The High Performance Leader
WITH INTEGRATED DATA PASSPORT LEVEL 4
This programme combines world-class leadership development with practical data capability to build exceptional operational managers with the confidence and technical insight to lead performance and drive results.
Programme Overview
Human-Centred • Data-Intelligent • Performance-Driven
9 Powerful Programme Themes
Each theme is a self-contained learning experience combining a virtual or face-to-face workshop, 1:1 coaching and real-work project application. Every task is grounded in actual projects, real stakeholders and genuine delivery challenges.
Themes
9 Powerful Programme Themes
Each theme is a self-contained learning experience combining a virtual or face-to-face workshop, 1:1 coaching and real-work project application. Every task is grounded in actual projects, real stakeholders and genuine delivery challenges.
Qualifications
Qualifications
On completion of this programme you will receive two qualifications, plus CMI-backed professional recognition.
- CMI Level 5 Diploma in Management and Leadership
Integrated leadership development - Data Passport: Data Analyst Level 4 Apprenticeship
Build practical knowledge capability in data - Full Chartered Manager (CMgr)
Professional recognition awarded by CMI, the only Chartered body for management and leadership in the UK
Duration
Programme Duration
This is a 72 week programme split into nine themes, with each lasting eight weeks and including a workshop and coaching.
• Data architecture | 8 Weeks
• Analytical capability | 8 Weeks
• Stakeholder data | 8 Weeks
• Data visualisation | 8 Weeks
• Project analytics | 8 Weeks
• Change data | 8 Weeks
• Statistical forecasting | 8 Weeks
• Commercial data | 8 Weeks
• People analytics | 8 Weeks
Electives
30+ Elective Modules
Enhance your impact, target what matters and customise your development with full access to over 30 Elective modules. Our range of Electives in available in addition to the main programme workshops, and provided targeting leadership learning in the following areas:
• Finance & Governance
• Change & Innovation
• People Management
• Operational Skills
• Strategy & Business Acumen
• Leadership & Personal Development
End point assessment
End Point Assessment
[NEEDS EDITING] The End Point Assessment (EPA) is your opportunity to showcase everything you’ve learned and prove you’re ready to thrive as a Data-enabled Leader. Over a typical 3-month period, you’ll demonstrate real, job-ready skills, earning a nationally recognised grade of Pass, Merit, or Distinction that employers value.
Here’s what to expect:
- Scenario Demonstration with Questioning: Put your skills into action through real data tasks.
- Professional Discussion: A two-way conversation exploring your workplace experience, how you apply data insights and add value.
- Portfolio of Evidence: Built from real work throughout your programme, showcasing your development.
Return on Investment
Real impact. Proven ROI.
Fuel Learning’s programmes have already delivered £60m+ in verified ROI.
Designed for immediate, tangible results for you and your organisation. Every assessment is built around your live business environment, your data, your team and your priorities so the impact isn’t hypothetical, it’s happening now.
Real work. Real results. From day one.
9 Powerful Themes
Lead operations with confidence and clarity, while developing your analytical capability to turbo charge your effectiveness. Every theme and every task is grounded in actual projects, real stakeholders and genuine delivery challenges.
What you achieve
On this programme you’ll gain two nationally recognised and accredited qualifications, develop exceptional operational leadership skills whilst building practical knowledge capability in data. You’ll also achieve full Chartered Manager status n completion, with set progression pathways to continue your leadership development.
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CMI Level 5 Diploma in Management and Leadership
LEADERSHIP QUALIFICATION
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Data Analyst Level 4 Apprenticeship
DATA PASSPORT
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Full Chartered Manager (CMgr)
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
Rocket fuel for operations leaders
The Data Passport (Level 4 Data Analyst) certifies that you, as a leader, are trained, qualified and capable of using data to maximise opportunities, drive efficiencies and add measurable value to your team, your operation and your clients. It is a structured analytical capability strand woven through every theme of your Operations Manager programme, developing leaders who make decisions grounded in data that is credible, factual, compliant, secure, meaningful and outcome-focused.
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Data makes you faster
Operations leaders who can read their data don’t wait for problems to surface through people. They see them coming. A dip in attendance, a quality score trending down, a project milestone slipping. Data gives you the early signal.
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Data makes you more persuasive
When your case is built on evidence, people don’t just listen. They act. Evidence-based decisions land faster, travel further up the organisation and bring more people with them.
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Data makes you more credible
When you walk into a room with a commercial case, a change proposal or a performance review backed by clean, traceable, analytically rigorous evidence, you carry more authority. Stakeholders trust leaders who can show their working.
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Data makes you fairer
Performance conversations grounded in evidence remove the subjectivity that damages trust. When you can show someone their attendance pattern, their output trend, their development progress, the conversation changes. Facts, not feelings.
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Data makes you more commercial
The leaders who get promoted can connect their team and operation performance to the numbers that matter. Revenue, cost, margin, efficiency. At Level 4, data becomes the language of commercial authority, not just operational reporting.
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Data makes you more human
Leaders who use data well have better conversations, make fairer decisions, develop their people more deliberately and lead change with more honesty. Data doesn’t replace judgement. It sharpens it.
As a Operations Manager, you will…
- Lead operations with authority
- Manage performance with evidence
- Build and develop high-performing teams
- Plan operational activities with structure
- Deliver measurable outcomes
- Lead change and projects with confidence
- Manage complex stakeholder relationships
With your Data Passport L4, you will…
- Spot data trends and predict problems
- Apply statistical analysis to performance
- Build performance dashboards and reports
- Combine data from multiple sources
- Present data-driven insight to senior leaders
- Lead with data legally and ethically
- Use data to build organisational trust
The value this programme creates…
| FOR YOU AS A LEADER | FOR YOUR ORGANISATION | FOR CLIENTS & STAKEHOLDERS |
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| Qualified, credentialled and data confident. Capability developed, applied and formally assessed against a nationally recognised standard. | A team that runs on evidence rather than instinct. Performance managed with precision. Issues spotted before they become problems. | Team leaders who communicate with confidence and clarity. Data presented at the right level for every audience. |
| Confident reading and using data at every level of your team | Decisions backed by credible, factual, outcome-focused team data | Team performance communicated clearly at the right level of detail |
| Turning team data into clearer decisions and better conversations | Performance conversations grounded in evidence, not opinion | Reporting that is accurate, consistent and audience-appropriate |
| Managing performance with evidence that is fair, legal and traceable | Attendance, output and quality tracked with clean, reliable data | Evidence of outcomes delivered, not just activity completed |
| Recognised by CMI, the UK’s only Chartered management body | Data handled compliantly, securely and within governance standards | Confidence in data that is compliant, accurate and fit for purpose |
Start your journey
Register your interest in our High Performance Leader with integrated Data Passport programme today, and a member of the Fuel team will be in touch. No hard sell – just an honest conversation about what where your leadership development could take you.
Ready to lead operations with data behind every decision?
Lead with authority • Decide with evidence • Qualify with both