“Authentic Leadership” is a buzz phrase in management theory and politics. It accounts for a significant percentage of the £750m spent on leadership development in the UK each year. But what are authentic leaders? What do they do? How easy is it to be an authentic leader – and can you pretend to be one?

Ken Ideus, founder and director of Delta Partnership has unique views on this issue. Click here to read Ken's thoughts on this issue.

One of the core developments of our work on authentic leadership has been the Leader's Voice programme. This unique leadership development experience combines state of the art recording facilities and innovative coaching techniques to guide senior leaders on their quest to find a true and authentic voice and leadership style.

The new Leader's Voice programme has been successfully run for several organisations including the national oil company of Angola , Sonangol. Our first public programme was held at the world famous Abbey Road Studios, London in September. The event was very successful and we plan to run further public courses in 2008. Dates will be published on the Leader's Voice website: www.leadersvoice.co.uk.

For further insight into The Leader's Voice click here or call Marion Pidgeon on +44 (0)1932 829730.

We are delighted to be working with Shell Malaysia to embed Shadow Coaching as a creative and sustainable development programme for existing leaders and emerging talent.

Commissioned by Shell Malaysia's HR Director, the programme is being implemented locally by Delta consultant, Sarah Alexander. Sarah is supporting and coaching 9 pairs of leaders and shadow coaches.

Shadow Coaching is a powerful co-development process that harnesses the experience of senior executives with the potential of emerging leaders. To read more about this process, including a case study, click here.

The Delta Energy Group has been recently formed to channel and integrate our experience and expertise of consulting within the energy sector. We have brought together an industry leading network of development professionals to provide bespoke consultancy to organisations working within and for the energy sector.

To download a brochure click here.

How does a organisation like Delta deal with Social Responsibility? By supporting projects with the sole objective of making a contribution.

When Skills for Southern Sudan, an NGO based in the UK and Kenya, contacted Ken Ideus through a former colleague, Peter Moore, they were needing support - and in a time frame that made it difficult. The request, to go to Southern Sudan for the better part of 3 months to lead a project supporting the development of leaders and staff for the newly formed government there. The answer, yes, we'll make it work!

Ken worked with his 8 member local team and he was joined in August by Peter Curran, another Delta consultant, who helped to set up a system of training records.

To read more of this story click here.

As part of the ongoing development of our consultancy services we are delighted to announce the launch of our new and refreshed website. To keep up to date with the latest news and insight into our innovative approach to individual and organisational development, visit or bookmark www.delta-partnership.com.