Overview
For new Partners to be well-equipped to face the challenges of a rapidly changing professional services environment, they must demonstrate the key skills, behaviours and mindset to guarantee the continued success of the firm and to secure its future.
Some professionals may have been promoted for technical expertise and excellence. Often, they have not had the opportunity to develop the key skills and behaviours required to be an effective leader, and to fully understand the impact of their individual contribution to the broader interests and future success of the firm.
The programme includes personal assessment and feedback, a series of training modules with follow-up coaching sessions to ensure that participants have the opportunity to develop and refine the core skills, behaviours and mindset essential for success.
Woven into the programme design is an understanding of the dynamics of a professional services partnership-based environment and the need to align the way that Partners represent the firm externally, embody the culture internally and create a legacy to ensure the future success of the firm. Each topic will be explored in the context of its interaction with the external environment (clients and experts) as well as the internal environment in respect of relationships with colleagues, team members and more senior colleagues.
The modules from the programme:
- Exemplifying the brand
- Embodying the culture
- Ensuring the legacy
The Programme is appropriate for: New Partners, Managing Partner, Senior Manager, Partner, COO, CEO
Here’s what some of our partners have to say:
“I realised I should think of the partnership in multiple dimensions, some of them I had never explored before (i.e. legacy).”
“Very valuable at the right time”
“Inspiring and rewarding”
“Very useful to have the time to stop and think what type of Partner I want to be”
“Super useful”
“Excellent experience and excellent hosts”
“Great fun”
“Useful not only for my day-to-day but also for my strategic thoughts”
Common themes in the transition to Partner based on 3 years of research with Partners in a European Law Firm:
- From safeguarding the firm’s brand → to establishing their own identity and projecting that in the market.
- From balancing workload → to actively building and guiding teams, keeping them engaged and resilient in a demanding environment.
- From building a baseline portfolio → to proving credibility and visibility, growing business in a competitive, price-sensitive market.
“Debbie, I have loved the programme. I have, over the past 30 years at the firm, participated in many programmes, and as I said in my feedback, and I meant it, yours was the best!”
Big Four
Partner
New Partners, Managing Partner, Senior Manager, Partner, COO, CEO
- Face-to-face
- Virtual
- Webinar
- What does it mean to be a Partner in terms of representing the firm, embodying the culture and contributing to the legacy?
- How do we align our behaviour and relationships at all levels – internally as well as externally?
- What are the key elements of emotional intelligence?
- Which skills underpin self-awareness and self-regulation?
- What drives me to achieve more and how do I allocate time and energy?
- How do I find meaning in my work and in my collaboration with others?
- What can Neuroscience do to help me manage my stress levels and improve resilience?
- Do trust and authenticity matter?
- How can I improve all my relationships?
- What are the most effective things to remember when giving feedback?
- Why do I need to develop my coaching skills as a Partner?
Learning impact
This programme equips Partners with the mindset, behaviours, and leadership capabilities required to strengthen the firm’s long-term success. During the programme, they’ll learn to:
- Represent the firm with credibility in the market.
- Act as a custodian of the firm’s culture, modelling the behaviours that shape how the partnership works internally.
- Align individual contribution with the firm’s strategic goals.
- Build a lasting legacy.
If you would like to find out how our approach to Partner Development can refocus your senior leadership team to create a lasting legacy for your organisation.
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Programme Stats
507
Partner graduates, primarily within Global Consulting, have successfully completed our Partner Development programme
4.9 /5
Rated for both Facilitator Effectiveness and Relevance to Role for this programme from our October 2025 cohort
100%
Every Partner surveyed confirmed they would recommend the programme to Directors and senior leadership
Key topic: Cultural Custodian
The leaders who embody and protect your culture are its greatest asset.
Hear from a Programme Leader
“’Leadership’ is such a vague and nebulous concept. In our development work, we prefer to focus on the specific behaviours driving success at Senior levels in Professional Services.
We view the critical roles at a ‘Partner’ level as: representing the brand, being a custodian of the culture, and building a legacy, both for the Firm and as an individual. Our programmes address the skills and behaviours needed in each of those roles, aligned uniquely to the brand and culture of each Firm – raising self-awareness and providing a clear development path for each participant.” –William Johnson, Managing Director
Client stories
“William certainly gave the Partners a lot to think about during his presentations and challenged their thinking. The feedback was so positive.”
Global Accounting Network
Marketing & Business Development Director
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