About Leda

We help organisations develop emerging leaders through structured, supported programs that create lasting behaviour change.

7,000+ leaders developed · 88-93% completion rate · Developed with Monash Business School · AACSB recognised 2018

Our Story

Leda was founded in 2016 after we saw the same pattern repeated across organisations: leadership training that inspired people for a day, then disappeared. Workshops with no follow-through. Content with no support. Good intentions with no structure.

The statistics backed up what we were seeing. Industry completion rates for online leadership training sit between 3-15%. Most programs fail not because the content is wrong, but because there's no structure to support real behaviour change.

We built Leda to fix this — combining evidence-based content developed with Monash Business School, structured learning journeys that fit into busy workdays, and live mentoring that keeps people accountable. The result: 88-93% completion rates and measurable outcomes like the 50% promotion rate we saw with MYOB's 2020 cohort.

Today, we've developed over 7,000 leaders across 150+ organisations in Australia and New Zealand, from ASX-listed companies to government departments to growing startups.

Our Founders

Ashley Leach

Founder

MBA, Melbourne Business School / Kellogg School of ManagementMaster of Marketing, Melbourne Business SchoolBEng Software Engineering, Flinders UniversityStartmate 2017 Graduate

Ashley founded Leda after a decade in digital behaviour change, where he saw firsthand why most training fails to stick. The insight was simple: behaviour change requires structure, support, and time — not a one-day workshop and a PDF.

Before Leda, Ashley ran digital behaviour change agencies working with health and education clients, and lectured in digital marketing at the University of South Australia. His technical background in software engineering combined with dual MBAs allows him to bridge the gap between learning science and scalable technology.

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Founding Academic Partner

Professor Anne Lytle

Co-founder & Academic Director (2016–2021)

PhD & MS Organisational Behaviour, Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern)BS Neurobiology & Behaviour, Cornell UniversityProfessor & Director of Leadership, Monash Business SchoolBoard Member & Past-President, International Association for Conflict Management

Anne co-founded Leda and led curriculum design during our foundational years, bringing 30+ years of experience teaching leadership at the world's top business schools — Kellogg (Northwestern), Ross (Michigan), Melbourne Business School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and AGSM (UNSW).

Her research on cross-cultural negotiation and emotional intelligence — published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and other top journals — shaped the evidence-based framework that underpins every Leda program.

Recognition & Partnerships

Monash Business School Partnership

Since 2016, we've worked with Monash Business School to develop and deliver leadership programs. This partnership combines academic rigour with practical application — programs grounded in research but pressure-tested with real organisations.

AACSB Innovations That Inspire (2018)

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) recognised Leda in their 2018 Innovations That Inspire showcase for our approach to scalable, evidence-based leadership development.

Monash announcement

Evidence-Based Design

Every Leda program is built on peer-reviewed research in organisational psychology, adult learning theory, and behaviour change science. We don't guess at what works — we build on decades of research and validate with real-world results.

Monash Business School Impact Review (2016)

Featured in the Monash Business School Impact Review 2016 (page 35), where Professor Richard Hall, Deputy Dean of Leadership and Executive Education, highlighted LEDA as an innovative approach to scalable leadership development.

LaunchVic Annual Report 2017

Featured as part of the Startmate Melbourne accelerator cohort, with co-founders Anne Lytle and Ashley Leach.

LaunchVic Annual Report 2017-18 (Case Study)

Full case study on LEDA highlighting our work with organisations including Wesfarmers, Transurban, and Optus.

Our Clients

We work with HR and L&D leaders building leadership capability across their organisations.

MYOB

Oxfam

Australia Post

State Government

Monash

150+ organisations across Australia, New Zealand, and increasingly global teams with distributed workforces. Our clients range from ASX-listed enterprises running annual leadership cohorts to mid-sized companies building their first formal leadership pipeline.

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Our Approach

Structured journeys, not content libraries

Each program follows a deliberate sequence — building skills progressively over 6 or 9 months rather than dumping content and hoping it sticks.

Daily practice in real work

Bite-sized activities designed to fit into busy schedules. Leaders apply what they learn to actual situations they're facing, not hypothetical case studies.

Live mentoring and cohort learning

Monthly sessions with expert facilitators. Participants learn alongside peers facing the same challenges — building a shared leadership language across your organisation.

Completion rates that prove it works

88-93% of participants complete the full program. The industry average for online learning is 3-15%. We've engineered every element — from journey design to facilitator support — to ensure people finish and apply what they've learned.

Contact Us

For enquiries about Leda programs, partnerships, or press:

Email: hello@getleda.com

Office: Melbourne, Australia

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