The Kathryn Colas Academy helps organisations build healthier, more supportive workplaces through practical training and education.

Specialising in menopause and women’s health, the Academy deliver clear, accessible workshops and manager training that improve awareness, confidence, and communication across teams.

With a straightforward, no-nonsense approach, programmes are designed to create real impact — helping businesses better support their people, retain talent, and build inclusive workplace cultures.

MCA Training International is part of the MCA Resources Group and an established international training and coaching organisation with more than four decades of experience across Africa, the Middle East, Europe and beyond.

At the heart of MCA's work is a clear belief: sustainable performance begins with character. In industries where the stakes are high, where a decision can affect patient safety, financial integrity, regulatory standing, or the lives of people on the ground, the quality of leadership is not a peripheral concern. It is the single greatest determinant of whether your organisation performs, retains its best people, and builds a culture that endures.

Leaders who invest in developing their people do not just improve performance. They reduce the cost of poor leadership, accelerate the development of the next generation of talent, and build organisations that are genuinely resilient in the face of complexity and change.

The Business Case for Character-Based Leadership

Poor leadership is expensive. It drives talent out, erodes trust, creates compliance risk and undermines the cultures that organisations spend years trying to build. The organisations that outperform their peers over the long term are not simply better resourced or better structured. They are better led.

MCA's work exists to close that gap. We develop leaders who make better decisions, build stronger teams, retain top talent and deliver results that compound over time. For CEOs, CHROs, Managing Directors and business unit leaders, this is not a training investment. It is a strategic one.

Who We Work With

MCA has worked with more than 200,000 individuals across 500+ organisations globally, spanning some of the most demanding and high-stakes industries in the world. We work directly with C-Suite executives, Managing Directors, Chief HR Officers, Heads of Talent and Development, and the senior leaders who understand that the quality of leadership in their organisation is ultimately their responsibility.

In pharmaceutical and life sciences, we work with organisations where ethics, compliance and the quality of human judgment carry the highest possible consequences. Our clients in this space include Novartis, Merck Sharp and Dohme, and Takeda Pharmaceutical. For senior leaders in this sector, the question is not whether leadership quality matters. It is whether your organisation is developing the kind of leaders who can uphold rigorous standards under regulatory pressure, lead cross-functional teams through complexity, and build cultures where accountability and patient-centricity are embedded deeply enough to withstand scrutiny at every level.

In financial services and banking, our track record is extensive. We have partnered with Standard Bank, Nedbank, Stanbic Bank, Ecobank, Kenya Commercial Bank, United Bank for Africa and many others. In this sector, the cost of poor leadership shows up in client attrition, compliance failures, talent loss and cultures where accountability is inconsistent. Character-based leadership development directly addresses each of these risks while building the kind of organisations that attract and retain the best people.

In insurance, we have worked with Sanlam, Hollard, Prudential Life Assurance, Metropolitan Life and NICO Holdings among others. For senior leaders in this sector, where trust is the foundation of every client relationship, the character of your leaders is not a soft consideration. It is a commercial one.

In management consulting and professional services, we have partnered with Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers. In firms where the product is the quality of your people, leadership development is not a support function. It is core to your value proposition, your ability to retain top talent, and your capacity to grow.

In construction and engineering, where safety culture and on-the-ground leadership directly determine both human and commercial outcomes, we bring a practical, results-oriented approach that resonates with leaders who measure success in the real world. And across energy, mining, telecommunications, international development and beyond, our work reflects one consistent principle: wherever people lead other people, character determines outcomes.

Our Approach

We do not deliver generic training programmes. Every engagement is designed around the specific context, culture and strategic priorities of the organisation. We work with senior leadership teams to understand what is at stake, what the current gaps are, and what kind of leadership capability the organisation needs to build in order to deliver on its ambitions.

Our programmes are delivered through practical training, facilitated learning and executive coaching, and they are designed to produce measurable, lasting behavioural change at every level of the organisation. We hold ourselves accountable to the same standards we develop in others.

Our character-based approach enables organisations to navigate complexity, lead through change, and build cultures that endure across teams, functions and generations. We do not believe in quick fixes. We believe in developing the kind of leaders whose influence outlasts any programme, initiative or organisational cycle.

What We Offer

• Leadership Development Programmes rooted in character, values, integrity and personal responsibility, tailored for regulated, high-stakes and high-performance environments

• Executive and Leadership Coaching for sustained personal and professional growth at every level of leadership

• High-Performance Team Development that builds the trust, accountability and cohesion that drives exceptional team results

• Organisational Culture Work that aligns people around shared purpose and values that translate into measurable everyday performance

• Specialised Leadership Programmes covering leadership under pressure, ethical decision-making, leading through change, resilience and managing compliance-driven environments

• Strategic L&D Partnership for organisations seeking a trusted external partner to design, deliver and embed leadership capability as part of a long-term people strategy

Why Senior Leaders Choose MCA

• A character-first leadership philosophy that addresses the root cause of underperformance, talent attrition, compliance risk and cultural drift

• Proven impact across 200,000+ individuals and 500+ organisations, from large multinationals to regional leaders across Africa, the Middle East, Europe and beyond

• Real credibility in regulated and high-stakes industries, with clients including Novartis, Merck Sharp and Dohme, Takeda, Standard Bank, Nedbank, Sanlam, Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers

• Programmes designed around your organisation's specific context, culture and strategic priorities, not off-the-shelf solutions

• A practical, results-oriented approach focused on long-term performance and sustainable culture rather than short-term fixes

• Flexible delivery across in-person, virtual and blended formats, built to fit the realities of complex, fast-moving organisations

Our Mission and Vision

Our mission is to equip people, leaders and teams with the character required to create high-performing cultures and deliver exceptional organisational performance. Our vision is to leave a lasting legacy by developing leaders who positively influence organisations, industries and generations to come.

Natural Velocity AI Training Centre — Empowering Responsible AI Adoption

The Natural Velocity AI Learning Centre, based in Melbourne, Australia, is a purpose-built training location for practical, human-centred learning across artificial intelligence, robotics, cyber security, meta skills and emerging technologies. It is also key aspect of the Natural Velocity Ecosystem.

In addition to programs delivered at the AI Learning Centre, Natural Velocity provides on-premise training at customer locations and keynote services for conferences, leadership events, and industry forums, ensuring learning and insight can be delivered wherever impact is needed.

The Centre’s mission is to help individuals, teams, and organisations apply AI responsibly and confidently, turning curiosity into capability and experimentation into real-world action.

Rather than offering isolated or purely technical instruction, the AI Learning Centre delivers structured, industry-aligned programs that build leadership capability, governance maturity, and workforce readiness across the AI value chain.

Programs are practical, current, and grounded in real deployments undertaken by Natural Velocity, not theory reflecting the needs of industry, government, startups, and future talent.

Core Program Areas

Corporate and Custom Training

Tailored programs aligned to organisational goals across AI adoption, leadership capability, governance, and emerging technology readiness. Delivered at the Natural Velocity AI Learning Centre or on site at customer locations, enabling contextual, hands on learning embedded in real operating environments.

AI & Generative AI Capability

Programs focused on building practical AI literacy and the safe, effective use of generative AI tools in everyday work. Structured learning journeys support adoption, confidence, and measurable business value.

Human-Centred and Meta Skills

Programs designed to strengthen uniquely human capabilities such as ethical judgement, creativity, empathy, resilience, and critical thinking, skills that become more important, not less, in an AI enabled world.

Applied Technology & Innovation

Hands-on experiences across applied technologies including robotics, drones, creative technology, coding, and innovation sprints. These programs emphasise experimentation, problem-solving, and real-world application in supported learning environments.

Network Effects and Digital Strategy

Training that explores how digital platforms, ecosystems, and network effects create scalable value—helping participants understand how technology, markets, and adoption interact.

Cybersecurity and Advanced Technology Topics

Programs covering cybersecurity fundamentals, machine learning concepts, ethical AI design, and selected advanced technology areas, delivered in formats that prioritise understanding over unnecessary complexity.

Keynote and Event Services

Natural Velocity also delivers high-impact keynote presentations for conferences, executive offsites, and industry events. Keynotes are engaging, accessible, and grounded in real-world experience, exploring topics such as:

• Being human in the age of AI

• Responsible AI adoption and leadership

• Generative AI’s impact on work and decision-making

• The future of skills, creativity, and trust in an AI-enabled world

Each keynote is tailored to audience context, industry, and strategic objectives.

Consulting and Advisory Services

In addition to training and keynotes, Natural Velocity provides hands-on consulting and advisory services to support organisations at critical stages of their AI and emerging technology journey.

Who the AI Learning Centre Supports

The AI Learning Centre strengthens capability across the broader ecosystem, including:

• Leaders, executives, and boards accountable for AI-related decisions

• Organisations and teams seeking responsible, scalable AI adoption

• Startups and scaleups building applied technology capability

• Children, students, and future workforce participants preparing for an AI-first world

Welcome to New Results

New Results exists for ambitious organisations that want to improve their performance. Whether that is in their leadership capability, improving management approaches or addressing the thorny issue of sales and service into their clients.

We work with organisations who want a shift in how their people think, behave, and succeed.

New Results brings a refreshing, evidence‑driven approach that blends psychology, coaching, and commercial know‑how into practical programmes that actually change outcomes. We do this through “discovery led” learning that focuses on creating actions for individuals, teams and the whole organisation.

We are focused on helping teams build confidence, develop capability, and deliver measurable improvements that stick long after the workshop ends.

We don’t deliver generic courses or off‑the‑shelf content; instead, we get to know your business to really understand what’s blocking growth, what motivates your people, and what your customers really value. This insight shapes tailored development experiences that transform the way individuals lead, collaborate and engage clients.

Working with New Results feels less like hiring a training provider and more like gaining a trusted partner who’s as invested in your success as you are. We are here to support, challenge, guide, and inspire your teams to achieve their own New Results.

SHARP™ Leadership Academy — Building Leadership People Can Trust

SHARP™ Leadership Academy helps organizations strengthen leadership integrity, governance, accountability, and decision-making before small gaps become significant organizational risks.

Based in British Columbia, Canada, SHARP™ works with executives, leadership teams, and organizations seeking to build stronger cultures, more accountable leadership, and greater institutional trust.

Our work is built around a simple belief: strong governance does not slow growth- it protects it.

Rather than treating leadership development and governance as separate disciplines, SHARP™ connects the two. We examine not only what organizations say through policies and values, but how leadership is actually experienced through decisions, behaviours, accountability, and everyday organizational practices.

At the centre of our approach is the proprietary SHARP™ Framework - Standards, Honesty, Alignment, Resilience, and Presence - a practical system for strengthening trustworthy leadership and organizational integrity.

Core Program Areas

Leadership Integrity & Ethical Decision-Making

Practical leadership development designed to help leaders navigate difficult decisions, competing priorities, organizational pressure, and ethical complexity while maintaining trust and accountability.

Leadership Alignment & Accountability

Programs that help leadership teams identify misalignment between strategy, values, behaviours, roles, and decision-making - creating greater clarity, ownership, and organizational consistency.

Governance Intelligence

Structured governance diagnostics and leadership assessments designed to identify gaps that may not be visible through traditional leadership training alone.

SHARP™ examines operational evidence, human signals, and standards alignment to help organizations understand where governance is working and where greater attention may be required.

Executive Leadership Development

Development experiences for executives and senior leaders focused on resilience, credible presence, decision confidence, accountability, and leading effectively through complexity and change.

Grace & Grit Leadership

A distinctive SHARP™ leadership approach combining human-centred leadership with the courage to maintain standards under pressure.

Grace represents empathy, humility, respect, and humanity. Grit represents courage, resilience, accountability, and the willingness to make difficult decisions.

Together, they help leaders remain both human and principled.

Responsible AI & Governance

Leadership-focused programs helping organizations consider the governance implications of AI adoption, including accountability, human oversight, ethical decision-making, organizational trust, and responsible leadership.

The focus is not simply on understanding AI technology, but on ensuring leadership and governance evolve alongside it.

Organizational Leadership & Governance Pilots

SHARP™ offers structured organizational pilots that allow leadership teams to identify priority governance and leadership gaps, test practical interventions, and develop a focused roadmap for improvement.

These engagements can combine governance assessment, leadership development, facilitated executive conversations, and practical recommendations.

Executive Assessments & Leadership Clarity Sessions

Focused assessments and executive conversations designed to help leaders identify areas affecting leadership effectiveness, alignment, resilience, decision-making, and credible presence. Speaking, Workshops & Executive Conversations

SHARP™ also delivers workshops, facilitated leadership conversations, and speaking engagements for leadership teams, executive groups, professional associations, and organizational events.

Topics include:

• Leadership integrity in high-pressure environments

• The hidden integrity gaps behind organizational failure

• Governance as a strategic advantage

• Grace & Grit leadership

• Trust, accountability, and ethical decision-making

• Responsible leadership in the age of AI

• Building organizations people can trust

Who SHARP™ Supports

SHARP™ is designed for:

• Executives and senior leadership teams

• CEOs, founders, and organizational leaders

• Boards and governance decision-makers

• Risk, compliance, and transformation leaders

• Organizations navigating growth or change

• Institutions strengthening trust and accountability

• Leaders responsible for AI and emerging-technology decisions

Our objective is not simply to deliver another leadership course.

It is to help organizations identify the gaps between what they intend, what they say, and what people actually experience - and turn those insights into stronger leadership, better governance, and greater institutional trust.

We enable ambitious organisations to achieve sustainable growth by strengthening leadership, organisational effectiveness, and workplace culture.

Most organisations face performance challenges rather than people problems. Leadership capability, organisational design, culture, and people systems all drive commercial success. We help ambitious businesses identify performance constraints and implement practical solutions to accelerate growth.

What We Do

Our services are organised into key themes:

* Organisational Design & Development

* Executive & Leadership Coaching

* Human Synergistics Culture & Leadership Diagnostics

* Leadership Development Programmes

* Managed Learning Services

* Strategic HR & Growth Partnership

How We Work

Our four-stage methodology:

1. Diagnose (HR Profit Map™ and diagnostics)

2. Design (organisation, leadership and culture)

3. Develop (coaching and learning)

4. Deliver (Growth Partner implementation)

Outcomes

We prioritise measurable business outcomes:

* Stronger leadership capability

* Higher employee engagement

* Better organisational alignment

* Improved productivity

* Sustainable business growth

* Reduced people-related risk

* Enhanced management effectiveness

Why Ubiquitous HR Consulting?

Our credentials include:

* Chartered FCIPD Fellow

* International HR leadership experience

* Human Synergistics accredited practitioner

* Executive coach and organisational development specialist

* Strategic HR partner to growing organisations

* Managed learning and digital HR solutions

Our work is designed for companies experiencing communication breakdowns, cross functional friction, weak follow through, or inconsistent leadership habits that are affecting performance.

How are we different? We stay with your team for 90 days after training to help the learning become behaviour, keep alignment visible, and support people through the real situations where change is most likely to break down.

Rather than delivering generic training, we focus on practical solutions that improve leadership clarity, strengthen manager effectiveness, and support better execution across teams.

A signature offering is the Execution Friction Sprint for Managers, a focused intervention designed to help organizations quickly identify leadership and communication gaps, strengthen manager habits, and create a practical roadmap for improved follow through and alignment.

Areas of focus: Leadership communication, manager effectiveness, cross cultural leadership, team alignment, organizational change, executive communication, decision making, and leadership clarity.

Trustgate Corporate Skills is professional training , consulting and capacity building firm committed to stregthening indiviuals , groups and organizations growth through practical skills development , offering solutions which focus on performance , Ethical and transformational leadership. We believe in resilience , transformation and strategic focus as the pillars of good governance for agile organizations

S-iBA Vision is a provider of turnkey training solutions.

We help customers to design customized training programs and deliver them in multiple languages around the world with less off-the-job time, wall-to-wall lover cost and without compromising on lasting impact and Return On Learning. The Swiss-based company with 20+ years experience offers traditional face-to-face and in-person trainings as well as innovative hybrid (blended) training solutions combining autonomous knowledge acquisition with the proprietary VIRTRACON™ app and trainer led face to face practice bootcamps to increase engagement, anchor the learnings and maximize the Return on Learning (ROL).

Methodology

Traditional training is no longer enough because "knowing how" is useless if it is not transferred into "showing how". Therefore, organizations need learning that is engaging, scalable, and truly transformative. With its Hybrid Learning Approach S-iBA has redefined the traditional learning process into two key phases. 1st: acquire and transfer the KNOW-HOW: this is done by our proprietary VR/AI app VIRTRACON™ who enables highly interactive self-paced learning independent of time, location and other people. 2nd: practice and anchor the SHOW-HOW: during online and face-to-face bootcamps we train intensively the learned concepts and tools with customized scenarios, provide feedback and help learners to transfer the acquired skills to the daily work. The result: measurable results and your employees don’t just learn - they experience.

Learning and Development

S-iBA has 25+ years experience in designing and delivering multilingual training worldwide. Based on our proprietary learning content and IP we co-design programs with our clients to support corporate learning initiatives, delivered through onsite and offsite training as well as workshops.

Leadership topics include:

• communication essentials for leaders and managers
• announce and lead change and transition
• empower individuals and teams
• situational leadership styles
• handle dysfunctional behavior
• manage tensions and conflicts
• communicate decisions and build trust
• balanced leadership
• develop your talents

Sales topics include:

• handle objections and pushbacks effectively
• communication essentials for sales people
• strategic selling
• value based selling
• consultative selling
• challenger sales
• defend our margin
• close the deal
• deal with competition
• success rate assessment
• lobbying & politics in business
• stakeholder management
• neuroscience in sales

Negotiation topics include:

• the art of negotiation
• deal with frustration
• negotiate win-win solution
• the negotiation matrix
• the T-concept
• the behavior scale
• negotiation strategies and tactics

High Performing Team development includes topics like:

• team culture: vision - mission - values & principles
• decision making in a team e.g. consensus vs. compromise
• Individual qualities and contributions e.g. DISC, core quality matrix, trust equation
• individual coaching

Agilivance is an Agile delivery improvement and enterprise learning consultancy helping organizations strengthen Agile capability, delivery execution, and practical adoption of modern delivery practices.

We provide instructor-led and customized corporate training in Agile, Scrum, Kanban and SAFe, designed around practical delivery scenarios, case-study simulations, Jira and Azure DevOps workflows, and real-world Agile execution.

Our enterprise learning solutions include Agile onboarding for new hires, Agile team upskilling, and organization-wide Agile capability development. Programs can be tailored for private cohorts and organizational learning requirements.

Agilivance also incorporates Generative AI and AI-enabled Agile delivery practices, helping teams understand practical AI applications for requirements, backlog preparation, documentation, communication, quality reviews, delivery insights and day-to-day Agile work.

In addition to training, Agilivance provides Agile Delivery Health Checks, Delivery Improvement Programs and AI-enabled Delivery Monitoring for organizations seeking improved delivery visibility, predictability and execution.

A GLOBAL LEADER IN FINANCIAL TRAINING & TALENT DEVELOPMENT. Since 2003, Alpha Development has supported financial professionals & graduate hires to learn, grow, and succeed. Today we blend that human experience with the latest AI tech to deliver contextual, immersive learning experiences at scale. Across 3 Solution sets (Early Careers, Talent Development, and Transformation & Change) and 4 Domain types (Financial skills, Personal Effectiveness & Leadership, Commercial skills, and Digital) we design and deliver programs for the world's leading financial institutions across North America, UK & Europe, Middle East, and Asia.

We specialise in Wellbeing, Mental Health, Suicide Prevention, Neurodiversity, Therapy, women's mental health / wellbeing and Leadership development - offering Training, Coaching, Trauma Therapy, EFT, Talks and Presentations that informs, challenges and supports the reduction of stigma and discrimination shown toward people experiencing poor mental health, suicide crisis or requiring support through therapy in the workplace and beyond.

Courses we offer -

Mental Health First Aid for adults and young people

Mental Health First Aid for managers

Mental Health skills for managers

Suicide First Aid

Neurodiversity in the workplace

Leadership development

Resilient and compassionate mindset

Communication skills

Understanding Trauma

Understanding EFT

Womens Mental Health and Wellbeing

Being mental health aware

Contact us at cdlearningsolutionsltd@gmail.com for your personal requirements in training, coaching and Therapy.

Our rates start from £150.00 to £350.00 per person per 0.5 day open course of up to 10 people to £3500.00 for a full cohort of 10 on a closed course

Other courses and presentations can be for up to 30 people per session to maintain psychological safety.