Circl
Leadership development programme
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Training
- Community
- Paddington, London, UK
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Company mission
Circl's mission is to build a world where anyone, regardless of their background, can learn to lead.
Our take
When Adrian and Charlie met in 2018, combining their experience working with young adults and working with large tech companies respectively, the idea for Circl was born. It aims to create a new type of leadership: leaders who look, act, and are different.
Circl's Leadership Development Programme takes professionals from some of the most dynamic businesses and trains them in coaching skills, alongside young adults coming from underrepresented backgrounds.
This means that employees undergoing the course learn to coach with diverse young talent and real-life experience, thus providing opportunities for young future leaders as well as developing themselves. For companies, Circl's coaching helps build workforces that lead themselves, giving employees the skills they need to be more effective leaders.
Circl simultaneously builds coaching skills in current and future leaders, combining effective training with real social impact. This successful model has led Circl to help large companies such as Google, Meta, Innocent and Uber build their leaders' skills.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Laptop
- Pirkx: including 24/7 counselling and mental health support, 24/7 telephone and online GP and prescription service, & hundreds of perks, discounts and freebies
Leadership
Charlie Stainforth
(CEO)After studying at Edinburgh, Charlie worked at Elevate Education and Future Frontiers. In 2018 he co-founded Circl.
Adrian Blair
(Chair)Director of European Business Development at Spotify before becoming Global CEO of Just Eat. Currently a Non-Executive Director at Purplebricks and CEO of Dext alongside his role at Circl.