The Leadership Mirror
Friday 6 November
An experiential leadership day combining equine-assisted coaching, leadership development and restorative wellbeing.
Held at two stunning locations inHertfordshire.
Most leaders spend their days responding and reacting.
Making decisions. Solving problems. Managing people. Navigating competing priorities. Moving from one challenge to the next.
There isn’t much space to stop and notice how you’re actually leading.
The Leadership Mirror creates that space.
Because sometimes you need to step away to step up.
What to expect
This one-day leadership experience takes you away from your usual routine and into an environment where leadership looks and feels very different.
You’ll spend the morning working alongside horses through a series of facilitated individual and team exercises, revealing patterns in how you lead, communicate and respond to others.
In the afternoon, we’ll move to a countryside sanctuary. Through facilitated coaching, reflection and embodied practices, you’ll have space to explore and integrate what the morning has revealed.
You’ll turn those insights into something you can take back into how you lead every day.
Why horses?
Horses don’t care about job titles, seniority or how persuasive your PowerPoint is. They respond to what’s happening in front of them: your presence, clarity, intention, energy, communication and ability to adapt.
Working with them can make patterns visible quickly:
- how you respond when something doesn’t go to plan
- whether you lead, follow or take over
- how clearly you communicate
- how comfortable you are relinquishing control.
- what happens when somebody else’s approach works better than yours.
There is no riding involved and no previous experience with horses is needed.
Afternoon reflections
Horses have a remarkable way of making the invisible visible. In the afternoon, we’ll explore
- what the horses have shown you
- the strengths and qualities you may not recognise in yourself
- where your strengths become overplayed
- the impact your leadership has on others
You’ll leave seeing your leadership through a different lens — reflected back to you by powerful, intuitive animals. Their response is unfiltered, honest and difficult to ignore.
The horses hold up the mirror. What will you do with the reflection?
Who is this for?
The Leadership Mirror is for brave leaders willing to step outside the familiar, be curious about themselves and open to the possibility that there is something they haven’t yet seen.
It can be experienced individually, but is particularly powerful for senior leadership teams who want to understand how they connect and collaborate, their strengths and blind spots.
This isn’t about learning another leadership model. It’s about experiencing your leadership differently.
And being willing to meet the mirror.
The shape of the day
9.30am — Morning with the horses
Welcome and introduction, followed by a series of facilitated equine-assisted leadership exercises and reflection.
1pm — Lunch
We will move from Bayford Hall Farm to have a relaxed and delicious lunch together at Cucumber Fields
2pm — Reflection and integration
Facilitated coaching and reflection to explore what the morning has revealed, followed by embodied practices to help you integrate your insights.
6pm — Close
This is a guide to how the day will unfold. We’ll work with the energy of the group and what emerges on the day, so there may be a little flexibility along the way.
Where and when?
Date: Friday 6 November, 2026
Time: 9.30am to 6pm
Venues: Bayford Hall Farm, near Hertford (morning) and Cucumber Fields, Essendon (afternoon)
Your investment
Individual places: £395 per person
Includes the full-day experience and lunch.
Coming as a team?
The Leadership Mirror can also be run as a private experience for your team, shaped around your people and dynamics. Get in touch to discuss your team and we’ll create a proposal for you.
Why us?
The Leadership Mirror will be hosted by Amy Gallagher and Martina Hodges-Schell. We’ve lived the executive life and bring over 50 years of combined senior leadership experience in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.
We wanted to create something unique, something more human that steps away from conventional leadership development.
An experience that gives you the space to slow down, see yourself more clearly and notice things you might miss in the pace and pressure of everyday leadership.
Our aim is that you come away with a deeper understanding of yourself, your impact on others and what you might choose to do differently.
We hope you can join us.
Ready to join The Leadership Mirror?
To reserve your place, email amy@amy-gallagher.com with the subject line “The Leadership Mirror”. We’ll then send you payment details to secure your booking.