The following is a sample of testimonials from course participants and consulting projects:

  • “Michael did a course for us here this week, and it was absolutely superb – as if someone turned the lights on for me in quantifying risk. He was even better than we had hoped for, and I feel that we have made very positive progress as a team not only with the software, but more importantly with our understanding of what we are trying to achieve with risk analysis.” Tom Morris. Commercial Manager, Cairn Energy.
  • “Thanks for helping us on this project.  We greatly appreciate your insight, expertise and modelling skills.  You have been a pleasure to work with.” Co-founder, International Fund Management Company
  •  “Michael Rees is outstanding, pragmatic, and empathetic to our goals. Outstanding instructor, very accessible, down to earth, and has a way with words. He explains things so clearly. Mike is a gem!”Alain Martin, Harvard Planner Group, US and Canada.
  •  “Thanks for your excellent course …. This was far and away the best presentation of risk analysis (and the best training course) I have participated in…you have an exceptional ability to communicate and demonstrate complex risk issues in a common sense manner…and you were exceptional at reading the audience and judging the pace accordingly.” Peter Luke, Head of Department, Alectia Consulting
  • “I enjoyed the risk modeling course very much. I learned a lot about the software, also the tips and tricks Michael gave us are very useful. It was a very practical course! Michael demonstrated a lot of hands on exercises which we could perform on our own laptop.” Erik Smit, Scientist Computer Applications Processing NIZO food research BV, Netherlands
  •  “Hello Michael: Thank you again for a very inspiring, including and well planned seminar. I have rarely spent two days at a seminar so well!” Trine Holst Veicherts, Risk manager, Danish Road Directorate
  • “Mike has both excellent theoretical and practical background in risk analysis. The course went far beyond the use of the software itself and really provided crucial insight into model building and risk analysis. This provides a full set of perspective in a very limited time: a very motivating session and a truly high value-for-money investment” Guillaume Dulac, French-based Consultant
  • “A very interesting course, covered by an outstanding Instructor. I can only recommend it.” Portfolio Manager, Real Estate Investment Fund, Hamburg, Germany
  • “The feedback from the workshop was almost entirely 5 out of 5″. James Hodgson, Conference Producer, SMI Conference on Financial Modelling in Oil and Gas
  • “Thank you for holding the seminar! Everyone involved has given me only great feedback, so you should feel very confident in what you do.” Fredrik Sundvall, Trading & Capital Markets, SEB Merchant Banking.
  • “Dr. Rees brings original and most valuable insight … in that he approaches the task with an end goal in mind… I have been most fortunate to have consulted with such a unique individual … It has assisted me in getting more value out of my models than I would ever have imagined.” Graham Bortz, Business Strategist , MTN Group, South Africa.
  • “Hi Mike, I have never experienced such a valuable financial modeling training as yours. It is a pleasure to contribute to a testimonial. I will recommend you to whomever I encounter looking for top-notch quality!” Jörg Günther, Munich Re, Germany.
  • “Thanks once again for a very interesting few days…I found last week’s course highly relevant to my needs. Your own expertise was apparent for all to see. I am approaching excel modeling with a renewed enthusiasm.” Paul Kelly, the Project Company, Ireland.
  • “Mike, I have to tell you this course was amongst the best one during the last 10 years I have attended.” Csaba Varga, CFO, EETEK Holding Zrt, Hungary.
  • “Thank you for your contribution to our recent conference Financial Modelling in the Oil & Gas Industry. Your session received comments such as: “Practical application”, “Relevant and practical”, “Excellent Overview”, “Interesting concepts”, “Excellent, clear” and “I wish there were more like this one”.” Sophie Kington, Conference Organiser SMI
  • “The brief we gave to Michael was for a course on Excel that would lead to immediate improvements within our finance team that contained users at a range of levels. Michael delivered a bespoke course that fulfilled the brief completely, was pitched at the right level and has already led to a significant change in how we use Excel for the better. Already other functions within the company are looking to see if they can also benefit from a course as well”. Andy Gregor, Interim Finance Manager, Northgate plc
  • “The course was good in the way it covered a lot of ground including tools and possibilities I was not aware of. I think a crash course in what tools are available outside @Risk was interesting. Michael was very knowledgeable and … I cannot think of a more suited instructor than him.” Participant, Big 4 Consultancy.
  • “Thank you for a very good introduction to @Risk and for many other enlightening insights into the world of simulation and risk analysis. We hope to see you again in connection and would thoroughly recommend your course to any of our colleagues who are even remotely considering using Palisade’s software.” Participant, Big 4 Consultancy.
  • “I found Michael to be an excellent instructor and extremely smart. I really enjoyed his approach.” Matt Lutz, FMI Corporation, Germany.
  • “I enjoyed the one day seminar on options training presented by Mike Rees. Mike possesses the formal education and practical experience necessary in the use of real options to allow him to present the material on both a theoretical and practical level and a presentation style that made me feel very comfortable. As a result, Mike was able to provide me with relatively easy to understand and useful approaches to problem solving for very complex subject matters.” William S. Conrad, Managing Director, Baldwin & Clarke Corporate Finance, Inc., USA.