MDA Training Ltd

MDA Training Ltd is a United Kingdom-based corporate learning and development specialist that designs and delivers experiential training programmes for organisations worldwide. Founded in 1988 by Professor Walter Reid, a founding faculty member of London Business School, the company has spent more than three decades building a reputation for immersive, interactive learning that aims to produce measurable behaviour change rather than passive knowledge transfer. Its headquarters are in London, and it serves clients across multiple industries, with particularly deep experience in financial services. The company's portfolio is organised around three broad capability areas. Leadership skills development uses bespoke business simulations and experiential activities to help leaders examine their own beliefs, attitudes and responses to challenge, with the goal of embedding leadership behaviours that support commercial success. Commercial skills training develops practical business, financial and commercial acumen through tailored simulations, experiential workshops and digital solutions. Early careers and continuing professional development (CPD) covers experiential onboarding and induction, follow-on learning for young talent, and ongoing CPD for experienced staff, blending technical, professional and commercial skills. A distinctive feature of MDA Training is its in-house digital and media capability. The firm produces immersive digital simulations and end-to-end corporate video, from pre-production consultation and storyboarding through filming, graphics, sound design and editing to post-production delivery. This combination of learning design and media production allows MDA to create interactive virtual and hybrid events and digital learning experiences that it positions as comparable in quality to specialist production houses but at lower cost. MDA Training describes itself as industry agnostic, working across sectors while retaining extensive experience in financial services. Its programmes have been delivered to leading global organisations, and its asset management training content draws on more than 30 years of experience in that sector. The company is led by Managing Director David Shuttleworth, who has been with the business for over 25 years, and its team includes training facilitators, learning designers, learning technologists, media specialists and client service professionals. As a private limited company, MDA Training does not disclose public financial statements, and it operates as an independent specialist rather than as part of a larger listed group.

MDA Training Ltd was founded in 1988 by Professor Walter Reid, who was among the founding faculty of London Business School. The company was established to bring experiential, simulation-based methods to corporate learning, at a time when much corporate training relied on lecture-style delivery. Over the following decades MDA built a practice centred on immersive business simulations and interactive workshops, and it developed particular depth in financial services, including asset management training programmes delivered to leading businesses. By the 2010s and 2020s the company had expanded its offer beyond classroom-based simulations into digital learning. It built an in-house team of learning technologists and media specialists and began producing immersive digital simulations, interactive virtual and hybrid events, and end-to-end corporate video. This media capability became a differentiator: MDA positions the production quality of its digital projects as comparable to specialist production houses while remaining cost-effective for training budgets. The company has continued to describe itself as an independent, industry-agnostic specialist, working across sectors while retaining extensive financial services experience. Its leadership has been stable, with David Shuttleworth serving as Managing Director for more than 25 years of his career in the business. MDA Training operates as a private limited company and does not publish public financial results. Its stated mission is to shape tomorrow's workforce through impactful experiential learning that strengthens performance, maximises learner engagement and delivers measurable behaviour change.

• 1988

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

• Company builds a specialist practice in experiential business simulations and interactive workshops, with deep experience in financial services and asset management training.

• MDA expands into digital learning, adding in-house learning technologists and media specialists to produce immersive digital simulations and interactive virtual and hybrid events.

• Company adds end-to-end corporate video production, from pre-production and storyboarding through filming and post-production.

Specialist in experiential corporate learning, blending immersive simulations, interactive workshops and digital media to deliver measurable behaviour change for global organisations.

• Leadership skills development

  Experiential business leadership simulations and activities that help leaders understand their own beliefs, attitudes and responses to challenge and embed leadership behaviours.

• Commercial skills training

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

• Early careers & CPD

  Experiential onboarding and induction, follow-on learning for young talent, and ongoing CPD for experienced staff, blending technical, professional and commercial skills.

• Digital simulations

  Immersive, interactive digital learning experiences designed and produced in-house.

• Corporate video production

  End-to-end film production covering pre-production consultation and storyboarding, filming, graphics, sound design and editing, and post-production delivery.

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