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Target Audience Mid-to-senior level business professionals currently in or transitioning into Business Partnering roles in functions such as Finance, HR, L&D, IT/Digital, Commercial / Marketing and Legal whose role is to provide advisory and consultative solutioning cross-functionally to drive organisational outcomes with or without formal authority. Duration 2 Days Course Overview In today’s complex and matrixed organisations, functional expertise alone isn't enough and silo'd orgnaisations are dangerously constrained from innovation. Business Partners are expected to operate as strategic integrators and collaborators—connecting insight with influence to co-create value. This two-day masterclass equips participants with a powerful, evidence-informed model for impactful partnering, blending systems thinking, consulting principles, commercial acumen, and relationship intelligence. Drawing on a universal partnering lifecycle, the course explores tools and frameworks adaptable to any business context to lay out a thorough yet personable approach. Participants will work through real-world scenarios, peer dialogue, case studies, and partner simulations to apply new insights and shape their unique partnering stance. This course is designed by highly qualified learning design experts, assisted and guided by a Doctoral & Masters level leadership team. Working closely with subject matter leaders with extensive domain experience, this course is built on sound academic rigour and applied real world experience. Run in a cohort-based, activity-led format, it goes beyond theory to provide practical methods and frameworks that you can immediately apply in your workplace. Key Outcomes Define the evolving role of a Business Partner and differentiate it from functional, support, and transactional roles. Adopt a universal Partnering Lifecycle Model that moves from alignment through insight, challenge, co-creation, and enablement. Build strategic relationships with stakeholders based on trust, credibility, and mutual accountability. Use data and insight to influence decision-making beyond the numbers or policy. Navigate tensions and trade-offs between strategic alignment, operational delivery, and stakeholder expectations. Leverage systems thinking to identify root issues and interdependencies. Communicate with executive presence using influence strategies, visual storytelling, and structured consulting language. Operate with adaptive influence—knowing when to coach, consult, challenge or co-create. Create a personal action plan to uplift your partnering practice and reposition your role.

LOOKING FOR: ADULT FICTION, NON-FICTION Liza represents a range of fiction and non-fiction. On the fiction side, she is looking for historical fiction that is well researched, immerses readers in the era, and looks at overlooked characters from the past, or perhaps gives a new spin on someone we think we know. On the literary and upmarket side, she is looking for novels infused with emotions that capture the human experience and make readers think. If your literary novel is something that A24 productions might turn into a movie, this is Liza’s taste. When it comes to fantasy, she loves urban and grounded fantasy (no sci-fi please!), and is always happy to look at anything with a vampire, werewolf, witches, warlocks, fairies, and perhaps a sinister selkie or two. She is also very much looking for romantasy and is the best person at the agency to submit that too. For thrillers, send her anything set in an exotic location, high-concept, or things with a speculative twist. She loves when characters are put in situations she would never want to be in, and then they have to get out of it. Her recent favourite fiction includes: Notes on an Execution, Lady Macbethad, Hamnet, A Discovery of Witches, House of Earth and Blood, The Starless Sea, Piranesi, Our Wives Under the Sea, The Pisces, Such A Fun Age. When it comes to non fiction, she is looking for books that teach her something new or reframe a topic from an alternative point of view. This can include cookery, pop science, and social history. Liza’s recent favourite non-fiction include: The Five, A History of Art Without Men, Messalina, The Authority Gap, Finding The Mother Tree, Cook This Book, Dessert Person. Liza would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 - 2 page synopsis and the first 5000 words of your manuscript in a single word document.  (In addition to the paid sessions, Liza is kindly offering one free session for low income/underrepresented writers. Please email agent121@iaminprint.co.uk to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the discretion of I Am In Print).  By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with I Am In Print prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach I Am In Print by the stated submission deadline and note that I Am In Print take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting. The submission deadline is: Wednesday 27th August 2025