Self-Managing Leadership Program

Level up your leadership game.

Unlock future opportunities to make a bigger impact as an Oxford Leadership-certified Purpose-Driven Leader.

+1,000,000 Lives Transformed

Previously Reserved for Leaders at Fortune 500 Companies

For Growth-Minded Leaders

What impact will you make in your next chapter?

Every manager dreams of having a bigger impact.

But it takes more than titles to become an influential and effective leader.

To be the person everyone turns to in times of crisis…
To elevate the experiences and performance of your colleagues…

To drive change at every level of your organisation…

Means mastering your ability to lead and motivate yourself.

The Self-Managing Leadership® programme gives you the tools to transform your personal purpose into the bigger impact you want to make in the next chapter of your life.

“Last five weeks were very insightful and super inspiring. I am happy to take the opportunity of great investment into myself by focusing on the purpose and my next chapter.”

Head of Administrations, European Merchant Bank

“Last five weeks were very insightful and super inspiring. I am happy to take the opportunity of great investment into myself by focusing on the purpose and my next chapter.”

Head of Administrations, European Merchant Bank

Define Your Purpose

Unlock the power of purpose-driven performance.

Purpose-driven individuals contribute up to 18 times more value to their organisations. (Source: Laszlo Bock, Work Rules!)

That’s because Purpose-Driven Leaders define success beyond business and financial targets. They know real success contributes to a greater purpose that delivers a positive impact on our wider society.

The Self-Managing Leadership® programme shows you step-by-step how to become a Purpose-Driven Leader, supported by:

Where Purpose Drive Results

Synchronize your personal & professional success.

Find your purpose, identify your vision, and unlock the next chapter of your life and career with our proven 10-step programme.
90-Day Action Plan

Start making a deeper impact
in 90 days.

Our coaches will guide you through a transformation process of analysis and discovery where you will unpack and develop your inner “why.” With a clear direction forward, you’ll formulate a personalised and downloadable 90-Day Action Plan to start realising your full potential as a purpose-driven leader.

Interactive Learning Platform

The world’s most advanced self-management program.

Use our unique online platform to transform yourself and your people. In addition to ten in-depth interactive video-based modules, our digitalized SML Model offers insights into your strengths and weaknesses and allows you to define who you are as a leader based on your values and purpose.

Globally Recognised Certification

Differentiate yourself as an Oxford Leadership Certified SML® Online Coach

Accelerate your career path as an Oxford Leadership-certified Purpose-Driven Leader. Stand out to potential employers with a globally recognised certification from one of the world’s premier leadership development consultancies.

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A step-by-step framework formerly exclusive to Fortune 500 leaders.

Our methodologies and frameworks have helped some of the biggest organisations around the world develop 300,000+ transformational leaders and unlock purpose-driven performance.

Interactive Learning Platform

Join +1,000,000 leaders making a bigger impact in others’ lives.

“I have always been a reflective person but the course gave me unexpected insight and clarity about my why/purpose and my next page in life. I find the printable action plan at the end of sessions very useful.”

Marketing & Engagement Director at WW...

“I have participated earlier in several classical general management and leadership programs. I found the content of the Oxford Leadership program useful, the online form is very flexible. Brian Beacon is doing a really god job in the videos. The inner compass model used in the program is brilliant and easy to remember. The program did broaden my perspective, it made me more present, more relaxed and more effective.”

Manager Storage & Server Virtualization Technologi...

“A source of condensed wisdom and a great tool helping to guide yourself through important turns of life, simply structured, compelling, easy to use and time efficient. Haven’t you found your purpose yet?”

Project Leader, Skill Shift Initiative

“The program really made me think about myself, my values, my part and my future and to see patterns in myself and in my work that I did not see before.”

Gert Sköld

CEO, Scandinavian Track Group

“I’ve been through many high-end executive coaching, training and personal leadership programmes. What shocked me about this one was how incredibly sharp and insightful the resulting action plan was in terms of my vision, values and actions. The short, engaging and impactful videos created the space to go inwards. I intend to bring all new hires through this process as part of their development plan.”

CEO, Inward Sales

“This program has helped me have more self awareness about my behaviours and routines. The way it has been built is extremely professional and has effectively guided me through all the fundamental steps needed to reach the right action plan like a real coach. It’s a program I would recommend for everyone seeking a journey of purpose and significance.”

Financial Manager, Mersaco

Our Global Network of 200+ World-Class Online Coaches

Helping leaders strategise their lives for 30+ years.

Brian Bacon

In 1991, one of Australia’s largest power companies hired Brian to help their executive team manage a stressful organizational transformation. Having spent the last 10 years practicing raja yoga to cope with his own work-related stress, Brian designed a workshop that used meditation techniques to help these leaders guide their decision-making from a place of inner peace.

Not long after, this power company became an industry role model for organizational transformation, and the workshop developed into our Self-Managing Leadership program.

Since then, we’ve refined the SML program for exclusive use in large organizations throughout Europe, the United States, India, Asia, China and Australia.

Now we’re proud to help individuals across the globe gain peace of mind with our newest version of the online Self-Managing Leadership program.

SML® Program Curriculum

Our 10-Step Leadership Compass Model

Develop a strategic plan for yourself to guide your career over the course of 10 comprehensive modules.

Where have I come from and how did I get here?

Identify what stage you are at in your life.

  • See where you’ve come from and what you’ve learned
  • Identify what (good and bad) patterns of thinking, responding and behaving you’ve acquired
  • Determine what scale of change you need to undertake
  • Discover your presence and ‘total intelligence’ as a purpose-driven leader

What does my story tell me about myself?

Assess the personal strengths and positive patterns that you can build on for the next chapter in your life.

  • Identify the weaknesses and negative patterns that need to be dealt with
  • Gain perspective on your story and what’s really going on by examining your life as a ‘detached’ observer

If I live my truth, what am I supposed to be doing with my life?

Explore the power of your purpose and keeping the right intention.

  • Clarify your “why”
  • Develop your personal compass to guide you through the next chapter in your life
  • Unlock the key to steering the trajectory of your next chapter

What values and guiding principles support my “why”?

Identify the core values connected to your purpose in order to guide and influence major choices, decisions and relationships. Distil the values which give shape and definition to your character as an individual and person.

What does my vision ideally point to? How do I need to adjust the way I see?

Define your focus for the next chapter of your life.

  • Use your guiding values to clarify a vision for your future self in all aspects of life
  • Identify any barriers blocking you from realising your full potential

What are the barriers that I will probably face while moving towards my vision?

Explore the obstacles and challenges you must conquer to achieve your vision. Dig deep into the root cause of old patterns that are compromising your success.

What do I do and how do I do it?

Together, these modules will show you how to pinpoint the key decisions that will reinforce your goals and strategies for achieving your vision.

What are the immediate steps to move towards my vision?

Our coaches will guide you in developing a 90-day action plan for creating the change you are looking for in your life and career. Through this exercise, you’ll find out how to sustain your energy, commitment and enthusiasm for the direction you choose.

What habits and patterns do I need to change?

In this session you will discover different ways to carry your action plan into reality. By the end, you’ll already have taken steps toward building new habits and behaviours vital for your long-term success.

About the Self-Managing Leadership® Programme

Frequently Asked Questions

By unpacking your purpose and turning it into a 90-day action plan, you can decide what you want to do in your personal life, and how to get there. Inside the SML® programme, Oxford Leadership provides you the tools to make the change yourself.
Anyone can benefit from following our 10-step programme to find purpose and create an actionable plan for the next chapter of their life. Specifically, we’ve designed the SML® course to help aspiring leaders, career switchers, university students, and lifelong self-improvement devotees gain clarity around where they want to go.
If you’re looking to expand your role and influence as a leader, the SML® programme helps you level up your leadership skills by becoming a purpose-driven leader with clarity and the emotional intelligence required to lead people and teams. Previously only available to C-suite and senior management in large organisations, SML® gives you access to the same frameworks and methods used to train leaders at many Fortune 500 companies.
Absolutely! The 10-step SML® model is first and foremost a personal development program designed to help you define your inner leadership compass so you can better achieve success in all aspects of your life – including your studies. Our alumni include university and college students who have used the SML® to plan out the next period of their life after graduation.
Yes! SML® is the perfect programme to help you gain clarity on which direction to steer your professional life, especially if you’re looking for a new path to embark on. Our digital platform not only makes it easy to create a clear vision for yourself but also gives you the tools to help you turn your vision into reality.
Most self-development programmes focus exclusively on either your personal or professional life. SML® takes a holistic approach to self-improvement by integrating your personal and professional purpose and goals to lead yourself to a better self. Unlike many other self-development courses, SML® guides you through a transformation process that moves you forward in your role as a leader at work, in your social circle, and in your personal life.
Once you enrol, you’ll have instant access to our digital platform, which will guide you through each step of the SML® programme. Our platform is entirely browser-based, so you can pick up where you left off from almost anywhere in the world, as long as you have a device with an Internet connection.
SML® is specifically meant as a self-paced learning programme that allows you to take as much time as you need to set a course for your future. While the resulting action plan follows a 90-day schedule, our alumni often run through the SML journey at multiple points in their lives to help them plan out their next chapter.