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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.
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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
Company values
- Human - We're all individuals, we have good days, bad days, and we support each other :)
- Bias to action - We give it a go and seize opportunities
- Embrace a coaching culture - We practice what we preach and empower each other
- We want to create an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work.
- We believe having a diverse team is the right thing to do and support diversity in all forms, including socio-economic background, gender, race, disability, age, religion, sexual orientation and life experience
- We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds
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.
People progressing
Luxsiya left her job at the Girls' Network in February 2020 to join Circl as Programme Officer, and progressed to Tech & Wellbeing Lead within 2 years.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Circl
- Diversity is at the heart of what we do. Needless to say, we're an extremely diverse bunch ourselves!
- We have run a team insight event recently where we had a blind football international share his experience with us.
- Last year over 80% of our Future leaders were from ethnic minority backgrounds.
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We run an amazing programme that helps under-represented young people to earn a management level qualification, boost confdence and achieve their goals. It's even more meaningful for me because of the potential scale - the fact that it provides real business benefit to businesses means we can grow quickly.
Sales & Account Management
Meaningful work
Nov 2021
Everyone is super nice, supportive and open and the CEO has infectious energy. We're really passionate about what we do, have a genuinely open culture where everyone is valued and everyone is supportive
Sales & Account Management
Team energy
Nov 2021
This is inherent to what we do and our mission! We want to make the next gen of leaders more diverse. Internally we have open spaces to talk where we talk about social issues. We're a small diverse team from varied backgrounds.
Sales & Account Management
People of all backgrounds are welcomed
Nov 2021
