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Rachel Lyons Learning provides highly engaging, interactive soft skills training, delivered by facilitators with a wealth of experience working with the employees and leaders of blue chip companies.

We are led by Rachel Lyons who has 19 years experience providing training to top financial services firms and organisations including the London Stock Exchange, HSBC, Barclays, RBS, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Schroders, Deutsche Bank and CitiGroup.

Our uplifting and insightful training enables participants to reach their full potential by honing a range of personal development skills. We work with a wide range of learners, from new graduates navigating the workplace for the first time, to leaders who are seeking to drive change and build effective teams.

Delivered in person or online, our courses can be included as part of training programs for an intake of graduates or provided as stand alone sessions.

Strategy Dynamics provides ONLINE, SELF-PACED COURSES ON STRATEGY AND "DIGITAL-TWIN" BUSINESS MODELS - time-based models that mimic the elements, structure and quantified behaviour of any business, function, initiative or issue. The models (and the approach to strategy) are based on rigorous yet practical principles of how real-world systems work. They are highly visual, so teams can see how their plan or issue may play out over time under varying scenarios and strategies.

For LEADERS the online courses show how to USE digital-twin models to evaluate, test and continually manage any plan, whether that plan concerns simply fixing a limited operational issue, the strategic plan for the entire organisation, or any scale of issue between these extremes. The STRATEGY courses reflect those rigorous foundations, while avoiding the technical details.

For ANALYSTS, CONSULTANTS, ACCOUNTANTS, courses explain how to BUILD digital-twin models. The process is neither technical or complex. Building digital-twin models is easier, faster, less error-prone and capable of much greater scope than a spreadsheet alternatives. And their visual layout and natural-language elements make them more intuitive, and capable of being built in real time with executive teams.

THE COURSES range from short (1-2 hours) classes on how digital-twin models apply or can be built for specific topics or functions up to the equivalent of whole-semester degree classes. Strategy Dynamics principles, methods and models are used by large corporations such as Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Toyota Motors, as well as by thousands of small to medium enterprises and start-ups.

AI training is everywhere right now. Firms are spending huge sums on Copilot, prompt engineering, workflow automation and AI productivity programmes.

The problem is that too much of it is being bought in a rush.

A course title sounds right. A provider sounds credible. A demo looks impressive. Everyone leaves knowing a few prompts. Then, three weeks later, behaviour has barely changed.

Alumno Consulting helps financial services firms avoid that trap.

We design and deliver AI training that is practical, engaging, industry-specific and focused on long-term behaviour change. The objective is not simply to teach people what Copilot, ChatGPT or other AI tools can do. The objective is to help them use those tools confidently, safely and repeatedly in the real work they do every day.

That means learning AI in context: financial markets, banking, asset management, risk, regulation, Excel, presentations, client work, research, analysis, meetings and workflow redesign.

With over 30 years of financial services training experience, 80,000+ delegates trained, and experience with 9 of the 10 largest investment banks, we understand both sides of the problem: the technology and the people who need to use it.

Our sessions are interactive, energetic and memorable because that is how learning sticks. AI training should not be generic, passive or forgettable. It should change what people do when they get back to their desks.

If your firm is investing in AI capability, make sure the money turns into changed behaviour, better workflows and measurable confidence, not just another course people attended.

The Brand Champion Bootcamp is an on-demand, CPD Certified professional development programme for anyone looking to build presentation skills, virtual presentation skills, public speaking confidence and effective communication skills.

Whether you're presenting to customers, leading meetings, delivering virtual presentations, speaking at events, contributing to webinars or podcasts, handling media interviews or representing your organisation in any high-profile situation, the Brand Champion Bootcamp provides practical communication frameworks that help you prepare with greater clarity, confidence and credibility.

Developed by communication specialist Rebecca Jabbar, the programme combines more than twenty-eight years of experience with structured learning, guided workbooks, practical communication frameworks and personal coaching. Unlike traditional communication training delivered on a single day, the Brand Champion Bootcamp becomes an on-demand professional development resource that learners can return to whenever an important communication opportunity arises.

The Brand Champion Bootcamp is designed for subject matter experts, technical specialists, managers, senior leaders, founders, customer-facing professionals and anyone whose role increasingly involves communicating with colleagues, customers, stakeholders, partners or the media.

Key areas of development include:

• Presentation skills

• Virtual presentation skills

• Public speaking

• Confident presenting

• Storytelling for professionals

• Effective communication skills

• Professional communication and influence

• Executive communication

• Media interviews and spokesperson skills

• Webinar and podcast communication

• Message development and delivery

• Handling questions with confidence

Unlike many communication courses that focus solely on delivery, the Brand Champion Bootcamp helps professionals organise their thinking, develop memorable messages and prepare more effectively before they speak. Learners build practical frameworks they can revisit before presentations, customer meetings, leadership updates, webinars, podcasts, media interviews and other communication opportunities throughout the year.

The Brand Champion Bootcamp helps organisations:

• Build presentation skills consistently across teams.

• Develop confident presenters for in-person and virtual presentations.

• Strengthen public speaking and professional communication skills.

• Help subject matter experts communicate complex ideas more clearly.

• Support colleagues who represent the organisation externally.

• Reinforce learning long after traditional workshops have finished.

• Provide scalable communication and professional development.

• Reduce communication risk through better preparation and practical communication frameworks.

The Brand Champion Bootcamp combines practical communication skills training with the flexibility of on-demand learning, helping professionals prepare with greater clarity, confidence and credibility whenever communication matters most.

In the age of AI, information is a commodity; human connection is the true differentiator.

But how do we ensure that our conversations actually make the difference—and are not the reason behind our failures? How do we access continuous, comprehensive feedback so we no longer move forward blindly and can turn our blind spots into a strategic advantage? This becomes even more critical when bandwidth is limited and managers simply don’t have the time to analyze every interaction.

Luminous helps organizations transform their leaders from information sharers into trusted facilitators—whether externally with clients or internally with teams. Our platform delivers seamless, comprehensive feedback rooted in data-driven behavioural insights and powered by real-time AI coaching. So that, from now on, every conversation truly counts. Matthieu Cousi, CEO & Co-founder, Luminous

How we can support you:

• AI-Driven Conversational Intelligence

Luminous integrates seamlessly with your existing tools (Read.ai, Fireflies, Otter, etc.) to turn raw transcriptions into actionable coaching. By analyzing 100% of your interactions, we uncover the blind spots and behavioral patterns that manual reviews miss. Through a 20+ metric dashboard and personalized AI coaching, you can pinpoint the exact drivers of your conversational success and systematically level up your communication. Core Applications Sales: Master prospect discovery and client retention. Leadership: Improve team alignment and staff engagement. Hiring: Conduct more objective and insightful candidate interviews.

• Expert AI Coaching (24/7)

Access on-demand, AI-powered Sales and Leadership coaches embedding world-class frameworks to ensure effective, authentic, and confidential sessions. Gain instant, situational guidance and self-awareness to navigate complex negotiations or team dynamics, providing you with expert advice exactly when it matters most. On the job.

• AI Productivity Agents

Streamline your workflow with agents designed for high-performance output. From automated meeting prep and intelligent notes to a Storytelling Builder and Personality Profiling, these tools handle the cognitive heavy lifting so you can focus on the human connection.

• AI Learning & Development programs

Accelerate growth with specialized L&D programs. Choose from "on-the-shelf" modules or tailored paths organized by soft-skill frameworks, designed to turn conversational theory into lasting behavioral habits.

• AI Transformation & Scaling: From Ideation to Impact

Bridge the gap between AI curiosity and enterprise-wide impact with our proprietary transformation methodology. Moving you seamlessly from Ideation to PoC and global Scaling, we deploy a multi-stakeholder, multi-tactical approach centered on four strategic quadrants: we ignite the drive for evolution (Make me want to change), provide the blueprint for execution (Show me how), remove friction by integrating into existing workflows (Make it easier than the status quo), and ensure psychological and data security (Make it safe). This comprehensive framework replaces the "status quo" with a high-performance culture where AI-driven behavioral change is both seamless and sustainable.

• The Luminous Circle Community

Join an elite ecosystem of professionals. Our community hub offers open or private peer-to-peer networking, real-time chat, and regular "acculturation" content—keeping you at the forefront of business and leadership trends and communication best practices.

Square Mile Global Consulting is a London-headquartered financial training and consulting company with expertise in IFRS and IPSAS Financial Reporting Standards, and Sustainability Reporting. We equip finance and non-finance professionals with the knowledge and practical skills needed to implement and analyse new accounting standards, navigate complex financial reporting and disclosure requirements in an evolving global landscape.

Our expert-led courses, delivered both virtually and in-person, have supported professionals across the UK, Europe, North America, Middle East, Africa and South East Asia. We are proud to have worked with a diverse range of organizations, tailoring our delivery to suit different sectors, experience levels, and learning needs.

Some of the organizations we have worked with: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Barclays Bank, Cairn Energy, Central Bank of Nigeria, Council of Europe, Citibank, ENI, Ernst & Young, European University Institute (EUI), Financial Services Commission Anguilla, Fitch Ratings, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), HaysMac, HSBC, ICAEW, IMF, Kreston Global, Lloyds Bank, OECD, Saudi Aramco, Union Bank of India (UK) and WorldPay.

Our core training portfolio includes IFRS, IPSAS and Sustainability Reporting programs, all of which can be customized in content and duration to meet your specific requirements.

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)

1) IFRS Refresher with ESG Reporting (including IFRS S1 and S2)

2) IFRS Updates

3) IFRS 9 Financial Instruments

4) IFRS 9 Derivatives and Hedge Accounting

5) IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers

6) IFRS 16 Leases

7) IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts

8) IFRS 18 Presentation and Disclosure in Financial Statements

9) IFRS for Banks and Financial Institutions

10) IFRS for Oil and Gas Companies

International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS)

1) IPSAS Refresher and Update

2) IPSAS Update (including IPSASB's SRS 1 Climate-related Disclosures)

3) IPSAS 43 Leases

4) IPSAS 45 Property, Plant and Equipment

5) IPSAS 46 Fair Value Measurement

6) IPSAS 47 Revenue and IPSAS 48 Transfer Expenses

7) IPSAS 41 Financial Instruments and IPSAS 30 Disclosures

8) IPSAS 33 First-time Adoption of Accruals Basis IPSAS

Sustainability/ESG Reporting

1) IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards (ISSB Standards - IFRS S1 and S2)

2) Mandatory EU requirements: EU Taxonomy and European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)

3) Overview of Sustainability/ESG Reporting Developments

4) Topic Specific Sustainability Reporting Course (e.g., biodiversity, pollution, workforce etc.)

5) IPSASB's Sustainability Reporting Standard (IPSASB SRS 1)

At Square Mile Global Consulting, we focus on interactive, outcome-driven learning. We will discuss your requirements to ensure the course is aligned with participant goals. Our sessions combine clear presentation of core concepts, interactive group discussions, excel-based financial illustrations, real-world case studies, regular summaries and mini-case exercises to reinforce learning.

Get in touch with Saket on saket@smglobal.co.uk to discuss how we can support your team's development.

The Negotiation Initiative focuses on enhancing negotiation skills through cultural intelligence, emphasizing the ability to navigate intellectual, emotional, and cultural differences. Their unique selling point is the integration of cross-cultural intellect with traditional negotiation training, providing pragmatic, data-reinforced frameworks. They offer short, focused training programs designed to improve strategic relationships and leadership skills in a global context.

Sytuate is the development platform that takes a different approach.

Using a multiple-choice format, managers explore relatable challenges which they face every day. Each one provides the practical insight they need to navigate the best outcome.

Accessible via mobile, managers can access development resources for as long or short a time as they wish and in a way which suits them whilst ensuring learning is constantly reinforced.

Every challenge that Sytuate resolves contributes to a better employee experience. Over time, this grows trust, boosting morale and increasing engagement.

We help you to overcome the issues of:

- training hard to reach managers

- improving front line productivity

- reducing absence & turnover

- increasing engagement through better conversations

Our pathways focus on the development of first and second line managers in core areas such as:

- Communication

- Absence Management

- Performance Management

- Delegation

- Manager Fundamentals

- Prevention of Harassment

- Improving self and team productivity.

Our unique subscription based platform is supported by group cohort coaching which enables users to experience reinforcement coaching in a safe environment. This coaching helps businesses to :

- Develop team capability

- Reinforce learning for better outcomes

- Build teams

- Help reduce operational silo's

In addition our platform management information will help you to provide data for compliance and quality audit purposes.

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

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.

Silmaril is an AI strategy and governance partner that helps organisations move beyond scattered “tactical AI” experiments and build AI that is secure, accountable, and measurably valuable. We work with leadership teams to get control of shadow AI, set clear guardrails, and design practical workflows that people actually adopt. Instead of throwing tools at problems, we map where AI can genuinely improve performance, design the processes and documentation to support it, and define the metrics that prove ROI. Through focused workshops, campaign-based support, and fractional Chief AI Officer services, Silmaril gives organisations a clear pathway for AI adoption, covering strategy, ethics, data retention, and applied use cases like bid writing and market insight. The result is AI that is not just clever, but trusted, repeatable, and aligned with the organisation’s goals.