Martin Furminger Learning Lab

Learn by making the decisions.

Practise realistic leadership situations, investigate organisational problems and receive evidence-led feedback on the reasoning behind your choices.

Two core capabilities
LeadershipPractise conversations, judgement and follow-through.
OD & LearningDiagnose performance before choosing an intervention.
Sector applicationWork with authentic council and education pressures.

Core pathways

Choose what you want to practise.

The centres share the same learning principles but build different professional skills.

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Leadership pathway

Leadership Simulation Centre

Review progressive evidence and make realistic management decisions. Choices remain locked until the relevant evidence has been reviewed.

  • Difficult Conversations
  • Absence Management
  • Conflict and Grievance
  • Individual, facilitated and Slido modes
Enter Leadership Centre
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OD & Learning pathway

OD & Learning Investigation Centre

Challenge a course-first request, gather evidence, revise your working hypothesis and recommend the strongest organisational response.

  • Case File 001: The Training That Didn’t Work
  • Hypothesis checkpoints
  • Notes at every stage
  • Professional downloadable report
Open Case File 001

Sector editions

Authentic challenges for different settings.

These are not simple word swaps. Each edition uses its own stakeholders, risks, evidence and professional boundaries.

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Local Government Edition

Public service delivery, fair employee management, elected-member enquiries, confidentiality and governance.

  • Resident complaint and service recovery
  • Performance, wellbeing and reasonable adjustments
  • Member enquiry, confidentiality and governance
Open Local Government Edition
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Education Edition

Sixth-form and college leadership practice shaped around student voice, safeguarding, attendance and home-school partnership.

  • Persistent absence and wellbeing
  • Student conflict and safeguarding
  • Academic progress and parent conversations
Open Education Edition

Learning design principles

Built to develop judgement, not pattern recognition.

Evidence before action

Decision buttons unlock only when required evidence has been reviewed.

Progressive disclosure

Information appears when it would naturally become available.

Randomised choices

The strongest response is not predictably displayed as Option A.

Reasoning captured

Notes, hypotheses, feedback and reports document how conclusions were reached.

Bespoke development

Built as a working demonstration, adaptable to real organisations.

Scenarios can be tailored around an organisation’s own people challenges, terminology, policies, systems and learning outcomes.

Discuss a bespoke simulation