SkillsGym
FOR LEADERS AND THEIR TEAMS

Turn business ambition into leadership behaviour.

Every business ambition depends on what your leaders actually do.
SkillsGym turns your leadership priorities into measurable habits — practised week after week, across every leader and team.

PersonalisedPractised inside the workReinforced liveMeasured by the teamHabit-drivenScalable
The habit gap

Your leaders probably already know what good leadership looks like. That isn't the problem.

They know it.

They've done the workshops. Learned the models. Completed the e-learning.

They don't do it consistently.

Ask for feedback. Delegate properly. Coach instead of solve. Have the difficult conversation.

And you can't see what changed.

You can measure attendance and completion. Not whether leadership behaviour actually changed.

Leadership development doesn't fail in the training room. It fails in the weeks that follow.

SkillsGym was built for those weeks — turning the behaviours your business needs into habits that are practised, reinforced and measured every week.

Sarah Cherif, founder & CEO of SkillsGym
The intro

Twenty years of watching what actually changes people.

"A workshop is an event, and behaviour does not change through events. It changes through what someone does on a Tuesday afternoon, in a conversation they had been dreading, when nobody is watching."

We learned to bridge that gap by hand — breaking something enormous into something small enough to actually do. It worked. It just did not scale. SkillsGym is our answer: two decades of our trainers' work, built into a platform, so the other four hundred no longer have to wait their turn.

Sarah Cherif · Founder & CEO, SkillsGym

The SkillsGym Hub

You asked. We built it.

For years, our clients have been asking us the same questions.

The SkillsGym Hub is our answer.

A gym for leadership and self-leadership: personalised skill plans, weekly live training, team involvement, behavioural feedback and coaching when it's needed.

The leader journey

What it looks like from their side.

Five moments. From the first honest question to the proof it worked.

01The priorities

Focus is the new IQ

An intelligent intake narrows the real challenge to 1–3 skills. The leader, their team and your business priorities all have a say.

02The plan

A plan that could only be theirs

Three inputs become one sequenced plan. Nothing arrives unexplained — and the leader can challenge it.

A plan that could only be theirs — SkillsGym platform
03The practice

Small enough to actually do

Each skill becomes three habits and three conversations, practised inside the work they're already doing.

04The support

Never doing it alone

Weekly live training is included. Coaching and team workshops are there when they need more.

05The proof

Their team tells them it worked

The people who experience the behaviour rate what changed — not a completion bar.

Their team tells them it worked — SkillsGym platform
The track record

Small habits. Visible business change.

100+
Companies
1,000+
Leadership programmes
100,000+
Leaders & teams trained
Some examples of habits we've installed - what changes in the business
Vision-first meetings
Strategy stays at the centre of everyday decisions.
Delegate outcomes, not tasks
The result is clear, and the work stays delegated.
Coach before you solve
Ownership and capability grow instead of dependence.
End with feedforward
Feedback becomes forward-looking and low-friction.
Recognition that is specific
People know exactly what to repeat.
Protect strategic time
The few priorities that move the business get the hours.
“What am I missing?”
Dissent and blind spots surface before decisions close.
Recovery before depletion
Energy is managed before people hit exhaustion.
20+ years of transforming leadership
Client logos including Samsung, Deloitte, IKEA, NATO, Roche, Citibank and more
Measurement

Finally, HR can answer: did leadership actually change?

Not what people completed. What they're doing differently — and whether it lasts.

Most platforms report
– 84% completed
– 4.6 / 5 satisfaction
– 1,200 learning hours
– Course enrolments
– Time spent in the platform
SkillsGym can show
✓ Which behaviours are changing
✓ Which habits are sustaining beyond four weeks
✓ What teams are actually experiencing
✓ Where leaders have stalled, or never started
✓ Which leadership priorities need attention next
HR dashboard showing behaviour change, team by teamHR controls for team engagement, pulse cadence and approvals
The live calendar

One live workshop every week. Included.

Unlimited weekly sessions with the SkillsGym trainers, plus a full 2026–2027 calendar to plan your rollout around.

Membership

What a leader gets with their membership.

Everything they need to turn leadership ambition into behaviour — and everything you need to see the change happen.

Executive leadership coaching at scale, including:

Personalized leadership plan

1–3 focus skills, chosen from three inputs: the leader, their team and your business priorities.

50+ Skill Practice Plans

Every skill broken into 3 habits and 3 conversations — small enough to practise inside real work.

Team pulse dashboard showing weekly feedback scores rated by the team

Team feedback

The people who experience the behaviour rate what's changing — every week, not in a survey.

Live support for the leaders and their teams:

Team engagement panel inside the SkillsGym platform✓ Included

Team engagement

They share their plan and bring their team along to live sessions.

✓ Included

Weekly Live Sessions

Weekly live sessions with our trainers, included in the membership.

✦ Via credits

Access to coaching and team workshops

One-to-one coaching and team workshops, added with credits when they need more.

Jump on a call with Sarah for a demo.

We'll walk you through a real leader journey, the live calendar and how the team measures the change. Runs in Dutch, English and French.

Book a demo
+32 474 13 11 30 · info@skillsgym.com · skillsgym.com
Maenhoutstraat 76, 9830 Ghent, Belgium
Why this is different

Training transfers knowledge. SkillsGym changes behaviour.

What you are used toWhat SkillsGym does
Generic development→Personalised priorities
Learning outside the work→Practice inside the work
Completion→Observed behaviour
A one-off intervention→Continuous reinforcement

Everything that follows — the plan, the practice, the live support, the proof — exists to make the right-hand column happen every week, for every leader. Not once a year for a few.