SuccessStories

World Food Programme

info@luminalearning.com (Lumina Learning Global Editorial Team) — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:41:21 GMT

World Food Programme, Kenya

TheWorld Food Programme(the food-assistance branch of the UN) employs some 13,500 staff worldwide. Established in 1961 and headquartered in Rome, it is the world’s largest humanitarian organisation focused on hunger and food security and it is utterly committed to human rights and to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace, one where difference is celebrated and where teams work together in the fight to end hunger. Lantern Training supported WFP Kenya to equip staff with the knowledge, skills, and mindset to build a working culture of respect. Lumina Spark proved to be an indispensable to tool in this endeavour. No fewer than 350 Spark assessments were generated and debriefed in 13 workshops.

Lumina Spark proved vital in sparking deep discussions about diversity now it has become the ‘go-to’ tool for WFP Kenya.

The Challenge WFP’s vision is for a diverse, committed, skilled and high performing workforce, in which each member is selected on merit, subscribes to the WFP’s values, and works together in a healthy and inclusive environment to save and change lives.

Advancing Leadership Development in Ontario Schools with Lumina Learning

info@luminalearning.com (Lumina Learning Global Editorial Team) — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:41:20 GMT

Advancing personal and professional leadership development in Ontario Schools

Don Marshall, Lumina Learning Practitioner

I have worked with several independent educational projects in public and separate school boards over a number of years. I have worked with people from superintendents to school administrators to leadership teams. What started as a single professional leadership programme intervention has now progressed to implementation at a number of jurisdictional school boards, schools, and educational settings. Programmes involve large groups of district and school-based staff and personnel, and have now extended to the student level. Implementation models include one-on-one mediation, pair-coaching, and small and large group facilitations of individuals and identified teams, both locally and provincially formed.

Lumina Learning has received the support of the two Provincial Principal Leadership Organisations as well as the largest Teacher Federation:

Ontario Principals Council (OPC)
Catholic Principals’ Council, Ontario (CPCO)
Elementary Teachers of Ontario (ETFO)

Boosting Innovation: KFAS and Lumina Learning Partnership in Kuwait

info@luminalearning.com (Lumina Learning Global Editorial Team) — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:41:19 GMT

Boosting Private Sector Innovation In Kuwait

Texas Police Department Collaboration for Better Outcomes

info@luminalearning.com (Lumina Learning Global Editorial Team) — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:41:18 GMT

Exploring the Overextended at Texas Police Departments

Marcel Brunel, Lumina Learning Practitioner, Brunel Group

Lumina Learning tools are the chosen methodology used by the Brunel Group in Texas, USA. The company is working with the police chiefs and their officers to help better predict and prevent Overextended/stressed behaviours out in the field.

NHS uses Lumina Spark to reduce team conflict

info@luminalearning.com (Lumina Learning Global Editorial Team) — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:41:16 GMT

Helping the NHS reduce conflict through mediation

The NHS (National Health Service), founded in 1948, is the UK health service. It provides quality healthcare that is free at point of use. Employing 1.5 million staff, the NHS sees 1 million patients every 36 hours, and has an annual budget of £116 billion.

ALiGN by OTEC, Ryerson Magnet and Lumina Learning

info@luminalearning.com (Lumina Learning Global Editorial Team) — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:41:15 GMT

ALiGN - supporting employment for refugees, people with disabilities and racialised groups

An ABP Excellence in Technical Innovation Award Winner

Lumina Learning are the next generation of inventors of digital selection and personal development assessments. We combine cutting-edge technology with years of research into personality and performance. From colourful portraits to practical apps, the Lumina toolkit is built to select, onboard and develop across one easy, familiar end-to-end solution.

It’s experiential – memorable learning experiences and practical language create a set of ideas that people remember and can apply for years to come.

It’s accurate – scientifically validated assessments save time and significantly accelerate learning for individuals and teams.

Every tool in the suite helps shape more impactful, inclusive people solutions that drive organisational growth. Recognised worldwide, we have aglobal network of Partners and Strategic Alliancesall committed to the same mission, transforming organisations by celebrating people, one human at a time.

Janice Parviainen and our Partners in Lumina Learning Canada have collaborated with us for a submission to the ABP awards. As part of the award submission, the team in Canada showcased their ALiGN project, which has reached a finalist position in Excellence in Technical Innovation.

From employer-centric to jobseeker-centric

From employer-centric to job seeker centric – an innovative approach that scales up technology and integrates an online psychometric tool that produces talent-to-role fit correlations with in-demand job roles in the service of vulnerable, marginalized and underserved populations. The project combines technology with a radical new operating model, to fight discrimination in the employment market. Business psychology is no longer partisan, siding with employers as they attempt to winnow down a candidate pool. Instead, the full power of technology and psychometrics is harnessed in the service of the candidate. Putting the control back into the hands of the jobseeker, candidates match themselves to job opportunities based on their criteria and personality strengths.

Lumina Emotion is a Learning Pool winner and an ABP finalist

info@luminalearning.com (Lumina Learning Global Editorial Team) — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:41:14 GMT

Showcasing the Lumina Emotion Virtual Blended Qualification

Lumina Learning creates psychometrics to help organisations transform their people, one human at a time.

The blended Lumina Emotion Qualification has used learning technologies to make a unique and innovative contribution to the delivery of our qualification, which has shaped L&D delivery within Lumina Learning and beyond into our Practitioner community.

The blended Lumina Emotion Qualification has positively impacted how we train our Practitioners to deliver people solutions, helping us stay ahead of the game, especially throughout the pandemic. The success of the qualification has been recognised, not only winning an award for Most Innovative Use of Learning Technologies at Learning Pool but also being announced as a finalist for Excellence in Learning Interventions for the upcoming ABP awards.

Solving Recruitment Challenges with Lumina Select - ABP Award Winner

info@luminalearning.com (Lumina Learning Global Editorial Team) — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:41:13 GMT

Solving a Selection Dilemma for a Premier Property Developer

Jane Armytage – Former Lumina Learning Practitioner & Director at Athena Professional

City & Country (C&C) are a development company who reimagine listed buildings to create exceptional places to live and work. Second generation builders, the Sargeant family own and run the company and combine fierce commercial sense with expertise in the building process. Their passion for craftmanship is evidenced by their multiple award-winning developments.

The company expanded from its Essex base to own sites nationally, including Donaldson’s Playfair in Edinburgh. Originally a hospital and later a school for the deaf, Donaldson’s was designed by the eminent Edinburgh architect William Henry Playfair and was built between 1842-51. It is an outstanding building of palatial elegance with many architectural features. It is located on the western boundary of the Edinburgh World Heritage Site and is recognised as one of the most important landmark buildings in the city.

City & Country acquired this site in 2014 with the support of Joint Venture Capital investors and achieved planning permission for 112 residential units at Donaldson’s. The design for the development won multiple awards for innovation and in 2018 the site launched for sale “off plan”, with a small sales team of three supported by Head Office in Essex. Despite the build challenges involved in re-developing heritage sites, there remains intense commercial pressure to produce units and achieve sales in order to create a return. The sales team play a crucial role in the financial success of the project.

Inemmo - Levelling up beyond inequalities, discrimination and poverty (ABP Award Winner)

info@luminalearning.com (Lumina Learning Global Editorial Team) — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:41:11 GMT

Inemmo provides professional management and leadership development learning solutions and executive coaching that improves leadership performance.

Leadership development solutions are designed to prepare leaders for career advancement.Inemmo’s award-winning leadership development programmes help business leaders integrate critical management concepts and practices to enhance existing strengths and develop new skills, discover new methods and principles to promote better overall effectiveness, and identify those professional or personal issues that could be hindering expected performance and unlock their potential for future success.

Joy Maitland and Atiya Sheikh are the Managing Director and Director. Joy and Atiya have been working as a partnership for many years, working with world-leading brands such as Vodafone, 3M, Sony, and RBS, just to name a few.

The successful pair have strong community ties toLumina Learningas they have been our Strategic Alliances for many years. Throughout the years, they have implemented dynamic leadership development solutions, sometimes with the help of Lumina Learning’s inclusive and engaging selection and development tools.

How a leading aesthetics company built sales excellence by developing effective communicators

info@luminalearning.com (Lumina Learning Global Editorial Team) — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:41:09 GMT

The full story

Business Need

A leading global aesthetics company with a large commercial team was looking to enhance its sales capability. At the heart of its commercial success lies a people-first culture rooted in three guiding principles: a commitment to customers and colleagues, a relentless pursuit of innovation, and a drive for cross-functional collaboration.

When they began exploring how to take their sales capability to the next level, the team recognised that success wasn’t just about strategy and numbers, it was also about people. Beneath the visible performance metrics were less obvious, but powerful drivers: self-awareness around how others perceive personal style, resilience skills, reading the room to adapt communication, and behavioural flexibility to connect with people effectively. These unseen factors for success were like the submerged portion of an iceberg, crucial but often less recognised despite always being there. The leadership team understood that continuing to scale performance would be largely enabled by focusing on developing those behavioural skills that correlate with success.

That’s when the decision was made to implement Lumina Spark. It aligned naturally with their values and operating norms and presented a clear opportunity to strengthen individual and team performance. With Lumina Spark’s focus on building self-awareness, understanding overextensions, and enhancing interpersonal effectiveness, the team saw a way to reinforce the behaviours that drive sales outcomes.

The Solution

The journey with Lumina Spark began with the rollout to the organisation’s U.S. Field Sales Teams. Leading the initiative was a senior sales enablement manager whose strong grasp of the business and passion for developing people played a key role in bringing Lumina Spark to life within the sales teams.

From the first wave of workshops, the response was overwhelmingly positive due to the clarity and confidence on behaviour that is shaping business outcomes. Team members not only engaged with the content, they were eager to apply it. Workshops quickly became a psychologically safe space for open conversation and authentic reflection. People showed up ready to be vulnerable about their areas for development, and the self-discoveries they shared created an environment of trust, connection and growth.

What truly set Lumina Spark apart was the accuracy of the portrait results. Participants were struck by the fact that a 144-question assessment could pinpoint their traits with such precision, most reported that the outcomes felt over 95% accurate. The Three Persona model (Underlying, Everyday, and Overextended) gave them a framework for understanding what triggers their behaviour to shift between effective and ineffective. It provided something rare in professional development: a tangible roadmap for navigating interpersonal and professional relationships with intention and flexibility.

The impact was immediate. The programme lead began receiving messages, calls, and emails asking for resources, more workshops, more tools. In response, a 4 week follow-up programme was developed, managed at the team level by individual managers.

The follow-up was designed to embed Lumina Spark concepts into everyday thinking and practice.