Unlocq Leadership

Name: Unlocq Leadership
Address: Chasewood View Office, Ross on Wye, HR97GR, GB
Telephone: +447402998815
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Neuroscience-led programmes to shift behaviour, sharpen strategy, and accelerate leadership impact — one mind at a time ✨🖤

Nearly three quarters of UK organisations report leadership and management skills deficits, and a vast proportion of today's leaders have been fast tracked and are not ready to lead their organisation in the future. We're here to help your people become the best leaders they can be. Through our thought leadership, based on the latest neuroscience and performance psychology, we design personalised, context specific development programmes that transition your people from managers through to strategic leaders.

27/10/2026

A little quieter on here this week as I take some time out for half-term, but I’ve been reflecting on our first LiteBite Live ✨🖤

Bringing Michelle and Sarah Jayne together to explore Safe to Speak reminded me why I love working with The Collective🫶🏻

Different expertise, different perspectives, but a shared understanding that what happens between people matters just as much as the processes organisations put in place

One thing that really stayed with me is how much trust depends on what leaders do in the moments that matter✨🖤

It’s been a big month of conversations around prevention, psychological safety and the responsibility to respond well

Plenty to reflect on, and some different thinking coming in November as we turn our attention to leading through change🔀

For now, a little family time and a chance to recharge 👨🏼‍🦱🧑🏻‍🦱👩🏻‍🦰

22/10/2026

2️⃣conversations. 2️⃣different audiences. 1️⃣common theme – abuse of power 🙅🏻‍♀️

A busy day ahead doing two of my favourite things – bringing people together for important conversations and helping professionals think differently✨🖤

🎙️ 12:30pm – Unlocq Leadership’s first LiteBite Live: Safe to Speak. Unpacking the power dynamics behind sexual harassment at work and the role leaders play in preventing it

🎙️ 2pm – Joining MorganAsh as a guest panellist to share my real experience of economic abuse and explore how financial services professionals can better recognise and support people like me

And the best bit? I get to spend the day working alongside three incredible women whose expertise, passion and determination to make a difference never fail to inspire me. So looking forward to hearing their perspectives and learning from them! 🫶🏻

Michelle Lawrence
Sarah-Jayne Bray
Dr Nicola Sharp-Jeffs OBE, CF

Two very different conversations, but both about recognising when power is misused and what we can do about it 🙏

No doubt I’ll have plenty to reflect on afterwards. I’ll keep you posted!

21/10/2026

What happens when someone finally finds the courage to speak up at work? 🤷🏻‍♀️

It’s one thing to encourage people to raise concerns. It’s quite another to have the leadership capability to respond when they do 💁🏻‍♀️

Sensitive workplace concerns bring together human emotion, unconscious bias, power dynamics and the need for fair, evidence-led decisions 🙅🏻‍♀️

And that’s where things can get complicated

Psychological safety doesn’t mean assuming someone is right. And objectivity doesn’t mean removing humanity from the process 🙋🏻‍♀️

Tomorrow, I’m bringing Michelle Lawrence and Sarah-Jayne Bray from The Unlocq Collective together for our first LiteBite Live: Safe to Speak ✨🖤

We’ll be exploring what really sits behind prevention, why leadership responses matter and what it takes to handle sensitive concerns with fairness, confidence and care

No slides, no traditional webinar. Just 30 minutes of different thinking and an open conversation🎙️

I’d love you to join us! ✨🖤

19/10/2026

❔What happens in the seconds after someone tells you something you weren’t expecting?

Perhaps it’s a concern about a colleague. A difficult experience. Something that’s been happening in your team that you knew nothing about ❔❔❔

What’s your first instinct? To explain? Defend? Question? Fix it? We’re human. And when information challenges what we believe about ourselves, our people or our organisation, our brains can move into protection mode before we’ve had time to think 💭

But here’s what I find fascinating about leadership. The person sitting opposite us doesn’t experience our intentions. They experience our response. And in those first few seconds, they may be deciding whether it was safe to speak at all. We dont need leaders who never feel defensive or uncomfortable. We need leaders who recognise what’s happening within themselves and create enough space to respond with curiosity rather than judgement✨🖤

Sometimes the most important leadership skill isnt knowing what to say. It’s knowing when to stop, listen and make room for what you havent yet understood. A question I have been reflecting on over the weekend: When someone tells you something difficult, are you listening to understand or listening to respond ❔❔❔

15/10/2026

Your sexual harassment policy isnt your prevention strategy 🙅🏻‍♀️

As organisations prepare for strengthened responsibilities around preventing sexual harassment, I think theres an important distinction we need to explore

Having the right processes in place doesnt necessarily mean we’ve created the right conditions for people to use them. Prevention starts much earlier, in the everyday behaviours leaders demonstrate, what becomes normalised within teams and whether people genuinely feel safe enough to challenge what isn’t right. And when we look at this through the lens of neuroscience 🧠 we begin to understand why speaking up isnt always as simple as having permission to do so✨🖤

I’ve shared our view on this here ⇣ And I explain what it really takes to move from policy to prevention 💁🏻‍♀️

Take a few minutes to swipe through. I’d be interested to know which point resonates most with you and your organisation. And if you want to join the converstation see the live LiteBite below ⇣

Unlocq Leadership, one mind at a time✨🖤

15/10/2026

When senior leaders struggle to execute, the whole organisation feels it 🔊

Decisions stall. Accountability slips. Change loses momentum. And even the best strategies struggle to become reality 🕳️

This week, we’re delivering Executional Leadership, part of our Elevate Programme for strategic leaders ✨ 🖤

We’re exploring what gets in the way of great leadership when pressure, emotion and workplace dynamics take over – and how leaders can move beyond the drama to create ownership, accountability and action ⇡ Because senior leaders don’t just deliver strategy. Their behaviours shape the culture in which strategy succeeds or fails 💁🏻‍♀️

Elevate is part of our neuroscience-informed Unlocq Leadership Suite, developing leadership capability at every critical stage, from emerging talent through to the C-suite ✨🖤

Great leadership isn’t just knowing what to do. It’s being able to execute it when it matters most 🏹

08/10/2026

‘My door is always open.’ But will anyone walk through it? ✨🖤

I’ve heard this phrase countless times in conversations with leaders and I’ve probably said it myself. It’s usually said with the best intention: You can talk to me. I’m here. I’ll listen.

But I’ve been thinking about how different that statement might feel from the other side of the door. Because psychological safety isn’t created by saying ‘you can tell me.’ It’s shaped by what someone believes will happen after they do. Will I be listened to without judgement? Will anything change? Will I be treated differently afterwards? And perhaps most importantly, what have I seen happen when other people have spoken before me?

Our brains are constantly learning from experience🧠we notice reactions, remember consequences and use them to decide what feels safe the next time. Which means some of the biggest signals about whether it’s safe to speak arent found in a policy or an open-door statement. They’re found in the small, everyday responses of leaders.

So here’s a coaching question I’ve been sitting with: If your people aren’t walking through your open door, what might their experience have taught them to expect on the other side?✨🖤

LiteBite Live → Live conversation → Link Bio

07/10/2026

A conversation I think more organisations need to be having. What really makes someone feel safe enough to speak?

Sexual harassment, psychological safety and the leadership responsibility to prevent✨🖤

Join us for 30 minutes of different thinking on 22 October 🎙️🖥️

Link to join us in the comments

06/10/2026

Would your people tell you? ✨🖤

On 30th October, expectations on employers around preventing sexual harassment at work are changing. Understandably, organisations will be reviewing policies, training, reporting routes and risk.

But I think there’s a more human question we need to ask: Would someone experiencing inappropriate behaviour actually feel safe enough to tell you?

Leaders often say, “My door is always open.” And I believe they mean it. But an open door and a door someone feels safe enough to walk through are two very different things.

Because when someone considers speaking up, they’re not simply deciding whether they’re allowed to speak. Their brain is weighing up risk 🧠 status, belonging, reputation, relationships and what might happen afterwards. And that changes the conversation.

A speak-up culture isnt created by telling people they can speak. It’s created through their experience of what happens when they do. That’s why prevention can’t only be about policy and process. It’s about leadership, culture, power and psychological safety too.

Throughout October, that’s the conversation well be exploring at Unlocq ✨🖤 what makes people feel safe enough to speak, what happens in the brain when they consider it, and how leaders respond when they do.

Because perhaps the real test of a speak-up culture isnt whether your people can tell you. It’s whether they would✨🖤

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Chasewood View Office
Ross On Wye
HR97GR

Telephone

+447402998815

Website

http://www.unlocq.co.uk/

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