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16th-17th July, 2026 Johannesburg - South Africa     Course Overview Today’s process and manufacturing industries are complex and asset intensive, requiring maintenance practices that ensure high reliability, maximize uptime, minimize costs, and maintain process safety and asset integrity. Effective maintenance requires understanding current practices, identifying development areas, execution capabilities, and realistic implementation plans. Skills to leverage modern technologies, such as sensors with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), are critical. Applying asset management in this manner supports sustainable operation, and this masterclass provides the skills to achieve this. The course emphasizes interaction and cooperation between engineering, operations, and maintenance to achieve optimum plant reliability. Practical examples of significant failures illustrate the consequences of misunderstanding roles, responsibilities, and interfaces between these functions. Learning Outcomes Delegates will: Understand operational asset efficiency,…

14th-16th September, 2026 Dusit Thani Hotel, Dubai - U.A.E   Course Overview This intensive executive-level program equips finance, treasury, and planning professionals with advanced, practical techniques for analyzing cash flows, building resilient budgets, and supporting high-quality decisions under uncertainty. Participants explore established and modern approaches to cash flow forecasting and budgeting, examine how behavioral patterns, seasonality, and external influences shape cash movements, and work with specialized analytical applications and AI-assisted forecasting tools. The emphasis is on structure, interpretation, and judgment. All analysis is performed through applications that generate structured outputs, allowing participants to focus on understanding results and applying them to real-world financial decisions rather than on technical model construction. Learning Outcomes Develop robust, decision-grade cash flow forecasts under uncertainty Integrate seasonality, behavioral trends, and external drivers into forecasting models…

14th-15th September, 2026 Dusit Thani Hotel, Dubai - U.A.E   Course Overview A highly practical program for leaders and professionals who need to turn everyday communication into their main tool to build trust, collaboration, and a high‑performance culture. Organizations rarely lose trust because of strategy; they lose it because of misaligned expectations, ambiguous messages, and difficult conversations that never happen. This course offers a clear mindset and practical tools to close trust gaps, strengthen psychological safety, and design a culture where communication supports performance instead of undermining it.​ Across the two days, participants explore how trust is built, damaged, and repaired through daily interactions: meetings, feedback, decisions, emails, hybrid communication, and difficult conversations.​ Learning Outcomes By the end of the program, participants will be able to:​ Understand how trust is…

08th-10th September, 2026 Dusit Thani Hotel, Dubai - U.A.E   Course Overview This cutting-edge program equips finance professionals with the strategic advantage of integrating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning into Excel driven financial modeling. Over three immersive days, participants explore how Python powered Excel tools revolutionize forecasting, risk analysis, portfolio management, and anomaly detection shifting finance functions from reactive to predictive. From AI fundamentals to advanced supervised and unsupervised learning models, the course enables attendees to automate routine tasks, perform robust predictive analytics, and construct scalable, ethical, and intelligent financial systems. Through hands-on sessions, real-world case studies, and interactive dashboards, participants will master next gen Excel capabilities embedding AI seamlessly into their daily financial workflows. Ideal for financial analysts, risk professionals, investment strategists, C level executives, and tech-savvy finance teams,…

08th-09th July, 2026 Johannesburg - South Africa   Course Overview The Development of a successful Incident Reporting (IR) System is the process of identifying and analyzing hazards and risks to come up with effective mitigation and control measures for your organization. This intends to limit incidents’ disruption to your operations, minimize negative impact, prevent recurrence and protect your reputation. Incident Reporting helps your teams and key stakeholders investigate and resolve issues before they evolve into bigger problems, accidents or major emergencies. Learning Outcomes By the end of the training, participants will be able to: Build a shared understanding of what constitutes an incident, near miss, and hazard. Reduce any fear of blame teaching a safety culture approach where reporting is encouraged, not punished. Improve reporting accuracy and consistency, ensuring essential…

08th-09th July, 2026 Johannesburg - South Africa   Course Overview This course provides a comprehensive understanding of goal setting, understanding the importance of vision and a written blue print to create the life you want, by design… and not by accident. Participants will learn the importance of having a vision and mission for their lives. They will learn strategies for goal setting that are practical, sustainable, measurable and inspirational. Participants will learn how to create a blueprint for success, based on their deepest goals and their highest values. They will learn from the greatest goal-setters about the power of goals, how to set them, measure them and stick to them. Through personal sharing, case studies and interactive exercises, attendees will develop a blue-print that will enable them to become goal-setters…

06th-07th July, 2026 Johannesburg - South Africa   Course Overview This course provides a comprehensive understanding of providing world class customer service by focusing on understanding the customer’s needs and by creating meaningful moments two essential elements of ensuring business success (profit) and satisfied and delighted clients that return (which leads to higher staff morale and business sustainability) Participants will learn how a “World Class Wow” approach to customer service works and they will explore a variety of strategies to understand what their customers want, and how to consistently deliver world class standards, practice these techniques, learn how to create an emotional connection and operate from a “Values driven” foundation. Participants will learn how to develop and maintain a sense of ownership over their work, as well as strategies to…

13th-15th July, 2026 Johannesburg - South Africa   Course Overview Operating a sustainable, wealth generating entity in a demanding economic environment requires capital intensive assets to deliver efficient and reliable performance. Enterprise asset management enables world class operation, with maintenance strategy playing a critical role. Leading companies leverage maintenance to drive profitability, impacting capacity, quality, responsiveness, safety, environmental performance, and production cost. World-class maintenance increases plant profitability and delivers tangible and intangible benefits. Strategic maintenance planning and scheduling is fundamental, enabling effective asset care activities for both short and long term equipment needs. Critical activities include day to day maintenance and service day execution, supported by skilled craft availability. Service day management involves complex risk, justified work scopes, structured decision making, and quantitative economic assessment. This masterclass integrates maintenance planning…

Digital Leadership Transformation: Influence, Presence & Impact Digital Leadership Transformation: Influence, Presence & Impact Digital Leadership Transformation: Influence, Presence & Impact 26th-27th January, 2026 Online - Live Course overview In today’s digitally driven landscape, leadership branding goes beyond titles and resumes. It’s about crafting an identity that resonates across platforms communicating who you are, what you stand for and the value you bring. This 2-day experience empowers participants to build, express and amplify their leadership brand culminating in a personal brand video that showcases their authentic leadership story. Participants will dive deep into self-reflection, messaging, digital optimisation (LinkedIn & Google) and presentation techniques. They’ll walk away with practical tools, digital assets and their own recorded brand pitch. Learning Outcomes By the end of this course, you will: Understand the strategic…

8th-10th December, 2025 Dusit Thani Hotel, Dubai-U.A.E. Course overview This 2-day online course introduces treasury, finance, and risk professionals to the principles of treasury risk management, combined with practical training in using AI and machine learning tools via Orange, a no code, user friendly platform. Participants will learn to enhance cash flow forecasting, liquidity management, and risk mitigation using ML workflows without coding or complex infrastructure. The course also provides an overview of AI/ML tools available today to help participants assess fit for their treasury operations. By the end of the program, attendees will understand how to manage treasury risks and deploy AI models that can be integrated into their daily workflows - without coding or cloud infrastructure. Learning Outcomes Participants will: Grasp the foundational principles of treasury risk management…