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Leadership team building and facilitation for UK organisations
Find Clarity. Build Courage. Strengthen Connection.
Your people are your greatest asset. When leaders lead well and teams work together with clarity and purpose, everything else follows. We partner with businesses, charities, public sector and defence-aligned teams across the UK to build leadership capability and team cohesion that lasts.
ACSIS Life Coaching are proud to have worked with and support :
Who we work with
Built for organisations that know their people are capable of more
ACSIS partners across the public, private and third sectors. We do not deliver off-the-shelf training. We design programmes around your people, your pressures and your goals.
HR and L&D leads
Strengthen leadership pipelines, shift culture, or equip managers to lead through change.
Business leaders
Practical, down-to-earth coaching that improves how your people communicate, decide and perform under pressure.
Military & veteran-aligned
A partner that genuinely understands service culture, rank dynamics and transition.
Charities & public sector
Lead effectively through restructuring, funding pressure and limited resources.
Our role is to be a trusted external partner who can listen honestly, ask hard questions with care, and support your leaders and teams to do their best work sustainably.
Build teams, implement change and foster a more cohesive, collaborative workforce.
Our B2B services
Five ways we build leaders and teams that hold under pressure
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Leadership team building & facilitation
We design and facilitate team experiences that go beyond the typical away day. Reset after change, build shared purpose before a new phase, or simply communicate better under pressure.
In practice
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Half, full or multi-day facilitation
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Away day design and delivery
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Post-restructure team reset
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New leadership onboarding
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Values alignment sessions
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Cross-functional team building
If you know something needs to change, but are not sure where to start, we can help you clarify the problem.
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Leadership development programmes
Bespoke development at every level, from new managers to senior leaders. Six weeks to twelve months, combining workshops, peer learning and individual coaching.
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Executive & leadership coaching
Structured 1:1 and small group coaching for your most important leaders. Build clarity, confidence and capacity to perform without burning out.
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Culture & inclusion coaching
Map where your culture is today, find the gap between stated values and lived reality, and build practical strategies to close it in a way that sticks.
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Keynote speaking & facilitation
Sam Kinsey-Briggs MBE MA draws on 27 years of Armed Forces leadership to deliver honest, grounded and genuinely memorable talks.
Why ACSIS
Military roots, human heart. Sector-aware. Human first.
ACSIS was founded by veterans with a clear belief: the leadership principles forged in the most demanding environments on earth, clarity of purpose, calm under pressure, care for people and decisive action, are exactly what organisations need today.
That lived experience is the difference. We understand what it is to lead when the stakes are high, people are watching, and the right answer is not obvious.
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Winner, South England Prestige Award: New Lifestyle Coaching Organisation of the Year
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Members of the Association for Coaching
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Armed Forces Covenant members
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British Veteran Owned
Sam Kinsey Briggs MBE MA
Founder & Coach
Sam is a life coach, mentor and storyteller with 27 years of leadership experience in the UK Armed Forces. She began her career as a Private Soldier, later commissioned as an officer, and went on to serve as a Royal Navy Captain.
She works with organisations who are ready to stop waiting. Organisations at a crossroads who want to align their values with bold, meaningful action.
Lloyd Allen MBA
Founder & Coach
Lloyd is a life, leadership and performance coach with over 30 years of leadership experience. He began his career in the Royal Navy and now serves as Head of Service Delivery at Dorset Police.
Lloyd brings a straight talking, down to earth style to coaching. No corporate buzzwords. Just straightforward strategies that work, drawn from real experience rather than textbooks.
The return on coaching is well established
These are not abstract statistics. They show up in how your people lead, communicate and perform every day.
70%
of coaching clients improve their performance
ICF Global Coaching Study, 2023
73%
improve relationships and 72% improve communication
ICF, 2023
25–52%
reduction in burnout where coaching is deployed
BMJ Open, 2021
80%
of people who receive coaching report improved confidence
ICF
How we work
Every engagement starts with a conversation. We listen before we design.
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Discovery & Analysis
We meet key stakeholders, including senior leaders, HR, L&D and team representatives, to understand your goals, your challenges and your constraints.
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Tailored proposal
We design a programme built around your context. You receive a clear outline of outcomes, timelines, format and pricing before you commit to anything.
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Delivery & Reflection
We deliver the agreed work, gather real-time feedback and help you embed learning into everyday practice, with ongoing check-ins to sustain momentum.
Delivered in person across London and the UK, with online and blended options for dispersed teams.
Get In Touch
Ready To Support Your Leaders And Teams
If you know your people are under pressure and you want to support them in a way that goes beyond tick box training, ACSIS can help. Whether you need team coaching, culture support, agile coaching, leadership development or a keynote that starts honest conversations, we will design a programme that fits your reality.
Bring us the challenges you are facing. We will bring clarity, courage and connection so your leaders and teams can do their best work without burning themselves out.
LOCATIONS
London · UK Wide (Online)
Your First Step is Free
Frequently Asked Questions
What is leadership team building?
Structured, facilitated work that helps a leadership team build shared purpose, trust and better ways of working together. At ACSIS it goes beyond a social away day, combining team coaching, honest conversation and future planning so your team leaves with clear, agreed next steps.
What is military-informed leadership coaching?
It means our coaching draws on real leadership experience from the UK Armed Forces, where clarity, calm under pressure and care for people are non-negotiable. Sam Kinsey-Briggs MBE MA and Lloyd Allen MBA translate those principles into practical tools for civilian and corporate teams. Grounded and practical, never rigid or macho.
How much does organisational coaching cost?
Pricing depends on the format, length and scope of the work. After a short discovery conversation we send a tailored proposal with clear outcomes, timelines and costs before you commit to anything. There is no obligation.
Do you run corporate away days and team facilitation?
Yes. We design and facilitate away days and team sessions from half a day to multiple days, in person across the UK or online. Every session is built around your goals, whether that is resetting after change, aligning on values, or improving how your team communicates under pressure.
Do you work with charities and public sector organisations?
Yes. Alongside corporate and SME clients, we support charities, public sector teams and defence-aligned organisations, including those navigating restructure, funding pressure or the need to lead well with limited resource.
Where does ACSIS deliver?
We deliver in person across London and the UK, with online and blended options for dispersed teams. Book a no-obligation discovery call to talk through what would work for your organisation.