Welcome to The S&A Group
The S&A Group consists of a number of independent companies operating within the Professional Services, Consulting, Training, Apprenticeships, Resourcing, Technology, CX, Contact Centre, BPO, IT & Digital Transformation, System Integration, Science & Laboratory, FinTech, InsurTech, Web3, Software Development, Venture Capital and Talent Development sectors in the UK, Western Europe, The Americas, APAC and the UAE.
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Since 2009, S&A have been the UK’s leading “Top4 Challenger Consultancy” for IT & Business Strategy, Consulting, Change Delivery, Digital Transformation, Enterprise & Solutions Architecture and Systems Integration. Leading and delivering £100k – £100m+ change programmes to public and private sector clients globally.
Business, Digital & IT Strategy – TOM – Consulting – IT Transformation – M&A – Integration – Business Change – People Transformation – Turnaround – Product & Customer Strategy – Data & AI – Web3 & Blockchain
The S&A Academy is a UK Government approved, Ofsted “good” regulated provider of professional career apprenticeships, commercial and corporate training and internal company L&D Academy solutions.
The business operates globally, delivering services from 4 Independent Academies: Technology & Digital, Science & Laboratory, Leadership & Management, Engineering & Sustainability.
The Academy has a ‘good’ full Ofsted rating (Q4/2024), excellent/excellent employer & Learner reviews and industry leading achievement rates well over 90%.
Apprenticeships – Corporate Training – L&D Consulting – Hire|Train|Deploy – Organisational Academy Setup & Management – Apprenticeship Levy Optimisation – Tailored Industry Apprenticeships
sanda.Digital, The S&A Group’s software development business focuses on the Modern Engineering core practices of product design, software and application development, SDLC consulting, quality & efficiency improvements, organisational audits, development capability assessments, insourcing and outsourcing strategies.
sanda.digital designs and builds enterprise class software products, using UK based on-shore teams, and deploys development ‘Teams as a Service’ to clients, often integrating client resources to achieve training and employee development outcomes.
Development Strategies, Service Design, Software and Application Development, SDLC Audits, Capability Assessments and Optimisation, PE & CxO Reports, WEB2 to WEB3 Transformations, SW Teams as a Service, Managed Apprentice Hire/Train/Deploy
Service Economics Limited (SEL) is a leading customer service, CX and contact centre consulting, performance improvement, process re-engineering, technology integration and value enhancement services company.
SEL partners with clients to improve service, increase revenue and reduce operating costs by understanding, and ultimately improving, end user customer experience.
The business uses a combination of proprietary IP, AI, process reengineering, systems thinking techniques and developing organisational digital twins.
CX Consulting, Contact Centre Optimisation, Systems Thinking, Service Economics, Business Process Optimisation & Re-engineering, Organisational Digital Twins, Contact Centre Systems Integration
Moorfield Holdings invests in early stage startups in the Fintech, Insuretech, Web3, Blockchain, AI and Professional Services Industries.
Focused on pre-seed, seed and pre-revenue series A companies that seek highly active investors with a deep understanding of the technology, product and markets our founders are engaged in.
Acting as lead or follow-on capital providers for investments circa £100k-£1m.
Venture Capital, Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Incubators, Networks, NEDs, Advisors, Development, Marketing & Corporate Finance Support, Advisory Services, Joint Ventures & Partnerships
Unique Inter-Company Solutions
As a Group, we collaborate across different companies to deliver innovative solutions to our customers and clients. Providing best of breed services such as: –
Hire, Train Deploy Solutions
We deliver ‘best of breed’ turn-key solutions to your talent pipeline challenges. Consolidating recruitment, training (inc. apprenticeships) and consulting services to hire, train and deploy a continuous supply of talented junior talent into your organisation.
Hybrid Consulting Teams
We deliver project and technical teams ‘As a Service’. However, our Hybrid team solutions provide experienced practitioners from S&A Transform, whilst also integrating your own junior employees. Smoothing your onboarding challenges, providing the highest level of training to your own employees and ensuring when our consulting teams leave, you are left with both the project IP and a skilled workforce.
Start-up Accelerators
Our VC business not only provides capital for technology founders and incubators but also provides portfolio companies with product development support from our software engineering, Web3, AI & Blockchain businesses. All delivered in partnership, to allow founders to grow uninhibited.
Interested in how we can put several of our company capabilities together to deliver unique services to clients? Have an idea of other solutions we can build for you? Can your company provide missing pieces to help our clients succeed?
Contact Us at hello@thesandagroup.com
Resourcing Solutions (“RS”) provides recruitment solutions such as contract, interim, fractional and permanent resources to all S&A member Group companies, as well as current and new clients.
Utilising extensive industry knowledge, contacts and relationships, RS fulfils all resourcing needs from Executive Interims, Fractional CxOs and permanent and contract expertise for our consulting business (“S&A Transform”) and their clients. RS provides FREE recruitment services to clients placing their apprenticeships with our UK leading training provider (“The S&A Academy”).
Perm Hires, Executive Selection, Fractional CxOs/Consultants, Interim & Contract Resources, Hire|Train|Deploy via intra-group Solutions, Teams as a Service, SOW, IR35 Inside/Outside Services, IR35 Consulting, Management & Audits
Nodulus.io is a web3 protocol that ‘intercepts’ signed any-blockchain transactions and applies relevant additional services to the in-flight transaction at the node level. Providing multiple web3 failsafe, undo, regulation and compliance capabilites to the web3 industry.
Web3 Strategy, Development, Corporate WEB2-WEB3 Transformations, R&D, Incubators, Investment, NEDs & Advisors
Note: Nodulus is paused, whilst a number of further web3 projects are being deployed.
Contact our Web3 Consulting Team to discuss your project or move to Web3/Blockchain adoption
People & Workforce Strategy, Strategic Organisational Change, HR Consulting, M&A, HR Transformation, HRTech Integrations
People and Workforce Transformation (“PWT”) aligns an organization’s people, skills, culture, and mindset with its strategic goals and objectives. It creates a workforce that is empowered, engaged, and capable of driving change and innovation, not just for the short term, but as an ever-present part of the company DNA.
S&A People & Workforce Transformation defines organisational and workforce strategy for UK and global corporations, creates optimal organisational health and leads large scale strategic people change initiatives for M&A, turnaround and corporate transformations. As experts in compliance and regulation, PWT provides services such as organisational design, TOM Design, org wide job frameworks, L&D and progression plans, performance, recruitment and resourcing strategies, insourcing and outsourcing strategies, RFP management, employee learning and development strategies, IR35 compliance and assurance audits, internal academy development. All delivered by our professionally qualified HRD and CPO consultants.
Organisational Re-Design, TOMs, Pre/Post Deal M&A Integration, People Strategy, L&D Strategy, Cultural Change, HR Services, Job Frameworks, Investigations & Audits, Compliance, Fractional and Managed Service HRD’s & CPO’s
UK-Apprenticeships.com provides a consolidated view of currently available UK government funded apprenticeships. Detailing job opportunities for every industry and sector.
Apprenticeships offer paid employment together with formal training and qualifications from entry level positions to L7 Master’s Degree equivalent programmes. Apprenticeships are suitable for 16yr+ new employees through to highly experienced Senior Managers and Directors.
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Tech Start-Up Investment, Advisory, Product Development and Incubator
S&A.Incuba is a cross Group investment and incubator vehicle for early stage technology, data, AI, X-Tech and service based start-up & scale up companies.
It brings together and co-ordinates support from multiple Group businesses, such as product development, venture capital, board advisory, distribution, R&D & Software Development, to support and accelerate high growth, high-potential startups.
Our cross Group virtual ‘team’ aims to deliver faster growth and higher valuation turnarounds for our incuba portfolio companies, regardless of our investment or equity position.
Imagination to Valuation Realisation, Start-Up Incubation, Founder Forum, Growth Strategies, Investment, Product Development, Dilution and Exit Strategies, Corporate Strategy, Financial Restructure and Globalisation
Fractional CxO's, NED's, Board Advisors, Legal, External Assurance, Technology, Finance, Commercial & Transformation Consultants
S&A Fractionals is a composite company made up of a number of our employed executive, director and “heads of” senior consultants supported by a limited number of known associates and curated leading industry experts.
Clients can engage experienced leaders, managers, industry & regulatory experts, advisors and ‘change makers’ at extremely short notice. Often hours from first call. With a broad range of engagement models, individuals are ‘hired’ on hourly, daily, weekly or monthly part-time assignments to support clients who do not need, or want, to engage full time employees.
Interim & Fractional Executives, Interim & Fractional Managers, NEDs, Board Advisors, Industry & Regulatory Experts, CEO, CIO, CFO, CMO, CPO, CRO, GC, Board Chairs, Secretariat and Sub-Committee Leads, External Assurance, Commercial & Transformation Leadership, Training & L&D Leadership
Moorfield Holdings Venture Capital
If you're dreaming it. We can help you achieve it.
Early Stage Venture Capital
We invest in early stage startups in the UK, Europe, UAE and The Americas. We primarily focus on companies in the hi-tech, (SaaS, Web3, AI) and Professional Services sectors. We concentrate on sectors where we have deep domain expertise and can bring the ability to accelerate our portfolio companies through capital, advice, connections, market & partnership opportunities. We prefer hands on investments rather than passive capital support, with ticket sizes £100k-£1m.
The UK’s Top 4 Beating Challenger Consulting Business
The S&A Transform Group
S&A Transform, initially established in 2009 as The Strategy & Architecture Group, is our premium, UK Headquartered project delivery, business / digital transformation and professional services consulting firm. Operating from 9 leading consulting practices, the business delivers public and private sector business, technology and digital transformation, as well as high end pre/post deal M&A, corporate strategy and integration services around the globe.
Darren Coomer
Founder, InsureTech Practice Director and Head of Board Advisory Services
Innovative Cross Group Solutions
Hybrid Project Teams
Consulting + Academy
Blended teams of ‘our’ expert consultants and your ‘junior’ employees. At a blended price point to rival your offshore suppliers.
Hire Train Deploy Solutions
Engineering + Academy
Providing complete teams of project staff or software developers to work on your projects, whilst also training your own junior developers to advanced levels within the same teams.
Tech Startup Accelerators
VC + Product Engineering
Investment Capital plus product development to help drive faster Product Market Fit for your own start-up or scale-up.
CONTACT US to learn more about how any of our companies can combine to deliver you innovative solutions other companies can’t match.
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Our UK Government Licensed, Funded & Regulated Professional Training & Apprenticeships Academy
A UK Leader in global corporate training and career development programmes. The S&A Academy was founded in 2020 and has since grown into 4 independent training academies, each operating as an Ofsted regulated, UK Government funded Independent Training Provider for professional career apprenticeships.
Class Leading Academies
Our education and training business combines the capabilities of world leading academic instructors and industry leading practitioners to deliver a unique skills development experience to our employers and learners.
Delivering fully funded L3 to L7 (Masters Degree Equivalent) professional apprenticeships in technology, science and business. In addition, delivering corporate training and L&D programmes and designing and implementing internal company wide training academies across the globe.
Digital
Products
Full Lifecycle Software & Product Development Solutions for WEB, App & Enterprise Development.
- Onshore
- Mixed Shore
- Never Fully Offshore
Managed 'Development Teams' including your Junior Employees
Fully deployed ‘managed’ software development teams which can also include your own junior software developers – allowing us to train, mentor and upskill your own employees. #GrowYourOwnTalent
Modern Engineering Solutions
Our Modern Engineering Software Development business provides high end, UK based teams, consultancy and product development for the small and large enterprise.
- SDLC Consultancy
- Full Stack Dev Teams
- Interim / Fractional CTOs
- Developer Skills Augmentation
- Test, QA, DevOps Teams
- E2E Product Development
- SDLC Organisational Audits & Assessments
- Blockchain, Web3, AI Development
- Training & Mentoring