We forge lasting trust-based relationships with our clients, standing by you throughout your organisational journey. We immerse ourselves in your world to fully grasp your unique needs and aspirations and draw upon our 20+ years of experience to craft a fully tailored, impactful solution. Our programmes are all based on the latest thinking in adult learning theory, behavioural and neuroscience, and are all meticulously crafted for maximum impact and lasting change. We are there for our clients, providing empathic support throughout by experts who are fully invested in individual and organisational success. Through experiential, hands-on activities and real-world simulations, our impactful workshops turn knowledge into practical skills, ensuring your employees and managers can immediately apply what they’ve learned.
Our goal is to foster brilliant leadership at all levels. Through tailored, impactful programmes, we inspire leaders that stand out for their ability to inspire, connect, and make a lasting difference enhancing their organisations’ performance and shape their industries and markets.
We appreciate the invaluable support provided by AAB during our complex transition. With limited resources, AAB quickly mobilised experienced personnel familiar with offshore payroll, expense systems, and time writing processes. Their expertise ensured a smooth handover, and the process felt routine during the first post-completion month. AAB’s support was instrumental in ensuring a seamless transition.
Andy Bell, VP Finance, Serica Energy
"Working with the AAB team has been transformative both personally and professionally. Their coaching provides sharp insights, compassionate guidance, and direct feedback that challenges thinking in a constructive way. This approach has improved my confidence, efficiency, and work-life balance. The sessions go straight to the heart of issues, offering practical solutions and lasting improvements, making a clear difference in my professional growth and overall mindset."
Barabara Wood, VP for Consumer Marketing, USA, Tourism Ireland
AAB are more than accountants; they’re trusted partners. At Blaze Manufacturing Solutions Ltd, we’ve experienced significant growth, and AAB ensures we receive the right advice to meet our changing needs. Their guidance supports the aspirations of both our management and team, helping us stay on track as we scale.
Blaze Manufacturing Solutions Ltd – Accounting Services Ann Johnson - Finance Director
We are very impressed with how smoothly the transition to AAB as our audit partner has gone. The AAB team, along with our internal team, ensured the process was seamless. Their professionalism and expertise made a significant impact, and we appreciate their contribution to our ongoing success.
Sonia Smith, Executive Director of Finance, St Mungo’s
Every day we speak to committed and talented organisational leaders who are facing big challenges – managing uncertainty, inspiring vision while bringing a down-to-earth roadmap, maintaining adaptability while acknowledging change fatigue, fostering commitment in disparate workforces, complex supply issues, and competing stakeholder demands. We get it. While we can’t wave a magic wand and solve all these problems, we can foster leaders at all levels who can pivot, succeed, and thrive while dealing with these complex challenges with confidence and clarity.
AAB’s unique Pivot Leadership approach systematically elevates leaders’ skills and thinking across four levels:
AAB’s Leadership and Management programmes support leaders from various sectors and businesses of all sizes, from global corporations to small and medium-sized enterprises, in discovering their leadership potential and authentic style. They remain energised, effective, and focused, even under significant pressure. Investing in the right management development will boost manager communication and performance, fostering more motivated and productive workplaces.
AAB’s learning and development consultant services are ILM certified and can offer a full suite of ILM Leadership and Management Accreditations.
Most new managers believe they needed more training before becoming a manager, with the biggest challenges cited as balancing individual job responsibilities with the time spent managing others, supervising friends, and former peers.
New and emerging leaders, or high-po (high potentials) don’t acquire new skills overnight and just become different because they have been identified or promoted. The transition to a leadership role requires fundamental mindset shifts, skill enhancement and a significant change in behaviour.
AAB’s programmes empower new and emerging leaders to transition from managing tasks to leading teams. We inspire them to connect with empathy and intelligence, providing tools to reset and strengthen relationships—crucial for those moving from peer to leader.
AAB put people at the heart of everything we do. Our Learning and Development consultants create interactive, engaging, and thought-provoking learning experiences that are firmly rooted in the most up-to-date relevant theory and science to deliver lasting behavioural change. Together, we will deliver flexible solutions incorporating online and in-person elements and communities or practices. Fostering a highly inclusive and supportive growth environment for all participants through highly interactive, engaging, and thought-provoking learning experiences.
Our team has decades of experience and a wellspring of creativity that enables us to partner with our clients to turn strategy into action, enhance leadership, and engage people for lasting success. We forge trust-based relationships with our clients, standing by you throughout your organisational journey. We do this through facilitated learning experiences with a practical and work-oriented focus and by providing empathic support by expert learning and development consultants who are fully invested in individual and organisational success.
Whether it’s individual modules or a comprehensive calendar of learning sessions, we will cater to your unique needs, fostering growth, efficiency, and engagement across all levels of your organisation.
Learning Calendars
Learning Calendars make a difference to employee’s skills, productivity, engagement, and retention. Working in collaborative partnership with you we curate learning calendars with a diverse range of topics that empower your people to continuously develop their skills, ensuring they remain agile and effective in a fast-paced business environment, keeping your organisation ahead of the competition.
Stand Alone Workshops
AAB’s clients recognise the pressing need for reskilling and upskilling initiatives to bridge the skills gap and equip employees for the future of work. AAB partner with our clients to provide targeted learning experiences to address specific challenges and enhance performance.
Our stand-alone modules cover crucial areas such as:
Each module equips your people with practical skills and insights, driving continuous improvement and personal growth. AAB’s customised virtual and blended learning solutions are designed for the modern world. We can work with you onsite, remotely, or in combination.
Effective teamwork is key for organisational success and most workers and employers believe that a lack of team alignment influences the success of a task or project. However, not all teams are working to their highest potential. AAB design and deliver bespoke activities for your teams to not only inject energy and excitement, but foster the commitment and collaboration needed for success. These dynamic events inspire, engage, and motivate, offering fresh perspectives and fosters a strong sense of community and shared purpose.
We will work with you to deliver the team activity most relevant to your needs – whether it’s an away day, in-house development activities or other team events. You have a challenge – we develop a structure built to help your team engage and collaborate to find a solution, supported under the illuminating light of a fresh perspective.
We all have strengths that we have yet to leverage, and executive coaching is expanding across more levels within organisations of all sizes. Working with an AAB coach, we help to spark your curiosity about your capabilities, what your best self looks like and how to turn that into a reality.
AAB provides innovative coaching solutions in the following areas of focus:
At AAB, we partner with each client to design a bespoke coaching offering in a format that offers the best fit for your needs, this can include:
Depending on our client’s needs we can utilise a range of highly reputable psychometrics including DiSC, Insights Discovery, Hogan, MHS EQi tool, and Lencioni’s Team Assessment to provide rich insights into communication, personal, leadership styles and team dynamics. These tools help heighten self-awareness and foster more effective communication and collaboration.
In today’s competitive workplace environment with skilled workers at a premium and organisations reporting an increasing number of hard-to-fill roles, developing an Early Careers Development Programme ensures companies stay ahead of the game by attracting talent at all levels.
Ranging from graduate development programmes to internships to apprenticeships, designing an effective Early Careers Development Programme requires a clear understanding of what drives and motivates individuals of all ages so they can bring their unique talents to your organisation. Whether Generation Z or people at a later stage of their career journey are looking for a new challenge, we will combine our years of experience in developing programmes with our in-depth knowledge of the latest behavioural science to work with you to create a bespoke programme that resonates with all participants and ensures the learning experiences they receive provides them with the skills to succeed as leaders of the future.
The career trajectory of today’s employees can be characterised as increasingly non-linear in nature. Indeed, the emergence of “squiggly careers” is a great characterisation of contemporary career paths. The key question our clients ask is how can we support individuals to take charge and move forward with confidence in their own career journeys?
AAB’s Career Navigator series can support your employees to identify what energises them, recognise their personal values, their “why”, and the strengths they bring to their roles every day. Participants are also introduced to key concepts from behavioural psychology to explore and challenge their own limiting beliefs and engage with a range of tools and frameworks to envision and map out a plan for the journey ahead, for both the short-term and longer-term.
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