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Openside Group specialises in consultancy skills training and development for professional services firms as well as inhouse consulting and business transformation teams.

Our modular based programmes are designed to support consulting excellence and career pathways at all levels aligned to the competency-based requirements of the Chartered Management Consultant (ChMC) qualification. Clients value our experiential learning and coached application of market leading techniques in analytical problem solving, critical thinking and logical reasoning. Proprietary frameworks and a practitioner-led rather than theory-based approach, ensure that techniques learned on our programmes can be adopted easily and quickly become part of the organisation’s DNA and ways of working.

Our Heritage

At Openside, we can point to a record of more than thirty years working with many of the world’s leading firms in the application of best practice consulting skills and behaviours. Our clients include leading firms from across consultancy, law, accounting, FMCG, technology, telecoms, CPRD and pharmaceutical. Openside itself emerged out of Booz Allan. All our trainers are experienced practitioners having held senior level roles in blue chip consulting and technology firms.

We have worked in more than thirty countries across six continents, delivering development programmes, mentoring, and coaching for new recruits, junior consultants, managers, senior executives, and Partners.

Openside’s Mission and Core Values

At Openside, our mission is to help people and organisations achieve their potential through coaching, mentoring, learning and development.

It is a strongly held belief and core value set shared by all our team members. We see learning and development as a positive force for change in enabling careers, personal growth, diversity, equity and inclusion, social mobility, and business success for our clients and participants. Through this we aspire to be:

• Motivated by the desire to nurture and develop talent
• Respectful of confidences shared and the values of those with whom we work
• A flexible and agile partner that listens
• Challenging agents for change in ensuring the best outcomes for our clients and participants alike
• Collegial and inclusive, treating all as equals
• Open and engaging in inspiring confidence in others and the pursuit of excellence
• Committed to enabling social mobility and career success through practical engagement
• Intellectually rigorous in ensuring a lasting positive impact
• Judged by the business results and value we deliver beyond tutor satisfaction scores

To us learning and development is more than an event. It is a partnership borne of a trust relationship in which we make your goals our goals to deliver personal and organisation wide success.

Affiliations and Associations

As a firm completely committed to Consulting Excellence, The Openside Group is proud to be an Associate Member Firm of the Management Consultancies Association (MCA).

We are regularly asked to speak at MCA events, serve on their expert panels, judge awards, and provide thought leadership around consulting and professional development.

Elsewhere, we work extensively with industry networks to deliver value to their member firms.

As part of our commitment to CSR and social mobility, we provide volunteer support for charitable organisations such as Deedbees and Sutton Trust.

Programmes

Development Programmes

Openside’s programmes are designed to facilitate the best in consulting, analytical problem solving, critical thinking, leadership, communication, and relationship management skills across a range of professional services roles.