern it responsibly. The counterpart to AI Fundamentals, for the people accountable for the risk and the spend rather than the build.
Leadership coaching
One-to-one coaching and mentoring for senior leaders, built around the live decisions in front of them. Currently delivered to senior academics and public sector leaders, over engagements long enough for new habits to hold.
Taught where the work is hardest.
We have built capability with government departments, leading digital consultancies, universities and banks: product professions learning to work with policy, senior academics moving research towards delivery, and teams across the public and private sector adopting new ways of working. The setting varies; the test is always the same. The capability stays when we step back.
