Impact Leaders Who Coach: For Social Enterprise and Charity Founders and CEOs

This programme from Social Investment Scotland is designed especially for established social enterprise and charity leaders and as spaces are limited, it requires an application form to be completed. A link to the form appears below.
Sick of constantly solving everyone’s problems?

Frustrated you’re not getting the most from your people?

Struggling with difficult Board dynamics?

Want to take your team’s performance to the next level but not quite sure how?

Looking at succession planning?

Impact Leaders Who Coach is a new programme from Social Investment Scotland designed especially for established social enterprise and charity leaders looking to face down challenges and elevate their leadership abilities.

The programme will give you the space to develop coaching skills, highly relevant for developing your people and getting the most from the teams that you lead.

At the same time, Impact Leaders Who Coach will support you to deepen your learning around topics relating to leading a social sector organisation.

The programme will involve a group of your peers, so you will learn and practice your coaching skills alongside other leaders facing similar challenges, and come away with new connections to support your leadership going forward.

What you will learn:

You will come away from every session with a set of new resources and exercises you can immediately put into practice.

You will:

Learn coaching skills (listening, questioning, reflection) and how to apply coaching in your day-to-day leadership

Explore topics relating to charity/social enterprise leadership that are highly relevant to your work

Benefit from new peer relationships and connections that last beyond the end of the programme.

The Programme:

The programme runs from October 2024 to March 2025.

It comprises two in-person events and four online sessions aimed at helping to develop your coaching skills and reflect on key aspects of your leadership. We encourage you to invest in this time for you and benefit by attending all of the sessions.

The dates are:

Monday, 7 October 2024 - In-person event at The Barracks, Stirling

Monday, 4 November 2024 - Online session

Monday, 2 December 2024 - Online session

Monday, 20 January 2025 - Online session

Monday, 24 February 2025 - Online session

Monday, 24 March 2025 - In-person event at The Barracks, Stirling.

Programme Facilitator

Jane Bruce, SIS Associate

Jane is a SIS Associate and the Founder of Brilliant Leaders. She is a former charity/social enterprise CEO, accredited Executive Coach, and experienced facilitator.

Before setting up Brilliant Leaders, Jane was the Chief Executive of Social Bite in Scotland. In this role, Jane led a team of 100+ staff and 90 volunteers to run a chain of social enterprise cafes, mass fundraising events and innovative housing programmes. Jane was also Chief Executive of Venture Scotland, which provides a wilderness-based development programme to young people facing tough challenges.

Alongside Brilliant Leaders, Jane is a qualified football coach having previously played football in the Scottish Women’s Premier League.

I got much more than I had anticipated from this programme. We covered coaching, leadership and so much more - really thought-provoking and tools I can and am already using day-to-day - all of which helped me improve my performance and have a greater impact. Thank you so much to Jane for sharing her skills, expertise and knowledge in a positive way, and to SIS for the opportunity to participate. Very much appreciated and valued being part of this excellent programme.”

Lesley Craig

CEO of Break the Silence and former programme participant