Turning New Managers into

High-Performing Leaders. Fast.

Turning New Managers into High-Performing Leaders. Fast.

Meet our founder, Heather Elkington.

Starting as an Assistant Manager on the iconic Harrods shop floor, Heather went on to play a key role building and selling a successful tech company, eventually becoming an Ops Director of a FTSE-100 subsidary, leading five diverse teams across an organisation of 11,000 employees.

These experiences showed Heather the transformative power of leadership in driving business success. Inspired to share the principles that fueled her journey, she founded Fresh Leadership World – a platform dedicated to empowering new managers and creating a world where people genuinely love the work they do.

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Fresh Start
Course

Worried your new managers are flying blind without the tools to lead confidently? Equip them with the systems, skills and mindset to thrive from day one.

Workplace
Training & Speaking

Heather is a TedX public speaker and runs empowering leadership workshops for huge clients such as the Ministry of Defence and Wolters Kluwer.

Online
Community

Most managers are undertrained, overwhelmed, and left to figure it out alone, while still being expected to lead with confidence. The Fresh Leadership World Community was built for this exact reason.

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From Assistant Manager on the Harrods shop floor, to playing a key role in building and scaling a SaaS company to £2m+ revenue, exiting with the team for 8 figures, then moving into an Operations Director role at a FTSE100 subsidiary, managing 5 different teams.

Heather runs leadership workshops for huge clients such as the Ministry of Defence and Wolters Kluwer, Heather is a TedX public speaker, writer, coach and trusted social media educator.

She has directly trained 10,000+ workplace leaders, and reached 10s of millions with her work.