by Amy | Aug 3, 2026 | COMMUNIC8, Culture by Design, Leadership Behaviours, Power of 8
Ask any leadership team in FE what’s holding their culture back and nine times out of ten, someone in the room will say “communication.” We need better communication. More cascade meetings. A tighter newsletter. A clearer intranet.I’ve sat in...
by Amy | Jul 9, 2026 | Culture by Design, Leadership Behaviours
For ten years, I heard the same word used to describe the organisation I worked for: FAMILY. It was in speeches, induction packs, leaving cards, the language leaders reached for whenever they wanted people to give more than the job required. I have a family of my own....
by Amy | Jul 8, 2026 | Culture by Design, EVALU8, Leadership Behaviours
Hear me out: you don’t actually know what your culture is like This is an opinion. Not a study. Not a stat. Just something I’ve been chewing on after enough years in enough organisations to trust my own pattern-spotting over most surveys I’ve seen....
by Amy | Jun 12, 2026 | Leadership Behaviours
Leadership behaviours are the most powerful — and most overlooked — lever for culture change. Leaders in FE and skills providers spend a lot of time talking about culture. They write vision statements, run away days, commission surveys. But when I sit with teams and...
by Amy | Aug 8, 2025 | Leadership Behaviours, Power of 8
After fifteen years inside the systems most of my clients now work in, further education, skills, higher education, apprenticeship and workforce development, I started ELEV8 because I’d watched the same patterns repeat across organisation after organisation, and...
