Creating measurable impact

Real-world impact across leadership, culture, and organisational performance

Strong leaders and business results

We're proud of the measurable impact we create for leaders, teams and organisations. From stronger leadership behaviours to tangible business results, success all starts with people.

Relationships built on impact

Over the last 25 years, we've developed thousands of leaders for organisations globally. More than 95% of our clients work with us repeatedly and many partner with us for multiple years and their organisations evolve and transform.

Measuring success

We enable our clients to build and sustain thriving high performance, be that through their leaders capability, their team's behaviours or their cultural values.

The outcomes our clients experience

Stronger leadership behaviours
- 86%+
  
  increased their confidence as a people leader
- 100%
  
  participants are likely to recommend the programme
Source: WDI people leader programme
Higher team performance
- 92%
  
  improved trust between team members
- 100%
  
  improved ability to handle conflict
Source: WDI leadership team engagement
Thriving authentic cultures
- 79%+
  
  report very high encouragement to live new behaviours
- 63%
  
  experience good role modelling by leaders
Source: WDI culture change consulting
Leadership pipeline readiness
- 143%
  
  increase in participants on succession plans
- 100%
  
  increase in promotion rates versus the control group
Source: WDI leadership development programmes

All results measured use pre- and post-engagement evaluation, with follow-up measurement where possible.

Why our impact lasts

Our results are achieved through individual leaders having braver conversations, teams working through challenges productively, and organisations building cultures where people can do their best work.

Our approach is to see the whole person, within the whole system. This leads to sustained behaviour change that people feel, see and experience every day.

Our approach About WDI

Real stories. Real impact.

“The approach WDI took helped me and my leadership team have the confidence to reflect and make significant changes in how we lead at the most important time ever in our history. The changes have rippled throughout the organisation, setting us up to create and embrace the opportunities opening up to us.”
Beth Carruthers CEO, MAXIMUS People Services
"Nearly one year on from the programme, the team is noticeably more resilient, with a strong collaborative culture, leading to decreased sickness and absence levels and improved performance and patient care."
Richard Meadows HR Business Partner - Surgery, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
“WDI's Inclusive Leadership workshops enabled us to have challenging and vitally important conversations about how we lead inclusively and ensure our desire for a diverse and equitable future is embedded in our values and structures now.”
Jason Fowler Chair of the British Aviation Group
“I really trust WDI to help my team engage with and make progress in some areas that may not come easily to them. Our global transformation programme has been accelerated, and the positive shift in team dynamics has helped us achieve our business results.”
Mark Wylie Global Head of Client Policy Servicing, Global Customer Operations, AIG