The Influence Lab

Build your influence beyond formal authority

Create your personal Influence Blueprint: a practical understanding of how you currently create influence, and the capabilities you need to build to shape decisions and create traction.

Through coaching, peer learning and real-world experimentation, develop your own way of becoming more visible, authoritative and influential, without trying to imitate somebody else's leadership style.

Does this sound familiar?

You have reached a point in your career when the old formula for success no longer works. Your next stage of growth requires capabilities nobody can simply hand you.

• Have greater impact on the decisions that matter
• Gain traction for your ideas
• Influence decisions you do not directly own
• Be invited into more important conversations
• Show up with greater authority
• Become more visible without performing self-promotion
• Navigate organisational politics without becoming someone you are not

The work behind greater influence

The next stage of your career requires more than a new title or another leadership framework. It requires new ways of thinking, positioning yourself and acting in situations where you do not yet feel fully comfortable.

Influence develops through repeated practice. You notice your patterns, experiment with new moves, reflect on what happens and gradually build a way of operating that becomes your own.

• Build a more deliberate and expansive version of your own leadership style
• Develop influence through coaching, peer learning, and real-world experimentation

Why Influence Lab?

Building influence requires more than insight. You need a structured way to understand your current patterns, practise at the edge of your comfort zone and learn from what happens when you try something different.

• A structured developmental journey that makes your development visible, practical and measurable
• Peer practice and perspective outside your habitual environment
• Expert guidance that helps you develop your own way of doing influence

How does it work?

Your Influence Blueprint is built over the course of the programme. Each stage helps you understand where you are now, define what you want to build and turn reflection into practice.

• Understand your starting point: identify your current influence style, patterns, assumptions, strengths, resources, and what holds you back
• Define your influence trajectory across career, capability, and identity
• Practise and integrate through reflection, group practice, experiments, peer feedback, review, and adjustment

What will I actually have at the end of eight weeks that I do not have now?

You will develop a clearer understanding of how you create influence and a practical foundation for doing it differently.

• Your personal Influence Blueprint
• A clear influence trajectory
• A growing repertoire of new practices
• Evidence of progress

Frequently asked questions

What is The Influence Lab?

The Influence Lab is an 8-week developmental group for experienced managers who want to build greater influence beyond formal authority without losing themselves in politics.

Who is the group for?

The group is for experienced managers who want to have greater impact on important decisions, gain traction for their ideas, become more visible without performing self-promotion, and expand their influence beyond their immediate role.

What will participants build?

Participants build a personal Influence Blueprint, a clear influence trajectory, a growing repertoire of practices, and evidence of progress through real-world experiments, peer feedback, and reflection.