Leadership development needs to keep up with leadership.
For decades, organisations have developed leaders through leadership programs: identify the capabilities, build a curriculum and bring leaders together to learn.
But leadership doesn't happen in programs. It happens every day.
Different leaders face different challenges. And those challenges keep changing.
Leadership development needs to do the same.
From leadership programs to continuous development.
SkillsGym takes what works about live leadership training and makes it personalised, continuous, scalable and measurable.
Meet the SkillsGym Leadership Hub.
A gym for leadership and self-leadership: personalised skill plans, weekly live training, team involvement, behavioural feedback and coaching when it's needed.
One leader. One priority.
Instead of deciding upfront what every leader should learn for the year, SkillsGym helps each leader identify what would make the biggest difference now.
Typically, that means a new development focus every three months.
What does the business need?
Your strategy, leadership framework and organisational priorities.
What does the leader need?
The challenges they're facing right now.
What does their team need?
What the people experiencing their leadership believe would make the biggest difference.
→ Three perspectives identify the right priority.
One leader may need feedback. Another delegation. Another strategic thinking. Another AI Leadership.
And three months from now, the answer may be different.
One skill at a time.
SkillsGym gives every leader a clear development rhythm: focus on the skill that matters most now, practise it until it starts becoming behaviour, then move on to the next priority.
Typically, that's one development focus per quarter.
Find the right skill.
Train it live.
Turn it into habits.
Involve the team.
Get extra support when needed.Optional
Measure the change.
Four personalised development cycles. Every year.
The elephant that's not in the room, but should be?
The team.
We put leaders together in a room to learn feedback, coaching, delegation, accountability and vision.
But the people they actually need to practise those skills with aren't there.
Because leadership doesn't happen between leaders in a training room. It happens every day between a leader and their team.
That's why SkillsGym brings the team into the development process.
The team gives input into what their leader needs to develop. They work on complementary skills. They experience the leader's new habits in everyday work. And they give feedback on whether they're actually seeing a change.
The team experiences the habits.
The leader practises their new behaviours in the meetings, conversations and decisions they already have with their team.
The team gives feedback.
Short pulse surveys show whether the team is actually experiencing the change.
And when needed, they develop together.
Credits can be used for team training or coaching around challenges that are better addressed together.
Develop the leader. Involve the team. Change how they work together.
Twenty years of watching what actually changes people.
After twenty years of developing leaders, here's what I've learned: big leadership skills are built through small habits.
- Feedback becomes: “Can I give you one suggestion for next time?”
- Coaching becomes the two extra questions you ask before giving the answer.
- Accountability becomes the commitment you actually follow up on.
Small enough to repeat. Repeated often enough to become the way you lead.
That's the thinking behind SkillsGym: turn big skills into small habits, practised every day with your team.
Sarah Cherif · Founder & CEO, SkillsGym
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 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:
✓ IncludedTeam engagement
They share their plan and bring their team along to live sessions.
Weekly Live Sessions
Weekly live sessions with our trainers, included in the membership.
Access to coaching and team workshops
One-to-one coaching and team workshops, added with credits when they need more.
One live workshop every week. Included.
Unlimited weekly sessions with the SkillsGym trainers, plus a full 2026–2027 calendar to plan your rollout around.
Each is a proven plan: start with a self-scan, then build the skill through three habits and three conversations on the job.
Choose a dimension above to see its programmes.
Finally, HR can answer: did leadership actually change?
Not what people completed. What they're doing differently — and whether it lasts.
SkillsGym combines leaders' own progress with feedback from the people who experience their leadership every day: their teams.
From learning analytics to behaviour change.
Small habits. Visible business change.
Jump on a call with Sarah.
Explore the SkillsGym Leadership Hub in more depth, talk to us about your leadership challenges, or build a more intensive journey around your needs.
Book a demoWe also design leadership academies, retreats, full-day training and coaching — with the SkillsGym Leadership Hub keeping development alive before, between and after every experience.
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