“The ability to learn faster than the competition is often the only sustainable competitive advantage”

Arie de Deus

The Directors

David Newman

With a background in Corporate Banking and 15 years' experience in all aspects of training and development, David is also an MBA Lecturer with the Open University and Business School. David is particularly active in delivering business simulations for clients in the UK, Middle East and North Africa.

Mike Newman

Mike also has a background in banking, and is an experienced designer and facilitator of finance and management training.

 

 

About us...

X Learning was established in 2002 to build on both the business and learning & development experience of its founders. A strong background in corporate banking and exposure to most industry sectors, combined with leading edge training methodologies and MBA qualifications, led to the opportunity to create and positon business training in a refreshing and enduring way. Drawing on a range of associates with widespread business and training experience, we offer a wide range of business related training and development programmes. We are based in Milton Keynes, UK, and have national and global reach.

We work with a wide variety of clients from SMEs to global corporates. Find out more about the sectors we work in, our clients, global experience, partner organisations below, plus see what some of our participants have said about our courses.

Sectors

Banking (corporate and retail), construction, energy, retail, telecoms, manufacturing, railway infrastructure, and registered charities.

Clients

Barclays, BG, Santander (Abbey), Three, Carphone Warehouse, AOL, Talk Talk, Laing O'Rourke, Clough Smith Rail, Telent, SABIC, Jaeger, VT Communications, Rank Group, Shaw Trust .

Scope

We are based in Milton Keynes, UK, but have run our programmes in the following countries: UK, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Dubai, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Trinidad, Tunisia, Egypt, Hungary, Sweden, Turkey and Norway.

Partner organisations

Learning Curve helps its clients to address their business issues and achieve their goals by growing the capabilities of their people. With a client-focused approach and years of experience in the delivery of training and development solutions, Learning Curve provide high quality, tailored solutions to client needs, through programmes which are practical, interactive, relevant and fun.

Celemi are the Swedish consultancy who design and develop a range of business simulations used in a variety of contexts and business sectors. X Learning are accredited and licensed to run these business simulations by Celemi.

MJ Hayward Associates work with companies who trade internationally, and help to develop the skills of key people including Export Sales, Purchasing, Financing and Shipping departments, helping them to reduce the significant risks and costs associated with exporting and importing.

Business Link

Institute of Credit Management

Cultivate Talent is a people development consultancy, focused on engaging and developing talent - helping clients to create an environment of trust and transparency, achieving continual innovation and change and delivering outstanding performance and bottom line improvements

Some things participants have said...

"Really well designed and structured, made complex tasks appear simple”  (Financial Awareness – Project Infrastructure Manager, Telecoms)

"Very well facilitated and it gave me a much better understanding of the working capital cycle and how it impacted cash flow" - Client Manager, Corporate Banking

"An excellent business simulation that almost became obsessive. Really invaluable in understanding how to balance needs, resources and issues" - Production Manager, Energy Sector

"A welcome break from traditional methods of training, giving us a valuable insight into how business really works" - Client Services Manager, Online Marketing Business