AI training is being bought quickly and randomly · Staff learn AI tools but don't change
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.
AI training is being bought quickly and randomlyStaff learn AI tools but don't changeFinancial services needs AI context
Leadership and management capability gaps · Low productivity and skills shortages
Organisations don't underperform because of strategy. They underperform because of capability gaps — in their people, their teams, and the cultures that shape how work actually gets done. At Acudemy, our work starts from a simple premise: when you invest in the right skills at the right level, performance follows. We are a UK-based professional training organisation established in 2014, with a track record of developing capability across technical, leadership and behavioural disciplines for over 300 organisations across the UK and internationally. We work with businesses and institutions to design and deliver learning that builds real, lasting competence in the people who drive performance day to day. Our work spans payroll and finance, project and change management, digital skills, leadership and management, workplace wellbeing and continuous improvement. These disciplines reflect the breadth of capability that modern organisations need to function well, adapt quickly and sustain strong results. Every programme we deliver is built around practical application, because the measure of learning is what changes when people return to work. We hold accreditations and partnerships with CMI, PRINCE2, AgilePM, Lean Six Sigma, CIPD, IAB, ITIL and Sage, and our programmes are designed to align with the real environments and pressures our clients face. Delivery is flexible — classroom, virtual, on-site or blended — shaped around your organisation rather than a fixed schedule. What we offer Technical and compliance capability — payroll, finance, HR and IT programmes that build precision, confidence and regulatory literacy across your teams. Leadership and management development — practical programmes that strengthen how your managers lead, make decisions and create conditions for performance. Digital and analytical skills — Excel, Power BI, AI literacy and broader digital capability built for the modern professional environment. Behavioural and organisational development — DEI, mental health awareness, resilience and soft skills that strengthen culture, communication and team performance. Why organisations work with Acudemy Our clients include Barclays, BT, British American Tobacco, DFDS, FlixBus, Thames Water and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), among many others across the public, private and third sectors. Our trainers bring direct industry experience alongside instructional expertise, and our programmes are consistently rated for the quality of facilitation and the practicality of what delegates take away. We understand that a training investment only has value if it changes how people perform. That is the standard we hold ourselves to on every engagement — and why the organisations we work with continue to come back. Our mission is to help organisations build the skilled, capable and confident people they need to perform and grow. Our vision is to be the development partner that organisations return to, programme after programme and year after year.
Leadership and management capability gapsLow productivity and skills shortagesPoor communication and team performance
Leadership misalignment across teams and functions · Leadership integrity and ethical decision gaps
SHARP™ Leadership Academy — Building Leadership People Can Trust
SHARP™ Leadership Academy helps Leaders & Organizations close the Governance, Leadership Accountability and AI Adoption gaps before those become bigger Operational, Financial and Reputational Risk. Based in British Columbia, Canada,
SHARP™ works with executives, leadership teams, and organizations seeking to build stronger cultures, more accountable leadership, responsible AI 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 center 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
1-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.
2-Leadership Alignment & Accountability
Programs that help leadership teams identify misalignment between strategy, values, behaviors, roles, and decision-making - creating greater clarity, ownership, and organizational consistency.
3-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.
4-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.
5-Grace & Grit Leadership
A distinctive SHARP™ leadership approach combining human-centered 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.
6-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.
7-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.
8-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
9-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.
Leadership misalignment across teams and functionsLeadership integrity and ethical decision gapsHidden governance & organizational integrity risk
We upskill your people in AI and supporting skills · We supercharge your managers to coach people in AI
As a leading learning consultancy, we exist to enable organisations across the globe to fully embrace AI and skills through virtual and digital learning, coaching and engagement, benefiting from technological and environmental advances, and adding value to their people, businesses and communities. We do this by innovating and collaborating with our clients and delivery partners, aligning the things that matter, and working with the best. Our best practice approach is grounded in research and the science of how the brain learns best online and in learning. We work with not just Learning and Development, but HR, managers, leaders and support teams who are looking to increase impact and quality as they prepare for the future of work. Our learning is designed to maximise retention and recall by using key principles and is employed in all programmes of work and includes accelerated interaction and engagement techniques. We work with our clients to use new techniques, technology, and creativity to drive motivation, excitement, engagement and application in our approach. We are all about mutual success, impact and enabling our clients to innovate in the way they want to.
We upskill your people in AI and supporting skillsWe supercharge your managers to coach people in AIWe upskill anyone delivering online training
Leadership & Management Impact · Team Building & Synergistic Problem Solving
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
Leadership & Management ImpactTeam Building & Synergistic Problem SolvingPeople & Performance Barriers to Business Growth
Claude adoption stalled after rollout · Team using 10% of Claude's potential
AI First Training delivers expert-led classroom, online, and on-site training in Claude AI for businesses. Every course is built around practical, hands-on instruction for real-world workflows — not abstract AI theory — and taught by practitioners who use Claude in their own businesses every day. The course catalogue covers the full spectrum of Claude adoption: the Claude for Business series (101, 201, and Masterclass) for teams building AI-powered ways of working, the Claude Code series for those developing technical build skills with Claude, and focused one-day specialist modules — Claude for SMEs, Claude for Design, Claude for Marketing, and Claude for Sales — for role-specific application. Bespoke and executive programmes are also available, tailored to a company's specific tools, workflows, and goals. Training is delivered flexibly — classroom (capped at 10 participants for close instructor attention), live online, one-to-one, or on-site/corporate — with public course locations in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, and Plymouth. Every course includes a free resit if unsatisfied, 30 days of post-training support, and recording access for all participants, so learning continues well beyond the training day itself.
Claude adoption stalled after rolloutTeam using 10% of Claude's potentialAI training that doesn't stick at work
We show who's using AI well, and who isn't · We turn real AI usage into audit-ready evidence.
AI moved fast. Workforce training didn't catch up, and nobody can currently see who's using AI carelessly, inconsistently, or not at all. Terlo closes that gap with a continuous, automated cycle rather than a one-off course. It senses how your people actually use AI in the flow of their day-to-day work, across chat assistants, coding tools and copilots, with no new app to install. That usage is scored against a live competency model, turning real behaviour into an explainable, audit-ready record instead of a policy document nobody can point to. From there, Terlo automatically builds each person a training pathway matched to their actual gaps, delivers it natively, and re-scores the moment it's done, so the picture never goes stale. The result: training spend stops going to people who don't need it, the people quietly taking risks get flagged and supported, and your organisation ends up with a defensible, per-person and per-team evidence trail: the kind of proof regulators, auditors and insurers now expect, not a completion spreadsheet. Terlo is built for organisations that need AI competency to be real: evidenceable, targeted, and framed as enablement for the people doing the work, not surveillance. Deployment is single-tenant, deployable into your chosen cloud region, and designed to meet standards like OWASP, ASVS and Cyber Essentials Plus.
We show who's using AI well, and who isn'tWe turn real AI usage into audit-ready evidence.We stop training spend on people who don't need it
Lack of AI/GenAI skills across teams · Slow enterprise AI adoption & pilots stalling
About DataCouch DataCouch is a global AI capability partner that helps enterprises design, deploy, and scale TrustedAI™ solutions, enabling organizations to move from AI experimentation to enterprise-wide adoption. With operations across **India, the USA, UAE, Canada, and Australia, and a network of 500+ consultants and advisors, DataCouch delivers secure, production-ready AI, modern data platforms, and real-time architectures. The company partners with leading technology providers including Confluent, Neo4j, Starburst, Snowflake, Databricks, Cloudera, Redpanda, Alibaba Cloud, and Dataiku to deliver end-to-end AI and data transformation across industries such as healthcare, BFSI, education, cybersecurity, automotive, and technology. Core Capabilities Agentic AI and Generative AIAI & Data ConsultingProfessional Services and ImplementationEnterprise EnablementCoaching & Technical TrainingCloud-based Virtual Lab Solutions Purpose & Vision DataCouch empowers organizations and professionals through AI consulting, enterprise training, and hands-on capability building. Its mission is to accelerate AI adoption by combining strategy, implementation, and upskilling into a unified execution model. Industry Recognition DataCouch is internationally recognized for its expertise, including: Confluent Training Partner of the Year – APAC (2026)Confluent Evangelist Partner of the Year – EMEA (2026)Four consecutive Confluent Global Education Partner Awards (2022–2025)Starburst Enablement Partner of the Year (2026) Scale & Impact 100+ technology and ecosystem partnerships250+ advisors and industry experts500+ consultants delivering AI, data, and cloud transformation globally In essence, DataCouch is an AI-first consulting and enablement company that combines enterprise AI strategy, implementation, technology training, and hands-on labs to help organizations build trusted, scalable AI capabilities and achieve measurable business outcomes.
Lack of AI/GenAI skills across teamsSlow enterprise AI adoption & pilots stallingNo hands-on practice environment for training
MLTPL Choice is a facilitation and strategy consultancy based in Amsterdam, working with teams across the Netherlands and the Caribbean. We design and facilitate working sessions for teams facing complex challenges, unclear direction, or decisions that keep getting postponed. Whether you need a strategy sprint, a team alignment session, or a custom workshop, we create the conditions for real progress.
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.
Talk Shop With Me Ltd is a corporate learning consultancy specializing in change-triggered communication solutions for global enterprises. We support international organisations undergoing restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, digital transformation, and workforce realignment. By combining adult learning theory, cross-cultural communication frameworks, positive psychology, and grief-informed leadership practices, we equip international teams and leaders to communicate with clarity, empathy, and measurable business impact.
H-Tech Innovations Hub is a Nigerian professional training and technology organisation providing practical seminars, executive workshops, corporate learning and professional certification training across technology, AI, cybersecurity, IT audit, risk management, governance, compliance, data analytics, cloud computing and digital transformation. H-Tech serves individuals, enterprises and institutions through physical, virtual, hybrid and customized in-house programs, with a focus on building workforce capabilities aligned with evolving industry and technology needs.
