Why Illumine for Mind Mapping?

History and Experience

We're the leading provider of Mind Mapping and other practical thinking skills training, with over 14 years experience in organisations, large and small, throughout the world. Our founder and Director of Training, Clive Lewis is the world's leading expert in Mind Mapping for Business, having used Mind Maps for over 30 years.

We have a client list that most blue chip organisations would envy. And the reputation we now enjoy is underlined by the fact that over 80% of our work comes from referrals. We train all over the world and have run courses and workshops of every conceivable length and format in order to flexibly respond to our clients' needs.

Illumine has recently worked with:

  • The UK’s most consistently successful company of recent years.

  • Three of the world’s top 4 high tech companies.

  • Most of the UK’s major government departments as well as European and United Nation agencies.

  • Major financial institutions from high street banks to major investment banks to central banks.

  • Companies and organisations throughout Europe, North America, Africa and Asia. 

  • Small organisations and individuals.

Knowledge and Expertise

Rather than being generalists, our trainers are real business professionals who practice the skills they teach. They use Mind Maps constantly and love every opportunity to share their experience of working with Mind Maps to improve both efficiency and effectiveness. To guarantee quality, all of our trainers go through a rigorous accreditation process to ensure you get the best delivery possible.

Many of them are published authors and unquestioned experts in their chosen area of expertise. They, like us, are dedicated to constantly improving the training provided.

We have a dedicated Mind Mapping website packed full of advice and examples of Mind Maps. The site is widely regarded as the leading Mind Mapping site in the world.

Making it real... Practical and Pragmatic

Our courses are practical and pragmatic. They are based on proven accelerated learning principles and are focused on ensuring that all delegates are confident about using Mind Maps when they return to work. For attendees of any of our Mind Mapping courses, workshops and e-learning courses, we provide our post course learning area - packed full of hints tips and techniques to ensure the training received remains beneficial throughout every attendee's working life.

Your next step...

No matter where you are we can teach you how to Mind Map:

 » An introduction to Mind Mapping through our e-learning course, suitable for business professionals, students and teachers, find out more...

 » Learn face-to-face, with other peers by attending our public workshop in Central London, find out more...

 » Learn face-to-face, with the option of concentrating on a particular issue or challenge through our in-house or tailored training options, find out more...

Mind Map® and Mind Maps® are registered trademarks of the Buzan Organisation

If you are new to Illumine Training, you may want to find out more about our approach and what makes Illumine different.

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Practical skills training focused on developing better brains for better business

Illumine has been awarded the ‘High Impact Event Badge of Honour’ by the Global Enterprise Week organisation

Our award winning Mind Mapping Mastery Webinar has now evolved into the "Introduction to Mind Mapping e-learning course" to give you the opportunity to:

Work at your own speed

Learn in the comfort of your own home or office

Revisit modules to reinforce your knowledge


Our training courses, workshops and seminars are not sit and listen style events. They are pragmatic sessions that ensure you have the skills required to use the techniques learnt for real business purposes on your return back to work. We also now offer a regular live web based session for those unable to travel to our training events.