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Learning that helps you thrive?

We help teams and people thrive at work

Meet The Learning Moment

From strategic planning to handling challenging conversations with care, we help you build confident leaders, effective managers and resilient, inclusive teams. Whether you’re a business, educational organisation or charity, if your values matter to you, they matter to us.

What we do: Strategic planning with senior teams, management and leadership development, soft skills development, wellbeing and resilience, Executive Coaching, Coach Supervision and inclusive culture (EDIB) work. We help organisations become more connected, with more effective leaders and less silos. We also support you to be more values-driven. We do all this through programmes that are practical, relevant and built around your goals.
How we do it: We create programmes and spaces where people feel safe to try new things and grow. Inclusion isn’t an add-on for us; it shapes every programme we lead.
Why it lasts: We go beyond one-off workshops. We partner with your HR, OD and L&D leads using our unique “scaffolding approach”: we design each programme with you so it has a strong foundation before it even begins, which means new skills and insights carry into everyday work.

Meet our founder
Andry Anastasis McFarlane is an accredited Senior Practitioner coach, a qualified facilitator and a former organisational leader, with over two decades specialising in resilience, wellbeing and leadership. Her book, The Really Resilient Guide, shares 27 strategies for resilience. Her work has featured on BBC Radio and Soho Radio. She hosts the podcast show ‘1 AM Talks’.

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Meet Miranda

Our team includes senior managers who understand the day-to-day realities of leadership.
Miranda Gay is a leading female Senior Manager in education in the UK.
She offers management coaching, Global Majority leadership programmes and Safeguarding Supervision services.
Clients value her calm, confident presence and expertise – great for organisations who are ready for change now.

The Learning Moment services

Executive and Management Coaching.Team Coaching for strategic thinking and planning. Coach supervision.

Programmes for leaders, managers and staff. Develop more agile mindsets. Build new skills. Enhance workplace wellbeing and resilience. Become a more values-driven place to work.

Programmes for educational organisations, for leaders, managers and staff. Enhance wellbeing. Meet inclusivity needs. Create planning and reflective spaces. Meet changing expectations.

Executive and Management Coaching

Enable your staff to lead strategically, operationally and effectively

Staff Development Programmes

Develop leadership, management and staff’s effectiveness, wellbeing and soft skills:

Sustainable resilience. Empowering staff during challenge and adversity
Strengthen staff communication skills
Coaching and mentoring workshops for effective conversations
Set thinking strategically with Solutions Focused and Theory U
Empower managers to lead with confidence
Support leaders and Global Majority and disabled leaders

Values-driven, not just values-stated

People expect more from organisations today.
Through coaching thinking space, honest conversations and culture-changing learning, we help you explore what being more values-driven looks like, create a better place to work and get ready for what’s next, including B Corp.

Strategic Team Coaching

Enable senior and middle management staff to think strategically, plan for the future and discover solutions to ongoing challenges.

Supervision for Coaches, Mentors, NEETs staff and Teams

Maintain quality ethical coaching and mentoring with relational and systemic one-to-one and group supervision. With an Oxford Brookes University certificated supervisor.

Leading on Teaching, Learning and Professional Services

Support your managers and team leaders, with space for essential reflective thinking.
Improve the quality of Leading on Wellbeing.
Champion inclusion with Action Learning and Programmes for Diverse Leaders.

Our clients

A few of our clients

Royal Museums Greenwich

Executive Staff Development Programme

“The Learning Moment’s support for our Executive Leadership team came at exactly the right time. Andry gave the Directors the time to stop, take a breath, and take a more considered approach to the plans and vision for the future. We have never had a more cohesive and collaborative group of Directors, and a big part of this success is down to your time and coaching to bring the best of them.”

Head of People & Culture, Royal Museums Greenwich

Cutty Sark | National Maritime Museum Royal Observatory | The Queen’s House

Spiral Learning

Communication Skills Workshops, Coaching and Staff Supervision

“The Learning Moment team supported our frontline staff both with the incredible challenges presented by Covid-19, but also coached and supervised them to develop their client and team work and communication skills. Every staff member benefitted in their career progression and personal wellbeing. The Learning Moment helped hugely improve staff morale, productivity and has left a legacy on our systems and culture.”

Joel Balkwell, Executive Director, Spiral Learning

RSPCA

Coaching and Learning consultation

“Andry and Miranda have delivered great quality work, on time and to budget. ..Working to a very tight timescale Andry’s team produced training materials we were able to roll out virtually…which were relevant to the RSPCA and which trainees could relate to. The training has now been delivered to three sets of new animal rescue officers and is well received.”

Jeremy Gautrey-Jones, Assistant Director Employee Experience, RSPCA

ZSL London Zoo and ZSL Whipsnade Zoo

Andry helped managers excel at strategic thinking and operational planning.

She taught teams new conflict resolution skills and helped improve team communication using Myers Briggs analysis.

“Andry is the consummate professional, with the highest ethical standards which are really important when coaching senior managers… I can honestly say that there have been positive outcomes for both the individuals and the organisation.”

Ex-HR Director, ZSL London Zoo and Whipsnade Zoo

Morley College

Lesson observation development

We worked with teaching leads, supporting developmental lesson observation and improving teaching conversations using an innovative team coaching approach.

“Thought-provoking and insightful…It has prompted me to be more mindful about the degree of clarity needed by tutors.”

Team Lead, Improving Observations through Team Coaching Programme, Morley College

Federal Libraries Group

Strategy development for collaborative approaches

“Andry helped us formulate future ways of collaborative working. Three months later we have made big strides in changing how we work collaboratively to deliver change for our library users.”

Chair, Federal Libraries Group

City St George’s, University of London

Andry co-designed and co-led several Manager as Coach Programmes.

“This programme has gone from strength to strength…Managers’ feedback has continually highlighted the supportive and positive learning environment
created and that they have grown in confidence to apply these coaching skills
and tools in their day to day roles.”

Rebecca Henry-Litteck, Head of Learning and OD for SHMS, City St. George’s,
University of London

Updates from the Learning Moment

Why we’re different

Benefit from our expertise working with values driven organisations.
We offer solutions that align with your values, that develop innovative, strategic leaders who collaboratively drive your organisation forward.
Andry and her team listen to you and design tailored development programmes to match your needs. This leaves you and your staff feeling confident about each learning programme. And gives you the results and transformation you want.
We are accredited (EMCC) qualified and experienced coaches, supervisors and facilitators, or members of the Association for Coaching. So you can trust in high quality coaching.
Looking for an inclusive service, with a diverse team? Our team is truly diverse. WIth Black, Global Majority, GBLTQI+ team members and individuals who have lived with disabilities. So, you can be reassured we are deeply inclusive in our services to you.
We take you, staff and teams on an active learning journey that helps you thrive.
Discover more about our Learning Moment Mini Manifesto.