Our Partners

We work closely with a number of partner organisations and specialist companies to bring added value and expertise to our programmes. Established partnerships include:

Bliss Voice Training, providers of professional voice training.
CEDR, conflict resolution and mediation experts.
CIPD, Europe's largest HR development professional body.
City HR, provide best HR practice to financial services organisations.
Fairplace Cedar, providers of coaching, assessment and leadership development.
Kineo, specialists in E-learning and LMS training solutions.
Leornian Group, a business management consultancy.
Metafore Partners, a bespoke business advisory firm specialising in strategic change.
Opportunity Now, an organisation working toward inclusiveness for women in the workplace.
Rock the Boat Consulting, specialists in talent & leadership assessment, development, coaching & mentoring.
Schneider-Ross, specialists in diversity and inclusion.
Synergy Employment Law, specialists in employment legislation.
TJ (Training Journal), the resource for training, human resources and learning & development professionals.

Bliss Voice Training

We have a strong partnership with Bliss Voice Training, working with professionals at all levels and across all sectors. Using highly skilled trainers, Bliss delivers a practical, adaptive and no-nonsense approach to vocal training. We have featured this very successfully within facilitated group sessions to encourage peer to peer learning and dialogue.
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CEDR (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution)

Steps and CEDR have worked together previously to deliver open sessions on handling difficult conversations and managing conflict effectively. These sessions were heavily over-subscribed and we ran the event twice to great success, delivering to over 120 business professionals. This partnership works well because we are able to present the behavioural challenges alongside the theoretical approaches to conflict management and dispute resolution.
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CIPD

Steps have a highly successful relationship with the CIPD and have been invited on numerous occasions to contribute to their events programme - as speakers and experiential learning specialists. We have delivered at CIPD regional branch meetings across the UK, national forum events and international conferences including HRD and the Annual Conference.
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City HR

The City HR Association was founded in 1973 as the UK Industry Association to support and provide best HR practice to organisations whose activities are directly involved in – or underpin – the financial services sector. Since then, City HR has evolved from a first-class networking group for HR professionals, to provide a range of services that support HR activities at all levels.
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Fairplace Cedar

Fairplace Cedar helps organisations to identify, attract and retain talent. This encompasses executive coaching, assessment and leadership development at senior executive and high potential levels. Steps and Fairplace Cedar have successfully joined forces for a number of key clients, to add an interactive element to their development programmes.
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Kineo

Steps and Kineo have been working together to create a suite of e-learning products for Southern Housing Group, after securing the contact through a competitive tender process. The online programmes ensure the sustainability of the experiential programme and enhance the delegate learning process.
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Leornian Group

Leornian Group specialises in developing people to be successful at work and aims to enhance both individual and organisational performance by developing business solutions using learning & development, coaching and consulting. We have worked in partnership with Leornian for clients such as Pfizer and Kimberley Clark.
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Metafore Partners

Steps has worked successfully with Metafore Partners to deliver strategic change programmes for a number of clients, most recently Birmingham City Council, another leading London Borough Council and one of the UK's largest City Councils. Combining coaching, teambuilding and engagement techniques alongside experiential learning, these programmes have been highly successful in delivering lasting behaviour change.
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Opportunity Now

We have a long-standing relationship with Opportunity Now and have worked with them on a number of high profile events addressing issues such as flexible working, gender diversity, domestic violence and bullying in the workplace.
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Rock the Boat Consulting

Steps has been working with Rock the Boat Consulting to deliver the Leader Programme to senior teams at Flybe. This 12 month programme has provided members of the senior management team with the tools and techniques to enhance their managerial performance, and has helped to invigorate the middle management team by increasing their confidence and overall performance.
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Room54

Room54 and Steps have worked in partnership for a number of years, since Steps first shared a stage with broadcaster and journalist John McCarthy. We have since worked with John and the team at Room54 to deliver a conference on Harassment & Bullying (hosted at City Hall, London) and ‘Engaging for the Future' - a one day conference on employee engagement.
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Schneider-Ross

Steps has been working with Diversity and Inclusion specialists Schneider~Ross to bring an experiential methodology into their working practice for key clients across the world. We recently co-created a programme for Senior Leaders in Vodafone, delivering to teams in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region and we are developing further joint programmes for clients in the banking and IT sectors. We recently worked with Schneider~Ross on the design and delivery of a one day conference on Inclusive Leadership (London) and on an international ‘Power of Inclusion Summit’ for Amex in India.
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Synergy Employment Law

We have worked successfully in partnership with Synergy for many clients over a period of years, using drama alongside legal input to provide engaging, memorable and practical training around issues where employment law is key.
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TJ (Training Journal)

Steps worked collaboratively with TJ to deliver ‘Engaging for the Future' - an innovative and high-impact one day conference on employee engagement and ‘Inclusive Leadership’ – an interactive day using drama and multimedia techniques to explore the role of inclusion. Featuring prominent speakers and industry professionals alongside experiential learning sessions, these events gave delegates informative and truly interactive learning experiences.
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