Understanding organisational energy
You develop the ability to read and interpret energy dynamics; energy patterns, potential energy drains, and what enables sustained performance.
Leading Energy and Performance
Executive Leadership Programme
Strengthen your ability as a senior leader to mobilise energy, create shared direction, and build momentum in complex business contexts.
In a world of rapid change and rising complexity, senior leaders must think beyond processes and KPIs. Effective leadership means understanding and influencing what drives progress and sustained performance: the purpose-rich human energy of the organisation.
Organisational energy can play a critical role in whether your initiatives gain momentum or stall. You may recognise the tension: pushing too hard, creating pressure and exhaust the work force or holding back and losing momentum.
This programme provides insight and practice into what creates the momentum your organisation needs for sustained success. You will gain tools and instruments to understand and work with the dynamics that drive engagement and performance in your senior teams and across your organisation.
You may recognise some of these leadership challenges:
Your leadership as a senior leader plays a decisive role in shaping how your organisation is performing sustainably: by creating and channelling human energy. Your influence and communication have a significant impact on how people work together and achieve results.
Throughout the programme, you will work on your senior leadership capabilities and skills needed to create energy, direction, and momentum in your organisation.
The programme is developed and led by Professor Bernd Vogel of Henley Business School. For many years, his work with organisations and senior teams as much as his research has focused on organisational energy, strategic leadership, and their role in sustaining high performance. Crucial for building leadership capability, his expertise also includes how leaders learn and bridge the gap between absorbing leadership knowing and bringing into practice in their roles.
Based on both research and practical experience, the programme is built around four core themes:
You develop the ability to read and interpret energy dynamics; energy patterns, potential energy drains, and what enables sustained performance.
You explore and practice the correct tools for translating strategy into momentum by creating engagement and alignment across your organisation.
You learn how purpose and strategic clarity act as powerful sources of energy. This will enable you to better mobilise people and maintain focus inside the organisation in times of change.
You deepen your mindset by looking at how your decisions and behaviour shape engagement. You strengthen your ability to turn leadership insights into practical action.
Throughout the programme, you will work on your own leadership challenges, applying insights and tools directly to your everyday practice and benefit from the strengths of the cohort of outstanding leaders. This ensures high relevance and immediate impact on your role and organisation.
When was the last time you stepped back to reflect on how you lead - not only what you deliver?
In a role with constant demands and high expectations, stepping away from your daily operations can be difficult. Yet that is precisely why it is so important to actually do it.
This programme provides the space you need to focus on your own leadership. Together with a small group of experienced leaders, you will work on the challenges and dilemmas you all face every day.
You will gain access to the latest research and his work with organisations and executives through Professor Bernd Vogel. On day two of the programme, a session is dedicated to you learning from and working with the leadership reality of a senior executive from a UK organisation.
The international setting, shared dinners, and ongoing dialogue with fellow participants create an experience that goes far beyond a traditional leadership programme. It is the combination of new perspectives, reflection, and confidential conversations that gives the programme its unique value.
You will become better equipped to create shared direction, mobilise people, and build momentum across your organisation.
You will:
Master the ability to read and lead organisational energy: Learn how to identify energy patterns, address energy drains, and recognise the conditions that enable sustained performance.
Your organisation will benefit from a leader who is better equipped to understand and influence the deeper patterns that shape momentum, engagement and collective achievement.
Your organisation will gain:
The programme is an intensive course that allows you to step away from your busy routine and focus on your development as a leader.
You will become part of a strong network of Danish leaders with significant strategic responsibility who, like you, are navigating complex challenges. This gives you the opportunity to exchange perspectives and challenge your thinking.
An online introduction to the programme, where you prepare and reflect on your leadership challenges.
Spend 3 days at Greenlands in Henley-on-Thames, home of the acclaimed Henley Business School. An intensive learning experience focused on your own leadership challenges, combining research-based input, reflection, and peer dialogue.
A follow-up online session where you learn from shared experiences and reflect on how your leadership is translated into practice, and on the dilemmas that come with it.
Bernd Vogel is Professor in Leadership at Henley Business School, University of Reading, where he is also Founding Director of the Henley Centre for Leadership UK and Africa, and Research Division Lead.
With more than 25 years of experience working with senior leaders and managers in business schools, global companies, and public sector organisations, he combines academic depth with practical insight into successful leadership in complex environments.
His research focuses on strategic leadership, organisational energy, and how leaders shape performance, culture, and transformation - combined with expertise in leadership development. He has published books and numerous academic articles and hosts the podcast Leadership Unlocked.
“When you join a programme like this, you don’t just learn frameworks, you bring your real leadership challenges into the room. This is what creates real value, because it continuously challenges and expands how we think about leadership.”
- Bernd Vogel
Michael Tolstrup participates in the programme and helps facilitate learning and networking throughout the experience.
Michael has more than 15 years of experience as an advisor and executive coach to leaders in large private and public-sector organisations. He has previously founded his own consultancy, worked in both large and small consulting firms, served as an HR Team Leader, and taught on Denmark's Diploma in Leadership programme.
At CFL, he works with organisational and process development, strategy development, facilitation, team and group development, leadership development, executive team development, change processes, and individual executive coaching and sparring.
“When you step away from day-to-day operations for a while, you create the space to see your leadership from a new perspective. It’s often in these moments that the most important insights emerge and the best decisions become clear.”
- Michael Tolstrup
Preparing & committing, 60 minutes online
Introduction to the programme, align expectations, and set the stage for the on-campus days.
Day 1
Arrival and half-day session
Topics
Identifying strategic energy and performance challengesy
Day 2
Full day programme
Topics
Energising leadership strategies and leading with purpose
Strategic leadership in context
Day 3
Half day session and farewell
Topics
Leading yourself and your development
Post-programme
Embedding and sustaining impact, 90-minute online
Follow-up session focused on reflecting on your experiences and ensuring that your learning is translated into practice.
The programme fee includes 2.5 days of teaching, all learning materials, meals, and accommodation at Greenlands Campus.
Travel to and from England and transport to the campus (approximately 45 minutes from London Heathrow Airport) are arranged individually and are not included in the programme fee.
