How do you design a leadership programme for over 1,000 new managers a year?

Scale like this needs a structured, evidence-based starting point rather than a generic course. For BAE Systems, that meant interviewing 70 of the organisation's own leaders before designing a single module, then building a two-tier architecture so less experienced managers and senior leaders each received development suited to where they actually were, not a single one-size-fits-all programme.

What does a two-tier leadership architecture look like in practice?

A two-tier architecture separates people management development from future leadership capability. At BAE Systems, that meant a four-module Managing People programme over 22 weeks for less experienced managers, and a six-month Leading the Future programme for senior leaders covering strategic focus, leading change and leading courageously.

How do you get senior leadership buy-in for a major shift in learning approach?

Buy-in comes from tying the learning strategy directly to business strategy, not asking leaders to endorse learning as a separate initiative. At BAE Systems, the shift toward a modular, blended approach was directly endorsed by the Executive Committee, who played a role in shaping how the learning strategy aligned with the business strategy itself.

What results can a blended leadership programme achieve at enterprise scale?

Results depend on rigorous design and consistent delivery, not the format alone. At BAE Systems, the programme achieved a 96% participation rate, 100% of participants said they would recommend it, and 93% reported regularly implementing what they learned, resulting in multiple industry awards for leadership development and blended learning.

Building one learning home for a growing veterinary practice network

How Hemsley Fraser helped VetPartners bring people skills development, mandatory training and internal clinical content into a single branded Learning Hub, reaching 23,000+ visits in a single year.

23,000+

Visits to the learning hub in one year

2,000+

New users joined the platform in 2025

13,000+

Hours of learning completed in 2025

91,000+

Instances of content shared across teams in 2025

The organisation

VetPartners is a growing network of veterinary practices. Hemsley Fraser has partnered with VetPartners since 2019 to support the development of their people, starting with a need for a central learning space and growing into a full partnership as the organisation itself has grown.

The challenge

As VetPartners continued to grow, they needed a simple, engaging way to make learning accessible across a large and expanding network of practices, without the complexity or cost of a full enterprise LMS. Alongside their clinical expertise, teams across the organisation needed to develop the people skills that support effective teamwork, communication and great customer experiences. At the same time, VetPartners needed a reliable way to host mandatory training and internal learning resources while keeping learning genuinely engaging, rather than something that felt purely compliance-driven.

What VetPartners wanted was one place where teams could access essential learning, development resources and practical skills support, in a way that worked alongside the day-to-day demands of busy veterinary practice life.

The solution

Hemsley Fraser, in close collaboration with VetPartners, designed and delivered a branded Learning Hub built around the organisation's need for one simple, accessible home for learning across a fast-growing veterinary practice network

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A single home for learning

A branded VetPartners Learning Hub, a central place where teams can access learning, resources and development whenever they need it
People skills development covering topics including effective meetings, developing others, challenging conversations, customer service and employee engagement
Compliance and wellbeing learning covering workplace safety, professional development tracking, and mental health and stress awareness
Internal learning resources hosted alongside Hemsley Fraser content, including clinical content developed by VetPartners itself

Results

23,000+ visits to the Learning Hub in 2025 alone
2,000+ new users joined the platform in 2025
13,000+ hours of learning completed in 2025
91,000+ instances of content shared across teams in 2025
The Learning Hub has become a widely used and trusted home for learning across VetPartners, supporting both day-to-day performance and ongoing development

What made this work

Bringing internally created content and Hemsley Fraser resources into one place, rather than leaving teams to navigate separate systems and logins
Growing the Hub's scope deliberately, from an initial focus on people skills into compliance, wellbeing and internal clinical content, as adoption proved the model
Keeping learning engaging rather than purely required-driven, even where the Hub also carries mandatory training
Designing around the reality of busy veterinary practice life, so learning fits the pace of the job rather than competing with it

FAQs

Bringing learning together for a growing organisation is a significant undertaking. Here are the questions organisations most commonly ask us before they start

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Yes. VetPartners' Learning Hub brings internally created content, Hemsley Fraser resources, mandatory training and compliance learning into one platform, rather than requiring a separate LMS alongside other systems. Teams access everything they need in one accessible place.

Growing fast and need one home for learning?

If you're looking to bring people skills, compliance and internal content together into one simple, accessible platform as your organisation grows, we'd love to talk. Get in touch to find out how we can design and deliver a solution built around your organisation's specific challenges.

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Building one learning home for a growing veterinary practice network

23,000+

2,000+

13,000+

91,000+

The organisation

The challenge

The solution

Programme architecture

A single home for learning

Growing with the organisation

Results

What made this work

FAQs

Can you run team learning without a separate LMS?

How do you make mandatory and compliance training feel less purely required-driven?

How do growing organisations make learning accessible across a large, dispersed network of sites?

Can an internal content library be combined with an external provider's learning content in one platform?

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