Welcome to Harthill

Home of the Leadership Development Framework


Facilitating the development of people, teams and organisations

Consulting   |   Coaching    |   Profiling

The complexity we face needs more than new skills. It needs expanded minds.

We support organisations, teams, leaders and coaches as they expand their meaning-making to become more agile, systemic and flexible, to work more effectively in complex and rapidly changing systems.

Our work is grounded in our Leadership Development Framework, a key model in the field of vertical development.

Leadership Development

Leadership Development

Using a vertical development lens, we support leaders at all levels to think systemically, respond to ongoing change, and engage more effectively with the complexity around them, through tailored and co-created interventions. >more

Team Development

Team Development

We work with any team - executive, senior leaders, intact, new team, old or new challenges - to understand the dynamics shaping current behaviour, to help them think and function differently, building capability to change the way it operates. >more

LDF and Profile

The Leadership Development Framework and Profile is an intelligent instrument designed to bring your invisible ‘operating system’ to the surface so you can explore its current resources and limitations, and also expand and deepen your capacity for truly potent, human leadership. >more

Executive Coaching

Executive Coaching

Deliberately developmental and transformational coaching for individuals and teams. Using the LDP, meaning-making capacities, transformational capabilities, developmental inquiry, experimentation and practices, we have coaches in over 40 countries using a range of languages. >more

Coach Development

Coach Development

In our developmental work with coaches we seek to help them nurture and build greater capacity to create for their clients  a truly generative space within which their inquiry yields a more expansive space of insight, wisdom and understanding. >more


Harthill Community

Harthill Community

Our community provides an evolving network of practitioners, coaches, consultants, therapists, and leaders; collaboratively shaped by those who share an interest in adult and vertical development. It functions as a dynamic learning ecosystem convened through a range of forums. >more

The HARTHILL Ecosystem


Our people work together with minimal hierarchy, we get stuff done differently.

We co-inquire, co-create and collaborate in our work with organisations, leaders, coaches and consultants globally. We self-organise around important themes that emerge in and of the field, in service of developing healthier, more sustainable ecosystems.

We facilitate Adult Development to support future success in this changing world.


Harthill Reads

By Ian Mitchell February 5, 2026
Taking inspiration from Emily Dickinson and the HopePunk concept, Ian Mitchell uncovers a series of ‘contrapuntal weavings’ for coaches and supervisors to ponder in their practice
By Nial O'Reilly November 12, 2024
Extend and Include
By Nial O'Reilly July 16, 2024
Becoming
By Ian Mitchell July 20, 2023
Vertically Developmental Coaching
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