MDA Training UK

MDA Training UK is a British corporate learning and development specialist that designs and delivers experiential training programmes for organisations. Founded in 1988 by Professor Walter Reid, a member of the founding faculty of London Business School, the company has built its reputation on immersive business simulations, interactive workshops and digital learning experiences rather than conventional lecture-based instruction. Its stated purpose is to build real capability and drive measurable behaviour change across a client's workforce. The company's portfolio is organised around several practice areas. Its leadership skills offering centres on experiential business leadership simulations and activities designed to help leaders examine their own beliefs, attitudes and responses to challenges, with the aim of embedding leadership behaviours that support commercial success. Its commercial skills practice develops practical business, financial and commercial skills through tailored simulations, experiential workshops and digital solutions. A third area, early careers and continuing professional development (CPD), covers experiential onboarding and induction programmes as well as follow-on learning for young talent and ongoing CPD for experienced staff. MDA also offers a portfolio of immersive digital simulations and an in-house corporate video production service that spans pre-production, production and post-production. MDA Training describes itself as industry agnostic, though it has particularly extensive experience in financial services. It has delivered asset management training programmes for leading businesses for more than 30 years, including virtual learning courses for early-careers audiences, and its consultants have produced educational content on the UK asset management industry. The firm says it is trusted by leading global organisations and works with clients worldwide. The business is led by Managing Director David Shuttleworth, who has been with the company for over 25 years. Its team combines training facilitators and designers with learning technologists, media specialists and client service professionals. MDA positions itself as an extension of the client's team and a genuine partner, emphasising tailored design over off-the-shelf content. It remains a privately held UK company.

MDA Training was founded in 1988 by Professor Walter Reid, who was a member of the founding faculty of London Business School. The company was established in the United Kingdom and has since operated as a specialist in experiential corporate learning, a position it has held for more than three decades. From its early years, MDA built its approach around experiential methods — immersive business simulations, interactive workshops and, later, digital learning experiences — rather than conventional lecture-based training. This emphasis on learning by doing became the company's defining characteristic and the basis of its claim to deliver measurable behaviour change. Over the decades the firm expanded its portfolio beyond a single training discipline. It developed dedicated practices in leadership skills, commercial and financial skills, and early careers and continuing professional development. Its leadership work centres on experiential business leadership simulations that help leaders understand their own beliefs, attitudes and responses to challenges. Its commercial practice develops practical business, financial and commercial skills through tailored simulations, experiential workshops and digital solutions. Its early careers and CPD offering spans experiential onboarding and induction through to follow-on learning for young talent and ongoing development for experienced staff. MDA also invested in digital capability, building a portfolio of immersive digital simulations and an in-house media function capable of end-to-end corporate video production, from pre-production consultation and storyboarding through filming, graphics, sound design and editing to post-production delivery. The company has described the standard of its digital projects as on par with Soho production houses but at a fraction of the cost. A significant part of MDA's heritage is in financial services. The company states that it has over 30 years of experience delivering asset management training programmes for leading businesses, including virtual learning courses for early-careers audiences, and its consultants have produced educational content on the UK asset management industry. At the same time, MDA describes itself as industry agnostic, working across all industries and taking the time to design solutions that meet each client's desired learning outcomes. Leadership continuity has been a feature of the business. David Shuttleworth has served as Managing Director and has been with the company for over 25 years. Under his leadership the firm has continued to emphasise developing people both in client organisations and internally, changing behaviour by embedding learning in the individual, and embracing differences. The team today combines experienced training facilitators and designers with learning technologists, media specialists and client service professionals. MDA Training remains a privately held UK company, trusted, in its own words, by leading global organisations, and continues to position itself as a genuine partner and an extension of its clients' teams.

• 1988

  MDA Training is founded by Professor Walter Reid, a member of the founding faculty of London Business School.

• The company develops its experiential learning approach based on immersive business simulations and interactive workshops.

• MDA builds more than 30 years of experience delivering asset management training programmes, including virtual learning courses for early-careers audiences.

• The company expands into digital learning, adding immersive digital simulations and an in-house corporate video production capability.

• David Shuttleworth serves as Managing Director, having been with the business for over 25 years.

Specialist provider of experiential, interactive corporate learning that builds real capability and measurable behaviour change; positioned as a tailored partner and an extension of the client's team, industry agnostic with deep financial services experience.

• Leadership skills programmes

  Experiential business leadership simulations and activities that help leaders understand their own beliefs, attitudes and responses to challenges, focusing on embedding leadership behaviours to drive commercial success.

• Commercial skills programmes

  Practical business, financial and commercial skills development through tailored simulations, experiential workshops and innovative digital solutions.

• Early careers & CPD

  Experiential onboarding and inductions plus follow-on learning for young talent, and ongoing continuing professional development for experienced staff.

• Digital simulations

  Immersive, interactive digital learning experiences delivered as part of the company's portfolio.

• Corporate video production

  End-to-end service covering pre-production consultation and storyboarding, production (filming, graphics, sound design, performance, editing) and post-production sign-off and delivery.

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