Steve Hargreaves is a qualified Executive Coach and Mentor with extensive operational experience as a Director, having over the last 20 years worked a range of sectors, leading and transforming large scale, commercial, regulated care, and charitable services across the UK.

He has been described as a pioneer in the 'freedom to speak up' movement, undertaking the role of Freedom to Speak Up Guardian for a national organisation, working to build psychologically safe team cultures, where employee well-being, and improving emotional culture has been a major focus.

An experienced coach, facilitator, trainer and speaker, Steve founded the Compassionate Leadership Company in 2020 and delivers a range of bold and innovative workshops and bespoke programmes along with coaching and leadership consultancy to a wide range of organisations, supporting leaders and their teams to inspire, build and sustain a more compassionate workplace where everyone can stay well, thrive and achieve.

By the end of the session, participants will understand:

• What compassionate leadership is and what it is characterised by
• The benefits of compassionate leadership for individuals, teams, and organisations
• How to develop and sustain a more relational, compassionate style of leadership
• The importance of emotional culture for performance, inclusion and well-being

Other outcomes:

• Participants will have to the opportunity to have undertake self-reflection and outline 3 key personal ‘next step’ actions

Emotional Culture Deck - mini workshop:

• Part of the session will involve a mini workshop where participants will have the opportunity to use the awesome new tool through practical and interactive small group sessions, to experience its benefits in creating more human-to-human conversation to build empathy, trust, respect, and connectivity - particularly useful for remote and hybrid teams.

Following the session, participants will receive an email follow up including a 360° self-diagnostic tool to support further reflection & learning.