Your Leadership Story Starts Now
Whether you're a first-time manager feeling overwhelmed, a seasoned executive looking to deepen your impact, or someone who influences others without formal authority, this space is for you.
Because here's what I've learned after years of leading teams, studying human behaviour, and yes, making plenty of mistakes: everyone is a leader in some capacity. The question isn't whether you lead – it's whether you lead consciously, authentically, and effectively.
The best leaders aren't born with special talents. They're ordinary people who decided to do the inner work required to show up differently. They learned to see people as they really are, not as they wish they were. They developed the courage to have difficult conversations with grace, to set boundaries with kindness, and to inspire action through connection rather than coercion.
This journey starts with a single step: deciding to lead yourself first.
Ready to transform how you show up as a leader? Subscribe to join a community of people committed to authentic, effective leadership. Together, we'll move beyond the surface-level advice and dive deep into what it really takes to inspire, influence, and create lasting change.
Leadership from the Inside Out
This self-study programme is presented in ten video episodes over a period of 5 months.
The two-week period between each episode is designed to allow you to implement the ideas from the episodes, leading to active learning.
What You'll Find Here
Over the coming weeks and months, I'll be sharing the real stories behind leadership – the failures that taught me more than any success, the conversations that changed everything, and the small shifts in perception and behaviour that create massive changes in results.
We'll explore:
The Communication Revolution – Why your words might be saying one thing while your presence says another, and how to align them for maximum impact.
The Perception Game – How the stories people tell themselves about you and your intentions shape every interaction, and how to influence those stories authentically.
Behavioural Intelligence – The subtle patterns in human behaviour that reveal what people really need.
The Inner Game of Leadership – How your relationship with yourself directly impacts your ability to lead others, and why personal mastery isn't selfish – it's essential.
A Different Kind of Leadership Journey
This isn't another collection of feel-good platitudes or recycled management theory. These are tested insights from real organisational life – the kind of wisdom that only comes from making mistakes, learning from them, and discovering what actually works when the pressure is on and the stakes are real.
Some episodes will challenge conventional wisdom. Others will offer practical frameworks you can use immediately. All of them will be grounded in one simple principle:
Leadership is fundamentally about creating the environment for people in which the only possible outcome is success.
Course Curriculum
Communicating with Purpose
Learn what is at the core of effective communication and transform your ability to listen authentically, use the power of questions, develop empathy, master presentation skills and positively influence those around you.
Developing Your People
Ensuring your people are encouraged to demand the most of themselves, helping them set goals and improve - focusing on their strengths as well as areas for improvement.
Influencing Others
Learn how to influence others in a motivational way recognising that details can have massive impact on the way people perceive us.
The Creative Advantage
The leader or manager needs to be an agent of change - responding in time to external changes as well as initiating change. Learn how to focus your own creativity, and those of your people, as a competitive advantage.
Motivating and Delegating
We cannot motivate our people, we can only help them to motivate themselves!
At this time, when most surveys show diminishing levels of staff engagement, we explore the responsibility of the leader to trust, and to encourage commitment and acceptance of responsibility by staff, whilst encouraging creativity.
My World
Your journey to effective leadership and management is unique to you. You have the opportunity in this course to identify those areas of personal improvement and to develop your own plan. At the root of sustainable change is your thinking 'from the inside out' and the actions you choose to take.
Leadership from the Inside out
Scheduled Dates
1st course - 2026
Episode 1: Friday 9th January
Episode 2: Friday, 23rd January
Episode 3: Friday, 6th February
Episode 4: Friday, 20th February
Episode 5: Friday, 6th March
Episode 6: Friday, 20th March
Episode 7: Friday, 3rd April
Episode 8: Friday, 17th April
Episode 9: Friday, 1st May
Episode 10: Friday, 15th May
Hi, I'm Nick Dalton
In my early 30’s, I made a major career move – from exploration geologist into business, as a corporate trainer. I don't mind admitting I was in awe and somewhat intimidated because I moved from working with down-to-earth (no pun intended) geologists and oil-riggers, to titans of industry and commerce – CEO’s and MD’s. I expected to be in the rarefied atmosphere of visionary leadership.
Quickly, I realised two things - firstly, that there wasn't much vision around, and secondly that genuine leadership is tough.
The challenge is that we're drowning in leadership advice, endless frameworks, personality tests, and motivational mantras yet staff engagement remains dismal, turnover continues to climb, and most people still describe their managers as their biggest source of workplace stress. Maybe we're missing something?
Born out of this experience is this leadership programme. It is different - it explores how our perceptions, paradigms and judgements drive our behaviour and how we can channel our energies into positive, proactive leadership.
Since that early experience I have worked as a business consultant, leading teams on projects in various sectors, including automotive, aviation, construction, retail, and higher education. Major clients have included Ford, Jaguar, Rolls-Royce Aerospace, Ikea, Jacobs Suchard and the universities of UCL, Manchester and Warwick amongst others.
