Leading People Café
Leave with something you can use right away.
Live, interactive sessions. One topic. One hour. A room full of people who lead, develop, and work with people for a living.
Reserve your place at the next session →WHAT IS THE CAFE?
You don't leave with just ideas.
Every Leading People Café is built around one practical challenge that leaders, HR professionals, L&D teams, and coaches face every day.
Each session combines research, real discussion, and practical application. Before you leave, you'll receive a practical checklist or tool designed to help you put the ideas into practice immediately.
Start with one of them today!
Fill in the form to download your free checklist
IS THIS FOR ME?
The Cafés are for you if…
✓ You lead a team and want to get better at developing the people around you.
✓ You work in HR or L&D and are sometimes frustrated by initiatives that don't seem to work.
✓ You're curious about what research actually says about how people learn and lead.
✓ You want to think alongside others who take Leadership seriously.
HOW IT WORKS
What actually happens in the room.
Not a lecture. Not a webinar. Something closer to a working session — with structure, interaction, and peers who share your challenges.
Research-led framing
Gerry opens with the evidence — data gathered across real workshops and sessions. Each Café is built around findings that are consistent, specific, and practical. You'll leave knowing what the research actually says, not just what the popular books say.
Live polls & quizzes
Throughout the session, you'll sometimes be asked to respond in real time — a quick poll, a scenario, a question that puts the theory to work. The results often start a learning conversation in themselves.
Live chat & Q&A
The chat is active throughout. Questions, reactions, quick takes from peers — it runs alongside the session. There's a dedicated Q&A window where Gerry takes questions directly. The conversations that happen in the chat are often as valuable as the session itself.
Peer discussion
You're in a room with real-world practitioners — HR and L&D leaders, coaches, and managers — all grappling with similar challenges. The discussion that opens up between participants is part of what makes the Café worth showing up to live, not just watching afterwards.
Real-time reactions — the poll results shift the conversation in ways no recording can replicate.
Your question answered — Q&A is live, and Gerry takes questions directly from the room.
Peers in the room — the chat is full of people in similar roles with similar challenges.
One focused hour — no prep needed. Just show up with your curiosity.
WHY SHOW UP LIVE?
The recording captures the content. It doesn't capture the room.
Every session is recorded and made available to members of the Leading People Community. So you can always watch it later.
But the people who get the most from the Café are the ones who join live — because what happens in the chat, the polls, the Q&A, and the moments between ideas isn't something you can replay.
Register for the Next Session →NEXT SESSION
Coming up this September
Reserve your place now — spaces are limited and registration closes before the session.
Conversations That Make a Difference
In this session you’ll discover the Conversation Compass: a simple way to read what any conversation that matters actually needs, and to see which way your own instincts naturally pull you. You'll come away understanding why your strongest instinct can sometimes quietly work against you, and with something you can put into practice before your very next difficult conversation. Whether the conversations you're bracing for are with your team, your peers, or your boss, this one's worth an hour..
Reserve my place →PAST SESSIONS
What we've covered so far
Every recording lives in the Leading People Community — free to access for all members.
All recordings — plus previews of upcoming sessions, early announcements, and the full Café archive — live inside the Leading People Community. It's free to join.
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YOUR HOST
Gerry Murray
Gerry is a leadership expert, facilitator, and host of the Leading People Podcast — over 100 episodes of conversations with some of the world's most interesting thinkers on leadership, learning, and people development.
His career spans nine years at the World HQ of DHL, consulting work with large global organisations and the EU, and three years of workshops on adult learning and skill development that produced the research behind the Café.
✓ Certified in the 12 Levers of Transfer Effectiveness
✓ Brain-Based Design & Facilitation · NeuroLeadership Institute
✓ MBA · Alliance Manchester Business School · TEDx Speaker 2022
Things people usually ask
What if I can't attend live?
Do I need to prepare anything beforehand?
Is it really free?
Where do past recordings live?
How is this different from a webinar?
Where do I find upcoming sessions and early announcements?
ONE LAST THING
This isn't just another webinar.
The Café exists because the conversations worth having about leadership and people development rarely happen in the normal run of work. This is one hour — where they do.
Bring your curiosity!
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