Simulation Workshops
Ghana 2025
Learn how to engage your students with simulations in our one-day or three-day workshop!
See Simulations Through Your Students’ Eyes
Come for one day or stay for our full three-day Train the Trainer! You’ll gain:
- A step-by-step understanding of how to run a Marketplace simulation in your class.
- A chance to play a business simulation as a student and understand the student perspective.
- Practical strategies for coaching and developing core business skills.
- A preview of new AI features coming to Marketplace Simulations
Play
Step into the learner’s role as you play the Venture Strategy Simulation with other educators like you. See how it sparks critical thinking, collaboration, and meaningful debate.
Learn
Discover how to set up, facilitate, and debrief a simulation. We’ll give you tips to maximize engagement, assess performance and connect the simulation to your learning goals.
Connect
Meet instructors from around the world who are innovating with experiential learning. You’ll walk away with fresh strategies, resources, and a growing network of inspiring faculty.
Play the Venture Strategy Simulation
Build a carbon fiber bicycle company from the ground up. Your team will use investment funds to design brands, create ad campaigns, open sales channels, manage production, build compensation packages, run financial projections, and more.
This simulation will give you a deep understanding of Marketplace Simulations pedagogy and our standard software. We’ll place you on a team with other professors to give you the full experience!
Discover Marketplace’s New AI Features
Be among the first to experience new AI-powered tools coming soon to Marketplace Simulations. You’ll get to try our smart student guide, built to help students find the resources they need to answer their questions. Three-day participants will also experience how our tactical plan AI can coach students to ask the right questions about their businesses.
You’ll learn how AI can boost engagement without removing the challenge, and you’ll be among the first educators to see where we’re headed next!
Both Workshops are Free to Attend
You pay for your travel and lodging, we cover the rest. Play one of our simulations, learn best practices for facilitation, and enjoy family style meals.
Frequently Asked Questions
What’s included in the free workshop?
Your registration includes access to training sessions, a license to play a Marketplace Simulations game, and family-style meals throughout the event. Your only responsibility is your travel and lodging costs!
Give us advanced notice if you plan to travel with a spouse or significant other, and they will also be welcome to join the group for no extra charge for lunch and dinner.
Who should attend?
Both workshops are open to educators of all experience levels. New instructors get to discover the complete Marketplace pedagogy in an immersive, exciting way. Experienced instructors get to refine their teaching strategies and learn how to use Marketplace to its full potential.
You’ll get to explore a Marketplace simulation as a student first. Discover the benefits and challenges each student faces while playing the game, as well as the effectiveness of simulation-based learning.
In between decision sessions, you’ll take part in a variety of interactive lectures. Marketplace author Dr. Ernest Cadotte will share the underlying pedagogy of the software, as well as best practices for integrating a simulation into your course curriculum.
Where will the workshop be hosted?
The Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) is proud to host both workshops in Ghana. Recognized as one of West Africa’s premier institutions for leadership and management education, GIMPA offers a rich environment for professional development and innovation.
With a legacy of advancing public service, business, and governance through practical, high-impact education, GIMPA shares Marketplace Simulations’ commitment to experiential learning. This collaboration promises an engaging and applied learning experience for faculty participants across the region.
What is the dress code?
We recommend business casual attire for this workshop.
What Do Fellow Educators Say About Marketplace Simulations Workshops?
The Train the Trainer workshop not only helped me better understand the pedagogy behind the simulation, but it provided me a view from the student’s perspective. I can now reflect on what I learned and proactively address potential challenges the class may encounter as we progress through the game.
Sam Lee, Ph.D.
Dean of Undergraduate Programs
Hult International Business School
This experience was nothing short of transformative as I had the privilege to sit at the table with a remarkable group of educators, professors, and industry leaders. Together, we harnessed the power of diverse backgrounds and expertise to explore the vital role we all play in shaping better businesses through the use of simulations.
Maria Nakalanda
Strategic Partnerships
Watts of Love
Just want to say thanks to you, Ernie and the entire Marketplace team! This was the best instructional seminar I have ever been to in my 26 years as a faculty member! I have already recommended it to a colleague and am looking forward to using the Bikes simulation this spring.
Dr. Jeff Blodgett
Professor of Marketing
University of Houston—Victoria
The Train the Trainer workshop has helped me learn to be a better coach, providing tips and techniques that I plan to put into practice starting next semester. As educators, we need to incorporate more learning exercises, like simulations, into our curriculum. Marketplace is fabulous because it compels students to look at managing business and all of its complexities, well preparing them for the real world.
Keith Murray, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing
Bryant University
I love the TTT! I think everybody should do it. You think you know the game, but when you play it yourself as a team member, all of a sudden, the problems your students may encounter become more understandable.
Andong Cheng
Assistant Professor of Marketing
University of Delaware
One of the best training seminars that I have ever attended! Excellent staff with superior instruction! A sense of being a part of a caring community of professionals! Thank you, Ernie and team!
Professor James N. Koshar
Stratford University
