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Lequin leadership development

Sectors · Energy & Utilities

Leadership development for energy and utilities teams running the strategy beneath the strategy.

23-year UK leadership development partner for the senior teams running operational delivery through regulator decisions, PE acquisitions and multi year strategy rollouts. 14 years inside EDF across six business units. Multi year engagements at RWE, Enfinium, Northland Power, Welsh Water, Calisen and Cory.

No obligation. We'll send a written summary within 48 hours.

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The moment you call us in

Heads of L&D in energy and utilities call Lequin when something has just shifted under the strategy. Sometimes it is a private equity acquisition that landed a new CEO and Executive Committee with commercial targets that need a senior team to actually operate as one. Sometimes it is a multi year strategy that needs the senior team to land it through cycles of operational change. Sometimes it is the regulator environment moving again and the leadership behaviour needing to move with it. The conversations are familiar in the sector and rarely on a slide. Trust, accountability across silos, safety culture under pressure, and what happens to leadership behaviour when the operating environment shifts.

Trusted by senior leaders inside

Senior leadership teams and L&D leaders inside these businesses have brought Lequin in for team coaching, executive coaching and management development training.

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Featured engagement

Enfinium · senior team alignment under PE ownership

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Lequin partnered with a fast-growing organisation following its acquisition by a private equity group and the appointment of a new CEO and Executive Committee.

The business was under pressure to deliver ambitious commercial targets while adapting to new leadership expectations, tighter accountability and very different ways of working.

Our work focused on helping the senior team align previously siloed parts of the organisation, strengthen communication and improve how the Executive Committee operated together under pressure. Alongside this, we supported the team in building more effective relationships with the Board and Non-Executive Directors, while embedding a more consistent safety-first culture across the organisation.

The work combined team coaching, facilitated leadership sessions and behaviour focused work on the actual conversations the Executive Committee needed to have: accountability across silos, safety culture under operating pressure, and the relationship with the Board, rather than theoretical models.

By creating greater alignment, openness and accountability at senior level, the organisation was better able to deliver against demanding targets during a significant period of transition.

How our three pillars apply

The same discipline, shaped to your operating context

01

1:1 Coaching

for the leader carrying a regulated, change heavy remit

See how 1:1 coaching works

Energy and utilities leaders rarely run a clean year. The policy environment shifts. The capital plan moves. A new CEO arrives with a different operating cadence. Lequin's 1:1 coaching supports senior leaders, operations directors and high potentials working through these moments: the new remit, the safety conversation that landed badly, the board paper that needs a different voice. The work is practical and commercially grounded. The focus is behavioural change leaders can use back inside the business, not endless reflection.

02

Team Coaching

for the Executive Committee or business unit board

See how team coaching works

Most energy and utilities team coaching with Lequin runs three to six group sessions across nine to twelve months, paired with the same senior coach across the arc. Systems coaching means we work the dynamic between the people in the room and the wider organisation around them: the regulator, the parent company, the operating businesses, the workforce. The Enfinium case study above is the shape we are often asked for. The EDF Dalkia UK Board work is the longest example of the same pattern held across leadership transition and a four year strategy.

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Training

for the management population behind the strategy

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When a four year strategy lands in an energy or utilities business, the management layer is the layer that decides whether it actually moves. Lequin's training is built for that layer. 90 minute, half day and full day workshops on the conversations that define leadership when policy and operating context keep moving: leading with clarity in uncertain times, managing resistance to change, difficult conversations, influencing with authority. Practical, interactive, small numbers, behaviour first.

Already convinced? Book 30 minutes about your energy & utilities leadership challenge.

We'll send a written summary within 48 hours and tell you if we're the right fit.

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Before booking

Questions Energy & Utilities L&D leaders ask before booking

Yes. The Enfinium engagement above is exactly this shape: a new CEO and Executive Committee following a private equity acquisition, ambitious commercial targets and a senior team that needed to operate as one under tighter accountability. We work the alignment, communication and behaviour in the room while you hold the operating delivery.

Where to start

Most engagements with Lequin begin one of two ways. Both are free or fixed price. Neither starts with a sales pitch.

Option one

The 30-minute discovery call

A 30-minute call with Peter or Marie, depending on whether you're closer to the training or coaching question. We ask eight questions about your leadership challenge and what's happened so far, then send a written summary within 48 hours, including whether we think we're the right fit.

Book a 30-minute call

Option two

The £1,500 pilot workshop

A 90-minute online workshop for up to 12 of your leaders. Choose one topic from our list. We lead the session, your people take part, you watch the work. If we're the wrong fit, we'll tell you and you keep the materials. Most pilots happen within 6 weeks of booking.

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