The After Action
Review Specialists
Achieving powerful learning from lived experience Developing outstanding facilitators and trainers Enabling change for people and cultures
Achieving powerful learning
from lived experience
Developing outstanding
facilitators and trainers
Enabling change for
people and cultures
AAR: The fast way to learn and improve
An After Action Review (AAR) is a structured, one-session conversation that helps teams learn from what happened—good, bad, or routine—and turn that insight into action. Used globally in business, healthcare, and safety-critical industries, AAR answers four simple questions:
What was expected? What happened? Why? What can we learn?
While the concept sounds simple, what happens inside an AAR rarely is. Team dynamics, hierarchy, and fear of speaking openly can make these conversations complex. That’s why skilled facilitation is essential—and why our training exists. We equip leaders and teams with the confidence and expertise to create psychologically safe spaces where reflection leads to real results.
Download free copy of “Routes to Involvement: Patients and families in After Action Reviews” Gives a practical, structured approach to bring the patients’ voice to the learning response.
WHAT WE DO
At Judy Walker Associates Ltd, we help organisations unlock the wisdom hidden in everyday work and challenging events through the After Action Review (AAR) process. Our goal is simple: to turn reflection into results. We specialise in two things:
Conducting AARs for organisations that want to learn from major initiatives, crises, or operational challenges.
Training others to lead AARs confidently, so continuous improvement becomes part of the culture.
Our Services
Online Workshops
Highly engaging, three-hour sessions open to anyone who wants to lead AARs and improve team and business performance.
Face-to-Face Open Access Courses
Practical, immersive training that includes filming and playback of practice AARs for real-time feedback.
In-House Training for Cohorts
Tailored programs for organisations that want their own staff trained as internal AAR Conductors. This ensures learning and improvement becomes everyone’s business.
Specialist NHS Support
For healthcare organisations, we provide training aligned with the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework, delivering proportionate and compassionate learning responses through psychologically safe AARs.
Why Choose Us?
Our training is built on experiential learning—the same principle that underpins AAR itself. Every session is interactive, practical, and tailored to your organisational context. With over 15 years of expertise and consistently exceptional feedback, we ensure participants leave with the confidence and skills to make AAR a powerful tool for improvement.
Whether you’re dealing with supply chain disruptions, IT upgrades, or simply want to strengthen team performance, our workshops and facilitation services give you the AAR Advantage—helping you turn work into wisdom.
WHO WE ARE
We are a consultancy developed out of our experience using the After Action Review approach to help teams learn from every day and exceptional experiences. Over the past 15 years we have facilitated hundreds of After Action Reviews (AARs) and Before Action Reviews (BARs) and trained well over 2000 people to be able to conduct successful AARs.
We have worked with multinational companies, acute hospitals, universities, political parties, Clinical Commissioning Groups, NHS England, GP practices and the World Health Organisation, experiencing first-hand, the incredible power of AAR to transform the quality of both conversations and the outcomes. We have seen for ourselves the dramatic light bulb moments when individuals in the AAR get to real clarity. We have seen teams start the AAR fragmented and divided after a challenging experience and move through the AAR to a unified understanding of the event and a collective plan of action for the future. We have witnessed how organisations that incorporate AAR into their regular practice become more psychologically safe, agile and productive.
Our mission is to ensure as many organisations as possible can benefit from this After Action Review “advantage”.
Further Information
New Courses for AAR Conductors
Book your place now on our new course for AAR Conductors.
The PSIRF Learning Response Tools Survey Summary Report
NHS England’s’ Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) plan has paved the way for a
After Action Review: Barriers and enablers to implementation
New research describes the barriers and enablers to implementation of AAR.