Maybe your managers were promoted for their technical skills, not their people skills. Maybe your teams aren’t communicating well enough to perform at their best. Maybe you have neurodivergent employees who need genuine, informed support — not a generic policy. Whatever’s holding your people back, we start with the problem your business is facing, then bring in the right expertise to solve it: leadership development, coaching, psychometric profiling, and neurodiversity support, delivered through one trusted relationship rather than a list of suppliers to manage.
Your Learning & Development Partner
We help you develop the leaders, teams and neurodivergent talent driving your business — through leadership development, coaching, profiling and neurodiversity support, all through one trusted partner.
What's holding your team back?
Leadership & Management
Develop the leaders driving your business. Whether you’re growing first-time managers into confident leaders, building a stronger senior team, or want a programme designed entirely around your organisation’s own challenges, our Leadership & Management programmes give your people practical, applicable skills — not just theory. Every programme is grounded in real workplace situations: managing performance conversations, leading through change, building trust across a team. We work with you to identify exactly where your leaders need to grow, then deliver training that fits how your business actually operates.
Four programmes make that possible today, from first-time manager training through to fully bespoke leadership development built around your organisation, each one designed to be applied on the job, not left in a training room. The result is a thriving workforce — one where your managers have the confidence and capability to lead, and your business benefits from stronger performance right across the teams they run.
Middle Manager Accelerator
The Middle Manager Accelerator gives your middle managers the knowledge, skills and tools to excel in the role — building the capability that drives real results across your business.
Good Manager to Great Leader
Our most popular programme. Good Manager to Great Leader combines DISC profiling, workshops, and coaching to help new and early-career managers move from capable to confident, building the self-awareness, communication, and leadership skills your business needs.
Leading with Emotional Intelligence
Leading with Emotional Intelligence gives your leaders the tools to build genuine emotional intelligence into how they lead — better conversations, better decisions, and a leadership style your people actually respond to.
Bespoke Leadership Programmes
Every business is different. If none of the above quite fits, we’ll design a leadership programme built entirely around your organisation’s specific challenges — starting with a conversation, not a template. Book a Discovery Call to start that conversation.
Neurodiversity
Support the neurodivergent talent already driving your business. Neurodiversity isn’t a niche concern — it’s a genuine strength when your organisation knows how to support it well, and a real risk to retention and performance when it doesn’t. We help you get this right in two ways: through coaching that helps neurodivergent individuals understand how their own minds work, and through training that gives your managers and leaders the practical skills to recognise different thinking styles and support their teams effectively.
Both are grounded in real workplace application, not generic awareness content — the goal is inclusive habits that improve communication, wellbeing and performance across your teams, not a one-off policy. With demand for genuinely informed neurodiversity support growing fast, this is one area where getting it right early gives your business a real advantage. It also means fewer avoidable misunderstandings, less wasted potential, and a workplace where neurodivergent employees are set up to do their best work — not just accommodated.
Neurodiversity Coaching
One-to-one coaching that helps your neurodivergent employees and leaders understand how their minds work, build practical systems suited to their thinking style, and grow in confidence — reducing stress and helping them do their best work for your business.
Neurodiversity Training
A modular training pathway for your managers and leaders — from foundational awareness through to strategic inclusion — building the practical skills to recognise different thinking styles and support neurodivergent colleagues effectively, right across your organisation.
Coaching Services
Coaching isn't just for leaders. Whether it's an executive making high-stakes decisions, a team that needs to work better together, a high-potential employee ready to grow, or someone applying what they've learned from other training, coaching helps your people perform — at every level of the business.
Executive Coaching
Support your executives and leaders in developing their leadership skills, overcoming difficult corporate obstacles, and seizing new possibilities with executive coaching.
Team Coaching
Give your teams the benefit of real-time support with team coaching – an experience that fosters trust and collaboration, develops sustainable team behaviours and increases productivity.
Coaching for High Performance
Coaching is an experience that can benefit and increase performance for everyone, not just leaders and managers. Coaching can help your high-potential employees realise their full potential.
Coaching for Learning Application
Coaching is a valuable addition to other development and training courses, enhancing learning and reinforcing commitment, thereby increasing the return on investment.
Learn more about our coaching services.
Personality Tests & Psychometric Profiling
Better team working starts with understanding how your people think, communicate and operate — individually and together. Our psychometric profiling tools give you and your teams that insight, turning it into practical improvements in how you communicate, collaborate and perform.
DISC Personality Test
DISC measures behavioural style — how your people prefer to communicate, make decisions and respond to pressure — giving your teams a shared language for working better together.
Strengthscope Profiling
Strengthscope identifies what your people are naturally good at, so you can build teams, assign work and develop individuals around real strengths rather than guesswork.
EQ-i 2.0 Psychometric Profiling
A validated assessment of emotional intelligence — how well your people manage themselves and their relationships at work — used to target coaching and leadership development where it matters most.
Flexible Delivery Options
Delphinium’s range of learning options is designed to give you the ultimate flexibility. However your business works, we fit around it. Every programme, coaching engagement or profiling exercise can be delivered in the format that suits your team best:
On-Demand Learning
Live Virtual Training
In-Person Workshops
Blended Solutions
Who We Work With
Meet Our Founder
Once a successful lawyer and manager, Gemma Rolstone realised that her true passion was helping others reach their potential. Her journey led her to create Delphinium, a business dedicated to coaching and developing people, teams and organisations to maximise their potential. Gemma’s expertise lies in creating personalised coaching sessions for individuals and groups that deliver long-lasting results. Her vast experience managing teams and departments has made her a trusted resource for businesses worldwide.
Client Testimonial
“Gemma is an excellent coach and since our first meeting. she’s really made me rethink my goals at a personal level as well as professionally. We began regular coaching sessions at a time when I have been let go and was in the process of pivoting my marketing career into a completely new role. Each session has been a stepping stone in the right direction, helping me build confidence, train my focus and ultimately, providing lots of positive reinforcement. All of it combined with applicable frameworks and tools to identify the changes I needed to make in order to transform myself and develop new skill set all at a time when I felt most vulnerable. I can honestly Gemma’s coaching approach and methodology is unique and would benefit anyone who’s willing to make the change be that an individual, a team or even an entire business.”
— Maja Sanchez, Ops Manager, AppLearn
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