The Leadership Playbook

  • Leadership is about providing direction and influencing people. But the practices and behaviours involved are often implicit, personal, and hard to see — making it difficult to align efforts, build capability, or improve together.


    The Playbook offers a disciplined yet flexible way for teams to make leadership practice explicit, learnable, and aligned. It supports learning through doing — helping teams develop a shared approach to leadership that’s grounded in their real context and informed by evidence. It starts with identifying what’s already working in your organisation.

  • The Leadership Playbook is a collaborative tool and process that helps teams surface, shape, and trial shared leadership practices anchored in the evidence base.
    It includes:

    • A simple three-step process: Make it Visible → Calibrate → Act & Review.

    • Practical protocols for making leadership visible.

    • A customisable Leadership Playbook template to capture and co-design shared leadership practice.

    • Protocols for feedback and team reflection.

    • Optional poster versions for visibility and iteration.

    • A facilitated version with implementation guidance, coaching tips, and links to research.

  • The Playbook uses a three-step process:

    1. Make it Visible
      Share how leadership currently happens in a chosen focus area.

    2. Calibrate
      Use the Playbook template to co-develop a shared version of practice — including what it is, when to use it, how it connects to the evidence, and how to enact it.

    3. Act & Review
      Trial the shared approach, then reflect together: what worked, what didn’t, and what to adapt.

  • Designed for leadership teams in schools, organisations, or networks who want to:

    • Align leadership practice and behaviours.

    • Build shared approaches and strengthen collective leadership capability.

    • Learn from one another in real-time.

    • Support evidence getting into practice.

    • A clearer, shared understanding of “what good looks like”.

    • Stronger alignment and coherence in leadership practice.

    • Documented, revisable leadership practices that grow over time.

    • More confident, capable, and connected leadership teams.

    • Leadership approaches grounded in evidence and real-world application.