“Best Emerging Human Performance Business 2025” – Northern Enterprise Awards

Equipping a fast-growing senior team to lead with clarity, decide under pressure, and build behaviours that last.

Oodle Car Finance

Automotive & Finance

Keynote & Workshop

UK

The Challenge

Oodle Car Finance wanted to further strengthen leadership capability across its senior leadership team.

They sought a particular focus on performance under pressure, decision-making, leadership effectiveness, and the creation of sustainable high-performance behaviours. As a fast-growing organisation operating in a dynamic and demanding environment, the business recognised the importance of equipping leaders with the mindset, frameworks, and practical tools required to make better decisions, communicate effectively, and maintain performance as complexity increased.

The Solution

Prior to delivery, NPO consultants Gareth Timmins and Jason Cranswick spent several sessions engaging with the business to better understand its operating environment, strategic objectives, leadership challenges, and desired development outcomes. This discovery phase enabled the team to design a highly tailored intervention aligned to the organisation’s specific needs.

NPO subsequently delivered a bespoke half-day Senior Leadership Team workshop at Birmingham’s International Convention Centre. The programme combined keynote presentations, facilitated discussion, and practical leadership frameworks covering leadership under pressure, rapid decision-making, the science of leadership, organisational and cultural design, risk literacy, and the management of attentional (cognitive) resources. The session was designed to challenge conventional thinking while providing practical tools leaders could immediately apply within their teams and functions.

The Outcome

The workshop was exceptionally well received by the Senior Leadership Team, generating strong engagement and discussion throughout. Leaders particularly valued the combination of evidence-based performance science, commercial relevance, and practical implementation strategies. Following the success of the session, Oodle expressed a desire to explore a bespoke implementation programme designed to embed the learning across the wider organisation and support long-term leadership development.

Where science meets real-world experience