Leading for Influence & Impact

This 1-day course is for entrepreneurs and businesses interested in cultivating leadership skills and strategies for building resilient and high-performing teams in the creative industries. It is delivered in one full day session, focusing on self-awareness, leadership effectiveness and how to effectively collaborate with others to nurture a high-performing team. 

Delivery

Friday January 30 2026

9.30 - 4pm

Follow-up online mentorship

Friday March 13 2026, 1 - 2pm

Facilitator

Katelyn Divilly

(OMT Global)

Katelyn brings 15 years of global client-facing experience, including 8 years leading teams in multinational organisations. She combines her advanced academic background in Work and Organisational Behaviour with hands-on leadership experience to help clients build high-performing leaders and teams. She has worked with global companies such as Nestlé, Lidl, and MediaHuis.

Learning Outcomes  

1.

Develop enhanced self-awareness and leadership effectiveness using the Insights Discovery tool, identifying personal leadership styles, strengths, and blind spots to inform authentic and intentional leadership.  

3.

Design and lead high-performing teams by intentionally combining complementary skills, perspectives, and styles to drive innovation, productivity, and shared ownership of outcomes.

2.

Apply insights from personal and team profiling to recognise diverse working and communication styles, strengthening collaboration, empathy, and alignment within creative teams.

4.

Implement strategies for effective communication, creating an inclusive and psychologically safe workplace culture that supports creativity and sustainable business growth.  

Details 

Pre-Work:

  • Insights Discovery eLearning (30 minutes)  
Participants complete the eLearning module to establish foundational knowledge of Insights Discovery and Colour Energies.  
  • Identify Gaps in your Network and / or Team 


Consider what people, roles or relationships are missing in your network or team to help you realise your business outcomes. Have at least a vague idea of this coming to the workshop.

Insights Discovery is a practical and accessible tool that helps individuals deepen their self-awareness and understand their personal leadership style. Built around a simple four-colour model, it highlights individual strengths, blind spots and preferred ways of working. For entrepreneurs who are shaping their identity as leaders and considering the kind of team they need around them, Insights Discovery provides a common language for communication, collaboration and decision-making. By recognising their natural tendencies and appreciating the diverse styles of others, leaders can intentionally design teams with complementary skills and perspectives, ensuring stronger performance and a culture that enables innovation and growth.

Leading for Influence & Impact (7 hours):  

  • Self-Awareness, Emotional Intelligence, and Perception
    Introduce participants to key frameworks for understanding self and others. 
  • Colour Energies Overview 
    Brief review to reinforce learning from pre-work. 
  • Group Exercise: Exploring Opposite Colours 
    Interactive activity highlighting complementary strengths and perspectives. 
  • Profile Reveal and Review 
    Individual profiles shared with group discussion to identify personal strengths and potential blind spots.  
  • Insights Discovery Team Effectiveness Model 
    Explore the elements of Process, Focus, Climate, and Flow. Potential group exercise to apply the model in real team contexts. 
  • Defining High-Performance Teams
    Brief discussion of key dimensions, stages of team development, the role of psychological safety and the power of teams. 
  • Personal Boardroom
    Identifying gaps in the groups network and / or team and discuss strategies to remove gaps strategically. 

Follow-up Online Group Mentorship (1 hour)

This guided session brings participants back together to review real progress in applying the tools and mindsets introduced during the workshop. The conversation surfaces practical wins, emerging challenges, and new insights that have developed over time, helping participants refine their leadership approach and maintain clarity on their next steps.

Course Fee

The course fee is €160.

This course is being offered to the SME at 20% of the market rate (the full programme is valued at €800) with the remaining 80% supported by Enterprise Ireland Smart Region scheme. In order to avail of this discounted rate, all applicants are asked to confirm that they have the appropriate De Minimis balance to accept the support. More information on De Minimums State Aid can be found here: State Aid | Enterprise Ireland

Eligibility

This 1-day course is for entrepreneurs and businesses in the digital/creative industries. Participants with current leadership responsibilities or those who intend to step into leadership roles would benefit from this 1-day course.
CLIMB is co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Union through the ERDF Northern and Western Regional Programme 2021–27.
Supporting creative enterprise and driving innovation, entrepreneurship and collaboration for sustainable growth’