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The High CQ Leadership Programme
Build your capacity to achieve change - and enjoy a beautiful Devon retreat
Exeter, 10th-12th November 2026
Your Instructor
Tina Antonio, BA, MSc
Tina Antonio has 3 decades of experience in helping charities and social enterprises to bring about change both as a specialist third sector consultant and as an experienced charity Director and founder of her own Social Enterprise. Her involvement in change programmes includes an award-winning social change initiative for children affected by disability and spans domestic violence, mental and physical health, poverty and homelessness, protection for animals and wildlife and a global collaboration for reforestation to address climate change and poverty.
Tina combines this change experience with over 30 years practical and recent leadership experience and an intense curiosity in leadership, strategy and supporting scientific research, particularly the mechanics of how people change their way of thinking.
Tina is a seasoned trainer who has delivered training for CAF, VOSCUR and a range of clients as well as in schools. Her qualifications include an MSc in Strategy, Leadership and Change, an ILM Certificate in Leadership, and Certificates in Coaching and Mentoring and Restorative Justice.
Content
3 Face To Face Days - Essential Experiential Learning In Beautiful Devon
Session 1, 10th November 2026: Unravelling the messy world of change-maker strategy
We’ll unravel, demystify and equip you to manage the messy world of change-maker strategies – the first step to mobilising change:
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Discover a change makers toolkit to create mobilising change strategies
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Enter the world of Systems Thinking
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Real life change initiatives – their challenges and successes!
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Understanding the user experience
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Creating future best practice – explore innovation strategies
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Set goals and learn how to measure the impact you create
Session 2, 11th November 2026: Motivational leadership - achieving impact together with your team
We’ll explore together the nuanced world of leadership to help you to both define and live your own unique style and through greater understanding to master some of the more sticky, tricky aspects of leading human beings when action really counts:
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Discover your effective change-leadership style
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Understand and build deeper team motivation
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Explore the different ways that people make decisions
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Learn to recognise and overcome your personal obstacles
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Learn approaches to prevent and tackle leadership challenges
Session 2, 12th November 2026: Leading to amplify change
A deep dive into the intricacies of achieving attitudinal and behavioural change across constituencies, systems and countries.
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The ‘soft backdrop’ of Project Management – where the real action takes place
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From idea to action – what encourages and prevents people from changing
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Ways to collaborate and influence more effectively
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Action networks – working with partners, systems and resources to achieve change
3 Follow up sessions online
Session 1 - 19th November 10 am -12 pm:
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‘Walking In Your Stakeholder’s Shoes – learning more from the User Experience
Session 2 - 26th November 10am-12pm:
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‘Positive Feedback’ approaches – nurturing team development
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Restorative Care planning – for better decision making and resilience
Session 3 - 3rd December 10am-12 pm:
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Participant choice of topics - Action Learning Sets
Tranquil, meditative, inspiring - the benefits of learning in Devon
A Learning Retreat - the benefits of face to face learning
IN EXETER DEVON - ACCESSIBLE AND BEAUTIFUL
We deliver the majority of the programme as a 3 day, face to face retreat in a tranquil and beautiful setting in one of Devon's most stunning locations - Reed Hall at the University of Exeter. Just minutes from Exeter's vibrant and arty Exeter Quay and Gandy Street and a short train ride from attractions like the quaint water-front town of Topsham, it offers everything for both learning and relaxing together afterwards.
Experiential, face to face learning has been shown to gain better, more lasting results. It gives you space and focus for the reflection necessary to develop more effective leadership knowledge, the invaluable learning experience of interacting with other leaders and the opportunity to properly unpack and learn the complexities of change strategy and amplification.
Running the face-to-face sessions back-to-back over 3 days also allows you to immediately connect the different aspects of learning for greater impact and to quickly achieve the learning goals. We run this as an optional residential – enabling individuals working locally in Devon and in counties further afield to all participate in the programme.
The 3 online follow up sessions then allow you to continue the conversations and support with the people you’ve met on the programme and to deepen your understanding.
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Benefits of The High CQ Leadership Programme
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Quickly equips you with the major tools to achieve change
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Provides you with the strategic tools and approaches to achieve meaningful change and introduces you to systems thinking
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Helps you to discover or develop your own change-leadership style - to lead change more effectively in a way authentic to you
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Creates expert, inventive and aligned teams for maximum progress
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Focuses precious time and resources more efficiently
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Helps you and your team to amplify change across communities, systems and countries, including giving you access to unique research on factors affecting individual change
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Builds valuable new connections and learning from other leaders of change
Why Choose Us?
BEYOND THEORY - PRACTICAL CHANGE
Experienced Leaders
Over 30 years of recent leadership experience
Decades of achieving change
Track record of achieving change for purpose-led organisations - including award-winning social change programmes
Qualified
Qualified to Masters level in leadership and strategy
Experienced Trainers
We've been training CEOs and teams for over 3 decades, for individual organisations and on behalf of local authorities, CAF and other umbrella organisations.
Strategy Expertise
Consultancy specialism in strategic, systems thinking and design approaches with years of experience in application for purpose-led organisations.
Backed by science - unique research
Psychology, neuroscience and, behavioural, along with unique CQL research into factors affecting mental model change..
Who is it for?
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Workers in charities and social enterprises who are either responsible for change interventions now or planning a career path in that direction
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CEOs, Heads of Department, Directors and Middle Managers
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Policy makers in government, local authority, charities and social enterprises
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Grant-making trusts and charitable foundations
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Leaders in purpose-minded companies defining and enacting CSR policies