WHAT IF LEADERSHIP TRAINING WAS HARD TO RESIST AND EVEN HARDER TO FORGET?

We believe that it doesn’t have to take a lifetime to master core skills that make a leader and their business successful. Learning how to handle sensitive conversations, how to coach and develop people, or communicate with impact can all be fast-tracked.

Pilots, firefighters and surgeons spend long hours in simulators to gain critical experience safely, so that they can perform to exacting standards in real life.

We use the magic of virtual reality to enable leaders to do the same – to safely practice core skills, so that employees and businesses can achieve peak performance sooner.

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WHY VR

Tell me and I’ll forget.
Show me and I may not remember;
involve me, and I’ll understand.
- Confucius

EMPOWERING THE BRAIN

Only Sci-fi heroes can upload new skills to their brains in seconds. Yet, we live in an age of technological miracles where the human brain can be enabled to do much more under the right learning conditions. And that’s our raison d’être: Metasim’s immersive learning platform empowers the brain, helping it learn faster and act smarter.

WORKS
LIKE SCIENCE

  • VR engages all four of our brain’s learning systems in synchrony, improving recall, retention, motivation and confidence.
  • VR helps the brain build rich contextual connections, dramatically improving situational awareness.
  • VR trains the brain using real-time rewarding or corrective feedback.
  • VR enables the brain to transform passive knowledge into active patterns of behaviour. (a visual representation of the brain with marked the relevant parts, responsible for the different learning systems – experiential, cognitive, behavioural, and emotional)
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FEELS LIKE MAGIC

The amazing thing about Metasim? You get to experience first-hand what it’s like to be a better manager. Learning by doing. Like in real life, but without the paralysing fear of emotional fallout or embarrassment that can be detrimental to customer and workplace relationships.

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THE PRODUCT

WHAT’S THE PRODUCT?

Our product is an experiential learning program that teaches first-line and middle managers foundational leadership skills like effective feedback, developmental coaching, and impactful communication. Each program module immerses leaders in a powerful virtual reality simulation, where they learn safely to vary their approach in sensitive scenarios to achieve optimal outcomes, replacing years of bruising trial and error on the job.

WHAT OUTCOMES CAN WE EXPECT?

Every manager that completes the program will demonstrate enhanced confidence and ability to provide effective feedback, developmental coaching, and verbal communication. As they complete each program module, you can expect an immediate increase in managers’ engagement and confidence levels. The next lead indicator to move up will be employee engagement scores in the trained managers’ teams, followed by decreased attrition and increased productivity.

MASTERING EFFECTIVE FEEDBACK

The first module of our foundational leadership skills program for first-line and middle managers focuses on one of the most effective and universally applicable workplace skills – giving feedback.

KNOWING HOW TO GIVE CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK IS A SUPERPOWER

In this immersive, gamified simulation, managers cover industry best practices with one of our digital instructors, Sally, and then explore and practice different approaches to giving and seeking feedback with their employee, David.

MAKE FEEDBACK SOMETHING EVERYONE LOOKS FOR

Being good at feedback allows leaders to maintain a meaningful connection with their teams and inspire higher engagement, productivity, and talent retention. It also makes them 3x more likely to have engaged teams.

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COACHING FOR GROWTH

COACHING IS THE UNIVERSAL TOOL FOR CHANGE AND LEARNING

The second module of our foundational leadership skills program for first-line and middle managers focuses on one of the most powerful and accessible tools in developing others – coaching.

Managers are immersed in a powerful simulation where one of our digital instructors, Kate, helps them learn to identify coaching opportunities and conduct powerful developmental conversations with their employee, Susan, while avoiding the typical coaching mistakes.

GREAT MANAGERS ARE COACHES, NOT BOSSES

They masterfully use developmental feedback to gradually accelerate their team’s potential, boosting engagement and performance. Employees who know and use their strengths average 10% to 19% increased sales and 14% to 29% increased profit.

COMMUNICATING WITH IMPACT

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IN YOUR COMPANY

IT TAKES ONE BOLD PIONEER TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF A COMPANY

Metasim is right on the bleeding edge – there are not many companies out there who do what we do, and even fewer who take such a unique approach. We know that stepping into the future can feel intimidating.However, we believe that every company and every team has at least one visionary capable of seeing the potential of fresh, bold ways to develop managers better and faster.

If you are that person, we’d love to get to know you and send you one of our latest VR headsets, so that you can experience the magic of our learning experiences firsthand.

EASY, EXCITING, RISK-FREE

THE ONLY EQUIPMENT YOU’LL NEED IS YOUR CURIOSITY. THE REST IS ON US.
  • STEP 1:Be a pioneer and Request a Demo. It’s easier than you think!
  • STEP 2:We’ll arrange an intro call and then send you a headset to try. Our program is designed for the hybrid workplace. Learners access the experience via a virtual reality headset, which Metasim can deliver to the learner’s office or home.
  • STEP 3:Immerse yourself into the Metasim learning experience. Feel attitudes transform and knowledge solidify; theory becoming skill through practice. 
  • STEP 4:After the demo, we expect you’ll be brimming with questions. Talk to us. We’ll help you set up a pilot with ease, and guide you every step of the way.
  • STEP 5:If you don’t have a VR fleet right now, don’t worry! We’ll be happy to lease you the VR headsets and manage logistics. We offer VR as a service for clients who require it – hardware, logistics, and support. And we’ll work with your IT department to onboard and implement.
  • STEP 6:Relax and enjoy the outcome. Metasim guides learners every step of the way – from onboarding to scheduling a step-by-step learning journey – and makes detailed progress reports available to the learners and their employers.

HOW THE LEARNING UNFOLDS

METASIM’S VR LEARNING ALTERNATES REGULARLY BETWEEN TEACHING AND PRACTICE – EVERYTHING YOU LEARN IS IMMEDIATELY PUT TO GOOD USE.
1_A Metasim Product Sally crop in

Hi! I’m Sally and I’m here to take you through theory and best practice.

2_B Metasim Product David edit

And I’m David – one of the many characters you’ll be practising with face-to-face.

3_E Susan and Michel_scene observation edit

We are Susan and Michael – co-workers on the same team. We’ll help you see how a workplace situation can dramatically change outcome, depending on the style of feedback used.

4_Metasim Product Simulation David edit

Practising with me you’ll have hundreds of potential conversation approaches to use, all selected live with your voice!

5_Metasim Product Simulation Reaction To User edit

Every choice you make will impact my reaction and the outcome of the whole conversation.

6_D Metasim Product Sally Scoring edit

At the end of each practice, you’ll be able to see how you scored. Relax! No one will judge you and you’ll be competing only with yourself. And with each turn you’ll get better at Mastering Effective Feedback.

ABOUT

OUR MISSION: LEARNING REIMAGINED

With the power of technology Metasim transforms the way people learn and apply knowledge in the workplace. Through VR we engage the learning brain in a powerful way, helping leaders acquire key capabilities faster and unleash the full scale of their potential.

OUR TEAM

The team behind Metasim is a blend of VR magicians, creatives and business minds – all industry professionals with many years of experience in VR, training and developing people.

Mitko Yankov

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

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Mitko Yankov

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

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Mitko is the co-founder and CEO of Metasim, a people development company that combines technology with behavioural science to dramatically accelerate the learning curve for critical leadership skills.

Mitko is a seasoned commercial leader with nearly three decades of running businesses, building products and developing high-performing teams. Before starting Metasim, he was running a $2Bln product line at Refinitiv.

Stephen Bowman

Co-founder & Chief Product Officer

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Stephen Bowman

Co-founder & Chief Product Officer

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Stephen is the co-founder and CPO of Metasim, a people development company that combines technology with behavioural science to dramatically accelerate the learning curve for critical leadership skills.

A serial technology entrepreneur and vivid VR advocate, Stephen has led multiple VR projects, working with some of the world’s largest brands. Stephen has linked VR developers, hardware manufacturers, marketing teams, and events specialists from initial concept to public rollout to achieve great customer outcomes. Stephen is a regular keynote speaker on applied virtual reality at VR conferences in the UK, US and Asia.

Geri Valova

Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer

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Geri Valova

Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer

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Geri is the co-founder and COO of Metasim, a people development company that combines technology with behavioural science to dramatically accelerate the learning curve for critical leadership skills.

An entrepreneur at heart, Geri is well versed in enterprise business development. She has built several successful businesses in Advisory and Well-being throughout her two decades in those industries. Geri is a seasoned general manager with in-depth business execution and organisational effectiveness expertise.

Dimo Chotrov

Chief Technology Officer

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Dimo Chotrov

Chief Technology Officer

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As Metasim CTO, Dimo provides technical leadership in all aspects of the business and is directly responsible for product engineering.

Dimo is one of the leading experts in Virtual and Augmented Reality in Bulgaria. He is an experienced software developer and renowned university lecturer, teaching classes in Programming, Computer Graphics, Game Development, VR and Virtual Engineering. Dimo holds a master’s degree in Computer Systems & Technologies and a PhD in Integrating Engineering and Virtual Reality Applications from the Technical University in Sofia.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Mitko Yankov

Chair of the Board

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Geri Valova

Board Member

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Vassil Terziev

Board Member

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Kayee Cheung

Board Member

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Hristo Manov

Board Member

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