Influence and Personal Impact
– Even Without Formal Authority
We help leaders and specialists create followership, navigate complex relationships and communicate with impact – even without formal authority.
Power2Influence®
A practical, evidence-based programme that helps professionals choose the right influence strategy for each situation. You learn to analyse interactions, adapt your approach to different people, and apply influence techniques in real workplace scenarios – before, during and after the training.
Test your Influence
Discover your influence profile in just a few minutes. This short, evidence-based online assessment shows how you currently influence others, highlighting your preferred strategies, strengths, and blind spots. You gain clear, practical insight you can use immediately to increase your impact.
Find your course
Explore our programmes in influence, leadership, and negotiation, and choose the course that best fits your role, experience, and goals.












Training that fits your learning needs
Professionals and organisations face different challenges – and therefore need different learning approaches. Whether you are looking to develop your own skills or strengthen capability across a team, we offer programmes that connect directly to real workplace situations and deliver practical, lasting impact.
For individual professionals
If you want to strengthen your influence, leadership presence, or negotiation skills, our open-enrolment programmes help you develop practical behaviour you can apply immediately.
Ideal for specialists, project leaders, advisors, and ambitious professionals who need to influence without formal authority.
For teams and organisations
If you want to develop skills across a team or organisation, our in-company programmes are tailored to your context, challenges, and goals.
Designed for managers, leaders, and organisations looking to improve communication, leadership, collaboration, and performance at scale.
Why Organizations Choose The Influence Company
We train behavior
– not just knowledge
Short theory inputs. Intensive behavioral training. Direct feedback. Repetition. You work with realistic cases, are challenged in your own style and receive concrete feedback that changes your behavior – not just your understanding.
Specialists in influence
without formal authority
We focus on personal impact, informal leadership and relational power. We train you to build support, navigate stakeholders and stand clearly – even when title and hierarchy alone are not enough.
Small groups. Experienced facilitators. Documented impact
You train in small groups with experienced facilitators who have themselves worked in complex leadership situations. This creates psychological safety and a learning environment where you are seen, challenged and developed.
What participants experience in our programmes.
Our participants come from a wide range of roles and industries. What they share is a practical shift in how they communicate, influence decisions, and handle challenging situations.
Personal Influence Programme®
Positive Power & Influence® Programme
Positive Power & Influence® Programme
Influential Communication Programme®
Personal Influence Programme®
Positive Power & Influence® Programme
Understand Your Influence Style
Gain insight into how you typically influence others – and how your influence style affects relationships, decisions and results.
The test gives you:
- Clarity about your preferred influence style
- Insight into your strengths and blind spots
- Concrete guidance on how to expand your personal impact
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It only takes a few minutes – and you receive your result immediately.
Documented Quality and Impact
Our programs are systematically evaluated after each completed program – focusing on relevance, participant value and trainer quality.
For HR and L&D, this creates full transparency into quality, participant outcomes and documented impact across the organization.
Evaluation of the program and trainers*
9/10
Program and trainer evaluations
9,7/10
Average overall program rating
9,7/10
Average trainer rating
95%
Participants recommending the program to colleagues
* Based on evaluations from completed programs
How We Create Real Behavioral Change
We do not believe in inspiration without implementation. Our approach is designed to change behavior in practice – not just create insight in the classroom.
Our method is simple and consistent:
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Create clarity about situation and objectives
02
Train concrete behaviors in realistic scenarios
03
Receive direct and honest feedback
04
Adjustment, repetition and integration
This is how personal impact is developed – and sustained over time.
Start a Conversation
If you work in HR or L&D with responsibility for talent and leadership development, we are happy to discuss your organizational needs, implementation and desired outcomes. A short conversation helps clarify target group, scope, scale and next steps.
- Clarification of goals and challenges
- Advisory on selecting the right program
- Possibility of a tailored solution
Perspectives on Influence and Leadership
We share insights about personal impact, influence styles and leadership without formal authority – based on decades of experience working with leaders and specialists.