Home   About Tilia Solutions   What are we doing? Suggested reading and listening   Comments   Contact Tilia Solutions	"Many thanks for delivering such an excellent course. [We] will be writing to you shortly to give you more detailed feedback, but in the meantime, I wanted to confirm in writing that the course had been very well received and appreciated by all participants. Indeed, I think there is also considerable interest and therefore scope for a further course." Audit Manager Audit Committee Training, Norfolk April 2008
	"Well presented, although a difficult subject" "Good quality presenter who knows her stuff" "An impressive solo act - delivery very difficult but most effective" "Very good - varied activities on what can only be a dry subject" "A good light presentation style. Heavy subject and easy to become sidetracked" "She may be many things, but stupid she ain't" Councillors and officers Corporate Governance Training, local authority May 2008
	"I'm really glad I attended the workshop at York a month ago. We had our meeting on 30 June, right up to the wire, as we all chuckled about. In fact I was the only member to have raised any questions about the Statement of Accounts, which was a bit embarrassing with the auditors present, but at least I had come up with about a dozen of them. I had submitted them in advance so that our officers were able to bring the answers to the meeting. Some were fairly easily resolved but others had required a few figures to be restated." Local Government Councillor Audit Committee and Approving the Annual Accounts Training, York June 2008
	"Many thanks for coming here last night to deliver the annual governance statement and statement of accounts training. It was very useful and I'm sure that we will see the impact at the committee meeting later in the week!" Head of Financial Governance Audit Committee Training June 2008
	"Just a quick note of thanks for the training session on Wednesday. I have received feedback from a number of participants commenting on how much they enjoyed the sessions and that the training was very beneficial." Senior Manager, Museum Risk Training, Newcastle November 2008
	"Just a very quick but sincere note of thanks for your efforts in connection with Thursday's Audit Committee training. Although I have not yet had time to secure feedback from our Chair, I have received glowing tributes from some of the senior officers who took part. Personally speaking I thought the session worked very well and this was largely down to the way in which you had prepared and delivered the course. I hope you enjoyed your short visit to East Lothian and hopefully we will get the chance to meet again at some point in the future." Head of Executive Office Audit Committee Training, East Lothian December 2008
	"Your training was absolutely excellent. The best I have followed since 12 years. Thank you so much for that." Internal Control Co-ordinator Risk Management Training, Brussels May 2012
	"I have attended many courses on local government finance and this is the first time I've come away thinking that I've understood almost everything I've been told" Local Governement Councillor Accounts and Governance Statement Training, Warwickshire September 2012
	"I am glad it's you again, Elizabeth" Two delegates at Advanced Risk Management Training, Brussels October 2012
	"I enjoyed the sessions you conducted both intro to risk management and intro to ICS" Delegate, Luxembourg October 2012
	"Thank you for a most interesting day's course yesterday. It provided several thoughts on how the effectiveness of audit committees can be improved and I thought that the way you facilitated the event was very good." Central government officer Advanced Audit Committee November 2012
	"The two days flew by, which must be a tribute to the trainer." When asked if they would recommend the course to a colleague "Yes, as long as it is Elizabeth." Delegates Institute of Risk Management Fundamentals course, London January 2013
	"I just wanted to thank you for the workshops last week. I think it was a very good start for [our] risk management and was very appreciated by the management" Organisor In-house risk training and identification session, Paris March 2013
	"I just wanted to say thank you once again for the session last night. I know that I and the Members who attended found it very useful." Head of Audit, local government In-house audit committee training September 2013
	"Once again thanks for your presentation this morning. I think it went really well" Head of Audit, local government In-house audit committee training October 2013
	"This morning was a revelation!" "First class delivery and content" "Diolch" (That's "thanks" in case you were wondering) "Really enjoyed this session - gave us more food for thought!" Wales PCC Audit Committee Members In-house audit committee training December 2013
	"The initial workshop and discussion with colleagues was very helpful. A number of very important questions came up during the workshop" UN Agency section head Fraud risk workshop December 2013
	"Thanks for sharing your passion for risk management at yesterday's training course. It has been a great inspiration for me!" Auditor, European Commission Risk management workshop May 2014
	"Many thanks. Can we book you again for next year?" Audit committe chair Audit committee effectiveness review February 2015
	"Just to say a big thank you for yesterday. I thought the session went very well and I've had good feedback from the Board members too - which is high praise indeed. Hopefully we'll be seeing more of each other over the coming months." Board secretary, NHS Board risk workshop February 2015
	"Excellent and worthwhile - sufficiently challenging and informative. Thank you" "Trainer managed to deliver what can be quite a dry topic in an engaging way" "Excellent training, excellent trainer" Delegates, OPCC Risk management workshop March 2015
	"Just wanted to say a big thank you for all the work you did yesterday and for letting the agenda be very flexible. The discussions were very helpful and your prompts were very useful pointers." Audit committee chair, government agency Audit committee workshop May 2015
	"Just a short email to say that I have received very positive feedback from the attendees at last Wednesday's workshop. I was encouraged by the discussion [and] have used the notes to populate our template, so we are now well on our way to having a reasonably detailed list of causes, consequences, controls and future actions for each of our corporate risks." Corporate business manager, local government August 2015
	"I found the assessment process very useful and I feel I gained more from it than perhaps the report would suggest.  In my view, a light touch review would not have the same value as a more detailed and more challenging assessment.  The independence of an assessment by a body such as CIPFA can provide the Audit Committee and other stakeholders with a demonstrably objective review." Head of Internal Audit Local Government January 2016
	"Just a quick email to thank you for the training that you delivered earlier this week. Despite the 'lack of numbers' the feedback that I have received from those in attendance has been extremely positive, you managed to get through a significant amount of quality material in a relatively short period of time, well done ... I'm sure we'll be seeing you sometime in the future for a further follow up on this." Chief internal auditor In-house audit committee training, local government April 2017
	"Tilia Solutions provided a comprehensive service, that was structured to accommodate the operational pressures within our service. The PSIAS inspection provided the rigour to challenge our processes in a postitive way whilst listening to the service and reflecting those issues within the final report." Duncan Wilkinson Chief Internal Auditor LGSS June 2017
	"The training session seemed to go well, it definitely covered the right areas as Members were asking questions. I expect it will result in more work for [us] but it should make the committee more useful to the council going forwards." Chief finance officer In-house audit committee training, Kent June 2017
	"I attended the brilliant training presentation you gave at the CIPFA head office yesterday on "Introduction to Internal Audit". It was so interesting that we couldn't resist spending the first few minutes this morning discussing it with our colleagues." Auditor Internal audit training, Local government January 2018
	"Thank you so very much for all your support yesterday - my Exec colleagues have fed back so positively about the session and the energy that you brought into the room to facilitate the discussions. Everyone found the session really beneficial moving along our maturity journey." Director Risk Workshop, Welsh NHS Body January 2018
	"It was a really useful session and I think helped Members realise that they are doing a good job and we can work together to improve even further the impact the Audit Committee has on the governance of the Council." Audit Manager Audit Committee Evaluation, Local government March 2018
	"Thanks for a very interesting and informative evening - I think that the Members that attended found it useful." Audit Manager Audit committee training, Local government July 2019
	"Thank you once again for delivering the training last night. You did so really well and it was good to see the members engaged." Audit Manager Audit committee training, Local government July 2019