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Learning that helps you thrive?

We help teams and people thrive at work through learning

Meet The Learning Moment and our team

  • At The Learning Moment we help your staff thrive, grow, overcome obstacles and innovative.
  • Because we support leaders, managers and teams in charities, membership organisations, the third sector education and public sectors, you experience learning that is practical, relevant and aligned with your values-driven organisation. 
  • We create spaces where people feel safe to learn, challenge themselves and thrive, because we are an inclusive and diverse company.
  • Andry Anastasis McFarlane leads our team. Andry is an experienced master’s level qualified  Executive accredited coach (EMCC),  a PGCE-qualified, experienced workshop facilitator, a learning consultant and author. Andry’s book, The Really Resilient Guide, offers you 27 strategies for surviving and thriving through change and uncertainty at work.
  • Her trailblazing work has been featured on BBC Radio, Soho Radio and i.magazine. 

Meet Miranda

  • Our team includes senior managers who understand the day-to-day realities of leadership.
  • Miranda Gay is a leading Black female Senior Safeguarding Manager in education in the UK.
  • She offers  management coaching, Global Majority leadership  programmes and Safeguarding 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. Coach and team coaching supervision

Workshops for developing leaders, managers and staff

Team Coaching to problem solve  in a Solutions Focused way

Executive and management coaching

Enable your staff to lead strategically and effectively

Staff development workshops

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

  • Strengthen staff communication skills
  • Coaching workshops for effective conversations
  • Relational facilitation training for skilled facilitators
  • Collaborative innovation learning with Theory U
  • Empower managers to lead with confidence
  • Support leaders and Global Majority leaders

Resilience learning

Empowering staff to survive and thrive during challenge and adversity

Team Coaching

 

  • Support and enable staff to work collaboratively to problem-solve.
  • Discover innovations and solutions to ongoing challenges.

Supervision  for Coaches,  Mentor and Teams

Relational one-to-one and group supervision, with an Oxford Brookes University certificated supervisor

Teaching and learning

  • Help your teaching staff and team leaders excel and innovate
  • Enhance developmental peer-observations, using coaching skills

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 Supervision Style Support

“The Learning Moment team supported our frontline staff both with the incredible challenges presented by Covid-19, but also coached them to develop their 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

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, Learning and Development Manager, St. George’s,
University of London

Updates from the Learning Moment

Why we’re different

  • Benefit from our expertise working with charities, educational institutions and third‑sector organisations. We deliver learning solutions that align with your mission, boost member engagement and 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 or ICF) qualified and experienced coaches and facilitators. We are FULL 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.