Frequently Asked Questions

We are a team of learning designers and facilitators who have all had careers as consultants. Two things unite us: we love solving complex problems, and we love learning. What we care about most, and the value we share, is making work, and the world beyond it, better, which is why we chose to work with consultants, because that is what the best of them do every day. We have been designing learning for more than two decades, and we have worked with more than 11,000 consultants (and counting).

The vast majority of our work is with consultancy and advisory firms, for a simple reason: it is the world we came from, and we love supporting the people whose work makes workplaces, and the world beyond them, better. That said, everything we design develops behaviours and skills rather than job titles, so we also work with sales teams, with change-makers and problem solvers of every kind, and, in almost every client, with the leadership and management team as well. The Nine Dimensions methodology that we developed describes nine core traits, behaviours and skills. Any team that needs to develop them is a team we can help.

Everything we design is built to shift behaviour in a positive direction. You know your people and your culture better than anyone: the things they do today that are very good, the things you wish were better, and the things they are not yet doing at all. Our learning is behaviour-led, story-led and backed by behavioural science, and it is designed to move those behaviours in the right direction inside learning experiences people remember. The Nine Dimensions give it its structure, from curiosity and critical thinking through to commercial acumen and coaching.

Showing Up is an online learning platform built specifically for consultants, advisors, consultative sellers and internal change makers solving complex problems. It gives your people self-directed, practical development they can access whenever they need it, grounded in our framework, the Nine Dimensions of the Very Best Consultants, and shaped by two decades of working with consulting teams worldwide.

Over 80 video modules, 15 self-assessments, and a library of team challenges, with new content added monthly. Every piece of content is mapped to the Nine Dimensions and tagged by career stage, so your people can find the right learning quickly.

Most platforms offer generic professional development. Showing Up was designed from the ground up for consulting, advisory, and client work. Every learning component is built around the real client challenges your team faces every day, and the Nine Dimensions framework ensures development is focused on the specific areas that drive the greatest impact with clients, not just general business skills.

It was our clients who asked us to build a platform, and we wanted to build a great library of learning! They wanted more of our learning than classroom days alone could give them, and they wanted it to keep embedding long after the day itself. Every platform has its merits, and LinkedIn Learning, Coursera and Udemy Business are all good ones. They are large, general catalogues built on breadth: thousands of courses, most of them technical or academic, bought by the seat and browsed by the individual.

Ours is the opposite shape.

It is focused on behaviour, laser-focused on consulting capability, and the learning itself is story-led, a little irreverent, and always backed by behavioural science. Those platforms also tend to be video alone. Video learning sits at the centre of ours, with five other components built around it: a Career Development Map that shows what great looks like, 360 assessments, downloadable toolkits, team challenges, and coaching toolkits for your managers.

Breadth is useful, and many of our clients keep a broad catalogue for general skills. It just does not help the consultant with a difficult stakeholder meeting on Tuesday afternoon, or when something has gone wrong.

We hear this a lot - and we agree that most video learning is passive and forgettable. That’s why every module on Showing Up is built around application. You watch a short, focused video, then you apply what you’ve learned to your own work, your own clients, your own team. It’s engaging because it’s immediately useful. We also include self-assessments and team challenges that go well beyond watching a screen. See how the platform works.

Modules are bite-sized and practical. Even the longer courses (such as “Running Great Discovery Meetings”) are broken down into 3 to 10-minute learning segments including the core teaching, practical exercises, self-reflection assessments, and team exercises. They are short enough to fit between client meetings, but deep enough to change how someone approaches their next conversation or challenge.

The Nine Dimensions of the Very Best Consultants is Showing Up’s framework for the values, behaviours and skills that set the very best consultants apart, identified through two decades of research and work with more than 11,000 consultants. The dimensions are: Curiosity, Critical Thinking, Creativity, Character, Communication, Collaboration, Curation, Commercial Acumen, and Coaching. Every module, assessment and challenge on the platform maps back to them. Explore the Nine Dimensions.

Our in-person training is behaviour-led: it teaches the things that will immediately improve and elevate your team’s confidence and capability, in the room and in front of clients. Every session is story-led and backed by behavioural science, and every one of our facilitators has run their own business, so they know the pressures your people are under. Our promise is simple: we will create the most memorable and useful learning experience of your team’s career.

Nothing beats being in the room. In-person training is immersive and, on a good day, a little magical, and it creates an energy that no video can. The platform is there for everything that comes after: to keep the learning embedding week by week, and to add the tools a day together cannot, such as career development maps, 360 assessments and toolkits for your managers.

The way we usually describe it is this. If you are a smaller business without a large learning budget, the platform alone will give your team everything they need, and they will improve. If your budget is more substantial, which can include classroom training, then doing both will always take your team further. The questions that matter are where your team are today, where you would like them to be, and how our learning can help them get there.

Most of our clients use both. Many choose to begin in person, because a day in the room builds the partnership, gives a team a shared experience and a shared language, and sets the spirit of everything that follows. They then introduce the platform, which is cost-effective, embeds what was learned in the room, and gives their people learning they would not otherwise have access to. That is exactly why we built it: nobody has an endless budget for classroom training, or endless time. Since we launched the platform in 2025, some clients, particularly smaller firms without a large learning budget or the time for classroom days, have used it on its own to great effect. So there is no right or wrong answer, only the one that best complements the learning you already have, and that is a conversation we would love to have with you.

It’s designed to complement what you already do, not replace it. Use it as pre-work before workshops, reinforcement after training events, or continuous development between formal programmes. It fills the gaps that classroom training can’t reach - the everyday moments where your people need to develop but can’t step away from client work. We also run in-person workshops for firms who want to pair the two.

Yes. You can see who’s engaged, what they’ve completed, and how capability is developing across your team over time. Reports can be pulled for leadership in minutes, and you can track progress by individual, team, office or level.

Absolutely. You can assign modules or curated learning pathways by role, level, team or office. You can also let individuals explore on their own - most firms use a combination of both.

Once we’ve agreed your plan, your team gets immediate access to the full platform. There’s no complex integration required, people log in and start learning. Book a discovery call to get started.

Both. We work with teams of ten and firms of thousands. The platform scales, and we’ll build a plan that fits your organisation.

The base price is £495 plus VAT per person, per year. For small businesses (revenue under £1 million) and public institutions it is £295 plus VAT per person, per year, and £95 plus VAT for non-profits (or donate what you can). The best first step is to book a discovery call. We’ll walk through the platform, understand your needs, and put together a proposal.

As you will see from our pricing page, we believe in being transparent about cost. In-person training is priced per day, not per person. The standard rate is £2,500 plus VAT per day, and that includes one of our lead facilitators (you are welcome to choose who), the design of all of the materials, the tailoring of the content to your world and your language, and the measurement of the programme’s impact afterwards. For small businesses (revenue under £1 million) and public institutions the standard day rate is £1,800 plus VAT, and for charities £1,200 plus VAT, or donate what you can. Travel is charged separately.

Some clients want something entirely bespoke. When that is the case we usually spend one or two days designing it, charged at £1,500 plus VAT per day of design, again with all materials included.

It is also worth saying that the intellectual property in anything we design for you transfers to you straight away, which is rare in the learning world. We believe that if you have paid for it, it should be yours.

Some programmes, such as Solve the International Crisis, go further still and bring in professional actor-facilitators; each additional facilitator is £1,500 plus VAT per day.

Yes. You can try the learning, and we’re happy to give you a guided walkthrough of the platform so you can see the content, format and experience first-hand. Please kindly book a discovery call and we’ll set it up.

We make a promise on this. Whether you spend £1,000, £10,000 or £100,000 with us, the learning will return at least ten times that, and often substantially more. We begin every programme by agreeing what success looks like, and then we measure it: confidence and capability before and after, shifts in the behaviours the programme set out to change, feedback from your clients and, where it applies, sales growth. One client invested £30,000 in developing their team’s sales capability, and the return, measured on the work that programme helped to win, has run into the millions.

That’s the right question - less than 20% of corporate training truly sticks. Showing Up is designed around application: every module ends with something to use in live client work the same day, and self-assessments and team challenges turn watching into doing. In our in-person programmes, 100% of participants reported an immediate positive difference in their client work. The platform brings the same methodology to the moments between sessions.

For every person your team trains with us, the Showing Up Foundation provides a free scholarship to a young person facing barriers to entering the workforce. It’s our way of ensuring that great learning creates a better future for everyone, not just those who already have access.

Yes. We provide certification for your firm’s contribution to the Foundation, which you can use to support your sustainability and social impact reporting.

Our mission is to support at least 1 million young people in accessing education and employment by 2035.

Book a discovery call. We’ll walk you through the platform, understand your team’s needs, and put together a plan that works for your organisation. From there, you can be live in days.

There are two primary objectives. Firstly, to enable us to understand your vision, culture, goals, current learning offering and how you wish to elevate your team. Secondly, it’s a chance for you to get to know us and whether we are the right learning partner for you. We’ll show you the platform, talk through how it could work for your team, and answer any questions. Book a discovery call.

Absolutely. On a discovery call we’ll give you a live walkthrough of the platform covering the modules, assessments, and the full experience. You’ll know exactly what your team will be getting.