// gambet — bristol — cohort 22

Direct training
for the leadership
mindset.

DS Gambet runs short, brutal, applied training programmes in leadership mindset, executive presence and senior career reinvention. No retreats. No frameworks. No bullshit.

// spec 022LIVE
Cohort12 / OPEN
BeginsOCT 2026
FormatHybrid · BRS
Investment£8,200
CertILM L5
LEADERSHIP MINDSETEDUCATIONAL MATERIALSEXECUTIVE PRESENCECAREER ACCELERATIONWORKFORCE RESKILLINGSENIOR JUDGEMENTINDUSTRY MENTORSHIP LEADERSHIP MINDSETEDUCATIONAL MATERIALSEXECUTIVE PRESENCECAREER ACCELERATIONWORKFORCE RESKILLINGSENIOR JUDGEMENTINDUSTRY MENTORSHIP

We do not run retreats. We do not sell frameworks. We run drills.
Five days a week.
For nine months.
Until the senior register is in the body.

  1. 01Built in 2019 above a print shop in Clifton. Three former executive coaches who got tired of the conference circuit.
  2. 02Programmes are short, applied and brutal. Cohorts cap at twelve. There are no make-up sessions.
  3. 03If you are not measurably different at the end of a programme — defined by your own pre-stated criteria — we refund half.
  4. 04We do not work with anyone who joins for the certificate. We work with people who already know what they need.
// programmes · live

Six tracks. No retreats.

01

Leadership Mindset Drill

A nine-month drill in the four classical disciplines of senior leadership. Daily exchanges with paired faculty. Filmed studio sessions.

Duration · 36 wkCohort · 12Format · HybridInvestment · £9,400
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02

Executive Presence Studio

A six-month studio in voice, body, judgement and the language of consequence for senior practitioners entering board-grade rooms.

Duration · 24 wkCohort · 12Format · Hybrid · BRSInvestment · £6,800
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03

Career Acceleration

A direct programme for mid-career managers becoming directors. No theory. Real-room decision-making under noise, fatigue and people.

Duration · 14 wkCohort · 14Format · EveningsInvestment · £3,200
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04

Industry Reinvention

For senior practitioners pivoting laterally. Reframing a body of work for a new sector's ear. Built around private mentoring.

Duration · 14 wkCohort · 8Format · 1-to-1Investment · £11,400
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05

Mentorship Craft

For senior practitioners taking the mentor's seat. The literature, ethics and craft of guiding another's work without colonising it.

Duration · 12 wkCohort · 18Format · EveningsInvestment · £2,400
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06

Workforce Reskilling

Bespoke reskilling programmes for organisations. Built with each commissioner over two weeks of plant-side study.

Duration · 8 — 24 wkCohort · 10 — 20Format · In-houseInvestment · By proposal
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// method · 04 stages

How a Fellow is built.

i

Diagnosis

The first month. A studio examination — what you do well, what you avoid, what the room says when you leave.

ii

Reading

The reading list, the lectures, the philosophical scaffolding. We treat leadership as a literature, not a productivity podcast.

iii

Drill

Weekly studio drills with peers and faculty. Filmed, transcribed, replayed. The body learns before the mind does.

iv

Return

A Fellowship paper, a network of twelve, and a quietly revised sense of what was possible.

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Progress within 12 mo
of certified Fellows working in their certified role within 60 days. Tracked and audited.
£0
Median uplift
salary uplift 12 months after completion. Manchester + Bristol median.
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Fellows since 2019
cumulative Fellowship across all six programme tracks since the studio opened.
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Refund rate
programmes returned under our half-refund guarantee. Below 1% for 14 consecutive cohorts.
// admissions · open

Send a brief.

No sales team. No chatbot. Briefs go to a faculty member and come back within 48 hours. If the brief fits, we book a 30-minute call.

Studio
19 Berkeley Square
Clifton, Bristol BS8 1HP
Phone
0117 496 0294
Email
studio@dsgambet.life

Brief us

> Brief received. Faculty will reply within 48 hours.