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About us

We share a common set of values that drive our behaviour with everyone that we meet. You will see our values brought to life in the relationships that we will build with you and your people, the talented consultants and coaches who work with us and the way we design and deliver our development solutions.

Our Values

Trust

We hold ourselves accountable, we act with integrity in everything we do, and we value difference.

Inspire

We work with organisations to develop and nurture the leadership skills employers need to grow their businesses.

Achieve

We celebrate and make visible achievements, where it matters most. By ensuring achievement is valued and recognised we empower our clients and each other to grow.

Improve

We help improve the organisational performance of our customers and the performance of individuals and each other.

The Oxford Group Way

We believe leadership matters…

From the boardroom to first line managers, we want everyone to make a positive lasting impact on your business every day.

We endeavour to make appropriate adjustments to ensure our programmes are accessible to participants with a disability or specific learning need.

The Oxford Group does not have prerequisites for the solutions we offer other than those determined by our clients.

Our People

We have over 200 multilingual consultants and coaches spread across six continents. We are well aware that we are only as good as our people and so each individual is handpicked by us and all go through a rigorous assessment process before joining The Oxford Group.

Meet the team

Our History

  • 1987

    ‘Oxford Training’ was set up with a vision to build a business that would make a real difference to clients through inspirational people development solutions

  • 1989

    Moved focus from purely Behavioural Assessment to provide in-house Leadership and Management Development programmes to large businesses

  • 1992

    Opened our office in Paris to service the needs of European clients

  • 1995

    Re-branded as ‘The Oxford Group Consulting & Training’ to represent the wider range of services being offered

  • 2002

    Executive Coaching practice established

  • 2010

    Opened our registered office in New York to meet the needs of our growing base of North American clients

  • 2012

    Opened our office in Hong Kong following increasing growth with our corporate clients in Asia Pacific

  • 2013

    Launched our 5 Conversations programme to improve workplace relationships and employee engagement

  • 2015

    Acquired by City & Guilds, a global skills development organisation which operates in more than 80 countries

  • 2020

    Launched our first fully digital programme: ‘Impact: high intensity toolkit for managers’.

  • 2023

    Launched The Leadership Matters Podcast – Listen here

A City & Guilds Business

The Oxford Group is a City & Guilds business. City & Guilds purpose is to help people and organisations to develop their skills for personal and economic growth. Each City & Guilds business has a distinct focus; our combined products and services provide a comprehensive range of work-relevant qualifications, assessment, training and learning support services.

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Accessibility to our programmes is important to us, we endeavour to make appropriate adjustments where required.

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