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Solve the everyday problems that hold your organisation back.
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Every organisation is unique – its people, its culture, its challenges.

Lasting change never comes from quick training fixes – genuine transformation demands more. It calls for a deep understanding of the often subtle, yet powerful, behavioural and cultural nuances that limit an organisation’s potential.

Enter Custom Solutions.  

Our Custom Solutions team solve the everyday problems that hold your people and business back.  Our tailored leading-edge programmes are designed by partnering with you to identify true root causes. We’ll craft the blend of leadership, management, data and digital literacy skills needed to create lasting behaviour change, enabling your people and business to soar.

We know true transformation happens from our blended programmes. So uniquely, all of our solutions feature our proven executive coaching to unlock personal growth.

Our clients choose us for the impact we deliver

88% of our work is referrals and repeat business

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Trusted by 150+ enterprise organisations

Custom solutions programmes suited for your business needs

Empowering your organisation with our tailored, high-impact suite of custom solutions

At Corndel, we are passionate about addressing the everyday challenges that hinder your organisation’s progress. By partnering with you, we craft bespoke, cutting-edge training programmes designed to meet the precise needs of your leaders. Delivered by our team of experts, these solutions are not just about immediate results but also about fostering long-term behavioural and cultural transformation. We believe this approach will empower your people and elevate your business performance to new heights.

Why Corndel is your strategic custom solutions partner

We change behaviour

We’re a diverse team of over 160 in-house senior-level coaches and consultants with rich industry experience and stellar CVs. Our team bring a wealth of knowledge from complex organisational environments and extensive behaviour change experience.
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Bespoke, just like your business

Our tailor-made approach ensures that every solution aligns with your organisation’s values, culture and needs. Be it leadership development for high-performance or data analytics for a data-led organisation, our solutions are as unique as your challenges.
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Curious and genuine

We pride ourselves on being exceptional listeners. Our team are trained executive coaches and data scientists and we bring this into our consultancy. We’ll guide you through what’s possible, shape your thinking and support you every step of the way.
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Partnership meets service

We’re part of your team, working alongside you for easy integration with your organisational DNA. We’re about honest effective service and proactive account management from end-to-end.
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Addressing the daily and deep-rooted

We help you identify the pervasive everyday challenges that limit your people and business from reaching its potential. Our solutions focus on the macro challenges of behavioural change and the micro issues that impede your teams daily. We provide lasting impact for real-world problems.
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Navigating your corporate challenges From complexity to clarity

Our clients often share common challenges. Our Custom Solutions team will work alongside you to design a solution that counts, empowering your people to manage and master these blockers:

Leadership challenges
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Strategic alignment
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Employee engagement and retention
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Honing competitive advantage
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Collaboration and communication challenges
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Data literacy and utilisation
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Data mastery and strategy
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Tech team skills gaps
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Apprenticeship custom solutions

Want employees in other regions and countries to experience the transformational behaviour change of an apprenticeship programme? 

Speak to the team about how our apprenticeships can be delivered to other teams in your company outside of the apprenticeship levy.  

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Embedding change framework

Our proprietary approach to partnerships, delivers impact time and time again.   

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Our toolkit

We’ll blend the learning interventions your people need to excel.   

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Meet the Custom Solutions Team

Jina Melnyk

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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Lotti Kierkegaard

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

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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Andrew Royle

An accomplished Data Scientist and Department Head. Andrew’s skills lie in organisational transformation and data strategy. With 15 years working in data across a range of roles, his experience has taught him the value of building talent within teams as an effective method of enhancing data capabilities and adding value to an organisation while working in a variety of industries, including finance, healthcare, retail and manufacturing has given him insights into an array of environments
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Alice McGeever

Alice gained the majority of her learning and development experience in the automotive and finance industries, delivering training, coaching and consultancy. She has delivered programmes both face-to-face and virtually and prides herself on utilising digital tools to provide the most engaging learning experiences. During her time with Corndel, Alice has been responsible for developing the new Business Administration apprenticeship from initial conception to delivery. This programme was designed specifically for school leavers and young professionals, with the intention of imparting the business-critical skills needed to become well-rounded members of staff. Alice creates bespoke eLearning content for custom solutions clients as part of our blended learning approach. – Winner of the EY Rising Star Award for Government Programmes – June 2023 – Winner of the Global BMW Group Retail Performance Management Award in 2019
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Louise Munton

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 the Custom Solutions team at Corndel. We talked to several suppliers, but it didn’t align with how we wanted to work. Corndel delivered the missing piece we couldn’t do."
Aamna Talib, Project Lead, HMCTS
Leading The Way: An Inside Look at a Finance Corporation’s Strategies for Leadership Development 
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“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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We change behaviour

We’re a diverse team of over 160 in-house senior-level coaches and consultants with rich industry experience and stellar CVs. Our team bring a wealth of knowledge from complex organisational environments and extensive behaviour change experience.  

  • Our proprietary Embedding Change Framework ensures that behaviour change lasts. 
  • Our leadership coaches have an average of 17 years of industry leadership experience, and 43% hold a masters in business-critical subjects.
  • Our data coaches are from STEM leadership backgrounds, with 37% holding PhDs.
  • Award-winning team: with accolades from the Brandon Hall Excellence Awards and The Learning Awards.  

Bespoke, just like your business

Our tailor-made approach ensures that every solution aligns with your organisation’s values, culture and needs. Be it leadership development for high-performance or data analytics for a data-led organisation, our solutions are as unique as your challenges. 

  • RTB: Over 21,000 individuals trained, with 2,000+ programmes launched tailored to the specific needs of over 500 happy clients, including 30% of the FTSE100. 

Curious and genuine

We pride ourselves on being exceptional listeners. Our team are trained executive coaches and data scientists and we bring this into our consultancy. We’ll guide you through what’s possible, shape your thinking and support you every step of the way. 

  • The voice of our clients says it all: “Corndel is now so embedded into our team that they are an extension of it, rather than a provider.”  
  • Our 9/10 learner recommendation rating shows how our solutions achieve results 

Partnership meets service

We’re part of your team, working alongside you for easy integration with your organisational DNA. We’re about honest effective service and proactive account management from end-to-end.  

  • Trusted by over 150+ enterprise organisations, our partnerships have deep roots. As echoed by HMCTS: “Corndel delivered the missing piece we couldn’t do.”  

Addressing the daily and deep-rooted

We help you identify the pervasive everyday challenges that limit your people and business from reaching its potential. Our solutions focus on the macro challenges of behavioural change and the micro issues that impede your teams daily. We provide lasting impact for real-world problems. 

  • Our proven learner growth metrics offer a clear illustration: 84% of learners feel more equipped in their roles.  

Leadership challenges

Typical problems we solve:

  • Ineffective leadership 
  • Lack of diversity in leadership 
  • Leadership voids 
  • Challenges of ‘accidental managers’ 
  • Lack of coaching mindset 
  • Groupthink 
  • Absence of succession planning 

Strategic alignment

Typical problems we solve:

  • Misalignment with strategic goals 
  • Operational inefficiencies from strategic misalignments  
  • Poor collaboration in a hybrid world 
  • Managing change and navigating complexities 
  • Lack of cultural cohesion post M&A 

Employee engagement and retention

Typical problems we solve:

  • Poor employee engagement 
  • Escalating attrition 
  • Poor retention 
  • Neglect of the well-being agenda 
  • Inclusion strategy, including neurodiversity 
  • Psychological safety 

Honing competitive advantage

Typical problems we solve:

  • Lack of innovation  
  • Absence of data-driven decision making 
  • Unlocking the value in data 
  • Lag in adopting new skills (e.g. AI) 
  • Resistance to transformation and change programmes 
  • Lack of organisational agility 

Collaboration and communication challenges

Typical problems we solve:

  • Communication barriers and breakdowns 
  • Weak project and programme management 
  • Poor emotional control 
  • Managing key stakeholders 
  • Poor intra-departmental collaboration 
  • Time mismanagement 
  • Influencing and negotiating  

Data literacy and utilisation

Typical problems we solve:

  • AI literacy 
  • Poor organisational data literacy 
  • Absence of data-driven decision-making 
  • Challenges in integrating data-centric transformations 
  • Gaps in harnessing data-driven insights  

Data mastery and strategy

Typical problems we solve:

  • Data analytics and data science talent pool gaps 
  • Difficulty recruiting data talent 
  • Data strategy 
  • Lack of data governance 
  • Compliance risks and data breaches 
  • Communicating and storytelling with data 

Tech team skills gaps

Typical problems we solve:

  • Difficulty recruiting and retaining engineering talent 
  • Lack of early careers programme for developers 
  • DevOps talent gaps 
  • Diversity in tech teams 
  • Embedding a culture of innovation  
  • Continuous improvement  

Jina Melnyk

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.

Lotti Kierkegaard

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

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.

Andrew Royle

An accomplished Data Scientist and Department Head. Andrew’s skills lie in organisational transformation and data strategy. With 15 years working in data across a range of roles, his experience has taught him the value of building talent within teams as an effective method of enhancing data capabilities and adding value to an organisation while working in a variety of industries, including finance, healthcare, retail and manufacturing has given him insights into an array of environments

Alice McGeever

Alice gained the majority of her learning and development experience in the automotive and finance industries, delivering training, coaching and consultancy. She has delivered programmes both face-to-face and virtually and prides herself on utilising digital tools to provide the most engaging learning experiences.

During her time with Corndel, Alice has been responsible for developing the new Business Administration apprenticeship from initial conception to delivery. This programme was designed specifically for school leavers and young professionals, with the intention of imparting the business-critical skills needed to become well-rounded members of staff. Alice creates bespoke eLearning content for custom solutions clients as part of our blended learning approach.

– Winner of the EY Rising Star Award for Government Programmes – June 2023

– Winner of the Global BMW Group Retail Performance Management Award in 2019

Louise Munton

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.