Our history

Calvert Markham and Ken Dietz founded the business as Consultancy Skills Training Limited in 1989, since when we have gathered a team of first class consultant tutors, "graduates" of major consultancy practices but now all independent practitioners, with extensive experience in training consultants. From the outset, we have focused on training in consultancy skills, initially designing and delivering only bespoke programmes - courses designed to meet specific needs.

We launched our programme of public consulting training courses in 1997 to enable smaller organisations and independent consultants to participate in our more popular training courses. And of course, it enables new recruits in larger clients to be trained as they join.

In the last ten years as many organisations have become flatter, individuals need the skills to work in virtual teams across functions or with outside partners. As a result more job descriptions feature core consultancy skills as a requirement.

To reflect the changes in our market, we changed our name to Elevation Learning Limited in 2007. This change of name acknowledged the need to raise the consulting performance of individuals who use consulting skills in their work, but do not necessarily have the word "consultant" in their job title.

We became an Approved Training Centre in 2010 and were delighted when the Institute of Consulting recognised our work with the award of Most Outstanding Training Centre for the second year running.The award recognises the outstanding contribution made to the promotion of skills and learning development relevant to the business consulting profession. .

Most of our courses are endorsed by the Insitute of Consulting, so they can contribute CPD hours to the  internationally recognised CMC award.

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