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Our Advance programmes equip leaders and senior data professionals with the capabilities and skills to drive business transformation.
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Bespoke Training Driving Organisational Results

Corndel works with leading global organisations to develop bespoke training to address specific organisational issues.

We help leaders and managers thrive in today’s challenging world, build specialised digital capabilities, and create training programmes to address wide organisational challenges. Our in-house experts work with business leaders to improve productivity and workforce engagement, increase performance in a data-rich world, and retain top talent.

Our bespoke programmes that can be formally recognised by the CMI and are aligned to our client’s leadership frameworks and competencies.

Trusted by 150+ enterprise organisations

Our Advance offering

Leadership

We work with organisations to design and deliver leadership training that builds capabilities and drives high performance leaders.

Our programmes are bespoke to meet the development requirements of different levels in an organisation, from mid career to the most senior executive leaders.  Our offerings are aligned to meet an organisation’s strategic aims, performance gaps, and to help them overcome specific challenges and issues.

Our programmes include topics such as:

  • Developing leaders to drive a high-performing team
  • Inspiring an inclusive and diverse culture
  • Applying a coaching-based approach to leadership
  • Empowering managers to handle challenging situations more resourcefully
  • Supporting leaders to increase their resilience and achieve more positive outcomes
Our Advance offering

Data solutions

We develop data capabilities, with a focus on equipping leaders with the knowledge to lead in a data-led organisation.

We work with each organisation to design a programme that develops skills in areas such as data literacy, data quality, and storytelling with data. We understand the importance of going beyond descriptive analytics. By incorporating real-time and industry specific data into our training, participants are highly engaged and better able to apply new skills quickly into their roles.

Example topics include:

  • Enabling digital transformation
  • Data Skills and Leadership
  • Data literacy
  • Data quality
  • Communicating with data

Our Tailored Approach

Collaborative design

We build bespoke content and tailor programme delivery to the exact requirements of our clients. This can include a combination of leadership diagnostics, in-person, online or hybrid-based workshops, team development sessions, and coaching.

Blended delivery

Our powerful blend of theory and practice incorporates evidence-based, reputable models and frameworks, whilst ensuring the learner experience is focused on the application.

Innovative programmes

Our programmes result in more effective problem-solving, higher levels of wellbeing & motivation and improved team-working.

We employ brilliant people

Our people are fully employed by Corndel and have been senior and board level subject matter experts, with advanced coaching qualifications. They bring their understanding of complex organisational environments to each learning engagement.

Meet the Corndel Advance Team World-class leaders, coaches, and educators

Jina Melnyk
Managing Director

An experienced MD, CFO & senior leadership executive with a passion in developing other executives to be their best selves, challenging them to do the unexpected, and building their confidence. Jina and her team have a track record in equipping leaders with the capabilities and skills necessary to meet organisational objectives in today’s challenging times. In doing so, leaders transform themselves, others and the business.
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Guro Rogstad
Director of Commercial Leadership Programmes

Occupational psychologist, coach and PRINCE2 certified project manager with a successful consultancy background and over 15 years’ experience in learning and development. At an organisational level, she uses her structured and evidence-based approach to understand core issues and unlock new ways of working. As a coach, Guro uses personality assessments and mindfulness to enhance personal insight and growth.
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Lotti Kierkegaard
Director of Commercial Leadership Programmes

Qualified and highly experienced trainer, coach and facilitator who has 1000s of hours of experience in facilitation and 1-2-1 and group coaching. Lotti’s expertise in learning and development are greatly enhanced by her lived experience of project management and leadership gained through her time as a senior leader in large media companies.
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Teresa Roberts
Director of Design and Development

Qualified and experienced personal and professional development coach and learning facilitator. Special interest in the application of neurobiology to leadership and life challenges. Fifteen years’ experience in leading high-performing teams. Former Head of Communications in the life sciences industry leading a team responsible for corporate, brand and internal communications in a Sunday Times Top 100 Company to Work For.
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Louise Munton
Director of Commercial Leadership Programmes

An experienced chartered manager, business skills trainer and personal performance coach, with a passion for helping people to achieve their full potential in the workplace. She brings 20 years commercial experience in senior roles within FMCG and charity, gained in the UK, North America and central global commercial roles. This has given her a wealth of real-life experience to draw on, and as such can fully understand many of the issues and challenges clients are faced with.
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Happy clients

Data-Wise: Transforming Data Capabilities at HMCTS
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A seamless partnership: "We contacted EY, who put us in touch with Corndel Advance. We talked to several suppliers, but it didn’t align with how we wanted to work. Corndel Advance delivered the missing piece we couldn’t do."
Aamna Talib, Project Lead, HMCTS
“I found the course transformational, beyond what I expected. I am very grateful and feel very privileged for the self-reflection and insight The HER Leadership course has offered me. This is the first course where I know my learnings will be permanent.”
Carly Churchill, Head of Women’s Health Marketing (UK & ENI Cluster), Organon
Closing the Gender Gap: Organon’s HER Leadership Programme
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Jina Melnyk
Managing Director

An experienced MD, CFO & senior leadership executive with a passion in developing other executives to be their best selves, challenging them to do the unexpected, and building their confidence. Jina and her team have a track record in equipping leaders with the capabilities and skills necessary to meet organisational objectives in today’s challenging times. In doing so, leaders transform themselves, others and the business.

Professional background and experience

Jina is the Managing Director for Corndel Advance, developing and executing the strategies for Corndel’s bespoke leadership and data training programmes. With significant previous senior executive experience, Jina has an innate understanding of the challenges her clients face, and what it means to lead and run a top-flight business, in a changing marketplace.

Jina is a former Chief Financial Officer for companies in the pharmaceutical data and market research industry. She led teams through periods of high growth and change, operated at board level and worked on several company transactions. She worked in a Big 4 accountancy firm and in financial services, working with clients on large-scale engagements, deploying teams and resources. As Jina herself says, “I understand what it takes to work under considerable pressure and overcome mistakes and obstacles, which is challenging whilst raising a family.”

Jina enjoys working with clients who want to re-energise their workforce for greater engagement and productivity; clients who want to create more empathic leaders; clients who want to retain their top talent and support leaders in interpreting and leading in a data-rich world.

Guro Rogstad
Director of Commercial Leadership Programmes

Occupational psychologist, coach and PRINCE2 certified project manager with a successful consultancy background and over 15 years’ experience in learning and development. At an organisational level, she uses her structured and evidence-based approach to understand core issues and unlock new ways of working. As a coach, Guro uses personality assessments and mindfulness to enhance personal insight and growth.

Professional background and experience

Guro is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and ICF certified coach with over 15 years’ experience in developing leaders and managers. She has worked as a psychologist in Ministry of Defence Head Office, where she worked with data teams to improve evidence-based policy making across the department. She was also in National School of Government, and later worked as a management consultant, designing and delivering large talent and development programmes to Grade 7 and SCS and to senior leaders in the private sector. She has successfully facilitated complex stakeholder management relationships in large organisations and delivered empirically-based and change initiatives. Guro is currently designing and delivering a year long leadership programme for OPSS.

With a strength in strategic thinking, Guro uses her structured and evidence-based approach to understand core issues within organisations and to unlock new ways of working. She has worked extensively with engineers, military personnel, retail staff and public servants and regularly uses psychometric assessments to enhance individuals’ growth and drive change across businesses. She combines mindfulness exercises and personality assessments in her coaching to facilitate personal growth and insight.

Lotti Kierkegaard
Director of Commercial Leadership Programmes

Qualified and highly experienced trainer, coach and facilitator who has 1000s of hours of experience in facilitation and 1-2-1 and group coaching. Lotti’s expertise in learning and development are greatly enhanced by her lived experience of project management and leadership gained through her time as a senior leader in large media companies.

Professional background and experience

As a coach and facilitator, Lotti has worked with leaders in the UK and internationally across a wide range of industries, including media, fast-moving consumer goods, finance,  and the public sector. She focuses on building trusting and listening relationships, aiming to create an environment of discovery, and her approach combines critical, reflective, and intellectual rigour with innovation, joy, and insight. She has a particular interest in change at both the individual and system levels.

Lotti’s expertise in learning and development is greatly enhanced by her lived experience of project management and leadership. She has held senior positions in large, flagship media companies, including Head of Social media for Virgin, and has successfully delivered a broad range of projects, from training programmes to digital strategy, for clients across a variety of sectors, including the media, NHS, fast-moving consumer goods and charities.

Lotti is fluent in both Swedish and English, and her clients within Corndel Advance come from leadership positions across Europe in a variety of multi-national corporations. Her background working with global stakeholders gives her unique insight into a range of functions and sectors.

Teresa Roberts
Director of Design and Development

Qualified and experienced personal and professional development coach and learning facilitator. Special interest in the application of neurobiology to leadership and life challenges. Fifteen years’ experience in leading high-performing teams. Former Head of Communications in the life sciences industry leading a team responsible for corporate, brand and internal communications in a Sunday Times Top 100 Company to Work For.

Professional background and experience

Teresa has 15 years’ experience in leadership and management roles in the life sciences industry and a successful background in employee engagement, culture change, and brand and corporate communications. Beginning in clinical research, Teresa’s career developed organically as she pursued her interests and sought out new challenges and people from whom she wanted to learn. She completed her life sciences career as Head of Communications working alongside senior leaders to shape culture and drive business success. She was involved in a broad range of projects, from corporate branding, through product launches, to engagement during leadership change and organisational restructure. In her time in the life sciences industry, Teresa became a skilled facilitator, training in action learning facilitation to support developing leaders, and supporting tactical and strategic planning at departmental and company level.

After leaving the life sciences industry, Teresa qualified as a business and personal coach and worked in private practice until taking her expertise into Corndel, where she has been designing, developing and delivering leadership and management programmes for clients across a broad range of sectors. She has a special interest in neurobiology and human behaviour, which bonds her strong scientific background with the challenges of personal and business change.

Louise Munton
Director of Commercial Leadership Programmes

An experienced chartered manager, business skills trainer and personal performance coach, with a passion for helping people to achieve their full potential in the workplace.

She brings 20 years commercial experience in senior roles within FMCG and charity, gained in the UK, North America and central global commercial roles. This has given her a wealth of real-life experience to draw on, and as such can fully understand many of the issues and challenges clients are faced with.

Professional background and experience

Louise joined Corndel in 2019, bringing a strong commercial background, including brand marketing, sales, category management and strategic planning, gained from 20 years working at Cadbury and BBC. Prior to Corndel, she spent 5 years designing and delivering commercial training programmes to a wide range of clients spanning many different sectors and markets around the world.

As a qualified coach and Chartered Manager, Louise is committed to developing and delivering training programmes that empower people to perform at their best and deliver real results. Developing leadership skills, takes hard work, energy and practice. Louise is experienced in delivering a range of blended learning experiences including group workshops and 1 to 1 coaching.  Good training needs to be appropriately challenging yet enjoyable, based around real business issues, and delivered as a mix of theory, discussion and individual work to appeal to different styles. She combines these with detailed feedback and 1 to 1 coaching to help embed new skills, boost confidence, and drive increased self-awareness for improved performance.