Structured Thinking & Problem Solving
Turn ambiguity into clear logic, decisions and recommendations.
- Top-down thinking
- Problem solving
- Judgement
- Decision making
Consulting Learning & Development
Built for the way consulting firms actually work.
Breaking Barriers Training develops the capabilities consultants need when the stakes are real—structured thinking, client communication, commercial judgement, stakeholder influence and leadership under pressure.
EY & PwC practitioner heritage20+ years in learning & consultingAssociate to Director / AP
ClientConversations & trust
CommercialGrowth & judgement
LeadershipPeople & delivery
A specialist, not a catalogue
We specialise in developing consultants.
Generic soft-skills programmes often miss the operating reality of consulting: demanding clients, compressed timelines, utilisation pressure, complex stakeholder networks, commercial accountability and rapid career transitions. BBT designs learning around those realities.
PedigreeFounded with first-hand L&D experience from EY and PwC, not an outside-in view of consulting.
ContextCases, roleplays and practice built around consulting work: pursuits, executive conversations, delivery pressure and team leadership.
RangeCapability architecture from new consultants through Managers, Senior Managers, Directors and Associate Partners.
TransferPractice-heavy interventions designed for application on live client work, not just classroom recall.
BBT Consulting Capability Architecture
Five capability domains. One consulting context.
Instead of a long course catalogue, the public portfolio is organised around the capabilities that determine consulting performance.
Executive Communication
Make complex work clear, concise and decision-ready.
- Presentations
- Business writing
- Storylining
- Facilitation
Client & Stakeholder Influence
Build trust and move decisions across senior, complex stakeholder groups.
- Stakeholder management
- Executive presence
- Difficult conversations
- Influence without authority
Client Growth & Commercial Capability
Convert expertise into stronger discovery, proposals and commercial conversations.
- Consultative selling
- Proposals & pitches
- Negotiation
- Commercial acumen
Consulting Leadership
Lead people, delivery and client relationships as responsibility grows.
- Delegation
- Feedback & coaching
- Team leadership
- Accountability
Consulting career transitions
Develop people for the role they are becoming.
The biggest capability gaps often appear at career transitions. BBT can build role-specific academies around what changes at each level.
Build consulting fundamentals
Move from task completion to reliable client-ready contribution.
- Structured communication
- Presentation discipline
- Meeting effectiveness
- Ownership & judgement
Lead work and people
Shift from individual delivery to coordination, delegation and stakeholder ownership.
- Delegation
- Feedback
- Expectation management
- Project leadership
Become a client leader
Build the credibility and commercial maturity required to own senior relationships.
- Executive presence
- Negotiation
- Proposals
- Stakeholder influence
Shape decisions and growth
Move from managing engagements to influencing clients, practices and commercial outcomes.
- CXO conversations
- Trusted advisor behaviours
- Commercial judgement
- Practice leadership
Consulting-specific learning design
Concepts matter. Practice changes performance.
Our programmes use consulting scenarios, live cases, client conversations, writing practice, roleplays and simulations so participants have to apply the skill under realistic pressure.
Consulting casesClient roleplaysProposal practiceExecutive conversationsImmediate debriefWorkplace application
How we build capability
A consulting L&D operating model.
Start with the role and business context, build the required behaviour, practise it, then transfer it into live work.
Diagnose
Clarify the consulting role, business challenge and observable behaviour that needs to change.
Design
Select the right concepts and frameworks, then contextualise them to the firm's work.
Practise
Use cases, scenarios, roleplays and simulations to build confidence under realistic pressure.
Transfer
Connect the learning to live client work, manager follow-through and measurable application.
Credibility across consulting and enterprise environments
Experience that makes contextualisation faster.
BBT's work spans consulting, advisory, technology, risk, professional services and enterprise leadership environments.
PwCEYBain & CompanyZS AssociatesAccentureSAPMicrosoftAmerican ExpressBroadridgeVoithStrykerWabtec
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BBT
Built from inside the consulting L&D environment.Practitioner experience shapes the design.Founder perspective
Consulting insiders. Learning specialists.
Breaking Barriers Training is led by Syed Ahmed Hussaini, with more than two decades of experience in learning, leadership and consulting environments, including L&D leadership experience at EY and PwC.
That background matters because consulting capability cannot be built from generic content alone. Programmes need to reflect how consultants actually think, communicate, sell, deliver and lead.
EY + PwCPractitioner heritage
20+ yearsLearning & leadership experience
Consulting firstContext-specific programme design
Enterprise readyVirtual, classroom & blended delivery
Start with the capability gap
What does your consulting team need to do better?
Share the level, business context and capability challenge. We can shape a focused intervention or a complete consulting academy around it.