Nik Bailey
Associate Consultant | Leadership Development, Coaching & Experiential Learning
Nik Bailey is an associate consultant at Telos Partners, specialising in leadership development, coaching, experiential learning, motivational speaking and educational workshops. He supports Partners for Leadership (P4L), Telos Partners' two-year strategic leadership development experience for senior leaders.
Alongside his consulting work, Nik is a professional actor, lecturer and Research Fellow at the Centre for Responsible Business at the University of Birmingham. His research explores leadership development, workplace wellbeing, experiential learning, emotional labour, DEIB in leadership and leadership impact.
Experience and expertise
Leadership development and coaching
Experiential learning and educational workshops
Motivational speaking
Research Fellow at the Centre for Responsible Business, University of Birmingham
Research across workplace wellbeing, emotional labour, DEIB and leadership impact
PhD in Accountancy and Financing
MBA in International Business
Professional acting background and training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Supports Telos Partners’ Partners for Leadership (P4L) programme
How Jeremy helps clients
Leadership development - Designing experiences that help leaders explore how they show up, relate to others and create impact.
Coaching - Supporting individuals to reflect, challenge assumptions and translate insight into practical changes in behaviour.
Experiential learning - Using active, participative methods to make leadership development memorable and applicable to real work.
Workshops & speaking - Bringing research, performance and facilitation together to engage groups around leadership, wellbeing and inclusion.
How Jeremy helps organisations
Nik works with leaders and organisations that want development to be experienced rather than simply understood. Drawing on consulting, academic research and professional performance, he creates engaging learning environments that help people reflect on behaviour, practise new approaches and connect leadership theory with the realities of organisational life.
Client story
Nik on leadership, coaching and experiential learning
Nik brings an unusual combination of leadership research, coaching and professional performance to his work with clients. In leadership programmes and workshops, he uses experiential methods to help participants move beyond abstract concepts and explore how communication, emotion, inclusion and behaviour affect their impact on others. His work is particularly suited to organisations seeking development that is participative, reflective and closely connected to real leadership situations.
Questions Jeremy is regularly asked
What is experiential learning in leadership development?
Experiential learning gives leaders opportunities to practise, observe and reflect rather than only discuss ideas conceptually. Nik uses active methods to help participants notice their behaviour, test different approaches and connect learning directly to real leadership situations.How can acting techniques support leadership development?
Professional performance develops close attention to presence, communication, emotion and audience. Used appropriately, these techniques can help leaders explore how they are experienced by others and experiment with more deliberate ways of communicating and responding.Why does workplace wellbeing matter for leadership?
Leaders influence the conditions in which people work, including expectations, relationships and the emotional demands of work. Nik draws on research into workplace wellbeing and emotional labour to help leaders consider the human impact of how work is organised and led.How can DEIB be integrated into leadership development?
DEIB becomes meaningful when it is connected to everyday leadership behaviour, decisions and relationships. Nik helps participants explore how inclusion is experienced in practice and how leaders can create environments in which a wider range of people can contribute.What makes a leadership workshop memorable and useful?
A useful workshop combines credible ideas with active participation and time for reflection. Nik designs learning so participants can experience concepts, discuss what they noticed and identify practical changes they can take back into their roles.
Insights & thought leadership
Discover leadership development, experiential learning and workplace insights from Nik.
Experiential learning for leadership development
How presence and communication shape leadership impact
Workplace wellbeing and the emotional demands of leadership
DEIB as an everyday leadership practice
Turning leadership insight into behavioural change
Nik on experiential leadership development
