Train the Trainer
Ghana 2025
A three-day workshop to take you inside simulation learning and equip you to build your most engaging course ever.
See Simulations Through Your Students’ Eyes
Play a simulations as a student and see what experiential learning is all about. You’ll walk away with:
- A step-by-step understanding of how to run a Marketplace simulation in your class.
- A fresh perspective on how experiential learning can drive deeper engagement.
- Practical strategies for coaching and developing core business skills.
- Insights from instructors who’ve implemented these tools in their own classrooms.
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
Get an early look at new AI-powered tools coming soon to Marketplace Simulations. We’ll show you a preview of our smart student guide, built to help students find the resources they need to answer their questions. Next, you’ll see how our tactical plan AI can coach students to ask the right questions about their businesses.
You’ll see how AI can boost engagement without removing the challenge, and you’ll be among the first educators to see where we’re headed next!
Train the Trainer is a free workshop!
You pay for your travel and lodging, we cover the rest. Play two of our simulations, enjoy family style meals, and join us for fun activities throughout the week.
Frequently Asked Questions
What’s included in the free workshop?
Your registration includes access to training sessions, licenses to play two Marketplace Simulations games, 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 Train the Trainer?
Train the Trainer is open to instructors 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 Train the Trainer be hosted?
The Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) is proud to host this fall’s Train the Trainer event 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 Train the Trainer?
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
Marketplace Simulations’ Train the Trainer Workshop has truly been a quality use of my time. Whether you’re brand new to the simulation or have had some exposure to it, it was absolutely worthwhile. I would even consider coming back and doing it again. Every time you play this game you learn more and more.
Lindsay Mahony
Lecturer of Strategic Management
University of Tennessee
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
