We build training that doesn't feel like training, for leaders, teams and individuals who want to communicate with more clarity, confidence and purpose, in the rooms where it actually matters.
Between us, we've spent our careers in rooms where the wrong words cost everything, a hostage negotiation, a multi-million pound deal, a pitch that could make or break a business. What we learned in those rooms isn't theory. It's what actually works when the pressure is real.
Not Another Course exists to pass that on, properly. Not slides you'll forget by Friday, but capability you'll still be using in a year: better conversations, stronger relationships, and the confidence to say the harder thing well.
You'll be in it, not watching it. Expect to be challenged and put on the spot.
A negotiation, a hostage cell, a multi-million pound deal, a franchise built from scratch, not a textbook.
This isn't a course you finish. It's one you carry, into your next decade.
Andy Rivers and Nicole Bilham built Not Another Course together, bringing 24 years of hostage negotiation and 20+ years of high-stakes dealmaking into the same room.
24 years as a police officer, including years as a Hostage and Crisis Negotiator, trained alongside the FBI and SAS. When the conversation is life or death, you learn fast what actually works.
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Early career at ITV, working her way up to negotiating multi-million pound deals, before setting up her own agency in 2019. Different room, same stakes.
Connect on LinkedIn →In 2025, Andy and Nicole became business partners for real, taking on a fruit and veg franchise together, which they now run day to day alongside their team. Actual people, actual pressure, and all the everyday conversations that come with it.
That's where this course really comes from. A shared, lived conviction that communication is a dying art, and that most people have no idea how much it's costing them.
“We've spent our careers in rooms where the wrong words cost everything. Now we're teaching you to choose the right ones.”
A one-day (or three-day intensive) course in the conversations that build trust, manage conflict, and make people want to work with you.
A one-day course in pitching under pressure, built around a real 60-second pitch structure and closing what happens next.
Negotiation, conflict management and team resilience for teams who operate in high-stakes, competitive environments.
Whichever course you're weighing up, or if you're not sure which one fits, just drop us a line.
hello@notanothercourse.co.uk