Listen to this articleAcademy Xi, a future focused education company educating individuals and companies in design and emerging technology, has announced a $2.25 Million Series A funding round. Below is our recent interview with Charbel Zeaiter, Co-founder and Chief Experience Officer at Academy Xi:
Q: How would you describe Academy Xi in your own words?
A: Academy Xi is the School of the Future, teaching short, practical and skill-specific courses for people or companies wanting to upgrade their capabilities in design and innovation. We’ve delivered a number of custom team training packages, as well as many successful short courses for individuals.
Technology is rapidly evolving, causing a significant skills gap. The demand for skills is insatiable and is growing. There is a shortage of skilled digital talent with over 250,000 hybrid jobs unfilled in 2015. Traditional education models are not able to support this growth
With our dynamically changing curriculum, we teach current, in demand skills to transform individual careers whilst integrating new learnings about emerging markets and future technologies.
We’re driven by a great purpose: Xi Act, our socially focused community pillar. With our vision to change the world through education, Academy Xi partners with existing Social Impact organisations such as Remarkable, Cerebral Palsy Alliance, OpenIDEO and WWF to collaborate on projects.
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Q: What type of courses do you offer?
A: Each quarter, we update our range of future focused courses to ensure participants stay up to date with the latest tools and techniques. The skills we teach are about innovating services, products and experiences. Our key disciplines are:
Service Design
UX Design
Virtual Reality Design
Augmented Reality Design (launching soon)
Growth Marketing
Product Management
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Q: What are the advantages of training in team?
A: Our Team Training programs are short, focused, high-energy and customised to specific business needs to develop large scale changes in company capability.
Structured with a deliberate, interactive learning, teams learn with practical activities integrated into the theoretical content, learning new skills during the program.
Our programs are designed to deliver the most effective, efficient and beneficial way to help your company create and retain value, often using the training to solve a real business or client problem, thereby getting maximum return on the training investment.
We’re here to teach, practice, support and embed new ways of working and new ways to prepare you and your company for the future.
Q: What can we expect from you in the next six months?
A: There are two goals for this investment. First is to drive talent development into the Australian corporate and startup ecosystems within Sydney and Melbourne, while setting foundations for expanding into Singapore and Brisbane markets. Secondly, we are creating a world-class learning platform for our students and key partners.
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