Senior Consultant – Leadership Programmes

Location: Flexible (Hybrid)

Contract Type: Full‑Time

Travel: Occasional

Outside is an award-winning, research-based consultancy helping leaders and organisations harness the new science of mindset to transform their futures. We help our clients develop their leaders, find growth in uncertain times, and build agile, future ready cultures.

Our work with senior leaders enables them to build their mindset and human advantage so they can lead their teams and organisations in an increasingly uncertain world where machines can think.

We are now looking for an experienced Senior Consultant who can lead our high-impact leadership mindset programmes end-to-end and act as a trusted adviser to our clients.

This is a core consulting role  a Senior Consultant, you will lead complex leadership programmes from initial sense‑making and design through to delivery and lasting impact. You will work closely with senior decision‑makers (often C‑suite) and facilitate programmes for cohorts of senior leaders.

This role is for someone who can combine consulting judgement with exceptional session design and facilitation skills. Someone who wants to learn, apply and steward Outside’s mindset approach – not simply deliver sessions – and create lasting impact for leaders, the client relationship and their own ongoing development.

Senior Consultants at Outside work in close partnership with our Programme Experience and Programme Management team, who are accountable for the end‑to‑end participant experience and operational delivery of programmes. Senior Consultants hold accountability for the integrity of the programme content design, the quality of facilitation, and the impact of the work. This partnership allows Senior Consultants to focus fully on senior stakeholders, cohort learning, and mindset impact, supported by robust delivery excellence.

• Conducting initial sense‑making interviews with key client stakeholders to define the programme brief and develop a cohesive programme narrative.
• Designing core business metrics and learning objectives that can be tracked and measured throughout the programme.
• Conducting cohort analysis and understanding business needs to design optimal programme journeys that combine learning events, virtual sessions, individual learning assignments and ongoing coaching support.
• Designing tailored learning events and sessions using core Outside mindset content and approaches that create unique experiences for leaders.
• Exceptional facilitation of in‑person learning events and virtual sessions creating deep confidence and trust amongst senior leader cohorts.
• Ongoing adaptation of programme design and content based on cohort dynamics and organisational context.
• Developing tailored coaching approaches for programmes based on the content journey. Coaching leaders and leading Outside coaching teams to ensure delegates receive consistent and impactful experience across the programme – adapting to observations and cohort need.
• Working in close partnership with the Programme Experience and Programme Management team to ensure delivery is seamless, thoughtful, and outcomes driven.
• Anticipating risks and second and third‑order impacts, escalating and addressing them early and constructively.

• Understand all programme components and how they support defined business metrics and learning objectives; enabling them to manage stakeholders and maximise programme success.
• Manage and navigate implications of organisational changes upon programme design and resulting trade‑offs for delivery.
• Make confident decisions throughout the programme in the interests of both the business and programme participants.

• Stay at the forefront of Outside’s mindset thinking and practices.
• Integrate evolving research into live programmes with judgement and integrity.
• Continuously strengthen your own consulting craft, facilitation presence, and decision‑making around Outside’s core mindset…