ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - SCOTLAND-BASED - WORLDWIDE
Helping people and organisations work better together.
We work with leaders, teams and organisations who need to think clearly, act decisively and build the capability to keep improving.
Senior practitioners. Bespoke work. Lasting results.
Services
Three areas of work. All grounded in the same belief: that when people understand themselves, each other and their context, they deliver better.
Leadership development
We design and deliver leadership programmes for individuals, cohorts and whole organisations — from first-line supervisors stepping into people management to senior leaders navigating complex, global environments. Our programmes combine behavioural insight, practical tools and real-world application. They're built around your context, not a generic curriculum.
High-stakes facilitation
Our IAF Certified Professional Facilitators design and lead sessions where the quality of the conversation matters — strategy days, governance reviews, complex stakeholder processes, contract mobilisations, community consultations and anywhere a group needs to think well together. We take care of the process so you can be fully in the room.
Organisational development consultancy
We help organisations understand what's working, what isn't, and what to do next. That might be an independent lessons-learned review, an organisational health check, a capacity development programme, or a learning system built from the ground up. The work is always grounded, always practical and always leaves something useful behind.
Executive coaching
For leaders who want a thinking partner with no agenda other than helping them do their best work. We work with a small number of executives and senior leaders at any one time, either on a standalone basis or as part of a wider programme. The work is confidential, practical and grounded in your reality, not a coaching framework you have to fit yourself into.
Client List
A small selection of recent clients. We work across private, public and third sectors. Most clients return. Many engage us across more than one programme.
Cambridge City Council
Glasgow Life
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
BHJ A/S
Worley
Scottish Government
CGIAR
Wageningen University & Research
Jan de Nul
“Clear structure, genuine flexibility, and a consistent focus on who we're trying to be as an organisation. It didn't feel like a training programme. It felt like serious work.”
— recent Team Coaching client
Our Team
With LEEWAY you always work directly with experienced practitioners, not an account manager who hands you over to a junior team. We are a dynamic community of specialists, brought together on the basis of shared values and complementary expertise.
Nikki Tierney
Founder
Nikki founded LEEWAY after twenty years in people performance on major capital projects in the UK Continental Shelf. She is an IAF Certified Professional Facilitator with deep experience in leadership development, high-stakes facilitation and organisational change. She works with senior leaders and complex organisations across engineering, energy, public sector and global research — and brings the same grounded, practical approach to everything she does.
Founder
Joe Tierney
Joe has spent his career making complex operations work under pressure, be that running offshore safety training centres across four continents or mobilising flotels in a pandemic. He knows what good operational capability looks like, and what gets in the way of it. At LEEWAY he works with clients to design training programmes that are practical, grounded in real working environments and built to last.
Good work starts with good conversation.
There's no obligation and no pitch deck. Just a straightforward conversation about what you're trying to do and whether LEEWAY is the right partner for it.