Mount Royal University's Faculty of Continuing Education has been delivering professional development in Calgary and beyond since 1990. With more than 60 programs and 350+ courses, it is one of Canada's most established providers of continuing education for working professionals.
MRU Custom Training →Programmes co-delivered through this partnership consistently receive top-tier evaluations. The feedback themes are always the same: clarity, engagement, and relevance. Corporate clients see measurable performance improvements in their teams after every engagement.
Custom Training, Mount Royal UniversityTarka Consulting Inc. is a Calgary and Seattle-based professional development and consulting firm founded in 2010. A PMI Registered Education Provider and founding member of the Project Management Training Alliance, the firm delivers project management, process improvement, and leadership programs to professionals and organisations across North America.
tarka-consulting.com →Clients come back. That is the clearest measure of value in this business. The engagements are rigorous, the outcomes are consistent, and the relationships that form through this work tend to last well beyond the initial mandate.
CEO, Tarka Consulting“Complex topics, made simple. I have taken a lot of courses. Very few have stuck the way this one did.”
Project Controller“The storytelling made all the difference. Abstract concepts became immediately recognisable. We left knowing exactly what to do differently.”
Program Manager“No jargon. No theory for the sake of theory. Practical tools we could use the same week.”
Representative“I finally understood the why behind what we do, not just the how. That shift in thinking has stayed with me.”
Director, Project Controls“Engaging from the first minute to the last. That is not easy to pull off with a room full of engineers.”
Program Lead“Rigorous and accessible at the same time. That combination is rarer than it should be.”
Post-doctoral Researcher“The room was with it the entire time. Adult learners are a tough audience. This landed.”
Operations Manager“We have tried a lot of training over the years. This is the one that produced a measurable change.”
CEO“We do Agile every day. This was the first time someone cut through the jargon and explained what we were actually doing — and why some of it was not working.”
Product Manager“Real-world examples throughout. Nothing felt hypothetical. I applied something from the session in a meeting that same afternoon.”
VP Operations“Engaging, relevant, and surprisingly fun. I came in expecting to sit through a slide deck. That is not what happened.”
Emerging Leader“Fifteen years in project management and I still walked out with something new. That is the mark of a good session.”
Emerging Leader“Our participants came from across the business and across the world. The session held together remarkably well. The feedback we received was consistently positive.”
Program Sponsor“The course was very positively received overall. Participants noted the engaging facilitation style and the way real-world examples brought the content to life. Strong delivery across a diverse global group.”
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