NegoLead
NegoLead is a UK-based training, consulting, and coaching company specialising in negotiation, leadership, strategy, and diplomacy. It was founded on a conviction that is simple but consequential: that the skills which determine outcomes in the most demanding professional environments — negotiation, strategic thinking, leadership under pressure — can be taught, developed, and transformed into lasting personal and organisational capability.
What sets NegoLead apart is the depth behind its offer. Its programmes are not built on borrowed methodology or generic business school curricula. They draw directly on original theoretical research, decades of high-stakes diplomatic practice, and a sustained engagement with the academic literature on negotiation and leadership. The result is training that is intellectually serious, practically grounded, and genuinely distinctive.
NegoLead works with executives, senior officials, legal professionals, diplomats, and organisations that operate in complex, high-stakes environments — where the quality of negotiation and leadership makes a measurable difference.
The Founder
Professor Alisher Faizullaev is a scholar-practitioner and former ambassador with decades of experience in diplomacy, academic research, and professional training. He works with leaders, diplomats, and senior professionals on negotiation, strategic thinking, leadership, and cross-cultural communication — bringing together the intellectual rigour of a career academic and the practical authority of someone who has negotiated at ambassadorial level.
His training programmes draw on original research, diplomatic experience, business consultancy, leadership coaching, and frameworks developed over decades of working at the intersection of theory and practice. Conducted in an interactive format, they combine role-playing exercises, simulations, discussions, and case analyses — ensuring participants develop not only conceptual understanding but practical, applicable skills. He has engaged with leading institutions both as a scholar and practitioner, including completing an executive negotiation programme at Harvard University.
Professor Faizullaev has trained and spoken at leading universities and institutions worldwide, including Harvard, Tufts, Georgetown, Seton Hall, McGill, Western Washington, Webster, Cambridge, Oxford, Johns Hopkins, the University of California, Keio University, the California School of Professional Psychology, the Center for Creative Leadership, the OSCE Academy, Chatham House, the Clingendael Institute, Con Edison Co., Context International, the World Affairs Council, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. His lectures and masterclasses have been featured at international forums and conferences across Europe, North America, and Asia.
A TEDx speaker whose talk has accumulated over 260,000 views, a member of the Program on International Negotiation Training (POINT) and the European Negotiation Association, and the author of ten books on diplomacy, negotiation, and leadership, Professor Faizullaev brings an unusual combination to the training room: the depth of a well-published scholar, the credibility of a former diplomat, and the practical focus of someone who has spent decades helping real organisations, companies, and leaders navigate complex challenges.
He is not just teaching negotiation, leadership, and diplomacy. He is living them.
