SDF’s Festival of Learning and Development 2025
Date: 10, 11 and 12 November 2025
Blended approach: SDF Zoom, Advance HE connect and Regional Networks
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 Women-Space Limited again 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 of our partners 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.