- |Who is Leadership Moves for?
- Any team that works together and wants to do it better. That can be a leadership or management team, or a manager and the team they lead day to day — and the everyday, side-by-side teams get just as much from it as a room full of senior leaders, sometimes more. There's no need to be in the middle of a big change, either: it's just as valuable for a settled team that simply wants to work together better. It works best when the manager takes part alongside everyone else, and where there's psychological safety, or a real intent to build it.
- |How large should the team be?
- Up to twelve. Beyond about a dozen the room loses the intimacy the work depends on — everyone needs to be seen. There's no minimum; it works beautifully with a handful of people just as much as with a full team.
- |Do we need any experience?
- None. No preparation, no athletic ability, nothing to learn in advance. Show up as you are.
- |Do we have to perform or learn choreography?
- No — nothing to memorise, and nothing to get right in front of anyone. Simple partner movement is the method; what you learn about how your team leads, follows, and communicates is the point.
- |Is there salsa dancing involved?
- I'm a salsa dancer, and that's where the whole idea comes from — but no, there's no salsa in the room. (Depending on how you feel about salsa, that's either a relief or a disappointment.) The method is simple partner movement: nothing to learn in advance, no routine to perform.
- |Do I have to get close to my colleagues?
- Not really — no closer than shaking hands. There's no classic partner dance hold, nothing intimate. The most contact in the whole session is a light hand-to-hand hold, the kind you'd use to shake hands; some of the work uses no contact at all — just eye contact and standing near each other. You stay in your own space throughout, and you're never asked to be nearer to anyone than you'd be in an ordinary working moment.
- |What actually happens in a session?
- About four hours together, in person, with breaks — and almost none of it is sitting and listening. It's hands-on from the start. Working in pairs and small groups, you go through a series of simple movement exercises, each one a stand-in for something that plays out in your team all the time — leading, following, reading another person, handing the lead back and forth. The movement is deliberately easy, so nothing rests on skill; your attention stays on what it reveals.
The rhythm is move, then reflect: after each one we stop and talk through what you noticed and what it mirrors back at work — and that's where the real insight lands. It builds gently as it goes, it's guided from start to finish, and there's no performing and no being put on the spot. What the team notices is captured as you go, and the shared picture you build together is written up and sent to you afterwards. Informative, surprising, and by every account so far genuinely good fun. - |What does a team leave with?
- Three insights — me, you, and us. Me: each person sees their own default moves, when they step up to lead and when they ease back to follow. You: each person feels what it's like in the other role, to lead and to be led — the kind of empathy you can only get by experiencing it. Us: a shared language for how the team works together, its “corporate dance”. All of it is captured, so the team has something to return to and keep building on.
- |Where does it take place?
- Anywhere private where everyone can move around freely. A large meeting room with the table pushed to the side works perfectly, as does any venue you arrange — during an offsite, for example. All we need is room to move, some chairs set in a circle, and a clear stretch of wall for notes. We also use music, so somewhere that's fine to play it. One thing worth considering: somewhere the team won't be overlooked by people outside it — a little privacy helps everyone be open.
- |How do we get started?
- Start a conversation — tell us about your team and what you're navigating right now, and we'll take it from there.