Become a Partner at the Staff Development Forum
Partnering with the Staff Development Forum Ltd offers a range of valuable benefits that can significantly boost your visibility and engagement within the Higher Education sector. Here’s why becoming an SDF partner is a strategic move for your company or consultancy:
- As an SDF partner, your involvement extends beyond the festival, with year-round opportunities to ensure ongoing visibility in the learning and development sector.
- Brand visibility and prominent recognition through SDF and SDF festival communications, including programmes, and Newspad sent to all participants.
- Lead your own festival session, positioning your organisation as an expert in the field.
- Benefit from year-long exposure on the SDF Newspad or website with promotional space, ensuring continued visibility.
- Your brand will be featured in SDF’s spotlight, reaching a broad, engaged audience of industry professionals.
Choose from a variety of partnership options tailored to suit your goals and elevate your brand. Below are the key opportunities:
1. Key Festival Partner
Gain maximum visibility throughout the event.
2. SDF Awards Partner
Become an award partner for one of the prestigious SDF Developing Excellent Practice Awards.
3. SDF Newspad or Website Partner
New for 2025, these partnerships offer monthly brand recognition via the SDF Newspad or SDF Website, along with the opportunity to showcase content, lead sessions, and benefit from dissemination across SDF channels.
4. Festival Strand Partner
Gain exposure with the opportunity to chair festival sessions, showcase articles, and promote news to SDF members.
5. Workshop Lead Partner
Host a session at the festival and showcase your company as a Workshop Lead Partner.
Below are our partners who have very kindly confirmed their support for the SDF Festival of Learning and Development 2025. More partners and supporters will be added shortly.
SDF Awards Partner
We’re delighted to welcome back Women-Space Limited as our SDF Awards Partner for 2025.
Created by Professor Christina Hughes, Women-Space is a career coaching and leadership company set up to help the many wonderful women in higher education to progress and flourish in the professional lives and careers. As an executive career coach, Christina works to challenge the kind of thinking that holds you back, finding positive solutions that support your values and engage your passions, so you can bring what really matters to you into your working life.
Festival Strand Partner Plus
We’re delighted to be working with Belbin for another year as a Festival Strand Partner Plus.
Belbin is a highly respected workplace tool that enables people to understand the strengths and weaknesses of individuals – and helps organisations bring together the right people to form high performing teams. The Belbin Reports, which can incorporate feedback from others, help managers manage their teams, and look for the potentially ‘missing element’ when recruiting. They make the theoretical relevant.
By using Belbin, individuals have a greater self-understanding of their strengths, which leads to more effective communication between colleagues and managers. Great teams can be put together, existing teams can be understood and improved, and everyone can feel that they are making a difference in the workplace.
Festival Strand Partner
We’re delighted to welcome Upwrd again for another year for the SDF Festival in 2025.
Upward are the leading Leadership Development company for senior leaders, aspiring leaders and ambitious managers for people-first organisations, believing that access to best-in-class leadership and career development learning and professional coaching should not be solely for top executives at big businesses.
A diverse network of next generation professional coaches (all ICF or EMCC accredited), trainers and facilitators, the team at Upwrd collaborate with their clients to develop their leaders and managers to lead themselves and to lead others, Better, providing best-in-class, research-backed and highly practical leadership development coaching, programmes and workshops.
Become an SDF partner today and ensure your organisation plays a leading role in shaping the future of learning and development. We look forward to collaborating with you! For more details, visit the full document SDF Partnering Opportunities. Would you like to be a strategic partner of the SDF?
- Full details on all available partnership opportunities can be found here.
- If you wish to partner with the SDF, please complete the Partnering Request Form here.
- If you wish to submit a proposal for a session at the Festival of Learning and Development 2025, please complete the Proposal Form here.