leading on the line

standing by your values when the pressure is real

CLOSE THE INTEGRITY GAP

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CLOSE THE INTEGRITY GAP

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CLOSE THE INTEGRITY GAP

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CLOSE THE INTEGRITY GAP

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CLOSE THE INTEGRITY GAP ~ CLOSE THE INTEGRITY GAP ~ CLOSE THE INTEGRITY GAP ~ CLOSE THE INTEGRITY GAP ~

Leading on the Line is a four-part leadership journey for leaders who want their organisations to act with integrity and stay relevant in a changed world

Why Now?

Integrity isn’t tested when things are calm. It’s tested when crises collide, scrutiny sharpens, and fear makes silence feel safer than speaking.

Leaders who care about their positive impact on the world are under intensifying pressure. Political instability, environmental and social crises, widening inequality, continuing racism, rapidly polarised society and growing authoritarianism are reshaping the ground on which organisations stand.

Yet too often, the response is to retreat into familiar “safe” behaviours: smoothing the edges of hard truths, protecting reputation instead of people, or speaking in careful code when justice demands plain words. These habits feel protective in the moment, but they quietly reproduce the very problems organisations say they want to solve.

The reality is that organisations that can’t respond with clarity and courage risk losing relevance, credibility, and impact, becoming part of the problem they claim to challenge.

Leading on the Line is a leadership journey for those who want to challenge neutrality.

It helps you stand by your values, navigate organisational constraints, and act with integrity in a rapidly shifting world. It equips you to match words with lived practice, refuse safety as a default, and lead visibly in ways that strengthen trust, accountability, and positive impact.

By the end of Leading on the Line, you will:

  • Stand steady in your personal line: clearer on your values, red lines and how to find stamina when under pressure

  • Act from courage not fear: expand what feels possible for your organisation and find responses grounded in justice

  • Lead with integrity in public: aligning personal, organisational and collective when scrutiny is high

What you get

A leadership programme for those who want to close the integrity gap - the distance between what we believe and what we do, between what we say we care about and what we resource

The programme offers:

  • Four focused workshops to explore integrity under pressure

  • A one-to-one coaching session to surface values, red lines and stuck points

  • A personalised activation session to turn insights into live strategies for your specific context

  • A trusted peer group navigating similar dilemmas to learn and create with

  • A supportive space to rehearse grounded responses to real-world challenges we know will come

  • Finding clarity in your values and stamina under pressure

    We begin with you. Not just your values in theory, but how they hold when pressure is real. We surface your red lines, uncover the assumptions that box you in, and see how your relational and organisational environment shapes your stamina for moments when silence or compromise seem easier.

    This module builds the foundation for values-led leadership: clarity on where you stand, what you’ll compromise on, and how to sustain yourself when silences seems safer than action.

    Know your line. Lead With Clarity. Stand steady under pressure.

  • Re-open choices fear has closed and imagine new directions

    Fear can make speaking up feel impossible, and retreat seems safer than action.

    In this module, we step back to explore what’s truly possible, opening pathways for action and impact.

    Drawing on your organisation’s commitments to equity, justice, dignity, and social change, we’ll reframe constraints, challenge limiting assumptions, and explore responses rooted in courage rather than avoidance.

    Discover what’s possible when fear no longer limits your leadership.

  • Build collective integrity with boards and teams

    Courage can’t be carried by one leader alone. It needs alignment across the whole organisation.

    This module focuses on alignment in teams, boards, and peers around shared principles. It is about the work to shift from avoidance, blame or ‘us and them’ dynamics towards alignment: building consensus without compromise, setting collective red lines, and distributing leadership so integrity becomes an organisational stance, not a personal burden.

    Transform individual conviction into collective strength. Lead with integrity, together.

  • Rehearse credible, principled responses for public scrutiny


    When crises and contested issues hit, silence speaks loudly.

    In this final module, you’ll rehearse credible, principled responses to public scrutiny. Learn how to stay calm under backlash, translate personal and organisational clarity into public action, and leave with strategies to strengthen trust while demonstrating integrity.

    Lead out loud. Speak with confidence, courage, and clarity when it matters most.

MEET YOUR FACILITATORS

LETESIA GIBSON

I’m Letesia Gibson, founder of New Ways. My work sits at the intersection of leadership, culture, justice and belonging, helping leaders and organisations reimagine how they show up in the world and remain relevant to the communities they serve or support.

I bring more than 25 years of rich experience as an organisational consultant, brand strategist, future of work specialist and change-maker. My practice weaves together coaching, challenging white supremacy culture at work, reshaping narratives about who matters and belongs, and helping leaders to find creative and innovative ways through systems that feel stuck. At the core is a belief that leadership is not about control or performance but integrity, courage, and deep care.

My own relationship with integrity is personal. Earlier in my career, a lack of it led to a full burnout. Here, I learned the physical and psychological cost of working with dissonance in values. That experience grounds my commitment to guiding others: to resist the temptation of compromise, to centre morality and humanity, and to ensure equity and belonging are not side projects but work as organisational principles.

In Leading on the Line, I bring the balance of tenderness and challenge that New Ways is known for. I take leaders on journeys that ask them to confront discomfort honestly while being held in a space of care, accountability, and hope. I deeply believe this programme is forging the leadership of the future we need. Join us.

JO ATKIN POTTS

I come to this work having lived the cost of standing by my values. My leadership has been shaped by roles across charities and grassroots movements, and by navigating the dissonance between what organisations say they believe and how they act. I’ve seen racism, misogyny, and power hoarding behind progressive facades, and learned what it takes to hold the line when integrity feels inconvenient.

For over a decade, I’ve worked in the charity sector, from founding an internationally recognised movement for gender liberation, to senior management in established charities, to now consulting across the sector. At heart I’m a human rights campaigner, and my consultancy brings that spirit into practice: helping organisations strengthen governance, sharpen communications, build movements, and navigate strategy with clarity. I support leaders and teams to hold their values steady while acting boldly in the world.

My approach is rooted in solidarity and truth-telling. I don’t think anyone should have to wrestle with values alone, and I won’t shy away from naming what others might leave unsaid. You can expect honesty, courage, and permission to expand beyond the narrow options fear offers us.

Package & Cost Structure

  • Individual or Small Group Access

    6-month access to digital learning platform

    Self reflection support

    Buddy guide (where needed)

    £325 per person

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  • Team Access (min. 10 learners)

    12-month access to digital learning platform

    Buddy guide & self reflection support

    Launch planning session with client


    £275 per person

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  • Org-Wide Licensing (min. 50 learners)

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investment

We offer optional facilitated Conversation Clubs – small-group sessions led by a trained space-holder, designed to help participants reflect together, process emotional responses, and integrate the learning into real-life work and relationships.

These sessions offer a supportive and reflective space to delve deeper into course themes and foster community learning.

    • 75-minute online sessions

    • Ideal for 6–10 participants

    • Includes reflection prompts and light prep guidance

    • One-off session: £700

    • 3-session series: £1,600

    • 6-session series: £3,000

From Othering to Belonging

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From Othering to Belonging

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From Othering to Belonging

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From Othering to Belonging ~ From Othering to Belonging ~ From Othering to Belonging ~

If you’re ready to commit, you can go ahead and fill out this form.

If you’d like to chat with us before, email us at learning@timefornewways.com to discuss roll-out options, licensing, or to see a sample module.