Manager development that really sticks
Manageable is a science-led subscription that grows brilliant managers week by week — with live sessions, self-paced learning, and unlimited AI practice and feedback. Effortless, lasting results for any budget.
How it works
A Manageable subscription gives a manager everything they need to become a better, more confident, and more skilled manager.
Assessment
Assessments that help managers understand themselves, and their opportunities for growth as a leader.
Bite-sized learning
Inspiring multimedia modules on key manager skills. Built on scientific evidence and expert wisdom.
Unlimited practice
Managers can practice everything they learn as much as they want with our super-realistic and flexible AI Practice Buddy™.
Smart nudges
One-off training never works. Manageable nudges learners via slack/teams/email to carry out small impactful learning actions on a regular basis.
Expert guidance
Learn directly from experts with decades of real business experience in regular group masterclasses. Also ‘Ask an expert’ any time.
Our structured learning experiences
Up-skill a cohort of managers to create an exceptional leadership culture.
Confident manager
Build the foundations of great people-management with our customisable learning experience suited to all managers.
Confident manager
Build the foundations of great people-management with our customisable learning experience suited to all managers.
Confident coach
Master a coaching style of leadership - proven to be the most powerful factor driving sky-high performance and well-being.
Why it works
Most manager training doesn’t work. We call it “the great training robbery”. Why? Because learning to manage well is a complex skill like learning a language. Creating the right learning conditions is really hard. Combining everything we know about what’s important, we’ve made sure that Manageable really works.
No other learning company facilitates practice like Manageable. We create safe spaces to practise at every opportunity. With peers, with experts, and whenever you want to, with our AI Practice Buddy™.
Our programs apply the best of behavioural, learning, and management science.
Everything we do is based on the best understanding of what is proven to have an impact, not on trendy but shaky management philosophies.
All the evidence shows that a coaching style of leadership improves employee engagement, wellbeing, and relationships like nothing else. At Manageable we focus especially hard on key coaching skills.
Great managers aren’t built in a day. It takes time for learnings to sink in, and for opportunities to embed the learnings to arise. That’s why we space our programmes out over months, and offer continuous learning via our subscription.
Feedback is essential when learning a complex skill. Manageable experiences include the opportunity to get 360 degrees of feedback from our expert coaches, peers, colleagues, practice “coachees”, and unlimited instant feedback from AI.
The right teachers make learning come to life, and sink in much faster. Our expert coaches and course creators are renowned executive coaches with long experience in successful business careers. They’re a few cuts above the usual “trainer”.
Humans are social animals and learn best in a fun, informal, social environment. Our structured programmes include lots of small-group facilitated practice, keeping motivation sky-high.
No other learning company facilitates practice like Manageable. We create safe spaces to practise at every opportunity. With peers, with experts, and whenever you want to, with our AI Practice Buddy™.
Our programs apply the best of behavioural, learning, and management science.
Everything we do is based on the best understanding of what is proven to have an impact, not on trendy but shaky management philosophies.
All the evidence shows that a coaching style of leadership improves employee engagement, wellbeing, and relationships like nothing else. At Manageable we focus especially hard on key coaching skills.
Great managers aren’t built in a day. It takes time for learnings to sink in, and for opportunities to embed the learnings to arise. That’s why we space our programmes out over months, and offer continuous learning via our subscription.
Feedback is essential when learning a complex skill. Manageable experiences include the opportunity to get 360 degrees of feedback from our expert coaches, peers, colleagues, practice “coachees”, and unlimited instant feedback from AI.
The right teachers make learning come to life, and sink in much faster. Our expert coaches and course creators are renowned executive coaches with long experience in successful business careers. They’re a few cuts above the usual “trainer”.
Humans are social animals and learn best in a fun, informal, social environment. Our structured programmes include lots of small-group facilitated practice, keeping motivation sky-high.
Letter from the founders
Hi, we’re Inken and Farley, co-founders of Manageable (and husband and wife).
Hi,
If you’re a manager, or responsible for manager training, here’s a simple truth: you matter more than you know.
All the research points to the fact that managers are the heart and soul of organisations. Managers create the trust, energy, and psychological safety that fuel creativity and collaboration. They determine the company's ‘culture’ via thousands of small every-day actions.
Managers determine whether employees thrive—or barely survive.
And yet, throughout our corporate careers—and later coaching top CEOs—we’ve been struck by the same irony: senior leaders, who already know how to lead, get all the training investment, while managers get relatively little or nothing.
In fact, right now, 80% of managers have never had any training. No wonder employee engagement is at an 11-year low.
We founded Manageable to change this—to create manager training that is so ridiculously effective, it can’t be ignored. We’re here to equip managers and leaders with the skills, tools, and confidence to lead in a way that’s truly transformational. It’s based on the evidence of what really works, is actionable, and is designed to sink in deep.
At Manageable, we believe in managers. We believe everyone deserves a great manager. And we believe that workplaces should be a source of inspiration, growth, and joy.
Join us in making that vision a reality.
Warm regards,
Farley Thomas & Inken Thomas
Co-Founders, Manageable
We’re here to give everyone at work the gift of a great manager, one nudge at a time.
Transforming managers into confident coaches to their teams is a high-stakes challenge. Practice is key.
Study after study confirms that the managers of the top-performing teams are effective coaches.
Managers who coach achieve higher productivity and levels of engagement with their teams, leading to significant advantage in terms of sales, profits, customer satisfaction, product quality and employee turnover.
In today's rapid and highly competitive world, being an effective coach is not optional anymore, it’s essential.
Practice is key
Coaching is a complex skill like speaking a language. It is best learned socially with lots of real practice. Creating the right learning conditions is hard. Using decades of experience and the science of what works, we've come up with a way that makes it manageable.
“I am a significantly better leader for my team after my Manageable experience”
Nicholas Lawrence,
Director of Technology, CloudMargin
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