Strategic Leadership Development

Empower Your Leaders with Shared Skills and Language

If your leaders haven’t received structured competence development, they can’t deliver the impact that’s expected of them — and the whole organization feels it. At CfL, we help you unite and strengthen your leaders, whether they’re new to the role, have a few years of experience, or need a skills boost. The result isn’t just stronger leaders, but also a shared language, a solid toolkit, and better collaboration across the organization.

We tailor programs for organizations that want to work strategically with leadership development – with a focus on both performance and well-being. Because when leaders succeed, they take the whole organization with them.

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Why Strategic Leadership Development Is Essential

  • Leaders drive results. As an organization, you rarely achieve your goals without capable leadership. Leadership is one of the most decisive factors in strategic progress and day-to-day performance.

  • Great leadership doesn’t happen by chance. It takes training, tools, and reflection. Appointing someone as a leader means also giving them the support they need to succeed. Without real development, they - and their teams - will struggle.

  • Leadership nurtures wellbeing and engagement. Strong leaders foster commitment and help retain talent.

  • Leaders must translate company values into action. When leaders speak the same language and uses the same tools, it strengthens collaboration and provides clear direction across the organization.

How We Design Programs That Reflect Your Values

With CfL, you don’t get a “one-size-fits-all” solution, but a partnership where we combine our experience and expertise with your organizational reality, values, and strategic ambitions.

Our process begins by understanding your leadership context and the challenges you face. Content and methods are then carefully adapted to match what you want to reinforce or transform.

Often, we assemble groups that include both new and more experienced leaders - ensuring relevance and value for all. Our experience spans every leadership level, and we know what works.

Our programmes are agile, and we engage in dialogue and make adjustments along the way to ensure relevance and alignment with your strategic agenda and values. Additionally, we work with practical methods that can be applied immediately.

Strategic Leadership Development Is Right for You If:

Your leaders need a skill upgrade or have never received formal training.

You want to create shared direction and language – and strengthen collaboration.

Your organization is navigating strategic change that demands new leadership capabilities.

 

Our 4-Step Approach to Leadership Success

Each programme is adapted to your unique context and varies in length, focus and number of participants. What remains constant is our proven process - designed to create real, lasting impact.

1. Assessment

We conduct a thorough assessment of your organization, leaders, and strategic goals to identify key development needs.

2. Programme Design

Based on the assessment, we design a programme with themes, methods, and training to strengthen the required skills.

 

3. Hands-on Training

Leaders engage in hands-on exercises and case work, ensuring they can immediately apply what they learn.

4. Follow-Up and Feedback

After the programme, we measure impact, gather structured feedback from participants, and offer ongoing support to help embed new skills and sustain momentum.

What You Gain from a CfL Programme

  • Clear direction and alignment. A well-functioning leadership team ensures that everyone works toward the same strategic objectives.
  • Smarter decisions, faster. Through our programmes, your leaders learns how to collaborate more effectively and find solutions to complex challenges.

  • Improved collaboration and communication. We train leaders to communicate clearly and with impact - even in tough conversations. The result is improved cooperation across departments and functions.

  • Effective strategy execution. Leaders who understand and own the strategy can drive meaningful change.
Client story

“It’s absolutely worth designing your own in-house leadership programme.”

At DKTV, Lars Sander, Director of Transformation & HR, and the executive team wanted more than just standard leadership theories. They wanted a programme tailored to their business.

Together with CfL, we developed a customized course for 20 leaders across teams and seniority levels. Based on interviews with the executive team and in-depth company research, the programme focused on real challenges their leaders face.

After five modules, the results speak for themselves:

“Our leaders are satisfied and putting their new insights into practice. With an average evaluation score of 4.7 out of 5, it’s clear the leadership program is making us stronger together – just as our motto says. It’s absolutely worth the investment,” says Lars Sander.

Client story

30 Leaders at VERDO Aligned Around a Common Leadership Language

VERDO has partnered with CfL several times to explore different leadership approaches and mindsets. So when HR Director Margrethe Larsen was preparing the company’s annual leadership forum – bringing together 30 leaders – she once again turned to CfL.

Margrethe Larsen shares her experience with CfL:

"As our organisation has grown significantly and many new leaders have joined, we asked CfL to revisit some of the methods we’d previously worked with. For some, it was a refresher; for others, it was a first introduction. It all helps ensure that we lead in a consistent and aligned way.”

The training was aligned with one of the group’s key strategic must-win battles: Competence and Workplace of the Future.

"The focus was very much on highlighting the perspective of future leadership. That’s crucial for a company like ours – especially when it comes to leadership balance," she explains. 

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"I’ve received a lot of positive feedback – especially on how the academic and statistical content was made relevant and useful. The participants really loved it. It wasn’t just a lecture. They walked away with a toolbox. They really connected with Mette’s [Mette Groos Lønsted] engaging way of teaching."

Jesper Bay, Lead of Talent Pipeline and Training at 365discount

"The result has been extremely positive. Our middle managers want more of this kind of training, and we’re working to make that happen. We actually see the first group as the foundation for how we train our leaders moving forward. This will become our leadership programme for kitchen managers going forward."

Anders Steengaard Leer, Division Director, Jespers Torvekøkken

”I believe that we, as team leaders, have gained new self-awareness and the courage to occasionally step back from day-to-day operations and reflect on the leadership task.”

Tina Skaaning Piilgaard, HR, Carl Christensen

”We have a dialogue-based partnership. You could say that CfL provides the tools, while we contribute the substance and the real-life challenges we face in our day-to-day work. That’s what keeps our internal leadership development constantly evolving."

Dorthe Ulriksen, Head of HR Development, Bravida

CfL Can Also Support You With

Strategy and Transformation

Get the whole organization on board when turning strategy into action – and build engagement across all leadership levels, so everyone contributes actively and wisely toward your shared goals.

Specialists in Leadership Roles

Equip your specialists with essential leadership tools so they can combine deep expertise with clear direction, strong collaboration, and greater influence.

Informal Leadership

Invest in the leaders who drive projects, processes and cross-functional collaboration. Help them communicate effectively and deliver strong results.

Risk Management

How do you future-proof your organisation in times of uncertainty? Get a tailored workshop for your leadership team to help you identify early signals from your surroundings and create clarity and direction.

Psychological Safety

Create a culture of psychological safety with focused leadership development and open, facilitated dialogue - leading to more trust, better well-being, and stronger collaboration.

Internal Leadership Networks

We facilitate internal leadership networks that provide a trusted space for peer learning, knowledge sharing, and developing joint solutions across teams.

Leadership Well-being

Looking to improve your leaders’ well-being and reduce isolation or burnout? We help you work proactively with leadership well-being, so impacting the entire organisation.

Blanchard® Leadership Concepts

Explore proven and effective leadership frameworks that support success and foster a healthy workplace culture, for example, the popular SLII® model.

Need something else?

Need something else?

Not all needs fit into fixed categories. At CfL, we design (almost) any type of development programme. Contact us if you're facing a challenge – and we’ll find the solution together.

Get in touch to explore the next step

Cristian Willum
Senior Relations Manager
T: +45 51 54 41 04
E: cwg@cfl.dk

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