Academy

Build the capability your organization needs to move forward.

Technology changes what work requires. Your people need the knowledge, judgement and practical skills to respond.

AY&R Academy helps organizations develop capability in AI, digital transformation, governance, service management and organizational change. We connect established frameworks with the decisions and challenges your teams face at work.

From an executive briefing to a structured workforce development program, we design learning around your priorities, your people and the performance you want to improve.

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Equip employees to use AI responsibly. Prepare managers to lead change. Strengthen service delivery.

Program Areas

Choose a focused course or combine several subjects into a development pathway for a team, a function or the wider organization.

AI and Emerging Technology

Develop AI literacy, practical workplace skills and the judgement to use emerging technologies responsibly, from leadership awareness to applied generative AI and agentic workflows.
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Digital Transformation

Connect strategy with implementation. Help leaders and delivery teams assess readiness, improve services, prioritize investment and build transformation roadmaps.
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Innovation Management

Build a repeatable way to identify opportunities, test ideas and learn from evidence, with innovation systems, service design and practical experimentation.
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IT Service Management

Develop service capability through ITIL, FitSM, Unified Service Management and applied improvement workshops connected to daily operations.
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Technology and AI Governance

Strengthen the decisions behind technology investment and AI adoption with COBIT, AI project governance, ISO/IEC 42001 and practical governance design.
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Standards, Risk and Cybersecurity

Equip teams to implement, operate and assess management systems, with practical skills in information security, continuity, service management, risk and internal audit.
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Project, Change and Agile Delivery

Build the capability to deliver initiatives and help people adopt the resulting changes, across project leadership, agile delivery, business analysis and change.
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Workforce, Leadership and Learning

Prepare your people for changing roles. Develop leaders, strengthen critical thinking and design learning that supports workplace performance.
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Customized Programs

Bring the right subjects together in one program built for your organization: leadership pathways, graduate development, functional academies and train-the-trainer.
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Learning designed for application.

Relevant to your work. Cases and exercises can reflect your sector, operating model and current priorities.

Led by practitioners. Our approach connects training with the governance, transformation and operational challenges organizations need to solve.

Suitable for different roles. We distinguish what executives need to decide, what managers need to implement and what employees need to do confidently.

Measured against clear objectives. Programs can include baseline assessments, practical assignments and application reviews appropriate to the agreed scope.

Choose the Right Learning Route

Three ways to build capability, from a recognized qualification to a pathway designed for one organization.

Certification Pathways

Structured learning towards recognized professional qualifications, with eligibility, examination and delivery arrangements confirmed before booking.

AY&R Professional Programs

Practical courses and workshops focused on workplace capability, tailored to your policies, processes and sector.

Customized Development Pathways

Connected programs combining learning, applied work, assessment and optional coaching for a defined audience.
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Delivery that fits your organization.

In-house and live virtual formats can be scoped in English or Arabic. We agree the audience, learning outcomes, schedule, delivery language and any assessment or certification requirements before the program begins.

Share the challenge, the audience and your preferred timeline. We will recommend a focused program or a development pathway that fits.

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Tell us what your people need to do better. We will design the program around it.

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