Conscious Leadership School

What Conscious Leadership School does

Conscious Leadership School (CLS) is a London-based leadership development consultancy founded in 2015 by Chantal Burns. The company delivers training, executive coaching, retreats, and organizational development programs to corporate clients and individual senior leaders, with named enterprise customers including TD Bank, BAE Systems, Cobham, Aon, Nielsen, WPP, and Kier, and stated reach across EMEA, North America, and Asia (including Japan). Its core methodology is branded as the 'Inside-out Principles' or 'Three Principles' framework, teaching that human experience is created from within via thought rather than external circumstance, distinguishing CLS from behavior-modification or coping-strategy leadership approaches. The framework derives from the work of Sydney Banks and is taught by a faculty with 25-40+ years of tenure in principles-based psychology.

The product portfolio comprises five core organizational programs (Conscious Leadership, Conscious Connections, Conscious Conversations, True Grit resilience, and Transforming Culture for executives), supplemented by one-to-one executive coaching, intensive leadership retreats, a two-year Practitioner Programme, public State of Mind seminars, and a self-paced Udemy course ('Say Goodbye to Stress'). Supporting assets include the 'Conscious Conversations' podcast, white papers, research, graduate testimonial videos, and Chantal Burns' No.1 Amazon bestseller 'Instant Motivation.' Distribution runs through direct B2B enterprise sales initiated via the website or info@ email, then scoped as customized in-house workshops, intact-team interventions, or individual coaching engagements. Marketing is content-led via blog, podcast, white papers, webinars, keynote speaking (e.g., Business Growth Summit 2016 with 160 attendees), and book authorship.

The business model is professional-services-based, monetized through bespoke training fees, executive coaching engagements, and retreat pricing that is not publicly disclosed. Despite a stated global footprint and marquee enterprise logos, CLS operates with 1-10 employees and remains founder-led with no disclosed external funding or institutional investment; the founder also runs the related Star Consultancy, and partnerships (Insight Principles via Sandy Krot) extend delivery capacity rather than headcount. Self-serve revenue is limited to a single Udemy course.

Name

Conscious Leadership School

Legal name

Conscious Leadership School

Website

https://consciousleadershipschool.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Conscious Leadership School is a London-based leadership development consultancy that delivers principles-based training, executive coaching, retreats, and in-house organizational programs to enterprise clients including TD Bank, BAE Systems, Aon, and Nielsen, using the Inside-out/Three Principles framework.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Executive Leadership Development Services

NAICS

Professional and Management Development Training (611430), Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Executive Leadership & C-Suite Development (EDABAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Talent Management & Leadership Advisory (Succession, Performance, Culture) (BPACAJAH), Team & Group Executive Coaching (Leadership Teams) (EDABANAF)

Keywords

• Leadership development training
• Executive coaching services
• Organizational resilience programs
• Team performance workshops
• Culture transformation consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. In-House Organizational Programs: Customized leadership development programs delivered to organizations for intact teams and leadership groups. Programs include Conscious Leadership, Conscious Connections, Conscious Conversations, True Grit resilience program, and Transforming Culture.
2. Online Courses: Self-paced online courses available on Udemy platform. 'Say Goodbye to Stress' course offered as a standalone product.
3. Executive Leadership Coaching: One-to-one coaching engagements for organizational leaders, entrepreneurs, business owners and individuals. Standalone or combined with group learning programs.
4. Executive Leadership Retreats: Intensive one-to-one deep dive programs for leaders. Highly tailored, impactful and leveraged learning experience with significant time away from day-to-day operations.
5. Resilience Programs: True Grit program offered in various formats including Breakfast Club (bite-sized sessions), Team events, CLS Deep Dive (3-day off-site), and 1-to-1 coaching for C-suite and managers.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Conscious Leadership School delivers principles-based leadership development and organizational culture programs grounded in the Inside-out (Three Principles) framework, teaching leaders that experience is created from within via thought. The portfolio includes in-house team programs (Conscious Leadership, Conscious Connections, Conscious Conversations, True Grit resilience, Transforming Culture), executive coaching, leadership retreats, a two-year practitioner program, a State of Mind Seminar, and an online Udemy course. Clients are multinational enterprises plus individual leaders seeking mental clarity, resilience, and improved leadership performance.

Product overview

Conscious Leadership School is an educational and training organization offering a portfolio of programs focused on leadership development and organizational performance through understanding the inside-out principles of how the mind works. The core offering includes in-house programs (Conscious Leadership, Conscious Connections, Conscious Conversations, True Grit resilience, and Transforming Culture for executives), complemented by individual coaching, leadership retreats, and an online course. The school also provides supplementary resources including podcasts, videos, white papers, and research materials. The flagship two-year Practitioner Programme trains advanced participants who help deliver sessions for live clients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Conscious Leadership

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 1000 leaders trained at single client organization (BAE Systems)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Insight PrinciplescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSandy Krot partners with the consulting group Insight Principles. She consults with executives, leadership teams, and working groups in Fortune 100 companies through this partnership, applying the Inside-out Principles framework for organizational effectiveness.
• Star ConsultancycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerChantal Burns serves as CEO of Star Consultancy (starconsultancy.com), a related leadership consulting practice. Star Consultancy appears to be a sister organization or related entity specializing in similar principles-based leadership development and organizational consulting services.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Mindvalley: A personal and professional growth education platform offering self-paced online courses (including on Udemy-style marketplaces like CLS's 'Say Goodbye to Stress') on leadership, mindset, and performance. An adjacent peer on the digital consumer/self-development side and on enterprise-level upskilling, though operating at a much larger scale and broader scope.
• Marshall Goldsmith Coaching: A prominent executive coaching brand built around a single, well-known practitioner — directly analogous to the way CLS is anchored on Chantal Burns. Overlap on the one-to-one executive coaching and leadership development engagements that CLS also sells, though grounded in behaviorally-focused (not principles-based) methodology.

Broad incumbents

• Center for Creative Leadership: A top-tier executive education and leadership development institution delivering programs for senior leaders, teams, and organizations worldwide. It competes for enterprise leadership development mandates with research-backed curricula but represents a very different methodology profile than CLS's principles-based approach.
• Dale Carnegie Training: A long-established global training organization offering courses in leadership, public speaking, and interpersonal skills for individuals and corporations. It overlaps with CLS on leadership development for professionals but addresses more behavior-and-skill-oriented outcomes rather than principles-based mindset shifts.
• Korn Ferry: Global organizational consulting firm whose leadership development and executive coaching practices target enterprise CHROs and senior teams. It is a boardroom-level incumbent in the same space CLS occupies at the leadership and culture level, but at much greater scale and with broader HR and talent offerings.
• FranklinCovey: Large global leadership development firm offering enterprise training programs across executive leadership, culture change, and team effectiveness. It is a broad incumbent whose '7 Habits' franchise and corporate rollouts compete for the same enterprise L&D budget that CLS pursues, but at vastly greater scale and with a behaviorally-oriented (not principles-based) methodology.

Direct peers

• Arbinger Institute: An organization development consultancy that — like CLS — focuses on mindset-based transformation of leaders and teams (rather than behavior skills training). Comparable in scope (executive coaching, culture change, team development) and customer profile (enterprise engagements), though it uses a distinct mindset framework.
• Insight Principles: Insight Principles is explicitly named as a strategic partner, with faculty member Sandy Krot consulting with Fortune 100 executives through this organization. It operates on the same Three Principles / Inside-out framework as CLS, making it a direct methodology peer with overlapping enterprise client targets.
• Three Principles Global: A global community and practitioner training organization built around the Three Principles taught by Sydney Banks. Competes with CLS in training new practitioners and offers parallel pathways into corporate and individual leadership coaching based on the same paradigm.
• Three Principles Institute: An organization dedicated to disseminating the Three Principles of Mind, Thought, and Consciousness — the same foundational framework taught by CLS. It trains practitioners and shares the methodology globally, making it one of the closest methodology-aligned competitors in the niche.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/CLSthoughts
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/star-consultancy-services-limited

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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