Training with Pivotal180
Our instructor-led training courses are highly customized and developed to address the unique challenges that your team and organization face. All our courses are led by our founders, Haydn and Dan, and this is important because to 'to be the best and get ahead, you need to learn from the best'
Customization options:
Our training programs can be custom tailored to meet the needs of your organization, including:
- unique case studies and business objectives
- standard company metrics or presentation styles
- corporate operating procedures
- country-specific rules, regulations and tax regimes
Course Customization Tools
Our sector focused course customization tools are simple to use and designed to help determine what a potential course might look like for your team. They outline what is available both in terms of subject matter as well as delivery options, including:
- Class time (important when planning instructor-led training)
- If there is a modeling component to the lesson
- If the lesson is available on our online platform
Use the green buttons below to access the course customization tool applicable to your team.
Training Course Delivery
The vast majority of our instructor-led courses adopt a blended approach, combining interactive training via live streaming + access to our online learning platform. Our live streaming financial modeling courses include:
- Line-by-line construction of a model, rather than explanations of a pre-constructed template
- Instructors who review your work as you do it
- One-on-one assistance as needed "office hours"
- Presentation of finance concepts and modeling techniques with time for Q&A
- Access to our online learning platform for self-paced review and supplemental learning material
The live streaming format entails:
- 2.5-hour sessions, 3 days a week, for 2 or 3 weeks
- Recordings of each live session, posted daily for review
Haydn Palliser
Instructor
Haydn Palliser is a founder and instructor at Pivotal180 and a globally renowned financial modeling and project finance expert. Haydn develops content for courses, teaches classes, and provides guidance and mentoring to financial modelers, advisors, and investors.
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Founder & Instructor
Haydn Palliser is a founder and instructor at Pivotal 180 and a globally renowned financial modeling and project finance expert. Haydn develops content for courses, teaches classes, and provides guidance and mentoring to financial modelers, advisors, and investors.
An engineer by background, Haydn grew and led the Corality business across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, providing training, financial modeling consulting, due diligence, and financial advisory services predominantly in the renewable energy, infrastructure and mining sectors. He has provided advisory, consulting, or training to organizations such as Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Barclays, IFM, Carlyle Group, Apollo, ANZ Bank, CPPIB, and Macquarie. His most recent focus and passion has been advising and mentoring developing country Governments on transactions and financial analysis.
Haydn lives in Westchester, New York with his wife and two kids and spends his spare time on the tennis court and being punished in CrossFit (thanks Dan!). Being from New Zealand he is an avid rugby fan, but as a new American he also appreciates the finer American foods such as Buffalo Wings, with a good game of American Football. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University where he teaches Renewable Energy Project Finance modeling. He has also taught students at MIT, Harvard, Wharton, and the University of Chicago. His favorite Excel shortcut is of course (CTRL + \).
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) University of Canterbury (New Zealand)
- Master of Applied Finance Macquarie University (Australia)
Daniel Gross
Instructor
Daniel Gross is a founder and instructor at Pivotal180 and a private equity investor focused on renewable energy, infrastructure and socially responsible impact investing. Dan develops content for courses, teaches classes, and provides advisory services and transaction coaching to clients globally.
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Founder & Instructor
Daniel Gross is a founder and instructor at Pivotal 180 and a private equity investor focused on renewable energy, infrastructure and socially responsible impact investing. Dan develops content for courses, teaches classes, and provides advisory services and transaction coaching to clients globally.
Dan has served as a Managing Director at Oaktree Capital Management and was one of the founding Partners of Hudson Clean Energy, a private equity firm with over $1 billion in assets under management. He has served on the board of directors of multiple companies, both private and public. While in the U.S. alternative energy investment group at Goldman Sachs, Dan headed efforts to invest in photovoltaic solar, including private investments in First Solar and SunEdison. He also founded the renewable energy investment business at GE Capital's Energy Financial Services unit, where he closed over $1 billion of principal investments in energy-sector loans, leases, mezzanine, common/preferred equity and tax-driven partnerships. In recent years, Dan has provided advisory services, coaching and training to family offices, private companies, non-profits, investment funds, development finance institutions, as well as government ministries and state-owned utilities In the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa.
Dan lives in Brooklyn, New York and enjoys practicing his smattering of obscure language skills with anyone who will indulge him, most notably the kitchen staff at Thai restaurants. He is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and holds an appointment as a Lecturer at Yale University where he teaches on Renewable Energy Project Finance. His favorite Excel function is OFFSET, even though it should NEVER be used in a best-practice financial model.
Qualifications
- Fulbright Scholar
- Masters in Environmental Management, M.B.A. and B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa), Yale University (USA)
Available Courses
Renewable Energy Project Finance Modeling
Tax Equity Modeling
Project Finance Modeling
Financial Modeling for Business Plans
Negotiate a PPP Deal – A Tailored Course Offering
Introduction to Battery Storage & Financial Modeling
