A trusted circle for business leaders at every stage of growth
Running a business is demanding. Finding time to step back, think clearly and share openly with peers can feel almost impossible. LEADER Club creates that space through focused, in-person sessions with business leaders facing challenges similar to your own.
Rather than grouping businesses by size, we bring together leaders at similar stages of growth, because the conversations that help a founder building momentum are very different from those needed by a leader managing a growing organisation.
Two pathways. One purpose: helping you become a stronger leader and build a stronger business.
LEADER Club | Build
For founder-led businesses building momentum and creating the foundations for sustainable growth.
If you’re still central to most decisions, growing a team, strengthening systems and working to step out of the day-to-day, this is your peer group.
Meet every six weeks
Practical discussion and peer challenge
Focus on growth, leadership and building capability
LEADER Club | Scale
For established businesses leading through greater complexity.
If you’re leading managers, aligning teams, driving strategy and preparing the business for its next chapter, this is your peer group.
Meet monthly
Strategic discussion with experienced business leaders
Focus on leadership, execution, governance and sustainable growth
Whichever group you join, you’ll become part of a trusted community where conversations are confidential, practical and focused on helping you become a stronger leader while building a stronger business.
What actually happens?
Each month, your 2-hour session follows a proven rhythm:
Check-in & Wins (15 mins) Quick updates from every member to celebrate progress and surface priorities.
Hot Seat / Peer Challenge (50 mins) One member brings a live challenge. The group asks the right questions, shares insights, and helps unlock fresh solutions. Each member has a turn across the year.
Expert Insight / Mini-Clinic (35 mins) A focused input from a specialist, followed by Q&A to make it directly useful for your business.
Commitments & Wrap (20 mins) Every member sets clear, practical actions before the next session. Optional buddy check-ins keep accountability alive between meetings.
No presentations
No selling
No spectators
What you'll gain
Peer feedback that works honest, practical advice from people who’ve faced similar challenges.
Access to curated expertise targeted mini-clinics give you actionable tools, not theory.
Built-in accountability regular commitments ensure you stay on track and make progress.
A trusted network a safe, confidential space where leaders can talk openly.
Our Leaders typically tell us they...
make decisions faster
feel less isolated
become better leaders
have more confidence
hold themselves accountable
gain fresh perspectives
spend more time working on the business
Your Leadership Journey
Two pathways. One purpose: helping you become a stronger leader and build a stronger business.
The leadership challenges of a £750k business growing rapidly are fundamentally different from those of a £12m business with 70 employees, even if both are ambitious.
That’s why LEADER Club is built around where your business is in its journey, not simply how large it is.
Whether you’re building the foundations for sustainable growth or leading an increasingly complex organisation, you’ll be surrounded by peers facing similar decisions, similar pressures and similar opportunities.
Both memberships offer the same investment and the same commitment to your development. The difference is simply the stage of business they are designed to support.
Build
Scale
Best suited to founder-led businesses building momentum
Best suited to established businesses leading through greater complexity
Meet every six weeks
Meet monthly
2-hour professionally facilitated sessions
2-hour professionally facilitated sessions
Confidential, carefully curated peer group
Confidential, carefully curated peer group
Practical leadership tools and resources
Practical leadership tools and resources
Ongoing member community
Ongoing member community
Not sure which pathway is right for you?
Every prospective member has a discovery conversation where we’ll explore your business, your leadership challenges and recommend the LEADER Club that’s the best fit for you. As your business evolves, you can move between pathways.
Which one is for you?
LEADER Club | Build
You’re probably here if…
You still make most of the important decisions.
Winning work isn’t your biggest challenge anymore.
You know you need stronger systems.
You’re beginning to build your first real leadership team.
The business still relies heavily on you.
BUILD: Creating a business that can grow.
LEADER Club | Scale
You’re probably here if…
You have managers managing managers.
Alignment is harder than ambition.
Strategy is less important than execution.
Your role is increasingly about leading leaders.
Sustainable growth depends on everyone, not just you.
SCALE: Creating a business that can thrive without depending on one person.
Invest in Better Leadership
LEADER Club | Build
£225 + VAT per month
Meet every six weeks
Ideal for founder-led businesses building momentum.
LEADER Club | Scale
£225 + VAT per month
Meet monthly
Ideal for established businesses leading through greater complexity.
Annual Commitment
Invest annually and receive the equivalent of one month’s membership at half price (a 10% saving).
Because meaningful leadership development isn’t built in a single meeting, it’s built through consistent reflection, challenge and action over time.
Why it Matters...
Every LEADER Club session is designed to help you build three things:
Clarity to make better decisions.
Confidence to lead with conviction.
Connection through trusted relationships with leaders who understand your journey.
Not sure which group is right for you?
Every prospective member has a discovery conversation where we’ll explore your business, your leadership challenges and recommend the LEADER Club that’s the best fit for you. As your business evolves, you can move between pathways.
Leadership doesn’t have to be lonely.
Join a community of ambitious business leaders committed to building better businesses – and become better leaders.
Don’t just take our word for it, here’s what our clients say about us!
Anshul Kapoor
Image Foundry
Taking part in Lancaster University’s LEAD2, with Jacqui as one of the leads, was a genuine pivot point. She’s skilled at drawing out ideas, challenging fuzzy thinking and turning reflection into action. Investing in your...
Taking part in Lancaster University’s LEAD2, with Jacqui as one of the leads, was a genuine pivot point. She’s skilled at drawing out ideas, challenging fuzzy thinking and turning reflection into action. Investing in your leadership is not a luxury, it is leverage: one sharper decision or new habit can return the full fee several times over. I’d recommend any programme she directs to independent business leaders who need clarity, accountability and practical momentum.
Michael Gibson
CEO Fuuse
From working with Jacqui on Lancaster University's LEAD Program: So much. Loads of things come back like - open innovation; swimming in a blue sea; what motivates team members; active learning sets; and much more....
From working with Jacqui on Lancaster University’s LEAD Program:
So much. Loads of things come back like – open innovation; swimming in a blue sea; what motivates team members; active learning sets; and much more. Wish I could do it all over again.
One of the simplest was essentially around product market fit and then how to focus the business on the core offer and deliver return. In the year following we trebled base line profit and exited the business.
Jacqui is hugely empathetic and a great listener. This allowed her to bring common solutions but focus them in a way that gave you the confidence to deliver on them.
It really focused the mind. Apart from a huge amount of learning and shared experiences, it allowed me to drive the outcome that we collectively wanted and sell the company. It made me better as a company leader and a person.
Do it. You won’t regret it. Time is a valuable commodity, which is what may stop you from joining but this will payback many times over and give you a framework to become an even better leader. And make a few friends too.
Chris Cox
Managing Director : George Cox & Sons Ltd
From attending programs led or facilitated by Jacqui. Learning through shared experiences ; Meeting and talking to others owners, managers from a wide spectrum of businesses yet all with very similar issues Developing the technique...
From attending programs led or facilitated by Jacqui.
Learning through shared experiences ; Meeting and talking to others owners, managers from a wide spectrum of businesses yet all with very similar issues Developing the technique of open questions
There was significant change in the culture of the organisation including better communications and addressing softer issues with the staff. We set up our own charitable foundation which employees ran and selected community projects to support. We started running staff conferences , workforce presentations and regular newsletter along with staff appraisals.
Jacqui brought practical ” down to earth ” experience , which contrasted with the overwhelming academic presenters at the time. Also your experience was at the helm of a business not just working for someone else as senior manager. It was your money and your family’s reputation that was always at risk. That brings perspective that no classroom can provide it also brought a trust that you knew our issues and understood them.
The biggest effect was to provide confidence in my ability as a leader, to introduce change. How to overcome challenges , many of them being self doubt and develop techniques at overcoming negativity . I have been Managing Director of the organisation for 33 years during which time we have experienced a 15 fold increase in turnover. There have been plenty of challengers , recessions and the odd pandemic to cope with. You have to believe in yourself and your team, but often you need the reassurance of sharing your experience with others who have been through it to maintain the energy, enthusiasm and drive to carry others with you.
The ability to learn and share with like minded people who experience the same challenges of leading an team or organisation brings.
Gillian Hall
Guardian of Great Cheese | 3rd Generation | Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses
We have worked with Jacqui Jackson for over 10 years through Lancaster University and directly as a Non Executive Director for our 4th generation family cheese making business. Jacqui is a skilled facilitator and has...
Guardian of Great Cheese | 3rd Generation | Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses
We have worked with Jacqui Jackson for over 10 years through Lancaster University and directly as a Non Executive Director for our 4th generation family cheese making business.
Jacqui is a skilled facilitator and has helped us unblock our thinking on many occasions to move forward in a constructive strategic way.
Jacqui continues to support us both as a personal coach and at Board level and the BALANCE iT course will make these skills available to a wider group.
Ivan Durkin
Co-founder and MD of STL Technology Solutions and Co-founder of Tyme Online
Taking the LEAD programme organised by Jacqui Jackson was a positive and helpful experience. What set this course apart was not just the content, but the way it was delivered. I recall Jacqui had experience...
Co-founder and MD of STL Technology Solutions and Co-founder of Tyme Online
Taking the LEAD programme organised by Jacqui Jackson was a positive and helpful experience. What set this course apart was not just the content, but the way it was delivered. I recall Jacqui had experience of being involved in an Independent Family Business. This provided a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by founder led or family businesses.
I found Jacqui’s approach relatable and her ability to connect theory with lived experience gave many attendees renewed confidence in their own business leadership. There were differing skill sets and personalities, however Jacqui seemed to motivate the majority and mentor individuals when required.
I am confident when I say that many of the individuals and businesses involved in the LEAD programme led by Jacqui will have benefited from the course and I am sure they continue to use knowledge they learned from other attendees as well as Jacqui in their businesses today.
Amanda Wilson
Pie Mill
I found that as a group you really helped us to trust and feel like we were in a safe space to talk about our business, the bit that surprised me the most was how...
I found that as a group you really helped us to trust and feel like we were in a safe space to talk about our business, the bit that surprised me the most was how much I actually got from working with the lego!
I feel like I left the course with the tools to move forward with my ideas.
Tia Marcos
The Langdale Hotel & Spa
I found the mentoring sessions very valuable; they created space to reflect, challenge my thinking, and build greater self-awareness. The practical tools and insightful conversations helped me explore new ways of influencing and navigating complex...
I found the mentoring sessions very valuable; they created space to reflect, challenge my thinking, and build greater self-awareness.
The practical tools and insightful conversations helped me explore new ways of influencing and navigating complex situations, which I’ve already been able to apply in my work
Rachel Suddart
Managing Director, Words by Rachel
What a brilliant, inspiring and very useful afternoon. It was an absolute pleasure to work with you and it has left my mind awash with ideas and possibilities.
What a brilliant, inspiring and very useful afternoon. It was an absolute pleasure to work with you and it has left my mind awash with ideas and possibilities.
Adrian Cresswell
Managing Director, AM Support Services Ltd
Hearing the news from Jacqui that she was embarking on resurrecting her family businesses name and her vison of the new venture was great news, not only for Jacqui but also the local business community...
Hearing the news from Jacqui that she was embarking on resurrecting her family businesses name and her vison of the new venture was great news, not only for Jacqui but also the local business community as I feel Jacqui has so much to offer them. My experience working with Jacqui over the last 18 months facilitating our group has certainly helped my business, her in-depth business knowledge is just first class and she always delivers advise that is clear and concise.
When I look for key roles within my own business I look for people whom are entrepreneurial, focused and have a can do, roll your sleeves up and get stuck in attitude, if a crisis ensues I can honestly say that Jacqui is someone whom you would want on your team.
I wish Jacqui, her family and Bruce and Luke’s Coffee all the success in the world and I am confident with Jacqui’s visionary skills, success is only around the corner.
Sandra Cottam-Shea
Managing Director, SCS Logistics Ltd
Jacqui has a range of highly developed academic capabilities and business skills, these make her versatile, knowledgeable and a go to person for advice. Working under Jacqui’s tutelage at Lancaster University gave me the opportunity...
Jacqui has a range of highly developed academic capabilities and business skills, these make her versatile, knowledgeable and a go to person for advice. Working under Jacqui’s tutelage at Lancaster University gave me the opportunity to see what really counts in business and that is people skills.
Jacqui guided, coaxed and encouraged a diverse group of people running very diverse businesses and we all came away with the same understanding and confidence. We all felt very different to each other when we embarked on our LEAD course but by the end we acknowledged that we all had the same fears and challenges and that skills definitely are transferrable.
Apart from all that she is also a wonderful human being so you can’t go far wrong
Andy Hooper
Managing Director, Westlakes Engineering Ltd
As part of a group of business owners that meet regularly to review our businesses, Jacqui is a real asset to our group and is hugely respected for the insights and challenges that she offers...
As part of a group of business owners that meet regularly to review our businesses, Jacqui is a real asset to our group and is hugely respected for the insights and challenges that she offers to each of us. Jacqui is very calm, and considered in her views, always constructive and non-judgemental, she draws on her knowledge and experience to add value to each of our businesses, and to guide and encourage us in developing our businesses further. You know this comes not from a textbook, but from having been there, done it and got the t-shirt. If the opportunity arises for Jacqui to provide you with some support take it, you won’t regret it.
Jerry Marwood
Managing Director, AF Blakemore & Son Ltd
I’ve worked with Jacqui on three different occasions as both a colleague and as a consultant to our business, what was common to the experience was the level of understanding that she has of the...
I’ve worked with Jacqui on three different occasions as both a colleague and as a consultant to our business, what was common to the experience was the level of understanding that she has of the way that business works from both the stakeholders’ perspective and in indeed the ultimate customer. The ability to look at a business from a 360-degree perspective and clearly see how to create shareholder value at the same time as delighting our customers is quite rare – Jacqui has it. The added benefit is that she is passionate about what she does and sensitive to the team around her which makes her a great team player and a pleasure to have around.
Gill Hall
Managing Director, Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses Ltd
I'm very exited about Jacqui's new venture for start up or aspiring businesses to come together in a supportive environment. Personally I have found being part of a peer group with like minded companies invaluable...
I’m very exited about Jacqui’s new venture for start up or aspiring businesses to come together in a supportive environment.
Personally I have found being part of a peer group with like minded companies invaluable in developing my family food manufacturing business. Jacqui has facilitated my group and brought a level of discipline and knowledge that has helped propel me and my business forward. I find her quiet yet steely style uplifting and I am constantly inspired by her depth of knowledge across a wide range of food retailing and family business issues, based on her personal experience.
The business mentoring, I have received from Jacqui has helped me navigate some challenging family business issues for which I am very grateful.
Good Luck in your new venture, access to support is exactly what start ups and small businesses need.
Clarity, Confidence, and Accountability, in just 2 hours!
