Pioneering the impact of behavioral change in L&D

Funded by Intel and Trinity College, ETU co-founders Declan Dagger and Vincent Wade researched and developed the early adaptive eLearning systems; shifting from one-size fits all didactic teaching to personalize the pace, content and style of teaching to the preferences of the individual learner. While delivering exceptional learner experiences, a critical ingredient for skills development was missing: experiential learning or learning-by-doing. Partnering with Michael Gill and Brian Fitzmaurice, ETU pivoted its research focus into adaptive simulations. When lives depend on it or something is mission critical, simulation is always the go-to training method. That’s why the military, airline, space and medical industries use simulation as their core training method. However, simulation was expensive, difficult to develop, and almost impossible to scale globally. ETU set about solving these challenges.

With investment from City & Guilds, LEAF and Enterprise Ireland, ETU spun out of Trinity College to commercialize its ground-breaking technology and methods for building, delivering and analyzing simulations, at scale. During this period, and based on an intensive customer success program, ETU researched, developed and validated advanced techniques for accurately and precisely measuring human behavior through simulation. This unique capability now underpins ETU’s Measure- Learn-Perform methodology, providing unrivaled abilities to optimize employee behavior to drive learning and business outcomes, on a global scale.

As ETU’s simulation technology and methodology continued to advance, its application expanded further across the talent development lifecycle into areas such as onboarding, compliance, ethics, risk, leadership, sales and customer service. With large strategic rollouts completed, ETU’s ability to deliver game-changing behavioral solutions that deliver measurable business impact on a global scale was proven.

ETU now has a positive impact on the lives and careers of millions of learners around the world. We are honored with the opportunity to partner with and deliver exceptional value to an impressive list of Fortune 100 and global organizations. Helping our customers deploy advanced behavioral solutions to their most pressing challenges while delivering measurable business impact is incredibly rewarding. As we continue our exponential growth, ETU remains committed to investing in and delivering groundbreaking innovations in behavioral assessment and learning to global organizations.