Enabling senior leaders to drive digital change and unlock growth.
Through the Digital Manufacturing Leadership course, you’ll get the skills, confidence, and network to refresh your strategy and grow your business through digital adoption.
Gain the leadership mindset and tools to build your Strategic Growth Action Plan:
- Understand Industry 4.0 technologies.
- Shape your tech-enabled business strategy.
- Create a change plan to engage your team and deliver growth.
Learn from expert tutors with real industry experience and connect with peers for support and inspiration.
This fully funded nine-week course is for senior and emerging leaders in Yorkshire-based SMEs who want to drive digital change. The course is flexible, practical, and designed to deliver real improvements to your business as you learn.
You’ll need to commit to attending all sessions and completing a project to shape your firm’s growth plan. No qualifications needed.
Empowering digital champions to drive business growth
This course equips Digital Champions at manufacturing businesses in Yorkshire with the skills, confidence, and community to successfully drive digital adoption and business growth.
- Build leadership skills to create your Implementation Growth Action Plan.
- Understand Industry 4.0 technologies and adoption challenges.
- Align tech adoption with your firm’s strategic direction.
- Develop a plan to realise growth benefits.
Learn from expert tutors with real industry experience and connect with peers for support and inspiration.
This fully funded eight-week course is open to managers who run digital projects in Yorkshire-based SMEs. To qualify, you must attend all sessions and complete a project to develop your business's implementation plan. No qualifications needed.
Digital Manufacturing Leadership: Next course: Starting Wednesday 30th September, Hull
Digital Manufacturing Champions: Next course: Starting Wednesday 16th September, York
Transformation used to sound like one huge, overwhelming project. Now I see it as a series of manageable steps. The programme has helped me be better at my job, and it will be the most successful digital project I have implemented in my 20-plus years of running Additive-X.
Jo Young, Managing Director
Additive-X
The Digital Leadership Programme was incredibly insightful, particularly in how to manage resistance to change. Automation can often trigger fears about redundancies, but for us it’s the exact opposite. It’s about upskilling our workforce. This course gave me the tools to communicate that our goal is to move people away from repetitive manual tasks and into more rewarding, higher-value roles.
James Talbot, CEO and Owner
Yorkshire Dough
I just wanted to say a big thank you for looking out for Benjamin during the recent Champions course. He’s already got loads out of it, he’s been chatting to our workshop manager about more digitising of our designs and some other thoughts on improving efficiency. Lots of great ideas and useful tips he’s picked up from listening to others on the course as well as the course leader.
Anna Buckley, Co-founder
Mindful Memorials
The programme has strengthened my leadership capability and given me the confidence to drive meaningful digital initiatives, ensuring the business remains competitive and agile in an increasingly technology-driven industry.
Deepu Mathews Chirappuram, Head of Automation
GMP Manufacturing
One of the most valuable aspects of the course was not just the new processes and project management skills we were introduced to, but the focus on staff engagement. Helping people get on board with change, especially when they have been working in the same way for more than 20 years, can be the biggest challenge when making significant changes.
Dr Marshall Booth, Technical Director
Andel
The course has been a valuable opportunity to better understand what digitisation can mean for a business, and to provide a fresh perspective on how operations are carried out and the benefits digital change can deliver.
Kevin Hart, Operations Manager
Teal & Mackrill
The programme was a great opportunity to develop my leadership skills, think more strategically about operations and reinforced the importance of collaboration, continuous improvement and leading by example.
Gia Conor, Operations Manager
Trust Electric Heating
Made Smarter helped me understand, as a business owner, not just what can be done, but what we should be doing. The course brought together people facing very different challenges, but in reality we were all tackling the same issue, how you implement systems in a way that works for people. That combination of perspectives was invaluable in helping us work out how to move forward.
Justin Bartlett, Managing Director and Owner
Treske
We found the programme particularly valuable in helping understand the social impact of digital change. It highlighted the importance of bringing people with you, supporting employees to adapt and respond positively, while keeping them confident and engaged throughout the process.
Jack Margerison, Design Engineer
Point Engineering
The biggest takeaway for me was that change isn’t scary, it’s brave and can be supported.
Claire Pedley, Director,
The Poured Project