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Lequin leadership development

Sectors · Financial Services

Leadership development for banks, insurers and building societies that have run the training already.

23-year UK leadership development partner. 19 years inside BNP Paribas CIB since 2007. Senior populations at HSBC Private Bank, RBS, National Australia Bank, Skipton Building Society, Lloyd's of London, Zurich and AXA. Behavioural change that holds when the regulator, the restructure or the integration arrives.

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

The atrium of a modern financial services headquarters

The moment you call us in

Heads of L&D in UK financial services call Lequin in a small number of recognisable moments. A merger or acquisition has closed and two leadership teams are being asked to operate as one before the integration plan is finished. A new regulatory regime needs a senior cohort to lead through it, not just sit through a briefing. A restructure has settled and the leaders who survived it are now being asked to hold the culture together. The front office is showing change fatigue and the usual programme will not move it. These are not training problems. They are leadership behaviour problems sitting underneath the strategy.

Trusted by senior leaders inside

Senior populations inside these UK financial services businesses have brought Lequin in for leadership development, executive coaching and team coaching.

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Featured engagement

BNP Paribas CIB · 19 years

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Lequin has partnered with BNP Paribas CIB for 19 years, supporting leaders and teams across the organisation through periods of growth, change and increasing organisational complexity.

Our work has included executive coaching, leadership team development and management training across multiple business areas and international locations.

Training topics have ranged from emotional intelligence and resilience to influencing, communication and leading through change.

The focus has been on practical behavioural change that translates back into day to day leadership and team performance.

The sessions are interactive, commercially grounded and designed around the realities of working in high pressure corporate environments. We help leaders communicate more effectively, build stronger relationships and lead with greater clarity and impact.

How our three pillars apply

The same discipline, shaped to your operating context

01

1:1 Coaching

for the leader the bank is worried about, and the one stepping up

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Marie Willis leads 1:1 coaching at Lequin. Within financial services, we support the regional head stepping into an MD role, the front office leader the business is privately worried about, or the high potential being readied for the next move. Each engagement is paired with one named senior coach. No algorithmic matching. No rotating pool of associates. We work inside regulated firms where the political, commercial and reputational stakes around senior coaching are high.

02

Team Coaching

for exec teams holding the firm together through change

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Most exec teams in UK banks and insurers do not fail because the people are not capable. They struggle because trust has broken down, decisions stall in pairs outside the room, and the integration or restructure has not been spoken about honestly. Our team coaching draws on systems coaching principles to shift the patterns, relationships and dynamics inside the team itself. We are most often called in post merger, post restructure or when a regulatory change cohort needs the senior layer to lead through it rather than just sit through the briefing.

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Training

workshops built for front office and operations populations

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Peter Willis oversees training at Lequin. Workshops are practical, interactive and designed for immediate application back on the desk or in the operations function. We run 90-minute sessions, half days and full days on the conversations financial services leaders actually have: difficult conversations, influencing with authority, leading through change, resilience under pressure, communicating with clarity. 85% of management training disappears in six months (Knowles Research). Ours is built to hold.

Already convinced? Book 30 minutes about your financial services 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 Financial Services L&D leaders ask before booking

We have worked inside regulated UK banks, insurers and building societies for 19 years. Engagements are scoped with HRD and L&D leads alongside the relevant compliance and risk stakeholders. Confidentiality is named on the SOW. We do not handle regulatory training content itself. We handle the leadership behaviour underneath it.

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.

Book the pilot