About Xcelus: Scenario-Based Compliance Training Experts

Why Scenarios — A Personal Story from Founder Todd Corbett

That’s not a metaphor. It happened. And it’s the most honest explanation of why Xcelus builds training the way it does.

Scenario-based learning works because of how human recognition actually functions. Abstract rules are hard to recall under pressure. Situations you’ve practiced — even in a training environment — leave a cognitive trace that activates when a similar situation appears in real life. That recognition is the difference between knowing a compliance policy and actually applying it when a vendor offers an unusual gift or a manager makes a questionable request.

Todd Corbett founded Xcelus in 2005 with that principle at the center of every course we build.

Todd Corbett, MBA — Founder and Principal

Todd is a global learning and development leader with 21+ years of experience designing enterprise-scale compliance, sales, and technology training programs. Before founding Xcelus, he held senior roles at Hitachi Vantara, where he managed the global sales enablement portfolio and co-created the Hitachi Sales Academy boot camp for onboarding international sales teams; at SmartForce, one of the earliest pioneers of enterprise eLearning, where he oversaw global channel training programs across EMEA, APAC, and LATAM; and at EFS, where he led a 17-person training division.

He holds an MBA from Brigham Young University and a BS in Accounting from Utah State University.

Awards and Recognition

• Gold Stevie Award — Code of Conduct Training Video
• Gold Stevie Award — Corporate Training Project
• Silver Stevie Award — Corporate Training Project
• Bronze Stevie Award — Continuous Improvement Training Video
• Silver Telly Award — Code of Conduct Training Video
• Supplier of the Year — Life Technologies (now Thermo Fisher Scientific)

What Xcelus Does

Xcelus develops scenario-based compliance training for enterprise organizations. Each course places employees inside a realistic workplace situation — a vendor offering an unusual gift, a manager asking a questionable favor, a conversation edging toward inside information — and asks them to make a decision.

That decision-making practice builds the risk recognition skills that policy reading alone cannot develop. Employees who have practiced recognizing a compliance risk in a training scenario are better equipped to recognize it when it appears in real life.

Learn more about how this works on our How Compliance Training Works methodology page.

Scale and Experience

• 21+ years building compliance and ethics training
• 400,000+ employees trained annually
• 25+ countries — multilingual delivery with a 70% translation cost reduction through an internal workflow
• Named clients include: Hitachi / Hitachi Vantara, AXA XL, Ionis Pharmaceuticals, NuVasive, Yanfeng, Patterson-UTI, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, TuneProtect, Eurowag, Crinetics, and others

Our Approach

Most compliance programs do a good job explaining company policies during annual training. The challenge is that most compliance incidents don’t happen because employees don’t know the rules. They happen because employees fail to recognize a compliance risk in the middle of a normal business situation.

Xcelus builds training that addresses that recognition gap — placing employees inside the situations they actually face and asking them to practice making the right call before they encounter it in real life.

We also believe annual training alone is insufficient. Our Compliance Reinforcement Cycle™ deploys short scenario reminders throughout the year, keeping compliance expectations active between annual training events. Employees who completed a course in January should still recognize the same risk in November.

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