Human Development Training Award 2025
Our Clients
UK & International
who we've worked with
Client Experiences
across our fields of Risk Prevention, Elite Performance, Health & Wellbeing, and Personal Development
all our private clients' identities are protected
JP Morgan
"Very good session with excellent trainers and speakers."
BBA Aviation
"Very good course, I would recommend it highly."
Music & Culture, Redbull
"One of the best experiences I've had with a security team"
FSCS
"A big thank you for your session yesterday. The feedback from attendees has been so positive."
Cooley
"The talk was well very received and we are looking forward to the re-run"
Sneddons
"Fabulous training. Impressed by the teachings"
New Zealand High Commission
"Very useful talk. Very practical. Informative."
Amethyst Risk
"Fantastic course. Great trainers, patient and helpful. Learned a lot, both practical and theoretical. Thank you."
Radisson Blu
"Really useful, the practice with trainers was brilliant."
Australia National Bank
"Can honestly say as training sessions go that was one of the best things ever attended."
UHNW Private Family Office
"True professionals. Brilliant leadership of brilliant teams. Care you can't buy."
The Royal College of Physicians
"This is high level training in an intelligent environment."
Aspect Capital
"Very informative and empowering. Very comprehensive, built up step by step"
HM Treasury
"Brilliant! Exceptional training."
Cabinet Office
"Really enjoyed the course and feel a lot safer when out and about in London as a result"
Exxon Mobil
"Brilliant instructors with a depth of knowledge and understanding"
BP
"The most dynamic approach to Corporate Safety."
Discovery Channel
"Thank you for coming on site to carry out the event for the staff -the day was a great success!”
Knight Frank
"Very good! Interesting, informative and active - hands on!"
HMRC
"This is workplace training at its very best!"
Lebara
“Excellent. Very helpful and thorough”
Estee Lauder
"Hugely insightful. Interesting, helpful."
Aramco
"Extremely beneficial. Very good and instructive."
Yahoo
“Great training. Very instructive and helpful.”
Connected Places Catapult
"Today I had the great luck to experience one of your courses at Connected Places Catapult where I work. I found it not only extremely useful but truly inspiring."
Mott MacDonald
"Thanks for all your efforts in putting the course together for Africa. The feedback has been really positive!"
Poker Stars
"You guys are brilliant!"
AMF
"Instructor was excellent, very knowledgeable."
Highclere Investors
"Excellent – very well explained verbally and physically. Great sit-down session talking about what to do if being followed. Fun, practical and informative."
Healthcare at Home
"Very well delivered. Great techniques."
Sundance
"Fantastic lesson! Very interesting and informative. Very well taught."
Zendesk
"We had a lunch and learn presented by Personal London Safety Team and it was great, the London Office got a lot from it."
Morgan Lewis
"I have organised a number of Wellness sessions over the past few years and this one was the best attended so I am delighted. The session was incredibly informative and delivered so well."
Broadgate Estates
"Very informative."
Pro Vinci
"Very professional, informative and engaging."
Pentland Group
"Well explained with good focus on principles which can be applied across multiple scenarios."
AirBnB
"Loved it. Brilliant delivery with simple, memorable takeaways."
House of Fraser
"Very useful. Very practical. Really fantastic. I think everyone should do this"
Middlesex University
"Really useful, well structured, with friendly instructors who were clearly very experienced"
Baker Street Quarter Partnership
"Excellent training"
LCP
"Excellent! Thoroughly enjoyed the class, really informative! Engaging and informative. Really well run course."
Wheb Group
"Very useful and thought provoking. Great hands on experience."
Moodys
"Enjoyable, very useful."
MAC Cosmetics
"Brilliant presenters, information was excellent. Right mix of practice and theory. Very enjoyable as well as being serious. Really brought home how important awareness and personal safety is."
Fujitsu
"Thoroughly enjoyed the personal safety workshop conducted at Fujitsu Labs."
Park Plaza Hotels
"Very interesting and helpful."
Publicis Chemistry
"It was useful and eye-opener. Also the tutors made us feel comfortable. Clear strong techniques and simple ways you can protect yourself."
The General Dental Council
"It was fantastic and very informative. It was very well taught. This was a great session, thank you. Eye-opening and very useful."
Stretchers Solicitors
"10/10. Very enjoyable. Engaging, clear and lots of advice was provided."
Linklaters
"It was a brilliant session and all the team loved it"
Portman Estates
"It was brilliant – really easy to pick up and understand. Also exactly the sort of practical advice I was looking for – sensible strategies for avoiding danger and simple, effective defensive techniques for women to use against stronger men."
Private Corporate Client
"I really enjoyed the training and feel better prepared to protect myself in a self defence situation. I found the trainers to be very friendly and easy to talk. I would definitely recommend this course to other people. It highlighted how to be observant and assess the situation so you would not get into a position where you had to defend yourself."
Private Corporate Client
"I enjoyed the training and the professionalism with which it was delivered. I also felt that one single session gave me very useful tools to use in situations where I feel threatened. Thank you!"
Highclere Investors
"I am very pleased with the training received, the trainers (as always) are approachable and professional. The session was adapted to allow for prior course experience which worked very well; it helped to keep concentration/enthusiasm levels up. The sessions are always very informative and engaging."
Private Client
"Your training certainly gave me a lot more confidence and awareness in dealing with unexpectedly difficult situations so thank you very much."
Government Client
"Recently I had a difficult moment and I think I only managed to handle it without falling to pieces because of your amazing training. The way I was thinking, and the things I was looking for, and the actions I decided to take, came directly from your training."
Askonas Holt
"Thank you once again for the brilliant course on Wednesday, everybody found it enormously relevant and interesting! We are all really keen to learn more from you."
Howdens
"Enjoyed the course. Well received, very informative."
BC Partners
"Really good. Very informative training."
Madam Tussauds
"Really great, impressive instructors, thank you!! Really interesting, important information."
"Fantastic. Really good, made me aware of how I behave."
Museum of London
"Very professional and informative."
BCG
"Was very good, learnt alot. The instructors were great. Really enjoyed the class. Thank you."
HS2
"Very engaging and informative."
Home House
(Security Team)
"Psychology of the training was really good."
999 CLUB
"Thank you so much for the informative consultation session on the basic tenants of personal safety. I learned a lot and my colleagues said your presentation was really interesting. Our service users will definitely benefit from getting a lot of the information you gave us.njoyed the class. Thank you."
INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE CLIENT
"Training was great! You are true professionals."
Private Learning
"What an enriching course this has been. It has opened the door and taught me so much. I have enjoyed it hugely and just want to say thank you. "
Private Learning
"[The home study lessons] are so rich and interesting. I thoroughly love what I'm learning, thank you"
Private Learning
"[The home study lessons] are great, I have been listening and will do many more times.
So much has shifted for me on this course."
Advanced Private Coaching
"[Five Rings Training Founder] reminded me of what I bring to the table and reversed my mood in a complete 180 when I came to [situations] feeling very stuck."
Advanced Private Coaching
"[Five Rings Training Founder] is the wisest and most spiritually and energetically attuned person I know and may ever know."
Advanced Group Coaching
"I couldn’t recommend Five Rings enough & feel extremely fortunate I got to work with [Five Rings Training Founder]."
Advanced Group Coaching
"Great balance: physical, discussion and time for reflection. Loved the down to earth approach."
Advanced Private Coaching
"I'm very grateful for the coaching I received, It was given with so much kindness and understanding. I would highly recommend it."
Advanced Private Coaching
"[Five Rings Training Founder] understands how paramount taking care of your mind, body and spirit is and has infinite wisdom in this field."
Advanced Group Coaching
"[Five Rings Training Founder] is a wonderful Coach. She skilfully was able to understand my individual needs/way of working and processing information."
Advanced Group Coaching
"I was so inspired and uplifted after every session."
Advanced Group Coaching
"[Five Rings Training Founder's]
knowledge and support was invaluable, as well as her ability to understand and empathise with whatever might be going on."
Advanced Group Coaching
"Through her experience, [Five Rings Training Founder] could share ideas with me that resonated and made it easier for me to try something completely new and knowing that I was not alone in the approach was helpful. She opened up ways of thinking about new possibilities that I never before would have thought about."
Advanced Group Coaching
"My thanks to [Five Rings Training Founder] for guiding me through this process and providing me with the building blocks to create more balance & find energy & inspiration in how to make things happen."
Advanced Group Coaching
"One of the most valuable things for me is the deep understanding of energetics. I thought I’d touched all bases of self-help but I was given really good pointers for further reading which I’m really enjoying exploring. It’s been fascinating, I love learning about the mind and how to have better control over my own when it gets in the way to try and keep me safe."
Advanced Group Coaching
"I really enjoyed all of the sessions & felt it inspired me to take risks and also work on the day to day changes that can make a massive impact."
Advanced Group Coaching
"[Five Rings Training Founder's] holistic approach helped me to view a situation or goal from various perspectives and gave me multiple possible ways of working and tools."
Private Advising
"I am incredibly grateful to [Five Rings Training Founder] for her time, guidance and support."
Advanced Group Coaching
"I leaned game-changing advice I’d never heard before in regards to the often dreaded networking. [Five Rings Training Founder] doesn’t work in my particular industry but her outside perspective has been exactly what I needed as I’d been caught in echo-chambers of rules of “do this” or “don’t do this or this”. I’ve now got my own approach to work on that rings more true to me. Networking has always been an area that I shy away from and have never enjoyed but with [Five Rings Training Founder's] new approach I’m starting to find my place in it finally."
Private Advising
"Due to a very strong recommendation, I approached [Five Rings Training Founder] to assist me in building a website for a new business venture that I wanted to imminently set up. My initial thoughts of a relatively drawn out, linear service, hinged upon complex unending technology, creative delays and vanilla-like communications were instantly displaced and destroyed. What I soon realised is when you engage [Five Rings Training Founder] on a project you don’t get an off the shelf solution; what you get is an energetic business partnership where through careful consultation ambitions are discussed, thoughts are challenged, creativity intensified and paradigms are blown out the window."
Private Advising
"[Five Rings Training Founder] took on the role of a mentor, sounding board and wise council helping me to transform a fairly standard business plan into a living and breathing business profile. [Five Rings Training Founder] is quite simply one of the most multi talented individuals I have encountered who most importantly delivers on her word and then some."
Advanced Private Coaching
"I feel extremely fortunate I got to work with [Five Rings Training Founder] & her expertise."
The Private Retreat
"Loved it. The coaching was outstanding."
Private Advising
"[Five Rings Training Founder] has walked side by side with me on my journey of entrepreneurialism."
Advanced Private Coaching
"Since starting my coaching journey with [Five Rings Training Founder] last year, I can honestly say that her support and guidance has played a pivotal role in helping me make positive changes to all area of my life."
The Private Retreat
"I greatly enjoyed the retreat. [Five Rings Training Founder] is / was throughout the retreat an outstanding Physical and Life Coach."
Private Advising
"Knowing that [Five Rings Training Founder] has my back in an honest, compassionate and unbiased manner has enabled me to face my deepest fears, grow and bring out the best in me."
The Private Retreat
"Great balance: physical, discussion and time for reflection. Loved the down to earth approach."
"Was amazing. Thank you."
The Private Retreat
"My favourite aspect of the retreat was how holistic the experience was: diving into diet, routine, stretching, classes. It was immersive and as a result incredibly effective."
Advanced Private Coaching
"Some of the many useful tools were the quick fixes to ground myself on the busier days where a full morning routine isn’t possible."
The Private Retreat
"It was really well balanced: interactive, educational and energising."
The Private Retreat
"It was more than I expected. I enjoyed every minute of it. It was interesting, inspiring, engaging and very well structured."
The Private Retreat
"The personal coaching was very helpful. I feel I learnt a lot about myself and something to take further as part of my daily routine."
The Private Retreat
"Thank you. It was magical."
The Private Retreat
"I thought the group coaching worked very well. There was a good flow and it was also fascinating to see the differences between all the parties points, making it honest and engaging."
Advanced Group Coaching
"The coaching we received was superb. Very professional but modestly delivered, hIghly attuned to our needs and levels."
Industry Commentator
"Your work training top organisations on resilience and wellbeing is truly game-changing.."
Private Learning
"What an enriching course this has been. It has opened the door and taught me so much. I have enjoyed it hugely and just want to say thank you so so much for all you have put into it for me."
Advanced Private Coaching
"This programme I truly think has shifted my foundations in a life- changing way."
Advanced Group Coaching
"We are so blessed to have been coached by [Five Rings Training Founder]"
Advanced Group Coaching
"I learned game-changing advice I’d never heard before."
Advanced Private Coaching
"[Five Rings Training Founder] is a fantastic Coach. Super grounded, wise & connected."
Advanced Private Coaching
"[Five Rings Training Founder's] knowledge is so unique and valuable because of how diverse and extremely high achieving the life and businesses that she has built are."
Advanced Private Coaching
"If you have the chance to be coached by [Five Rings Training Founder] it’s likely a calling and a very rare, priceless opportunity. Thank you Kirsty from the bottom of my heart and soul."
Advanced Group Coaching
"The coaching was outstanding."
"[Five Rings Training Founder] is magic. She is warm, empathetic and infinitely wise. She sees and understands people on another level."
Advanced Group Coaching
"The coaching was excellent.
Everything had shape and focus and everyone had a feeling of safety in which to express themselves, learn and share."
Advanced Group Coaching
"The coaching we received was superb. Very professional but modestly delivered, hIghly attuned to our needs and levels."
Private Learning
"This course has taken me deeper in my understanding of what is required of us as individuals to reach our goals and connect with the Divine."
Private Learning
"I have found the course to be transformative and nourishing. It has unblocked belief systems and learnt behaviour that is no longer beneficial"
Private Learning
"[Five Rings Training Founder]'s
insight and knowledge, particularly in areas of energetic and human behaviour has simply been invaluable."
IRONMAN ATHLETE
Lanzarote Ironman
"Training with [Five Rings Training Founder] is hard as she pushes you to get the best out of your abilities but it is also fun and relaxed. Her energy visualisation techniques help me to better understand where my strength comes from and how to maximise it in every movement."
SPORTS ACADEMIES
"Five Rings Training are the best at unleashing potential"
Advanced Group Coaching
"[Five Rings Training Founder]'s ethos and the one of Five Rings Training is impeccable, strong and moral. She is capable of training people to very high level."
Private Learning
" It has been an amazing course which I have enjoyed every second of and found it to be the most useful and effective work I have done"
Private Learning
"This programme I truly think has shifted my foundations in a life- changing way."
Private Learning
"The information contained in this course is so rich. I look forward to starting the next course."
" My experience of having [Five Rings Training Founder] as my teacher was one of being inspired by a woman of honour, that gives so much."
"[Five Rings Training Founder] exhibits what I need in a teacher - somebody that inspires and generates respect through her own work ethic & moral code alone. More than a teacher but a mentor."
"I have been training in private lessons studying mainly with the Head of Five Rings, who is one of the best teachers in any subject I have ever met. She has always made sure the sessions are tailored to what I need or would like to know and always encourages people through positive motivation, making both group and private sessions an empowering experience."
“FRT Mixed Martial Arts has influenced my life today in so many ways it is impossible to list them in any abbreviated way. Before training with Five Rings Training I had undertaken classes with a number of different coaches, not as well qualified as Five Rings' team. It wasn’t until I began my training with Five Rings that I stopped seeing martial arts as a sport, [and] instead a way of pushing your body’s limits and continually advancing in a discipline that demands respect and brings people together in ways I could never imagine. Five Rings Training is the most accessible, motivated, tough, hardworking, technical and fun loving Mixed Martial Arts organisation I think could possibly exist across the globe."
MMA FIGHTER
MENS TOURNAMENT TEAM
Endurance Fighting
“Mixed Martial Arts training at Five Rings Training has had an incredible impact on my life. Prior to FRT MMA, I never knew I could be this passionate about a sport. As a combination of several different fighting styles, it requires incredible speed, strength, flexibility, and stamina both physical and mental, and the constant sparring with other members of Five Rings has pushed me to constantly improve all of these and keep challenging myself. In addition, FRT MMA training has made me a happier person overall by giving me a way to let off steam, and a space twice a week where I can turn my head off completely and focus on nothing but my breathing, my movements and what my opponent will do next, in a setting where I know we are all pushing each other to improve and grow.”
"I trained with [Five Rings Training Founder] from knowing absolutely nothing about martial arts or fighting to having won the very first Tournament I entered [to become World Champion].The tournament was a bare-knuckle knock down MMA tournament - no gloves, or points to win, or head protection. You fight and when you are damaged you give up or you get knocked out. With this style of fighting you feel as though your life is on the line and you have to have the right type of teacher in order to survive. No stone was left unturned in my training. Personal fear of the unknown, and a lack of confidence were transformed in the months up to the fight where I didn't recognise myself anymore.
If you feel like me that the most important thing in life is your time then all I can say is dont waste any more of it with any teacher that is less than perfect! Learn from someone that lives the path they are teaching. Being trained by [Five Rings Training Founder] will feel like you are receiving a very special gift.
Its rare to find someone who is a good fighter and also a good teacher. She is both. In the months running up to the World Championships in Sri Lanka, she took me and 3 other people on this very personal journey to finding our strengths and deal with our weaknesses, coming out of the experience mentally stronger than we were going in. My own personal success in the ring is totally down to being trained by her."
"It is quite difficult to describe exactly what makes FRT such a special organisation, but there are several key points. Firstly our truly wonderful coaches are genuinely kind and generous people, always available when help is needed, always welcoming newcomers and beginners, and are 100% dedicated to their work. Secondly, at FRT I found a completely new mindset for training: I have discovered the whole spiritual and psychological aspect of fighting, and how this puts into perspective all the things you can do. It made me realise how much more work I needed to put in, which was both scary and compelling, and motivated me to train harder. This also made me realise that if I could change so much in my fighting goals, when I previously thought I was quite good, there must be many other areas where more discipline and hard work could help me get more pleasure out of things, like my relationships with my friends and family."
"I am hoping to compete at a professional level and the training provided here is definitely aiding me to reach that goal."
“I had the honour and privilege of training with [Five Rings Training Founder] for over a year. She is an excellent teacher who is able to impart her knowledge in an effective manner to her students regardless of their age, gender or motivation for taking up martial arts. Her extensive training in [bare knuckle MMA and knockdown fighting] in the UK and Japan and in many other disciplines such as Krav Maga and her understanding of the use of ki, enables her to teach her students a variety of skills for use not only in the dojo but also in full contact tournaments and realistic self-defence situations that they may encounter in other environments.
She exemplifies the spirit of perseverance and self-improvement that defines a martial artist and I consider myself very fortunate to have had the opportunity to train with and learn from her"
“The training delivered by [the Head Coaches] at Five Rings Training has significantly improved my performance and drive that I have for all my sports and physical activities. Alongside rigorous physical conditioning, the Five Rings Training team has vastly expanded my skills within martial arts training and honed any other skills that I had from amateur boxing. The positive gains that training has had on me is not only limited to the physical sphere of my life. With the support and professional coaching that I have received from Five Rings Training, my experiences of training have been translated into many aspects of my life and for the better. The discipline and determination inculcated by training at Five Rings has made me more confident and determined in my academic studies and helped me accomplish many of my own personal goals. Since I started my training last year, the virtues of self control and endurance has made me significantly more able to deal with life as a student and understand the value of self mastery in order to deal with any situation life throws.”
" I am indebted to the Five Rings Training team for the highly professional training that they deliver to everyone, with patience and clarity and for how Five Rings Training has positively cultivated all areas of my life."
"Congratulations on the magnificent results of your well-prepared and highly-skilled fighting force, which you so admirably prepared."
"[Five Rings Training Founder] inspires me and reminds me that you can always do better, push further, there is always progress to be made, and your body and mind can work wonders if you appreciate how they must be trained."
MMA FIGHTER
MENS TOURNAMENT TEAM
"I joined Five Rings Training not knowing what to expect and joined because another member recommended it to me. My sporting background has mainly been boxing and American football based (with elements of other sports) but I can say Five Rings MMA training is different. It is more intense but also rewarding plus it has enabled me to explore further in to martial arts as well as myself as a person and an athlete. As well, I feel confident about defending myself in altercations outside of sports if any arise but also I have been able to meet a great group of people."
MMA FIGHTER
WOMENS TOURNAMENT TEAM
"I have really learnt the value of hard work, of perseverance, that I apply to other sports and to my academic life thanks to FRT. I consider myself to be extremely lucky to have been able to access such high quality training so easily, and wish to pursue as long as possible."
MMA FIGHTER
BRITISH CHAMPION
"The personal ambition that I have developed over my year at Five Rings can only be appreciated as a reminder of the talent and commitment the Coaches bring to training and the motivation and love they have to see people grow."
Our Clients
UK & International
all our private clients' identities are protected
Aramco
Air BnB
Askonas Holt
Amec Foster Wheeler
Aspect
Acorn
Amythest Risk
British Airways
BBG Aviation
BBC
BCG
BP
Buzzacott
BDP
Baker Street Quarter Partnership
BC Partners
BECTU
BLAG Magazine
Bliss Magazine
BCG
Bank of New Zealand
Big Light
Channel 4
Cabinet Office
Catapult Connected Places
Crest Nicholson
Conde Nast
Company Magazine
Cadburys
City of London
Cooleys
City of London Police
City Gateway
Canary Wharf
Citrix
Closer
Cavendish Education
Chingford Foundation School
Discovery Communications
Diabetes UK
Exxon Mobil
Estee Lauder
Fujitsu
FCA
FSO
Foundations UK
FSCS
Foreign Office
Francis Holland School
GEP
Global Radio
The General Dental Council
Grosvenor Estates
HMRC
HM Treasury
HS2
Halfords Media
Howdens
Home House
Healthcare at Home
Healthcare Management Ltd
Highclere Investors
House of Fraser
Highgate School
IAG
ING
Islington Council
Imperial College
Ibstock School
Its Pretty Green
JP Morgan
John Allison Land & Research
Knight Frank
KSPA
KCWC
Kings House School
Kings College London
Lady Eleanor Holles School
London & Partners
Lexicon Partners
London MET Police
Lion TV
Linklaters
LCP
Lendlease
Lebara
London MET Police Cadets
London School of Economics
MacGuire Woods
Morgan Lewis
Middlesex University
Madam Taussauds
Monument
Mott MacDonald
The Museum of London
Moodys
MAC Cosmetics
Mill Hill International
National Australia Bank
Nutshell TV
NHS
Nomura
NAS
New Zealand High Commission
Newhall School
North London Collegiate
Ocean Media
Octopus Energy
Opps Development
Peabody Trust
Park Plaza Hotels
Platform 51
Pheonix Housing
Pentland Group
Prov Vinci
Publicis Chemistry
Portman Estates
Poker Stars
Phoenix School
Raddison Blu
The Royal College of Physicians
Running Man 2
Relaxa
Red Bull
Safer Communities
Sundance
Southbank London
South Bank International
St Marys School Ascot
Sneddons
Stretchers Solicitors
Sussex Police
Sir Oswald Stoll Trust
Tatler
Talk Radio
Tracy Giles
Trinity School
Ursuline Academy
University College London Hospital
University College London
University College School
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
WHEB Group
Woldinghame School
YMCA
Yahoo
Zendesk, and more....
Our Awards
In Human Development, Education, Coaching and Corporate Training
Service & Business Awards
Recent Awards & Commendations
Human Development Research Institute Award 2026
FRT's Founder Awarded Diamond Entrepreneur Award 2026
Award for Innovation in Education 2025
Human Development Training Award 2025
FRT recognised as one of Most Innovative Companies to Watch 2025
Award of Excellence 2025
FRT's Founder Awarded Most Influential Woman in Business Award 2025
Corporate Training Business Of The Year Award 2024/2025
Most Advanced Training Solutions Award 2024
Best Corporate Training & Research Award 2024
FRT's Founder appointed Fellowship of The Association For Coaching 2023s
Most Client-Focused Corporate Coaching & Training Company 2023
Corporate Training Services of The Year 2023
Best Strategic Training & Coaching Solutions Award 2022
Corporate Training Company of The Year 2020
Best Corporate Training Company Award 2019
FRT's Founder Entrepreneur of The Year Finalist 2018
FRT's Founder Awarded Top England Coach Award 2018
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