
Building future-fit leaders and teams
In a complex and uncertain world, leaders and teams need future-fit skills, mindsets and approaches. Backed by two decades of experience building high performing teams in high risk environments, The Leadership Alchemist guides you to optimal leadership and team performance, maximising your success and social impact.
Who are we?
The Leadership Alchemist is a community of purpose driven and experienced organisational leaders brought together through our lived experiences of leading in some of the world's most dangerous and contested environments.

Shell Richards
Major Michelle Richards; FRSA, MSc, MA, CEO of The Leadership Alchemist Limited, military veteran, wargaming researcher, learning architect and facilitator
What do we do?
The Leadership Alchemist provides a range of programmes and offerings, tailored to individual clients. From multi-participant courses to one-to-one sessions, no challenge is too big.
01
Strategic Orbits Exercise (SOE)
An immersive planning experience that drives leadership transformation for individuals and teams. The process rapidly creates deep insights to improve your plans; guiding you towards optimal performance.
Visit the SOE website for more information or download the brochure.
02
Executive and Business Coaching
Our unique and humanistic coaching model applies a data driven approach to your individual coaching challenge, rapidly optimising your leadership mindset and performance.
03
Action Learning and Gamification
Our bespoke team experiences work on your team or business objective 'in the moment', through an immersive, action-based process.
04
Business Transformation
Our business consulting and insights service is bespoke and tailored to your organisation's unique challenges. We use a proven algorithm to optimise your business success and social impact.