The Leadership Simulation

A transformative Commercial Leadership Simulation that focuses on leading self, leading others and leading the business

Leadership and professional skills

Engaging experiential workshops designed to challenge current ideas and thinking

Leadership assessment

Business simulations designed to provide objective feedback through immersive leadership and business scenarios

The Leadership Simulation

A Commercial Leadership Simulation, that can be tailored to your leadership behaviours and business context, that will enable your leaders to practice and focus on the key skills and behaviours to drive commercial success.

Leadership and professional skills

Drawing on our portfolio of leadership and professional skills workshops, we will tailor a development solution to meet the needs of your audience. From future leaders as part of an early careers pathway, through programmes for newly promoted managers, to workshops for experienced managers and senior leaders – we have solutions for all.

Leadership assessment

Our leadership assessment simulations will immerse participants in realistic business scenarios to help identify, evaluate, and build a pipeline of future leaders. Tailored to your needs, our simulations will provide objective feedback on skills aligned to your leadership frameworks such as decision-making, commercial mindset, effective communication, strategic thinking, emotional intelligence.

Financial & commercial skills

Insightful, experiential workshops that explore a range of business, financial and commercial themes tailored to your needs

Financial & commercial skills

At MDA Training, our financial & commercial skills programmes turn financial theory into action. Participants engage in experiential simulations and workshops to interpret numbers, make strategically sound decisions, and embed a commercial mindset in their roles.

Our approach

Explore our experiential approach to transforming conferences, away-days and team-building events into powerful shared learning experiences.

Our portfolio of simulations & activities

Explore our growing and exciting portfolio of experiential simulations and activities.

Our approach

We transform conferences, away-days and team-building events into powerful shared learning experiences. Every event is tailored to your goals and themes, injecting energy, fun and meaningful engagement while reinforcing your key messages.

Our portfolio

Explore our exciting portfolio of experiential simulations and activities for conferences, away-days, and team-building events that bring people together through engaging, hands-on experiences.

Insight events

From early careers such as interns, apprentices, graduates, through to newly promoted managers, experienced managers and senior leaders

Early careers onboarding

Our onboarding solutions draw on our unique blend of immersive simulations, interactive workshops and digital experiences.

Asset management ● Banking ● Insurance

CPD

Our CPD solutions help professionals stay current, enhance capability, and drive continuous growth.

Asset management ● Banking ● Insurance

Insight events

At MDA Training, our insight events are immersive, gamified experiences tailored to your industry. Designed to bring your organisation to life for students and participants by combining realistic simulations, interactive challenges, and strategic learning

Early careers onboarding

At MDA Training, we blend immersive simulations, interactive workshops and digital experiences to turn new hires into confident contributors – helping grads, interns and apprentices thrive from day one.

Asset management

Banking

Insurance

Continuing Professional Development

At MDA Training, Our CPD programmes combine experiential learning and tailored development to help professionals stay current, enhance capability, and drive continuous growth.

Asset management

Banking

Insurance

Digital simulations

Immersive and interactive digital learning experiences that engage participants anytime, anywhere

Custom-built digital simulations

Bespoke digital learning solutions designed to meet your specific needs

Physical simulations and activities

Explore our portfolio of business simulations and activities, designed for in-person delivery. Perfect for workshops, conferences, team-building events and away-days

Single players simulations

Immersive, self-paced digital learning experiences designed for students and individual learners.

Digital simulations

Our digital simulations deliver immersive, interactive learning experiences that engage participants anytime, anywhere – bringing real-world challenges to life through dynamic, technology-driven scenarios.

Custom-built digital simulations

Utilising our team of experienced learning technologists and developers we can design bespoke digital solutions to meet your specific needs

Physical simulations and activities

Our portfolio of experiential business simulations and activities bring learning to life. Immersive, hands-on learning experiences that can be tailored to your needs.

Single player simulations

Our single-player simulations are immersive, self-paced digital learning experiences designed for students and individual learners.

MDA blogs

Tailored for HR and L&D professionals, our content offers valuable insights and practical tools and tips

About us

Meet the MDA Training team

MDA podcasts

Explore the MDA Insights Podcast, a global podcast series by MDA Training

Experience MDA

Join our free events and activities to experience MDA’s immersive, learning-by-doing approach first-hand.

MDA blogs

Tailored for HR and L&D professionals, our content offers valuable insights, actionable tools and tips, and trending and topical themes relevant for our industry

About us

Meet the MDA Training team – specialists in designing bespoke, experiential learning solutions that transform organisational development

MDA podcasts

Tune in twice a month for deep dives into learning and development, featuring expert advice, timely insights, and engaging discussions. Hosted by the talented team at MDA Training, MDA Insights includes HR and L&D experts from across our industry

Experience MDA

Join our free events and activities to experience MDA’s immersive, learning-by-doing approach first-hand.

MDA Events

MDA Activities

Help your engineering and manufacturing teams learn by doing

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Manufacturing & Engineering Commerciality

Commercial judgement

in manufacturing & engineering

Work through five interconnected decisions that shape the commercial performance of a manufacturing business — from quoting and capacity planning to cost control, supplier risk and the decision to invest in new capability.

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Level Foundation

Manufacturing & Engineering Commerciality

Question 1 of 5

Question 1 of 5

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What happened

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Manufacturing & Engineering Commerciality — Results

The Leadership Simulation​

Leadership and professional skills

Leadership assessment

The Leadership Simulation​

Leadership and professional skills

Leadership assessment

Financial & commercial skills

Financial & commercial skills

Our approach

Our portfolio of simulations & activities

Our approach

Our portfolio

Insight events​

Early careers onboarding

CPD

Insight events

Early careers onboarding

Asset management

Banking

Insurance

Continuing Professional Development

Asset management

Banking

Insurance​

Digital simulations​

Custom-built digital simulations​

Physical simulations and activities

Single players simulations

Digital simulations

Custom-built digital simulations​

Physical simulations and activities

Single player simulations

MDA blogs

About us

MDA podcasts

Experience MDA

MDA blogs

About us

MDA podcasts

Experience MDA

MDA Events

MDA Activities

Help your engineering and manufacturing teams learn by doing

Commercial judgement

The Leadership Simulation

The Leadership Simulation

Insight events

Insurance

Digital simulations

Custom-built digital simulations

Custom-built digital simulations