A Global Community of Experiential Learning Facilitators
A Great Workplace Is Built by People Who Keep Learning
Let’s talkAcross countries, industries, and cultures, SimuRise Learning Solutions’ certified facilitators are using experiential learning, game-based learning, and business simulations to make learning more engaging, practical, and memorable.
Instead of only telling participants what collaboration, ownership, trust, decision-making, or a growth mindset should look like, facilitators create an environment where participants can experience these behaviours in action.
Through simulations, participants make decisions, manage resources, work through challenges, collaborate with others, take risks, solve problems, and see the consequences of their choices.
The experience then becomes the starting point for reflection, discussion, and workplace application.
What Is Experiential Learning?
Experiential learning is a way of learning through experience, reflection and application. Instead of only listening to concepts or studying theory, participants take part in an experience, reflect on what happened, and connect those insights to real situations at work.
Experiential learning programs can use business simulations, games, activities, role-play and facilitated discussions to help people practise behaviours such as collaboration, decision-making, leadership, communication, problem-solving and strategic thinking.
An Experiential Learning Facilitator creates and guides these experiences, helping participants move from activity to reflection and from reflection to action.
From Experience to Reflection to Action
The real power of experiential learning lies in what happens after the activity.
A skilled facilitator helps participants step back and reflect:
What happened?
Why did we behave that way?
What helped us succeed?
What held us back?
Where do we see the same patterns at work?
What should we do differently going forward?
These conversations help transform a simulation from an engaging activity into a meaningful learning experience.
Participants begin to recognise their own assumptions, behaviours, decision-making patterns, and ways of working with others.
This is where Experiential Learning Facilitators play an important role. They help participants connect what happened during the experience with the situations, behaviours and decisions they encounter in the workplace.
What Do Experiential Learning Facilitators Do?
Experiential Learning Facilitators do more than conduct an activity. They create the conditions for participation, guide the experience, observe behaviours, ask questions, facilitate reflection and help participants connect their learning to real workplace situations.
They may use business simulations, games and structured activities to explore:
- Leadership and leadership development
- Collaboration and teamwork
- Decision-making
- Strategic thinking
- Communication
- Problem-solving
- Ownership and accountability
- Innovation and adaptability
- Culture and values
- Trust and psychological safety
The facilitator helps participants discover these behaviours through experience rather than simply being told what they should do.
Our Global Facilitator Community of Experiential Learning Facilitators
Our facilitators bring these learning experiences to organizations across different countries, industries, functions, and participant groups.
They use business simulations within:
- Leadership Development Programs
- Leadership Offsites
- Manager Development Programs
- Strategy Meets
- Business Review Meets
- Team Interventions
- Culture & Values Programs
- Onboarding Programs
- Learning & Development Workshops
From smaller leadership groups to large-scale interventions involving hundreds of participants, certified facilitators create structured experiences that encourage participation, reflection, and meaningful conversations.
Our network of Experiential Learning Facilitators brings together professionals from different industries, functions and geographies, giving organisations access to a diverse community of practitioners who use experiential learning in different workplace contexts.
Meet Our Experiential Learning Facilitators
Meet the facilitators bringing experiential learning, business simulations and game-based learning to organisations around the world. Explore their profiles and connect with them on LinkedIn.
Ashraf Ali
Life Academy India
Brian D’Souza
Executive Coach and Leadership Development Specialist
Can Papuccuoglu
Facilitator & Leadership Consultant
Capt. Shantanu Chakravorty
Leadership & Org Development + AI & Digital Synergies
Carolann Philips
Hallmark Training Institute, Oman
Claudio Guz
Emoción en Juego, Accelium LATAM
Deepa Kaur Padda
Executive Leadership Coach
Devi Prasad Dash
SHRM SCP, CPHR, ODCP
Donna Chlopak
Executive Advisor | Board Advisor | Former Gallup Principal Engagement Manager
Dr. Elton Ron Nathan
Master Facilitator & Trainer | ICF Coach | Mentor | OD Professional
Enrico Varella
ENRICO ‘IRONMAN EV’ VARELLA
Fayez Helou
Elevate Mena
Gauri Mavle
Jade Global
Gautam Bhushan
Leadership Development and Executive Coaching
Hemant Matreja
IndiGo
Imre Környei
Assessment Store; SimuRise LDGM certification
JC Ng
Impact Volution Training & Consultancy
Jolly Joseph
Jade Global, Delhi
Kavitha Rao
Founder Director, Learners Route India; SimuRise Accelium Certification
Magan Kalra
Performance Advantage Group
Max Wong
Impact Volution Training & Consultancy
Monika Uniyal
Talent and Learning Professional
Parthiv H. Mehta
Jade Global
Philip Leong
Philip Leong Kah Wai
Prakash Nair
Mumbai Trainer and Leadership Development
Ramakrishnan Subramaniam
Coach Ram, Grow More Avenues
Ravi Kodukula
Advitam, Learning for Life and Growth
Riddhi Parikh Mehta
NMIMS, Leadership Development
Samir Parekh
Training and Coaching Consultant; aligns with SimuRise facilitator references
Sandhya Parnandy
Ceyone Marketing, HR, OD and L&D
Soo Hoo Yoon Hunn
International Licensed Master Trainer
Suresh GP
Suresh GP MBRM, TaUB Solutions
Aaron Lee
Malaysia-based Master Trainer, Speaker and Coach
Alex Draper
DX Learning
Prof. Dr. Andy Yong
Mindstorm Consulting Asia; SimuRise Accelium certification
Anjali Sharma
Ahaan Consulting
Anshu Mukherjee
HR, ODC and L&OD profile
Arshad Nadamal
Muscat, Oman; BNI TIJARA, Towers Training
How Experiential Learning Facilitators Support Workplace Learning
Experiential Learning Facilitators can use simulations and structured activities to help organisations address real workplace challenges. The focus can range from leadership development and team effectiveness to strategic thinking, collaboration, culture and behavioural change.
The real value of an experiential learning activity comes from helping participants understand what the experience reveals about their own behaviours and ways of working.
A skilled facilitator helps participants:
- Observe their own behaviour
- Understand how their decisions affect outcomes
- Recognise patterns in how they work with others
- Discuss different perspectives
- Experiment with new approaches
- Connect learning to workplace situations
- Identify actions they can apply after the session
Why Become a Certified Business Simulation Facilitator?
Certification helps facilitators move beyond traditional content-led learning and create experiences where participants learn by doing, reflecting, and applying.
As a certified facilitator, you can:
- Add proven business simulations to your facilitation toolkit
- Facilitate learning around values, behaviours, and mindsets
- Create deeper participant engagement and reflection
- Address leadership, collaboration, culture, and team challenges
- Work with small groups as well as large-scale interventions
- Become part of a growing global facilitator community
Bring Experiential Learning Into Your Facilitation
Equip yourself with powerful simulation-based learning tools and create experiences that participants can connect back to their real workplace challenges.
For professionals looking to become Experiential Learning Facilitators, business simulations can provide a practical way to build facilitation capability while helping participants learn through experience.
Choose Your Business Simulation & Facilitation Pathway
Different learning objectives require different experiences. Explore SimuRise’s portfolio of business simulations, facilitator tools, and certification opportunities and choose the one that best complements your facilitation practice.
FreshBiz
Build Entrepreneurial & Opportunity-Driven Thinking
FreshBiz is a fast-paced business board game that helps participants challenge traditional thinking and explore new possibilities.
It can be used to facilitate learning around entrepreneurial thinking, collaboration, innovation, proactivity, resourcefulness, smart partnerships, and making the most of available opportunities.
For facilitators, coaches, consultants, and internal L&D teams, the FreshBiz Trainer Kit provides a ready-to-use experiential learning tool that can be integrated into workshops and development programs.
Explore the FreshBiz Facilitator KitThe Search for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine
Turn Collaboration Into an Experience
The Search for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine is a globally used experiential business simulation that puts teams into an immersive gold-mining challenge where their decisions directly influence the outcome.
The experience helps facilitators create powerful conversations around collaboration over competition, trust, strategic planning, decision-making, resource management, communication, execution, and shared success.
Facilitators and training organizations can bring this proven simulation into their own programs through the facilitator kit, Train-the-Trainer support, and licence pathway.
Enquire About The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine Train-the-Trainer
Saviours of Cultura
Bring Culture, Values & Behaviours Into the Conversation
Saviours of Cultura gives facilitators an experiential platform for creating conversations around how people think, behave, make choices, and work together
Rather than discussing workplace culture only at a conceptual level, the simulation creates an experience that facilitators can use to help participants reflect on their own behaviours and connect those insights with organizational values, team effectiveness, and ways of working.
It can become a powerful addition for facilitators working on culture, values, behavioural change, collaboration, and people-development interventions.
Enquire About Saviours of CulturaDiamonds of Amazonia
Facilitate Powerful Learning – Virtually
Diamonds of Amazonia is an immersive virtual business simulation designed for distributed, remote, and hybrid teams.
Participants navigate uncertainty, make strategic choices, manage resources, collaborate, solve problems, and take ownership while working towards a common objective.
For facilitators, it provides a scalable way to create learning around strategic thinking, collaboration, decision-making, resource maximization, ownership, productivity, agility, and working together under pressure, even when participants are joining from different locations.
Explore Diamonds of Amazonia Facilitator Opportunities
SimuRise Accelium Facilitator Certification
Become a Certified Game-Based Learning Facilitator
The SimuRise Accelium Facilitator Certification equips facilitators with a structured methodology for using strategy games and game-based learning to develop and observe real behaviours.
Certified facilitators gain access to a portfolio of strategic thinking games and game-based tools that can be used across learning interventions focused on areas such as problem-solving, strategic thinking, decision-making, collaboration, planning, adaptability, and leadership development.
It is designed for facilitators who want to move beyond presentation-led learning and build a stronger game-based learning capability into their professional toolkit.
Request the SimuRise Accelium Facilitator Certification DetailsReady to Bring Business Simulations Into Your Facilitation?
Tell us which simulation or facilitator pathway you are interested in, and Team SimuRise will share the relevant details, format, facilitator requirements, and next steps.
Talk to SimuRiseFAQs About Experiential Learning Facilitators
More Business Simulations
