Going Deep
Three workshops. Friday to Sunday.Take one, or all three.
Each workshop is self-contained and can be taken in any order. Together they form a complete view of how you lead — under pressure, with others, and at scale.
In confidence. The room runs under the Chatham House Rule. What participants share stays in the room; what they learn travels with them.
Position
Not theory-based leadership training.
You already know the frameworks. The Winning Edge focuses on what actually happens when you have to apply them under pressure, in front of others, with consequences.
The work surfaces real behavior rather than rehearsed answers. What you see, you can change.
The three workshops
Self
Holding Your Ground
How you stay clear, steady, and decisive when conditions are demanding. The internal work that makes everything else possible.
→Teams
Leading Performance
How you set standards, create alignment, and lead a group of strong characters toward a shared outcome.
→Stakeholders
Making It Land
How you land what you mean, hold the room, and build the kind of trust that survives disagreement.
→How it works
The same demands,in two different rooms.
The moments that decide a match are the same moments that decide a quarter: deciding under pressure, recovering from a mistake, staying clear when you are visible.
A tennis court makes those moments impossible to hide. You cannot bluff a missed shot, and you cannot rehearse the next point. What surfaces is real — and that is what we work on.
Why a court
Around a quarter of the time is on court.
Not to learn tennis — to surface behavior. Time limits between points, scoring formats that raise the stakes, and paired exercises make decision-making, focus, and reaction visible within minutes.
The rest of the work happens in the room: a deliberate mix of practical exercises, structured reflection, peer work, and concept inputs — built around direct observation and honest feedback.
All levels
You do not need to play tennis.
Exercises scale to you — beginner to competitive. The same patterns surface either way, and what you take back into work is the same.
Start here
New: Leadership Performance Labat Queen’s Club, London.
A one-day executive experience at Queen’s Club, London. Works as a standalone day, and as a natural lead-in to any of the three retreats — which can themselves be taken in any order.