Business Insights and Decision Making
TBC | One Day

Northumbria University is a research-rich, business-focused, professional university with a global reputation for academic quality. We work with public, private, and cultural sector organisations in the Northeast of England and beyond.

This course is delivered by Dr Colin Richardson PhD, FBCS, CITP, AHEA, an Assistant Professor in Business Analytics within Marketing, Operations and Systems (MOS). He is a Chartered Fellow member of the British Computer Society (BCS) and joined NBS in 2022. He has over 25 years of industry experience working in both the public and private sectors. He has been responsible for the delivery of several complex data transformational programmes as well as being head of data for several multi-national organisations.

Newcastle Business School (NBS) has a global reputation for delivering some of the best leadership, management, and financial education in the UK. We have been successfully building international partnerships for over 20 years with our courses delivered in countries as diverse as France, China, Russia, Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong, Holland, India, Vietnam, and Malaysia. We hold accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International) for both Business and Accounting, making us part of an elite group of less than 1% of business schools worldwide. The school is also accredited by EFMD with EPAS accreditation for 18 undergraduate courses – more than any business school in the UK. In 2015 we were awarded the Times Higher Business School of the Year.

Our Leadership Development expertise is founded on 50 years of leadership research and our approach draws on a holistic set of behaviours around the individual, situational and contextual aspects of leadership. Our Department for Corporate and Executive Development works with recent graduates, senior managers and executives to build authentic leaders who are confident, resilient and self-aware, enabling them to better engage and empower their teams.

We offer a rare opportunity to gain CMI level coaching and mentoring skills course in a blended learning environment, with the face to face programme sessions adequately spaced to allow for reflective learning and feedback. We have a strong and experienced faculty of coaching and mentoring experts, with long track records of teaching and coaching across a wide range of industries.

Northumbria is a research-rich, business-focused, professional university with a global reputation for academic excellence.  Our students learn from the best – inspirational academic staff with a genuine passion for their subject, whose teaching is shaped by world-leading and internationally excellent research.