Our customers

Action learning works equally well across a whole spectrum of organisations. From educational establishments to charities, multi national coporations to SMEs, local councils to the NHS, not for profit organisations to social and arts programmes and beyond. Our customers span the entire range and our work is effective at executive level and can cascade through to the grassroots of a company.

We are increasingly working with international corporations, delivering action learning both face to face and through our virtual action learning offering. This allows us to bring senior personnel from multi national organisations together without the need for travel; saving time and costs.

We welcome enquiries from abroad, and would be happy to demonstrate how action learning can help across geographical and cultural divides to bring unity and collaboration in spite of differences and distances.

Read our case studies to find out more about our work.

Our customers include:

Our Customers

    • 38 Degrees
    • A2 Dominion Group
    • ActionAid
    • Action for Children
    • AF Blakemore & Sons Ltd
    • African Prisons Project
    • Alzheimer’s Society
    • Amnesty international (UK)
    • Animal Health
    • Arts Council England
    • Association of Charitable Foundations
    • Asthma UK
    • Atlantic Fellows
    • Azzur
    • BasicNeeds
    • BBC World Service Trust
    • The Body Shop
    • Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
    • British Council
    • British Council Australia
    • British Red Cross
    • Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
    • Camden Clinical Commissioning Group
    • Cancer Research UK
    • Care International UK
    • Channel 4
    • Chartered Insurance Institute
    • Citizens Advice
    • Clore Leadership Programme
    • Clore Social Leadership Programme
    • Commonwealth Bank of Australia
    • Cornwall County Council
    • Creative Partnerships
    • Creative Scotland
    • Cultural Co-operation
    • Cultural Leadership Programme
    • Defra
    • Devon County Council
    • Domino UK
    • Dong Energy
    • Dorset Constabulary
    • East Midlands Leadership Academy
    • Eastern Enterprise Hub
    • Emirates Centre for Organisational Learning
    • Ernst & Young
    • Essex County Council
    • European Cultural Foundation
    • Financial Conduct Authority
    • GLA
    • Great Ormond St Hospital for Children
    • Guys & St Thomas’ Charitable Foundation
    • Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust
    • Heineken International
    • Heritage Lottery Fund
    • Home Office
    • Improvement & Development Agency
    • Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service
    • Lankelly Chase Foundation
    • Lloyds Bank Foundation
    • Local Government Association
    • London and Quadrant Housing Trust
    • London Borough of Bromley
    • London Borough of Enfield
    • London Borough of Hackney
    • London Leadership Academy
    • London Pensions Fund Authority
    • London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
    • London School of Economics
    • L’Oréal
    • Metropolitan Police
    • Mind
    • Milestones Trust
    • A New Direction
    • New Economics Foundation
    • NEON (New Economics Organisers Network)
    • NHS Leadership Programme for Executives
    • NSPCC
    • OPEN (network of campaigning organisations)
    • Overseas Development Institute
    • Oxfam
    • Oxford University Press
    • Paul Hamlyn Foundation
    • Pears Foundation
    • Ramblers
    • Rethink
    • Real Ideas Organisation
    • The Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority
    • Royal National Institute of Blind People
    • Rural Payments Agency
    • Sainsbury’s
    • Sandvik Coromant UK
    • Self Leadership International, Singapore
    • Scope
    • Sheffield City Council
    • South London and Maudsley NHS FT
    • St Mungo’s
    • States of Jersey
    • Thames Reach
    • The Audience Agency
    • The Health Foundation
    • The London Housing Foundation
    • The National Trust
    • The Rank Foundation
    • The Refugee Council
    • University of Edinburgh
    • University of Glasgow
    • University of Strathclyde
    • UN-Habitat
    • Voluntary Arts Wales
    • VSO International
    • World Trade Organisation
    • Yorkshire Building Society
    • Yorkshire Housing
    • YSC Business Psychologists

     

We use action learning throughout a number of our programmes including creating a learning community for talent, for our management development offer and as supervision support for mentors... Action learning really is the glue that helps to hold the whole piece together. We find action learning the most effective way to enable behaviour change in the work place.

International Learning and Talent Director

Other Case Studies

Delivering projects – co-operative teams work better
Sandvik Coromant

If you’re in charge of delivering a project, how do you ensure everyone involved is working together, in co-operation with one another, with … More

Sowing the seeds with action learning
Sowing seeds – from a single action learning programme to a Pan-European movement

By Alessandra Gariboldi Head of Research and Development at Fitzcarraldo, Italy 4 years ago, I took part in an international programme called ADESTE. … More

Leading the energy sector’s transformation toward a more sustainable society
Ørsted (ex-DONG Energy)

Challenge To support senior managers on a talent development programme as they prepare for director roles in an organisation going through significant change … More

How A2Dominion Group transformed management capabilities
A2Dominion

Working in the social sector brings with it its own challenges and pressures. Anything that can help managers perform better, feel more confident … More

Using action learning to deliver projects and build a team – Sandvik Coromant
Sandvik Coromant

Sandvik Coromant UK (part of a Swedish based global engineering company of real standing in their market) commissioned ALA to deliver a programme of project based action learning sets to help build on the success of a major new sales route as well as improve cohesion within the national sales team. More

Changing the social care system with action learning
Lankelly Chase Foundation

Lankelly Chase Foundation works to bring about change that will transform the quality of life of people who face severe and multiple disadvantage. The ‘Promoting Change Network’ (PCN) has been set up by Lankelly Chase to foster learning, and supports 40 or so organisations which receive funding from the Foundation. More

Using action learning for mergers

Cancer Research UK is a good example of how action learning can contribute to the organisational issues that arise following a merger. This … More

Action learning for people who use mental health services

Action learning sets have a long pedigree of being formed for professionals, academics and managers across a range of sectors and in particular … More

Independent evaluation of the Leadership Facilitation Skills programme
Cultural Leadership Programme

Facilitating Leadership through Action Learning: The case of the Creative & Cultural Industries Summary This is an account of a novel approach to leadership … More

The business impact of action learning at Heineken
The business impact of Action Learning at Heineken
Heineken International

One of the questions we are most often asked when planning new action learning initiatives with customers is “What difference will this make … More

Action Learning and development at the Body Shop
The Body Shop

“Working with other Directors gave me a strong sense of shared issues – I’m not alone” Mark Davis, Director Community Fair Trade Participants, … More

A New Direction – action learning to develop cultural education network
A New Direction (AND)

“ The power of the set has been extraordinary – at the beginning I didn’t think I’d stay ” A.N.D’s Cultural Education Progression … More

Provider and commissioner collaboration – Positive outcomes for people with learning disabilities
Local Government Association

Mixing together commissioners and providers could be considered unusual ingredients for an action learning set – throw into the mix a competitive procurement … More