Export Training Academy to Return for Fifth Season in 2025

27 November 2024

Chamber International’s Excellence Academy will welcome a fifth cohort of delegates in the spring, and bookings are being received already. 

Taking place on six mornings spread across two months, the Academy is a very different kind of practical export training programme for international trade professionals. Launched in September 2022 to strengthen the skills of British exporters, it teaches proficiency in practical aspects of exporting, enabling delegates to adapt to the challenges posed by today’s international trade environment.  It is accredited by British Chambers of Commerce, and run by Chamber International in partnership with Germany-based training and assessment provider Fidelitas Training. 

This time, participation in this popular training program will be limited to just eight people, in order to ensure even closer professional mentoring throughout – both inside and outside the class. 

The Academy will start on 12 February and conclude on 27 March.  

To-date, 28 export practitioners from a wide range of businesses, including Aerovac, Verder Scientific, and custom furniture maker NaughtOne, have successfully graduated from the Academy and seen it transform the way they export - reducing costs and improving compliance.

 “The fact that we are now being asked to run the Excellence Academy for a fifth time in just three years shows what a demand there is among exporters for this kind of long-form training.  The format enables the trainers to understand even more deeply the unique challenges that each participant company faces, and the mentoring arrangement give the participants the support they need in order to bring about real change in their work places.  It has the power to make businesses into examples of best practice, in the field of exporting”, says CI’s Trade Procedures Manager Sam Paley.  “I am looking forward to seeing the makeup of the next cohort, because it’s different each time – though our trainers are the same, the combination of people and businesses makes every Excellence Academy unique”.

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