Adrian Grant

Adrian brings over 30 years’ experience in banking and financial services to a highly interactive approach to training & facilitating learning interventions. Key roles in his financial career included: VP Loan Workout for Lloyds International Corp., New York; Senior Consultant and Team Leader, UK Know How Fund at Bank Gospodarki Zywnosciowej SA and Regional Director of National Australia’s Corporate & Institutional Banking business in Dublin.Having worked in origination, credit and loan workout roles as a senior manager and consultant, Adrian is able to make a worthwhile contribution to a broad range of institutions. Before becoming a trainer and consultant, Adrian was Regional Director, Ireland for National Australia Bank Group’s Corporate & Institutional Banking division. In 2001, he started this operation and in five years grew the business to become a recognised force and valuable partner in the Irish market. He was responsible for all aspects of the business, including new business development, credit proposals, workout of difficult credits and growing the team. He built significant client relationships in a wide range of sectors, including Energy & Utilities, Food, Aerospace, Pharmacueticals & Healthcare and Real Estate. His key client contacts were Treasurers and CFOs within FTSE 350/equivalent corporates.Adrian specialises in graduate delivery, origination skills, financial analysis, credit and loan workout training programmes up to an Advanced Level. He has delivered over 1,000 days of training across 300+ individual projects, training over 3,000 financial professionals. He has advised SMEs on their financial and corporate restructurings, delivered major coaching assignments for corporate bankers and provided consulting to banks on credit policy.His style is highly interactive, encouraging participation by delegates in group discussions and team work.Adrian holds an MBA (with Distinction) from Manchester Business School, the DipFS from the Institute of Bankers and its Banking Diploma (Order of Merit).Recent client projects include Barclays, Societe Generale, EIB and Raiffeisen Bank.