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Starfish vILT LLC is a global learning and development consultancy that blends boutique attention with enterprise scale. Our core mission is to drive growth by encouraging leaders to continuously question, learn, and evolve—especially during their most critical leadership career transitions.
We specialize in preparing leaders to successfully navigate the leap into more complex roles. Our custom ILT and vILT programs are designed to build the strategic mindset, executive presence, and operational skills required to take on expanded responsibility. These learning journeys are brought to life by our diverse global faculty of expert facilitators, instructional designers, and executive coaches.
From first-level leaders to senior executives, we partner with you to design and deliver targeted development programs. Our collaborative approach ensures that every design, coaching, and facilitation solution is tailored to your unique organizational needs. With our global faculty, we can deploy these solutions in key locations worldwide, providing a consistent yet regionally-attuned approach to building your leadership pipeline.
Liam Abramson
Liam Abramson
Founding Partner, Starfish vILT | Leadership Development Consultant & Simulation Architect
As a founding partner of Starfish vILT, Liam Abramson channels 30 years of global experience into developing dynamic, high-impact leaders. He works closely with mid- to senior-level executives across a diverse range of industries, helping them navigate complexity, drive performance, and cultivate effective teams.
Liam’s expertise is both deep and broad, focusing on the core competencies that define modern leadership. He specializes in shaping high-performing sales teams, enhancing performance management systems, and sharpening skills in negotiation, customer service, and conflict management. As an executive coach, he equips individual leaders with the tools and techniques to elevate their coaching abilities, lead through change, foster diversity and bias awareness, and communicate with greater impact.
Liam’s career began with a unique passion for aviation. Starting in airfield operations, he became an avid pilot and has spent three decades consulting within the sector, working with over 5,000 leaders at giants like Airbus Industries, Pratt & Whitney, and GE Aerospace. This deep industry knowledge provides a unique foundation for his understanding of complex, high-stakes operational environments.
The scale of his impact is evident in the global projects he has designed and facilitated in more than 20 countries. Notable engagements include developing over 2,000 high-potential leaders at Schlumberger, training 1,000 leaders at BP, and coaching executive-level leaders at Fresenius and Standard Chartered Bank. A pioneer in virtual training, Liam brings over 20 years of experience in the medium, personally facilitating approximately 400 virtual instructor-led sessions each year.
Underpinning this work is a robust set of credentials; Liam is a certified facilitator for Management Research Group (MRG), Extended DISC, Situational Leadership II, and the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI). Born in South Africa, he lived in the United Kingdom for 28 years, where he graduated from both the Royal College of Music and the University of Buckingham Business School before beginning his career as a Business Studies university lecturer.
Beyond his professional life, Liam is deeply committed to his community. He is a past president of a Business Networking International (BNI) chapter and has served on the boards of several arts organizations, including the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and Evergreen Music and Arts. As a hike leader for Team in Training, he helped raise over $200,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Today, Liam is an enthusiastic private pilot and classical cellist and lives in Evergreen, Colorado, with his family.
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