Tom and Sean supported a cross-government unit to take stock on our priorities and plans. I’d highly recommend Leapwise after this experience; they designed and delivered a hugely professional and inspiring session that helped to focus the team on how our day-to-day work delivers for the core purpose of what we’re seeking to achieve. They ran us through exercises that challenged us on our long-term focus – such as mapping where we spend our time against the goals of our work and voting against the priority deliverables including new areas that the team were energised to pitch. They also expertly took us back to the decisions we can make today and how we organise ourselves in an efficient and agile way with practical tips and making sure there was collective ownership of this across the team.

(On what the team did well) Helped to connect the team and day-to-day work with the core purpose of what we’re seeking to achieve; focused on the decisions we can make today and the longer-term vision.

Rachel Millar
Head of Joint Combatting Drugs Unit

Tom Gash and the Leapwise team delivered a high quality and professional induction programme and CPD for our new PCCs. We selected them because of their track record in policing and public sector transformation and they more than delivered. They brought together a really fresh and engaging programme, and challenged us in a good way to think outside of the box. We have had very positive feedback from Commissioners. I would thoroughly recommend them and will be using them again.

Susannah Hancock
APCC Chief Executive

We met Leapwise back in 2021 and were immediately impressed with their awareness of the unique position we, PDS, found ourselves in. They understood both the policing and political dimensions of our challenges and were able to offer relatable and credible viewpoints.

Leapwise have set themselves up to bring top tier consulting practices (often out of reach for the majority of Public Sector) in an accessible manner to policing. It was clearly evident from the off, that Tom, Charles and the team understood policing but using their skills and techniques were able to offer credible, constructive challenge and enable a greater range of thought leadership in tackling complex strategic issues.

The team were incredibly mission focused and were keen to ensure they met the goals and achieve an excellent outcome but along with this were able to offer flexibility and adaptability in approach as, with all of policing, things can change in a heartbeat! We dealt them a curve ball mid engagement where we asked them to work alongside another consultancy which we had enlisted to help with another challenge. Tom and the team quickly adapted and ensured there was good quality alignment and knowledge sharing across both companies. The team brought creative insight and a good mix of past experiences/insights from other sectors which helped and made for an enjoyable working experience.

The out turn of the work Leapwise completed has built a solid strategic foundation for the company to build its service offerings from. This in turn has enabled the company to develop its 3 year strategy with a great deal of confidence that it is achievable.

We would absolutely consider working with Leapwise again in the near future.

Alex Bowen
Delivery Director, Police Digital Service

I was initially introduced to Leapwise through another piece of work they had been supporting Hounslow with.  It was impressive how they had been able quickly establish a good understanding of Hounslow’s strategic intent and provide work which added value.  After discussing the requirements of my own project, to accelerate documenting systematically the expected benefits of a range of proposed change activity.  Feedback from senior officers across the projects was positive throughout, particularly Leapwise ability to limit the burden placed on existing resources through ensuring all engagement was focused on the core task.  The outcome surpassed expectations as it has delivered a methodology Hounslow is now seeking to adopt across all relevant change activity.

Rob Meldrum
Assistant Director Finance, Commercial & Projects

Leapwise bring energy, enthusiasm and focus to helping us develop our long-term plans

CC Gavin Stephens
Surrey Police

I think we made more progress in six weeks that we might have made in six months otherwise”  Rachel Tuffin, Director of Knowledge and Innovation, College of Policing

I engaged Leapwise in this work because of their developed understanding of policing across the UK and their ability to work with and optimise the contribution of all of the senior leaders with whom they engaged…. The work of Leapwise lived up to high expectations

CC Mike Cunningham
CEO College of Policing

The Leapwise team provided a crisp and insightful analysis of how we could develop our approach to decision-making in our performance management.

DCC Tony Blaker
Kent Police

Leapwise and their toolkits have helped the constabulary to improve strategic decision making and empowerment throughout the organisation. This has given us a sharper focus on how to design and then deliver the organisational changes being planned over the next two years.

CC Charlie Hall
Hertfordshire Constabulary

Leapwise have continued to work with the constabulary to develop and take forward the work on prevention, which is drawing increasing attention from the NPCC, College of Policing and HMICFRS as innovative practice.

CC Charlie Hall

Following Charlie Taylor’s review of youth justice and recommendations, we asked Leapwise to help us think about how Catch22 might deliver a ‘Secure School’, based on our expertise and operational capacity in children’s social care, rehabilitation and resettlement, and alternative provision education. Tom Gash’s reputation of combining intellectual mastery with frontline experience was immediately confirmed as Leapwise helped us shape our brief in a dynamic political and policy environment. One of the most valuable aspects was support in reframing the problem pragmatically, leading to alternative solutions.

Over 6-8 months Leapwise drove two parallel workstreams: designing a new transformational service model for young people in care and custody, while also identifying, building and consolidating a range of potential partners, local and national. Colleagues across Catch22 enjoyed working with Tom and Leapwise very much, particularly valuing an approach to project management that favours candour, human relationships, and paperwork on a ‘needs-only’ basis. We wouldn’t hesitate to appoint Leapwise in the future.

Pamela Dow
Director, Catch22

Leapwise were commissioned to help the West Midlands Safe Centre Partnership with their feasibility study to establish a Safe Centre. This involved working with and getting agreement from 14 Local Authorities, the West Midlands Combined Authority, the Office of the WM Police & Crime Commissioner, Health partners, Catch 22 and Kibble Scotland. This is a first for the West Midlands and required sensitive handling against a tight timeline. Tom and Nathan from Leapwise handled this brilliantly, keeping all stakeholders informed and working at pace. The addition of bringing in experts from across the disciplines ensured through workshops ensured that we had a consistency in our approach throughout.

I have no doubt that the success of our bid to the design phase,  which will potentially have a significant impact on the lives of vulnerable young people for many years to come was down to the rigour and quality of the analysis and attention to detail that Leapwise instigated from the beginning. We had a confident case built from the intelligence gleaned from a wide variety of datasets but it is the interpretation and application that Leapwise used in their analysis that made the difference.

Louise Rees
Chair West Midlands Safe Centre Partnership

Tom Gash’s professionalism in project management is the best I have experienced over 35 years in the Voluntary and Public Sector. His understanding of the subject matter, his inclusion of all stakeholders, creativity in solution solving and energy to get us over the line was simply brilliant. You are not just getting a highly professional package you are also getting passion and commitment.

The best decision that the West Midlands Safe Centre Partnership made was in employing Leapwise as their consultants. I am absolutely convinced that we would not have got to the design phase without Tom’s experience, competence and passion to get us over the line to a very tight deadline.

As the Strategic Support Manager for West Midlands Children Services that support the Councils and Children’s Trusts that are leading on this venture we are incredibly grateful to Leapwise and would have no hesitation in working with them again and recommending them to others.

Hugh Disley
Strategic Support Manager, West Midlands Children’s Services

www.wmchildrensservices.org.uk

Leapwise have been instrumental in helping transform the reputation of our business with the law enforcement community. They bring an innovative approach to problem solving and have the ability to draw out useful insights from incredibly complex data.

Fergus Campbell
Head of Communications, Gumtree UK

The Leapwise team’s knowledge of the law enforcement sector meant Gumtree has been able to establish much closer ties to policing communities across the UK. Their insights and connections are unparalleled and have brought us together with some of the most senior police figures in the country. Their extensive experience working with businesses meant the team already had a deep knowledge of the business and an understanding of the threats to it. They are a pleasure to work with and Tom, their Managing Director, is the ultimate professional.

Oliver Druttman
Director (CORP), Red Consultancy