Win a free seat · £9,500 value · Closes Fri 29 May 23:59 BST
Win your free seat on the June Manager Foundations Accelerator.
For the manager who’ll make the most of it.
Your seat unlocks £9,500 of training, coaching, community and tools, normally bundled together at £2,500. Nominate yourself, or the manager you back to actually do something with it. Josh and Danny read every entry personally. Winners notified Monday 1 June.
The competition
Win your free seat. Closes Friday.
What £0 unlocks · per winning seat
8–12 week intensive cohort programme
£2,500
12 months of community access
£800
24 live training events per year
£1,200
On-demand courses & masterclasses (60+ in library)
£500
Manager Strength Diagnostic
£1,200
12 months of Tensai, your AI coaching partner
£900
On-demand access to your Performance Partner
£2,400
10X Certified Manager credential
Invaluable on LinkedIn
Money-back guarantee after session 1
Risk-free
Total stated value
£9,500
Your investment if you win
£0
How it worksSubmit the nomination form below, yourself or someone else. Josh and Danny read every entry personally and pick the strongest impact statements. Winners notified Monday 1 June.
Submit a nomination →Straight question
Why are we giving away £9,500 of training?
Two reasons. Honestly.
One. We want this June cohort full of managers who’ll use it. Not just managers who could write the cheque. The strongest cohort comes from picking for hunger, not budget.
Two.If our winners are satisfied with the programme, they’ve agreed to share their experience. Honest testimonials from managers who actually used it is the best marketing we could ask for. We bet on our model. They get to judge it on its own merits.
So the deal is simple. A free seat, no strings on entry. If it works for you, you share. If it doesn’t, you don’t owe us a thing, there’s a money-back guarantee built in either way.
Closes Fri 29 May 23:59 BST
Why this programme
You were brilliant at your job.
Now you’re responsible for five people who do it.
That transition breaks people who were great in the seat below. The data below shows why, and what this programme does about it.
The transition nobody prepares you for
82%
of UK managers promoted without any formal management training.
Source: CMI
From our accelerators
23%
increase in approval ratings from direct reports
8.5%
average capability increase across every skill measured
The direct response
The Foundations Accelerator was built for this exact moment.
Not a generic leadership programme. Not a one-day workshop. A structured eight-to-twelve week transition built for managers stepping into the role for the first time and realising nothing they did before has prepared them for it.
Five focus areas. A cross-company cohort. A Personal Execution Plan after every session. An AI coaching partner in between. And a Performance Partner available when you need one.
The programme
Not another course.
A structured transition.
Most managers work it out. Eventually. This is the faster route.
Five focus areas over eight to twelve weeks, in a cross-company cohort of up to ten managers, all going through the same transition, working on their own real problems alongside each other. Not case studies about someone else’s team. Not theory disconnected from Monday morning. Your challenges, your team, what you are going to do differently before the next session.
5
Focus Areas
8–12 wks
Intensive Programme
≤ 10
Cohort size
1 Year
Ongoing Support
Completers receive the 10X Certified Manager, Foundation credential. Add it to your LinkedIn profile as evidence of the transition you made.
Five focus areas
Five things keeping new managers
awake. Five focus areas that fix them.
Each focus area is built around your actual challenges. Peer learning across organisations makes every room richer.
Leading People
Leading People
Your team is brilliant. They're not performing as one.
Adapt your style, hold difficult conversations before they become problems, and give feedback that actually changes behaviour.
Delivering Performance
Delivering Performance
You set goals. They disappear by week three.
Build a simple performance system: clear goals, useful 1-to-1s, and early intervention before small issues become formal processes.
Communicating with Impact
Communicating with Impact
You say the right thing. It lands the wrong way.
Influence without authority, communicate decisions that build buy-in, and manage stakeholder expectations before they manage you.
Managing Change & Complexity
Managing Change & Complexity
Everything is urgent. Nothing is clear.
Lead your team through change rather than being ambushed by it. Structured problem-solving and better decisions under pressure.
Building Capability
Building Capability
You're doing their work. They're not growing.
Delegate in a way that develops people, use coaching conversations to unlock performance, and build a team that doesn't need you for everything.
A free seat on the 9 June 2026 cohort. Closes Friday 29 May.
Nominate now →The structure
Three things happen in every focus area. Not one of them is a slideshow.
Prime
The concept, the evidence, and the honest conversation about why it is hard. No slides or decks. We build interactive web pages that bring each focus area to life, stay dynamic to your situation, and make it impossible to zone out.
Execute
You leave with a Personal Execution Plan built in the session. It captures your one commitment and everything that needs to unblock it. Your AI coaching partner, Tensai, supports you in delivering it before you are back.
Elevate
The next session opens by holding you to what you committed to. Real scenarios from your actual work, with peers facing the same thing. This is where the learning stops being abstract and starts changing how you manage.
Behaviour change requires repetition, real application, and reflection under challenge. A one-day workshop provides none of these. Every focus area here provides all three.
Nominate now →Results from our accelerators
The people around you will notice before you do.
0%
average increase in approval ratings from direct reports.
Not a self-assessment. A measurement of how the people you manage experience working with you, before and after.
0%
noticed positive improvement on their 360 feedback.
Your team reports it before you do. That is the proof that matters.
“These workshops were a real dialogue between us rather than your typical monologue training sessions.”
Kutay Saygi, Acquisition Team Lead, Connectd
The full picture
0.0%
average improvement across every management skill measured.
The highlights
0.0%
better at managing up and delivering on business priorities.
0%
better at holding people to account and managing performance.
0%
better at coaching their team.
Based on Manager Strength Index assessments and 360 feedback from managers completing our accelerators. Next cohort starts 9 June 2026.
Nominate now →The transition in practice
Before the Accelerator
You set goals in your 1-to-1. Two weeks later you are chasing the same things.
You avoid the difficult conversation because you are not sure how to have it without it going wrong.
You are doing work your team should be doing because delegating feels harder than just doing it yourself.
You leave meetings unsure whether you actually landed what you needed to say.
You are not sure whether you are actually good at this.
After the Accelerator
You run 1-to-1s that actually move things. People leave them knowing what they are doing and why.
You know how to hold the conversation that needs to happen. You do it before it becomes a crisis.
Your team is taking on work they could not before. You have stopped being the bottleneck.
You communicate decisions in a way that people understand and get behind, not just comply with.
You still find it hard. You just know exactly what to do next.
“
Honestly one of the most engaging training sessions I've had in a long time. It helped me really start thinking about what my purpose is and what drives me. The facilitation sparked genuinely interesting conversation amongst us.
Kirsty Ralston
Assistant Centre Manager, Oxford Innovation
How it compares
Not all programmes are the same.
Not even close.
Everything in the right column is normally included in your £2,500 fee, completely free for competition winners. No add-ons. No upsells.
One-day
course1-day
Cohort
programmeCohort
included
10X Foundations
Accelerator10X Foundations
Your problems. Not someone else's case study.
Designed for everyone. Relevant to no one.
Generic curriculum, applied broadly.
Every session is built around the real challenges the people in the room are facing right now.
An AI coach in your pocket between sessions.
Tensai, your AI performance partner, learns your context and supports you between every focus area.
You leave every session with a plan that has teeth, not just notes.
You leave with a folder. It stays closed.
Your Personal Execution Plan is built in the session. The next focus area starts by holding you to it.
A real person to call when you're stuck.
On-demand access to your Performance Partner through Coach Connect on LeadersLab.
Support that doesn't stop when the programme does.
Ends on the day.
Limited follow-up, if any.
Up to a year of continued support, community access and coaching after the programme ends.
Know exactly where you stand before you start.
The Manager Strength Index assesses your capability across 12 areas and tracks progress throughout.
And everything below is also included
No slides. No decks. Sessions built around your room.
Death by PowerPoint.
Pre-built decks, generic content.
Interactive web pages built to bring each focus area to life, dynamic to your situation.
Peers from other organisations going through the same thing.
Single organisation only.
A cross-company cohort of up to 10 managers, all at the same transition point.
24 live events per year, yours to attend.
Full access to the LeadersLab live event calendar throughout and beyond your programme.
A community of 6,000 managers who get it.
Ask questions, share challenges, get answers from people doing the same job.
60+ masterclasses and courses, on demand.
The full LeadersLab library, alongside your structured programme.
A credential that proves you made the transition.
Varies by provider.
The 10X Certified Manager, Foundation credential. Add it to your LinkedIn profile.
This programme is for managers of individual contributors in their first three years in the role. If you manage a team of managers, our Advanced Accelerator is the better fit. Talk to Danny and he will point you in the right direction.
All of the above normally included at £2,500, completely free for competition winners. No add-ons.
Nominate now →Be honest with yourself
Is this right for you?
Built for you if
You have been managing for less than three years and feel like you are still working things out.
You were promoted because you were brilliant at your job, not because you were trained to lead people.
Your organisation gave you the title but not the toolkit.
You want to practise on real challenges, not discuss hypothetical scenarios.
You are ready to do the work between sessions, not just show up for them.
Probably not for you if
You manage a team of managers rather than individual contributors. The Advanced Accelerator is built for that transition.
You are looking for a formal qualification rather than genuine capability change.
You want a certification to put on your CV without committing to the work in between sessions.
Your organisation needs a bespoke programme scoped to a specific business problem. That is what our Performance Partnership is for.
Not sure if you’re the right fit? Nominate anyway, Josh and Danny will read every entry and tell you honestly.
Full refund guarantee
If after your first session you decide the Accelerator is not right for you, we will give you a full refund. No questions asked.
“The positive energy brought to the workshop really helped keep everyone engaged. A well-delivered session that kept the group focused and involved throughout.”
Your facilitator
Danny Leeds
Principal, Manager Acceleration at 10X Managers
Danny has spent his career doing one thing: making leaders actually lead. With a Level 7 in Strategic Leadership from Sussex Business School, a Level 5 Coaching Professional qualification, and years of hands-on delivery across commercial, public sector, and charity organisations, he knows that the gap between a good manager and a great one is rarely talent. It is tools, structure, and the right support at the right moment.
As Principal of Manager Acceleration at 10X Managers, Danny designs and runs the Foundations and Advanced Accelerators. Open-cohort programmes built for managers going through the hardest transitions in their career. He is a Member of the Institute of Leadership and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.
If you want to talk about whether the Accelerator is right for you, book a call. He will be honest if it isn’t.
“Through the self-assessment and reflection, I decided I need to challenge myself more and make a plan to do that. The content was excellent.”
Naveed Ramzan, PRS Procurement & Placement Officer
“
The key takeaway was direct engagement and applying principles immediately, not overthinking them. I've already started acting on that.
Kate Lomax
Principal ACM Consultant, Changing Social
Common questions
Everything you want to know before you book.
We are giving away free places on our 9 June 2026 Foundations Accelerator cohort. You can nominate yourself, or nominate a manager who deserves it. Submit the nomination form on this page before 23:59 BST on Friday 29 May 2026. Josh and Danny review every nomination personally. Winners will be notified by Monday 1 June 2026.
Yes. Submit a separate nomination for each person, each is judged on its own merits, so a strong, specific case for one person will always beat a generic case for several.
You'll be offered a 10% discount on the June cohort and first access to the next intake. The conversation does not stop with a no.
Three hours. They demand your full attention. They are also unlike any three hours of training you have sat through before. No slides, no passive listening. Every minute is working on something real.
Life happens. If you miss a session, you will receive the session materials and your facilitator will catch you up on your Personal Execution Plan before the next one. Missing more than one session is rare; the cohort creates its own accountability.
Yes, and many do. The programme is priced at £2,500 per person. If you need an invoice for your organisation or L&D team, we can provide one. Talk to Danny on your call and he will sort it.
Not technically. But the programme works better when your manager is involved. We produce a management dashboard you can share with them so they can see your progress, understand your commitments, and actively support your journey through the Accelerator. Having your manager engaged makes a real difference to what you get out of it.
Probably yes. The Foundations Accelerator is designed for managers in the first three years of their first management role. If you were promoted without structured support and still feel like you are working things out, this is for you regardless of how long you have been in the seat.
Up to ten. Small enough that everyone is heard, large enough that the peer learning is rich. We protect cohort quality over cohort size, which means we will run with fewer than ten if the right people are not there yet.
Your LeadersLab access continues for up to a year. You keep access to the community, the live event calendar, the masterclass library, and Coach Connect. The programme ends. The support does not.
If after your first session you decide the Accelerator is not right for you, we will give you a full refund. No questions asked. We would rather you leave with your money and our respect than stay in something that is not working for you.
The next cohort starts 9 June 2026. Places are limited. Once the cohort is full, the next one opens in approximately two months.
A course delivers content. The Accelerator builds habits. The difference is in what happens between sessions. Your Personal Execution Plan, your AI coaching partner, your Performance Partner on call. You are not just learning how to manage. You are practising it, with support, in real time.
Still have a question? Get your nomination in first, you can always ask afterwards. Closes Friday 29 May.
Nominate now →Nominations · Closes Friday 29 May
Make the case. Win the seat.
Tell us about the impact you (or the person you're nominating) will have by being on the 9 June 2026 cohort. Specific beats generic. Stories beat adjectives.
Not nominating? Want more detail first?
Book a call with Danny.
Ask anything.
Want to talk through the programme, sponsor seats for your team, or ask if you’re the right fit before nominating? Danny is the person to speak to. No pitch, no pressure.
£2,500
standard fee per person · free for competition winners
Nominations still open · closes Friday 29 May