Leadership &

human skills.

Reimagining learning.

Empowering people to lead, adapt, and thrive. We bring together L&D expertise, smart technology, engaging content, and human connection to create learning experiences that build the skills and capabilities that truly matter.

Specialist topic areas

Skills & capability development for all

We provide engaging learning experiences across a wide range of core people development topics: Build the leadership, management, project management, and human skills that matter most in today’s fast-moving, AI-enabled world.

100+

core topic areas covered.

30+

years of designing engaging learning experiences.

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Leadership & management

Developing the best managers and leaders for over 30 years - recognised as a Top 20 leadership development provider globally.

Human-centred skills

Boosting personal development and effectiveness – sharpening the critical human-centred skills and capabilities needed to thrive in an AI-enabled world.

Essential business skills

Improving essential departmental and functional business skills – training and development for busy working professionals and teams.

Project management skills

Building project management capability – through training courses, eLearning, simulations, and certification preparation. Learn from the experts.

How we deliver

Creating a spirit of learning for great brands

Hemsley Fraser is an award-winning full-service learning and development provider. Talk to us today about how we can support learning and performance development in your business.

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Courses & digital learning

Powering up individuals and teams – boosting their skills, capabilities and performance – through training courses, learning experiences and digital learning.

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Custom programs

Delivering custom and large-scale global learning experiences – co-creating programs across a blend of content, technology and services – to meet goals and performance improvement expectations.

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Consulting & services

Partnering clients to transform their learning & performance development – helping them achieve the growth expectations of individuals, teams & the organization.

Challenges we solve

We help organizations with their people development challenges

The world’s changing fast - are your people keeping up? We help top brands…

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Improve retention, engagement & performance

We help boost retention, engagement, and performance through human-centred learning experiences that build essential leadership and people skills.

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Upskill & reskill teams to thrive

We support clients in upskilling and reskilling their teams through engaging learning experiences that build critical human and leadership capabilities — ensuring their people stay relevant and ready for the future of work.

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Develop manager & leader capabilities

Drawing on 30 years of global leadership and management development expertise, research, and best practice, we equip managers to perform at their best — and be ready for tomorrow.

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Boost connection, resilience & adaptability

We help boost connection, resilience, and adaptability through human-centred learning experiences that strengthen mindset, collaboration, and change-readiness.

Who we help

Discover the different audience groups that we help

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Individual learners

Grow skills, unlock potential

We support individual learners’ personal and professional development with a wide range of training courses and digital learning experiences.

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Groups & teams

Group & team training & development

We help train and develop teams through in-company courses, tailored programs, and digital learning experiences. 

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Organizations

Boost performance & meet your goals

We partner and support organizations to activate talent, boost skills, transform capability and realize their business goals.

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About us

Our journey & commitment to excellence

At the heart of our company is a simple, powerful belief: when people thrive, organizations do too. Founded with a vision to create a spirit of learning and make work—and life—better, we deliver exceptional learning experiences that drive real impact. 

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"Hemsley Fraser proactively shine the headlights on what’s happening in the L&D industry and this proactive approach helps DLG to stay a step ahead and be more prepared and anticipate change. It truly feels like one team, it’s an honest partnership where we lean into both challenges and opportunities together."

Lyndsay Taylor
Head of Learning & Development, Direct Line Group

Modern, enterprise & fast-growing global businesses love us!

You may not have heard of Hemsley, but you’ll definitely know the clients we work with.

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Insights

Featured resources

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Navigating middle management

Becoming a great ‘manager of managers’ – how to successfully navigate the squeezed middle.

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Human skills in an AI world

Boosting human skills & capabilities are crucial for thriving in an AI-enabled world, and for tackling increasingly complex problems.

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Navigating uncertainty

In an increasingly uncertain world, we need to embrace uncertainty, rather than shy away. But how?

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Time poor learners

Are your learners time poor? Is it stopping them learning?

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L&D Impact Survey

2025 L&D Impact Report: We surveyed 800+ UK & US based L&D, HR, People & talent professionals from a range of sectors.

Ready to get started?

We love to talk. Tell us more about your context, goals and requirements. We’ll be delighted to help.