Your ambition is only as good as your leaders’ habits.
The leadership gym where leaders and self-leaders build the skills that matter. Through small daily habits, consistent practice, personal support from expert trainers, and their own team as the training ground.
The problem
Sound familiar?
You’ve invested in leadership development. Now how do you make sure it really makes a difference?
Five familiar challenges. Five better answers.
Discover how SkillsGym answers all five
How do we keep the momentum going?
Development that never stops
How do we measure behaviour change?
Measure what changes, not who attends
How do we involve the team?
Make the team part of the journey
How do we reach everyone?
One gym for every leader and self-leader
How do we make it personal?
The right skills for the right person, at the right time
The solution
Some companies buy leadership programmes. Others build leaders.
It took a professional athlete to change how we think about leadership development.
Sarah Cherif and Nils Maes · founder of SkillsGym and co-founder of SkillsGym Health
After 15 years of delivering leadership programmes with great results and happy clients, we partnered with Nils, a professional athlete and gym owner, to develop our well-being programmes.
He challenged our thinking:
You don't build excellence through a programme. You build it through consistent practice.
And he was right.
You don't get stronger from one great workout. You get stronger by training consistently, following a personal plan, and having experienced trainers and a supportive community to keep you going.
So we combined our leadership expertise with the mindset of professional sports. And SkillsGym was born.
Because leadership, just like fitness, isn't something you learn once. It's something you train.
That’s why we built the SkillsGym Hub.
Because leaders and their teams need a place to get stronger.
Personalised.
Every good trainer starts with an intake.
A personal trainer doesn’t hand everyone the same programme. Our smart onboarding intake, built on 20 years of developing leaders, gets to the root cause: the 1–3 skills that will transform this leader, their team and your company.
What the leader needs
Their challenges, ambitions and strengths.
What the team needs
In their own words, from the intake.
What the company needs
The priorities your strategy depends on.
One Hub for every leader and self-leader in your company, each with their own plan.
Proven habit plans.
Evidence-based habits that are the easiest to build, for the largest number of people, with the biggest impact.
Tested with 100,000+ leaders, we know which small habits for complex skills like coaching, feedback and vision actually work for busy leaders — in the day to day, working with real people and real teams.
The easiest to build
Habits chosen so that the largest number of people actually keep them.
The biggest impact
Small habits aimed at complex skills like coaching, feedback and vision.
Tested with 100,000+ leaders
We know what works for busy leaders, with real people and real teams.
The AI Habit coach helps customise these proven habits to each leader’s reality.
In the team.
You don’t build habits on an island. The team is the training ground.
The elephant usually missing from leadership development rooms? The team. Habits aren’t built in a classroom. They’re built in real life, with the people you lead.
The team shares their needs
They take part in the onboarding intake, so the leader trains what their people actually need.
The team trains alongside
While the leader builds a skill, the team builds the complementary one. Both sides of the habit get stronger.
The team keeps score
Short pulse surveys show what’s really changing, rated by the people who feel the difference.
With support.
Nobody trains alone.
SkillsGym never leaves a leader on their own.
Weekly live sessions
The weekly rhythm that keeps habits alive — practised live with our trainers.
Coaching and training from our habit experts
Extra support when a leader needs it, booked through an easy credit system.
Come train with us.
We've spent 20 years in the leadership gym, not the lecture hall. Our trainers know what works in real teams, with real challenges. They bring proven habits, practical support and the energy to help leaders start strong and keep growing.
What a leader gets with their membership.
Everything they need to turn leadership ambition into behaviour — and everything you need to see the change happen.
Everything a leader needs to keep developing.
Personalized leadership plan
1–3 focus skills, chosen from three inputs: the leader, their team and your business priorities.
50+ Skill Practice Plans
Every skill broken into 3 habits and 3 conversations — small enough to practise inside real work.
Team feedback
The people who experience the behaviour rate what's changing — every week, not in a survey.
Live support for the leaders and their teams:
✓ IncludedTeam engagement
They share their plan and bring their team along to live sessions.
Weekly Live Sessions
Weekly live sessions with our trainers, included in the membership.
Access to coaching and team workshops
One-to-one coaching and team workshops, added with credits when they need more.
Customised for every client. Powered by one Hub.
We design the live activities around your people and your goals. The SkillsGym Leadership Hub keeps everyone practising between sessions. Here is how four clients put the two together.
Finally, HR can answer: did leadership actually change?
Not what people completed. What they're doing differently — and whether it lasts.
SkillsGym combines leaders' own progress with feedback from the people who experience their leadership every day: their teams.
From learning analytics to behaviour change.
Jump on a call with Sarah.
Explore the SkillsGym Leadership Hub in more depth, talk to us about your leadership challenges, or build a more intensive journey around your needs.
Book a demoWe also design leadership academies, retreats, full-day training and coaching — with the SkillsGym Leadership Hub keeping development alive before, between and after every experience.
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