Whatever type of organisation you lead, Footdown will challenge and inspire you to want to do it better and then help you – through our leadership coaching and mentoring groups – to achieve your goal of becoming the best leader you can be.

We achieve this through a combination of monthly leadership mentoring group meetings, one-to-one leadership coaching sessions and regular leadership events. As a result of participating in Footdown’s leadership development and training programme you will:

• Gain access to both the best thinking and the most practical tools for leadership development
• Maximise your business opportunities
• Gain new perspectives
• Join a network of exceptional leaders who will become your peer group
• Acquire a framework for transforming your leadership performance.

Our values

We believe our values set us apart from other leadership development and training organisations and programmes.

To be inspiring

• By igniting the passion within leaders to be the best they can be.

To be caring

Caring is the essence of great leadership and is at the heart of how we operate.  We always:

• Care enough to have fierce conversations.
• Care enough to take tough decisions.

To be audacious

• The way we do business is bold, honest and innovative.
• We aim to help our entrepreneurial clients in particular achieve a quantum shift in their potential.

To be world leaders in what we do

• In everything we do we strive to be the best in the world.
• We are creating a unique environment for leaders and their organisations to flourish.
• We will influence leadership thinking and leadership development through this century and beyond.

Our purpose (or why we do it)

Our purpose is to inspire leaders to be the best they can be.

At Footdown we are passionate about improving the quality of our leaders. Every day we see the consequences of poor leadership caused by people being thrust into leadership positions with little or no preparation. We believe that developing the skills of all types of leaders is too important a task to be left to chance.

Who we are

Footdown was founded in 2001 by Andrew Mercer who led the first Footdown Fifteen group; formed in Bath in November 2003. In 2007, when Andrew became CEO of renewable energy joint venture Blue-NG, Mike Roe,  an early member of the Bath group, took over the group’s leadership and also became Footdown’s chief executive. Andrew continues to be Footdown’s chairman and to be actively involved in the strategic direction of the business, in particular the development of Footdown Insight. Insight is a board game based, open framework of leadership tools, techniques and methods that supports effective leadership understanding, action and follow through.