Sterling Academy

Sterling Academy is the online training service of Sterling International Consulting, an ISO and governance, risk and compliance (GRC) consulting group. Courses are sold by Sterling International Consulting FZE, UAE. The Academy offers self-paced video courses with assessments and a final exam, for individual learners (12 months of access per course) and for organisations that assign courses to their teams, track progress and export completion reports.

Why it is listed in the UAE

Sterling International Consulting FZE operates a regional office in Dubai, UAE, listed by the company as a regional headquarters (Bur Dubai, open Monday to Saturday, 8 am to 6 pm). That Dubai presence is why Sterling Academy qualifies for a listing on Disruptors Digest.

What it offers

• The Academy states 205 courses across eight subjects: information security and privacy; quality; GMP and medical devices; health, safety and environment; food safety; AI governance; automotive; laboratories. (Its home page shows a count of 106; we show the About page figure and flag the difference.)
• Levels: Awareness, Implementation, Internal Auditor, Practitioner and Specialist.
• Standards named on its pages include ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 13485, ISO 45001, ISO 14001, ISO/IEC 42001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR and HIPAA.
• Certificates: a Certificate of Completion for awareness courses and a Certificate of Competence for implementation, practitioner and internal auditor courses, each with a unique number and QR verification.
• Team features: client administrators, bulk learner import, due dates, reminders and progress reports.
• Group services around it include ISO and GRC consulting, internal audit, SOC 2 readiness, ESG advisory and the Effivity software platform (per the group website).

Group and parent

The group began in 2003 as an ISO and GRC consulting practice, with Lakshy Management Consultant Pvt. Ltd. founded in India that year. Sterling International Consulting was registered in the UAE in 2012. Other group companies named on its website are Effivity Technologies (software, 2016), Cyber Vantage 360 (Philippines) and Vegam AI (launched 2025). Group experience belongs to the group, not to the Academy; the Academy founding date and headcount have not been supplied by the company.

Offices, addresses, phones and emails

The group website lists 21 offices in 21 countries (the Academy site refers to 18). Locations marked as regional headquarters are as the company labels them.

• New York, USA (Global headquarters): 616 Corporate Way, Suite 2 #5231, Valley Cottage, NY 10989; also 1309 Coffee Avenue STE, Sheridan, Wyoming. Phone +1 201 263 4443. Email usa@sterling-grc.com
• Toronto, Canada (Office): First Canadian Place, 100 King Street West. Email canada@sterling-grc.com
• London, UK (Regional headquarters): Kemp House, 160 City Road, London EC1V 2NX. Phone +44 7482 876223. Email uk@sterling-grc.com
• Enschede, Netherlands (Regional headquarters): De Hems 4-33. Phone +31 6 8383 2492. Email netherlands@sterling-grc.com
• Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Office): OpernTurm, Bockenheimer Landstrasse 2-4. Email germany@sterling-grc.com
• Dubai, UAE (Regional headquarters): 202, Gym Building, Khalid Bin Walid Road, Bur Dubai, PO Box 27363; also Level 14, Boulevard Plaza Tower One, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard. Phone +971 50 584 2597. Email uae@sterling-grc.com
• Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Office): Kingdom Centre, King Fahd Road, Olaya. Email saudiarabia@sterling-grc.com
• Navi Mumbai, India (Regional headquarters): T-361, 6th Floor, Tower 8, ITC Park, CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai 400614. Phone +91 98217 80035. Email india@sterling-grc.com
• Manila (Makati City), Philippines (Regional headquarters): Suite C, 8th Floor, The Valero Tower, 122 Valero St., Salcedo Village, Brgy. Bel-Air. Phone +63 977 815 1204. Email philippines@sterling-grc.com
• Singapore, Singapore (Office): 101 Thomson Road, United Square, Singapore 307591. Phone +65 3125 6208. Email singapore@sterling-grc.com
• Tokyo, Japan (Office): Pacific Century Place Marunouchi, 1-11-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku. Email japan@sterling-grc.com
• Shanghai, China (Office): Jin Mao Tower, 88 Century Avenue, Pudong District. Email china@sterling-grc.com
• Hong Kong, Hong Kong (Office): LKF Tower, 33 Wyndham Street, 19F-23F. Email hongkong@sterling-grc.com
• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Office): Menara Prestige, No. 1, Jalan Pinang. Email malaysia@sterling-grc.com
• Jakarta, Indonesia (Office): Menara BCA Grand Indonesia, Jl. M.H. Thamrin No. 1. Email indonesia@sterling-grc.com
• Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (Office): Deutsches Haus, 33 Le Duan Street, Saigon Ward. Email vietnam@sterling-grc.com
• Sydney, Australia (Office): Darling Park Tower 2, 201 Sussex Street. Email australia@sterling-grc.com
• Johannesburg, South Africa (Regional headquarters): West Tower, Nelson Mandela Square, Maude Street, Sandown. Email southafrica@sterling-grc.com
• Casablanca, Morocco (Office for Morocco, North Africa and francophone West and Central Africa): Street address not published. Email southafrica@sterling-grc.com
• Lagos, Nigeria (Office for Nigeria and anglophone West Africa): Street address not published. Email southafrica@sterling-grc.com
• Nairobi, Kenya (Office for Kenya and East Africa): Street address not published. Email southafrica@sterling-grc.com

General contacts: academy@sterling-grc.com (courses, certificates, invoices, team quotes), hello@sterling-grc.com, phone +1 201 263 4443. Refunds: the Academy states a full refund within 14 days if no more than one module was started and no certificate was issued.

Reach

The group states 8,100+ client engagements across 60+ countries. In 2013 to 2016 press releases, Sterling International Consulting FZE said it aimed to serve the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait, with an office at Level 6, Office 605, The Fairmont, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, and described itself as a subsidiary of Lakshy Management Consultant Pvt Ltd. Clients named by the company include Allianz, Emerson, Etihad Rail, DuPont, JLL, Honeywell, ABB, GE, Schlumberger, McDonald’s, Whirlpool, Dubai Municipality, Emirates Flight Catering, Saudi German Hospital, Aster DM Healthcare, Mettler Toledo, Sodexo and SAP. These client names are company claims.

Certification and accreditation

The Academy states that Sterling offices in the UAE, India and the Philippines are certified for information security (ISO/IEC 27001), with certificate details available on request, and that its assessments are designed on the principles of ISO/IEC 17024:2026. It also states that Sterling does not itself certify organisations. We have not verified these claims.

Financials

Revenue, net worth and headcount are not published by the company and were not found in independent sources, so none are shown.

Online

Group site: sterling-grc.com. Social profiles listed by the group: LinkedIn (linkedin.com/company/isophilippines), YouTube, Facebook (ISOSterling) and Instagram (isosterling).

• Self-paced online ISO and GRC training (205 courses across eight subjects, per the Academy)
• Corporate team training with course assignment and progress tracking
• Certificates of Completion and Competence with QR verification
• Group: ISO and GRC consulting, internal audit, SOC 2 readiness, ESG advisory, software (Effivity)

1. 2003The group begins as an ISO and GRC consulting practice; Lakshy Management Consultant Pvt. Ltd. is founded in India (company)
2. 2012Sterling International Consulting is registered in the UAE (company)
3. 2013Earliest independent trace: a press release (2 November 2013) on an ISO 9001 project in Iraq (Zawya)
4. 2015Press release gives a Dubai office at The Fairmont, Sheikh Zayed Road (Zawya, 12 January)
5. 2016Group software company Effivity Technologies follows (company)
6. 2025Group AI automation platform Vegam AI is launched (company)