Our Journey
Breaking Barriers Training was created to solve a common professional services challenge: firms invest in learning, but behavior change fades under delivery pressure.
We focus on what actually moves growth outcomes in consulting environments, consultative business development behaviors, executive influence, and partner/manager coaching routines.
Our work is designed to be practical, measurable, and easy to embed into existing operating rhythms.
Our Team
Syed Ahmed Hussaini
Co-founder
Syed Ahmed Hussaini is an Organisational Psychologist with 20+ years in leadership development and coaching. He has trained and coached professionals across 60+ organizations, and brings deep corporate experience from senior roles at EY and PwC. His work focuses on building executive presence, emotional intelligence, and sales effectiveness, with a facilitation style participants consistently describe as practical, structured, and engaging.
Talia Zehra
Founder & CEO
Talia Zehra is the Founder of Breaking Barriers Training and has spent the last 15+ years helping organizations strengthen communication, customer experience, and leadership capability. She designs practical learning interventions—from content and simulations to instructor-led programs—and has trained teams across leading organizations including Google, PwC, Grant Thornton, and Allianz.
Our values
We believe capability building must be practical, measurable, and embedded into the way consulting firms work.
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Credibility
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Practicality
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Consistency
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Accountability
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Partnership
This Is Us In Numbers
500K+
Consultants trained
20+
Years of experience
10+
Countries covered
15+
Consulting firms