Leadruption Summit · Friday 10 July 2026
Leadership decisions don't fail because leaders are unkind. They fail because there's no standard.
A one-day Summit for leaders ready to stop hoping their decisions are good enough, and start operating against a standard that holds up.
Reserve your founding seat - from £65 + VAT50 seats only · Founding cohort · ILS members attend free
Most leaders are well-intentioned.
Most leaders are also under-informed about the consequences of their own decisions.
That gap, between intent and impact, between what we mean and what actually lands, is where leadership currently fails.
And it's failing at scale.
In 2024 alone, the SEC issued 760 enforcement actions resulting in $8.2 billion in penalties, the majority stemming from leadership decisions that prioritised short-term gains over ethical standards. Boards are now demanding "auditable processes and enforceable standards" for AI decisions. The Post Office. Carillion. Boeing. Every major institutional failure of the last decade traces back to the same thing: leadership decisions that didn't hold up to scrutiny.
The leadership industry has spent thirty years training capability. What the moment now requires is a standard.
A day-long interactive session for leaders carrying real influence.
The first Leadruption Summit is built around one central argument:
The standard of your leadership decisions is the standard of your leadership.
Across the day we'll work through three domains of leadership decision-making: Internal, External, Relational drawing on the Informed Leadership Standard, current research on responsible leadership, and the lived practice of the leaders in the room.
This isn't a webinar. It's not a tour of frameworks. It's a working day, structured around the decisions you're actually carrying right now.
You'll leave with:
- A clearer view of where your own leadership decisions hold up — and where they don't
- A working understanding of what a recognised standard for leadership decisions actually requires
- Two facilitated roundtables surfacing the decisions you're currently avoiding
- A pathway into the Informed Leadership Standard if you want to continue the work
This Summit is for you if:
- You're a senior leader, founder, or business owner carrying decisions that affect people, culture, or outcomes, and you sometimes wonder if you're getting them right
- You're an HR Director or People leader scoping leadership development for 2027 and looking for something with more rigour than another competency framework
- You're a coach, consultant, or independent practitioner working towards becoming a leading authority, and you want a standard to anchor your own practice against
- You're a school, charity, or public-sector leader making decisions under scrutiny, and you're wanting something different to standards "leadership development"
This Summit is not for you if you're looking for life hacks, hustle culture, or "lead with your strengths" content. The argument here is harder than that.
The Day — Friday 10 July 2026
9.15am — 4.00pm BST · Live on Zoom · Replay included
9.15am · Opening
The Case for a Standard
Why "well-intentioned but under-informed" is no longer enough. The doctrine, the diagnosis, the day ahead.
Emma Last
9.30am · Internal Leadership Decisions
The decisions made inside the leader before any external decision is made.
Self-awareness. Regulation. Values. Integrity. The interior that shapes every choice that follows.
Emma Last + Anna Knight (Trauma-informed leadership) + Gemma Went (Ethical AI & personal discernment)
10.45am · Roundtable 1
Internal — facilitated breakout (45 min)
"Where in your interior is a decision waiting that you haven't yet made?"
11.30am · External Leadership Decisions
The decisions about action, evidence, impact, and accountability.
How leadership decisions either hold up to scrutiny — or don't. A live walkthrough of the Informed Leadership Audit framework.
Emma Last + Jenn Wilson (Consent, agency & ethical influence) + Julia Felton (Why self-declared leadership fails at scale)
12.30pm · Lunch (45 min)
Genuine break.
1.15pm · Relational Leadership Decisions
The decisions about challenge, change, and complex conversations.
How leaders create — or destroy — the relational conditions for trust. Drawing from Emma's book Informed Leadership: Complex Conversations.
Emma Last + Samantha Lubanzu + Tom [Surname] (Relationship with self / mental health & workplace relationships)
2.30pm · Roundtable 2
Relational — facilitated breakout (45 min)
"What conversation are you avoiding, and what would change if the standard required you to have it?"
3.15pm · Closing keynote
The Standard and the Pathway
Synthesis of the three domains. What the Informed Leadership Standard actually requires. How to walk into it.
Emma Last
3.45pm · Live Q&A and close
Direct questions. What happens next.
Founding Cohort Pricing
Three tiers. 50 seats total. Founding rates available for the first Leadruption Summit only — never offered again.
Part-Funded
£65
+ VAT · founding rate
Independent practitioners, sole consultants, charity, education, not-for-profit
- Full day live on Zoom
- Both roundtables
- Working session materials
- Post-event recording
- Free access to Forum (Mon 13 July)
Standard rate from Summit 2: £147 + VAT
Book founding seat — £65Corporate
£165
+ VAT · founding rate
Senior leaders, HR Directors, founders, corporate buyers
- Full day live on Zoom
- Both roundtables
- Working session materials
- Post-event recording
- One month ILS Standard trial
Standard rate from Summit 2: £247 + VAT
Book founding seat — £165Team of 5
£660
+ VAT · founding rate · 5 places for the price of 4
Bring your leadership team — the standard becomes culture much faster when shared
- Five places, full day live
- Both roundtables for all five
- Working session materials
- Post-event recording for all five
- Forum access for all five
Standard rate from Summit 2: £988 + VAT
Book team founding rate — £660ILS Members attend free
Already a member of the Informed Leadership Standard? This Summit is included in your membership.
Log in to claim your seatAbout the Host
Emma Last
Emma is the founder of the Informed Leadership Standard™, author of Informed Leadership: Complex Conversations, and a leadership specialist with 27 years of corporate and consultancy experience including senior leadership roles at Randstad UK.
She is Chair of Governors at a primary school, holds Associate CIPD, a BSc in Pharmacology, ILM Wellbeing Coach accreditation, and is a 2024 GCologist (GC Index). She has spoken at events including Bee Inspired, PeakeFest, Womanifest, the NHS, STA panel, the FAIB Conference, and the MOD.
The Informed Leadership Standard is the first professional standard built specifically for leadership decision-making — an eight-layer capability framework with an independent audit, certification pathway, and ongoing CPD programme. Leaders are certified against the standard rather than against their own self-declaration.
The Summit is the beginning, not the end.
Friday 10 July is the first event in the Leadruption Summit programme. The full year ahead:
- Monday 13 July 2026Leadruption Forum — free follow-up reflection event, 18.30–19.45 BST, featuring Liz Baitson on relationships, networking, and the work of connection.
- 5–6 November 2026Leadruption Summit 2 — Q4 reflection, planning into 2027. Two-day format.
- 25–26 February 2027Leadruption Summit 3 — opening 2027 with the standard at the centre.
ILS Standard Membership (£55/month or £550/year + VAT) gives you ongoing access to all public Summits, two members-only CPD days per year, the Informed Leadership Audit, and the certification pathway.
The Summit itself is one day. The standard is a way of working.
The argument for a standard is being made everywhere right now.
Regulators are making it. Boards are making it. Stakeholders are making it.
The question is whether you'll arrive at it on your own terms — or be forced to it by the consequences of the decisions you've already made.
- The first Leadruption Summit is Friday 10 July 2026.
- Fifty seats.
- Founding rate, never offered again.
Leadership carries influence. With influence comes responsibility.
The argument for a standard is being made everywhere right now.
Regulators are making it. Boards are making it. Stakeholders are making it.
The question is whether you'll arrive at it on your own terms — or be forced to it by the consequences of the decisions you've already made.
- The first Leadruption Summit is Friday 10 July 2026.
- Fifty seats.
- Founding rate, never offered again.
Leadership carries influence. With influence comes responsibility.
The quality of your leadership determines the quality of your results.
Where results meet responsibility.
Most leaders are trying to fix performance without fixing the conditions that produce it. Trust. Better decisions. Stronger relationships. Healthier cultures & communities. Higher performance follows, in that order.
Two days. The professional Standards for responsible leadership. For leaders who refuse to keep treating the symptoms.
Two days. One arc.
From the standard to the practice.
Three sections - Internal Leadership, External Leadership, Relational Leadership - illustrated by senior contributors, then facilitated roundtable sessions on the conversations and decisions that actually move outcomes.
Internal & External Leadership
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01
Opening provocation & audience voice The gap, named. What you most need leadership to change, captured live.
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02
Internal block How leaders make better decisions under pressure. Doctrine plus expert sessions. Audience-active roundtable to close.
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03
External block How leaders hold authority without unintentionally damaging trust. The accountability gap, from multiple angles.
Relational Leadership & The Standard
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04
Relational block How leaders lead conversations that change culture. Speakers, fireside on community leadership, audience-active roundtable.
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05
Roundtable sessions Hands-on: difficult conversations, intent versus impact, accountability without humiliation. You leave with usable tools.
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06
The Standard & the pathway The full Informed Leadership Standard. The certification pathway. Your next step. Your commitment.
PRICING
Three ways to be in the room.
Two full days of live programming, hands-on working sessions, full speaker portal and post-event access to recordings.
PART- FUNDED
£99 + VAT
For independent practitioners, sole consultants, charity sector, education sector, not- for-profit
Both full days live
Roundtable participation
Working session materials
Post-event recordings
ILS Community Access (1 month)
standard
£165 + VAT
For senior leaders, HR Directors, founders and corporate buyers.
Both full days, live
Roundtable participation
Working session materials
Post-event recordings
ILS Accelerate access (1 month)
Team of 5
£660 + VAT
Five tickets for the price of four.
Bring your leadership team, the standard becomes culture much faster when shared.
Five places, both days
Working session materials
Post-event recordings
ILS pathway access for 5 (1 month)
Prefer to pay by invoice? Request and invoice below
If cost is the barrier, the door isn't closed.
A small number of sponsored places are available for leaders from under-represented backgrounds, charity sector and early-career changemakers.
Applications are reviewed weekly until two weeks before the event.
Responsible leadership is not claimed. It is developed, evidenced and recognised.
ILS operates as a professional standards body for responsible leadership. The standard defines the knowledge, awareness and behaviours leaders must demonstrate to exercise influence responsibly.
Certification recognises leadership practice that is demonstrated, not self-declared. Leaders who progress through the pathway and meet the assessment criteria are recognised as ILS Certified Leaders — and join a movement of responsible leaders the future can trust.
This summit is the entry point. Attendance opens the pathway.
The Eight Leadership Capability Layers
Six Senior contributors.
Each contributor is mapped to a specific dimension of the Informed Leadership Model
Chosen for evidenced practice
leadership practice, ethical AI, inclusion & community leadership
Curated for depth
honesty, lived experience & meaningful contribution.
Why Leadruption?
→ 81% of consumers need to trust a brand before they buy
→ 87% will pay more for brands they trust
→ 79% of leaders think they've earned trust — only 52% of customers agree
→ 86% say company values are clearly communicated — only 44% say they're consistently demonstrated
→ Just 24% of employees believe their company always lives up to its stated values
→ 50%+ of long-form LinkedIn posts are now likely AI-written — and 46% trust a brand less when they find out AI was used where they assumed human
The single sharpest one for the close is the trust gap: 79% vs 52%. That's the say-do gap in one line — and the whole reason the room exists.
The old models don’t work.
Leadruption is the antidote.
It’s where leadership is redefined
not as power over others, but as result driven responsible leadership.
This event will not be just about theory, but about lived experience, disruptive conversations, and co-creating what leadership must become if we are to thrive as humans, organisations, and societies.
Expect an event designed to disrupt old models and spark new ways of leading.
leadruption Roundtables
Panel discussions with raw conversations on topics most avoid. Intimate, wisdom-rich conversations with leaders who’ve lived it.
Talks & Workshops
Bold, unapologetic talks that ignite new perspectives. Diverse voices, radical honesty, future systems, whole-being leadership
Leadership Charter
We’ll co-create Informed Leadership Standards Charter a declaration of a movement of leaders the future can trust.
Networking and relationship building
Opportunities to connect and build relationships with attendees, speakers, and other sponsors.
It’s time to rupture the silence and lead differently.
Who It’s For
This is the summit for those who refuse to play small:
Visionaries, entrepreneurs, and founders ready to lead differently.
Executives and culture-shapers tired of burnout-driven leadership.
HR, DEI, and wellbeing leaders rewriting the rules of work.
Underrepresented leaders demanding more than tokenism.
Changemakers who know leadership is about humanity, not just profit.
The Organiser
Emma Last
Emma Last is a Speaker, Informed Leadership Consultant and Mental Health Expert with over 25 years’ experience supporting leaders to navigate pressure, responsibility and complexity without burning out or losing themselves.
Her work focuses on what leaders carry, not just what they do. She helps leaders and organisations understand the human systems behind behaviour, combining nervous system awareness, emotional intelligence, psychological safety and leadership development to create environments where people can perform, communicate and lead with greater responsibility.
Emma is the creator of the Informed Leadership Standards, founder of Progressive Minds. Her work challenges outdated leadership norms and supports a more conscious, accountable and human approach to leadership.
Having held senior leadership roles before founding Progressive Minds in 2018, Emma brings together lived leadership experience, people strategy, workplace mental health expertise and organisational culture insight.
She has co-authored accredited workplace mental health training, had three courses quality assured by the Department for Education, and is a three-time #1 bestselling author and multi-award-recognised coach.
Through the Informed Leadership Standards, Emma is leading a movement to redefine what responsible leadership requires in the modern workplace, helping those with influence understand their impact, raise their standards, and lead in a way people can trust.
If you would like to Sponsor a place or a future summit or apply to be a speaker, we would love to hear from you.
Leadership won’t change by accident.
It will change because we choose to disrupt it.
Leadership changes because someone changes it.
Responsible leaders the future can trust.
If you’re ready to be part of
the movement of leaders the future can trust
...then Leadruption is where you belong.
If you would like to discuss the event :
Please contact
Emma on +447970484228 or
email [email protected]
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