We partner with you to explore and develop the most effective interventions for you and your organisation. We tailor our work to your goals, your vision and your culture. Our focus is on improving performance through additional skills, transformed thinking and new behaviour.
Our highly qualified, experienced and talented teams are specialists in leadership, influence and coaching for performance. We support and challenge our clients to gain new insights, perspectives and understanding to develop more flexible approaches, increased resilience and greater success. In a single line, we build global talent.
What we do
When someone asks what we do at VNA, it’s tempting to point out our track record for helping to transform the world’s great companies into sharper, smarter, better versions of themselves.
But that’s only part of the story.
The rest of the story is about our people, our values, our passion, and our way of doing things-intangibles that can’t be financially measured or modeled, but that truly make the difference.
What drives us
We believe in the innate ability of people and businesses to learn, adapt and evolve. We believe in the impact we can have both on individuals and organisations. We understand the importance of incorporating the findings from the science of learning into our offerings and have a positive strengths approach to people and all aspects of our work.
Most importantly, we believe in building relationships between all of our stakeholders and each other to build trust and create highly successful teams.
Our Mission
To help make organisations great places to work by developing leaders who can create a positive climate and bring out the best in people.
Our Core
We ask questions to explore your ideal future and possible barriers for change.
Mindful leaders stand out for their ability to understand and manage themselves and thereby work effectively with others. Such technical and functional skills are a given expectation for most roles.
Appreciative Inquiry is an organisation development methodology based on the assumption that inquiry into and dialogue about strengths, successes, values, hopes and aspirations is in itself transformational.
We are different
InnovateWe design innovative learning interventions that draw on the latest studies in neuroscience, learning and performance improvement to meet the requirements of your workplace. |
FocusWe have a clear and deep focus on your needs. We believe that collaboration and long-term associations enable us to deliver great results for your business. |
ChangeWe help your organisation with change management, focusing on shifting performance through consultancy, assessments, coaching and group facilitation. |
AppreciateWe use a process of appreciative inquiry to understand your business and learning objectives. |
SparkleWe create small sparkles that lead to big changes. |
Our Process
- Your Business
- Your Learners
- Your Ideal Future
- Focus & Integration
- Measure Performance
- Communication
- Group Size 10-15
- Learning Cycle
- Strengths- based Facilitative Approach
- Client Focus
- Change Management
- Experiment
- Coach
Our Clients
Our client organisations include some of the world’s most successful companies. These include world leaders in IT and related services, pharmaceuticals, financial services and FMCG.
These companies believe that investing in the long term development of their people leads to better performance and business success.
Top-rated organisations( in surveys of great places to work in) are also organisations that tend to show higher shareholder returns and better performance.
Our Work
We focus on the human side of change.
We believe that strong collaborative partnerships are essential for success. When you work with us you’ll get meaningful and results-oriented partnerships, and you’ll also benefit from our diverse and global team with an appreciative approach. All our learning is designed to be contemporary, relevant and engaging.
We design strategic learning plans with a mix of interventions, so that learning is sustainable and applied in day to day work. This approach is proven to be 4x more effective than a stand-alone class room session.
The world of talent management continues to evolve at an unprecedented rate. We like to think of the challenges that this poses as opportunities to truly make a difference. VNA (Vicki Nicholson & Associates) is a game changer when it comes to best practices in the human development space. With over sixteen years of experience, we are a group of global leadership development entrepreneurs who are passionate about developing leaders that can excel in today’s demanding workplace.
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