Strategic Leadership Development

Empower Your Leaders with Shared Skills and Language

Without structured leadership development, your leaders may fall short of the expectations placed upon them - impacting the entire organisation. At CfL, we help you bring your leaders together and developing the leadership team, whether they’re new to the role, experienced, or in need of a skill upgrade.

The outcome? Stronger leadership, a shared vocabulary, a refined toolkit and improved cross-organisational collaboration.

We create customised programmes for organisations that want to take a strategic approach to leadership development, with an emphasis on both performance and employee wellbeing. Because when leaders thrive and succeed, the entire organisation rises with them.

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Why Strategic Leadership Development Is Essential

  • Leaders drive results. As an organisation, 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 organisation.

How We Design Programmes Aligned with 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 organisational 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 a shared language and strengthen the leadership collaboration.

Your organisation 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 organisation, 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.
Case

“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 customised 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 happy and applying what they’ve learned. We’ve received an average score of 4.7 out of 5 for the programme. It has definitely made us stronger together - just as our motto says. It’s absolutely worth the investment,” says Lars Sander.

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Case: Ongoing Leadership Training

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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”Lederne er glade og bruger det, de har lært. Evalueringerne ligger i på 4,7 ud af 5. Vi oplever, at lederuddannelsen gør os stærkere sammen, som vores motto siger,”

Lars Sander, direktør for Transformation & HR i DKTV A/S.

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”Jeg har fået rigtig mange positive tilbagemeldinger. Ikke mindst med hensyn til at gøre den akademiske og statistiske information relevant og brugbar. Det syntes deltagerne var megafedt. Det var ikke bare et foredrag. De fik en værktøjskasse. De købte virkelig ind på Mettes [Mette Groos Lønsted, red.] involverende måde at undervise på,”

Jesper Bay, ansvarlig for Talent Pipeline og uddannelse i 365discount

”Grundlæggende tror jeg, man kan konkludere, at vi som teamledere har fået ny selvindsigt og mod til indimellem at trække os ud af driften og reflektere over ledelsesopgaven,”

Tina Skaaning Piilgaard, HR, Carl Christensen 

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”Vi har et dialogbaseret samarbejde. Man kan sige, at CfL leverer værktøjerne, mens vi leverer substansen og de aktuelle problemstillinger, vi møder i vores hverdag. Det gør, at vores interne lederuddannelse hele tiden udvikler sig,”

Dorthe Ulriksen, HR-udviklingschef i Bravida.

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”Resultatet har været enormt positivt. Vores mellemledere vil have mere af den slags, og det arbejder vi på at gøre til virkelighed. Vi anskuer faktisk første hold som et grundlag for, hvordan vi uddanner vores ledere. Det bliver simpelthen vores lederuddannelse for køkkenchefer fremadrettet,”

Anders Steengaard Leer, divisionschef, Jespers Torvekøkken

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Strategy and Change

Engage the entire organisation when it’s time to turn strategy into action. Create engagement among leaders and employees so they actively and wisely contribute to reaching shared goals.

Leaders without Personnel Responsibility

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

Risk Management

How do you future-proof your organisation in times of uncertainty? Book a tailored workshop for your leadership team to spot early signals from the external environment and create clarity, calm and decisiveness.

Strategic Leadership Development

Bring new leaders, experienced managers and those in need of a skill upgrade together for targeted training. The result is a shared language, a practical leadership toolkit, and stronger cross-functional collaboration.

Training for Specialists

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

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

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 neatly into predefined categories. At CfL, we design (almost) any kind of development journey. If you’re facing a challenge, get in touch, and let’s find the right solution together.

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

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