The Laid Bare Company | Where curiosity meets courage
From the classroom to the boardroom, we equip humans to listen deeply, speak honestly and have the conversations that matter.
"The most human skills are now the most valuable. As intelligence becomes abundant, being fearlessly human becomes scarce. These are no longer soft skills, but strategic advantages."
Paul Redmond
Human skills are now the skills gap
Top 10 core skills
for future jobs include empathy and active listening
91% of UK adults
experienced high or extreme stress last year. 1 in 3 don’t feel comfortable talking to their manager about it.
Only 32% of leaders
believe their people can effectively combine human and machine capabilities.
For over 20 years, we've helped organisations lead through connection, not control, building the human skills that bring strategy to life.
For organisations: Conversations that matter!® for leaders
Growth. Performance. Wellbeing. Innovation. AI. Whatever your challenge, better conversations move it forward. Conversations that matter!® is a twelve-week blended programme equipping leaders to apply coaching skills to their workplace conversations.
For training providers: become an Accredited Training Provider
Deliver Conversations that matter!® within your own networks. We bring a proven, accredited programme, ready to deliver. You bring the client relationships.
Trusted by organisations who take culture seriously
We’ve supported leaders across sectors, in financial services, health, retail, education, transport and consultancy, including household names TSB, Wickes and Heathrow.
The impact is measurable. Over three years with 430+ senior leaders at TSB:
+35% confidence to lead using coaching skills
+13% engagement
+8% performance
+15% autonomy
“We now have over 430 Senior Leaders who have seen mighty steps forward in their coaching confidence, awareness, levels of support and challenge within the business.”
The best conversations change everything.
Not the scripted ones. The honest, sometimes uncomfortable ones where people feel truly heard. That’s where trust builds, ideas grow and people thrive.
Why “Laid Bare”?
Because real connection starts when we stop performing and start being honest. Laid bare means stripping things back, keeping it real and getting to the heart of the matter. It takes courage, and a little vulnerability.
That’s what we equip organisations to do: honest conversations, real listening and relationships built on trust.
Suzanne Hayes-Jones is a Master Certified Coach (ICF) with a Master’s in Coaching and Development, who led culture change as Head of L&D for a FTSE 100 household name.
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We’ve written everything you need to know and share about Conversations that matter!® The brochure details the programme, the operational challenges it can meet and how it is delivered.
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and we’ll talk through what it could look like in your organisation.
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and let us know how we can support you.