Psychology-led advisoryfor modern leadership

    Executive coaching, psychometric assessment and leadership team development for founders, scaleups, VC portfolios and modern organisations.

    Psychologist-led leadership advisory · Founder and scaleup specialists · London & Berlin · Executive coaching · Psychometrics · Leadership team development

    Most leadership problems
    are not skill gaps
    They are awareness gaps

    We offer innovative leadership development for companies of the future. We help you:

    Build deep self-awareness and strengthen self-leadership
    Identify leadership derailment risks early
    Align teams around shared values, purpose, and ways of working
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    Leadership Teams
    Developed
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    Leaders
    Assessed and coached
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    Years
    Of applied leadership psychology

    Who We Work With

    Heights
    Deutsche Bank
    Adevinta
    LPIO
    Secret Leaders
    Sub
    VenueScanner
    Thrive
    CogX
    Deepc
    BrewDog
    Sony
    Fuse Universal
    Work.Life
    Rianta
    Goodlord
    Ember
    The Body Shop
    Heights
    Deutsche Bank
    Adevinta
    LPIO
    Secret Leaders
    Sub
    VenueScanner
    Thrive
    CogX
    Deepc
    BrewDog
    Sony
    Fuse Universal
    Work.Life
    Rianta
    Goodlord
    Ember
    The Body Shop

    Your Company Can Only Grow as Fast as Your Leaders

    Many companies scale without real insight into whether their leadership can sustain their growth. Without support and honest feedback, blind spots accumulate, values blur, and trust weakens. The cost is real:

    Slower decisions.

    Misalignment at the top.

    Preventable turnover.

    We identify the specific leadership gaps and retention risks early so you can fix them before they cost you your best people or your culture.

    Leadership Growth Programme

    Assessment + Workshop + Coaching

    An experiential leadership programme where leaders understand their unique leadership profile, core drivers, and growth potential and practice the most important entrepreneurial leadership skills in real time.

    Why CAIA

    We work at the intersection of psychology and business

    We are business psychologists, which means we understand both how humans are wired and how organisations perform. We get to the root of what drives or blocks leadership at every level.

    Built for disruptive companies that move fast and think differently

    Born from years specialising in startups and scaleups, we understand the specific pressures of disruptive growth, the pace, the ambiguity, and the people friction that comes with it.

    High intensity. Short duration. Lasting shift

    We go deep quickly, because the leaders we work with don't have six months to wait for insight. Clients see shifts in how they lead immediately.

    Our Work

    How we've helped leadership teams grow.

    BIOTECH SCALEUP

    From values on paper to behaviours leaders could actually use.

    2 → 14
    Team growth
    100%
    Staff retention at 12 months
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    GLOBAL TECH

    Creating consistent, high-performing leadership across the organisation.

    3 Regions
    UK, Europe, USA
    85%
    Leadership engagement uplift
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    What Leaders Say

    CAIA's leadership development solution is one of the best investments we've made as a startup. CAIA helped us understand what our strengths and blindspots are individually and as a leadership team, which has been an invaluable learning for us and will help us build a company culture where people can thrive. They are flexible, personable and very professional, which makes them a pleasure to work with.

    Daniel Murray

    Co-Founder, Heights & Co-Founder, Secret Leaders

    I had the honour and pleasure to participate in a leadership coaching module with Lara in 2023. Lara is an exceptional personality as she manages to convey valuable content with an extraordinarily positive attitude. In addition, I particularly appreciate her ability to show others differentiated perspectives on topics.

    Stefanos Tzoumerkiotis

    VP, Deutsche Bank

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