Independent training cost review
Your training budget shows course spend. Not what training really costs.
SKUA reviews your training matrix, actual spend, travel, downtime and governance to identify avoidable cost and risk — and turns the findings into a prioritised management action plan.
Total cost and leakage baselineRisk and governance priorities30 / 60 / 90-day action plan
Independent. Provider-agnostic. No incentive to sell more training.
The business impact
The invoice is only the visible cost.
Illustrative scenario: one employee, one two-day course. The decision changes when travel, downtime and administration are included.
If one unnecessary recurring requirement applies to 80 people, an illustrative €3,100 impact per person represents up to €248,000 per training cycle.
Illustrative scenario only. A SKUA review validates the actual impact using matrix, spend, travel and operational data.
If only the invoice is reviewed, the real cost stays unmanaged.
How a SKUA Review works
From fragmented inputs to a management action plan.
The Training Cost Governance Review examines the matrix and the cost and governance system around it.
You provide
Current training reality
- Training matrix
- Spend and provider data
- Travel and downtime information
- Expiry and governance information
SKUA analyses
Cost, risk and control
- Role and requirement logic
- Total business cost
- Duplication and avoidable activity
- Risk, ownership and controls
Leadership receives
Decision-ready output
- Executive decision pack
- Quantified opportunity range
- Risk and mobilisation priorities
- 30 / 60 / 90-day action plan
What the customer receives
A board-ready view of cost, risk and action.
The Review converts fragmented matrix, spend, travel and governance information into one executive decision pack.
One view of what is costing money, what creates risk and what leadership should do next.
Training Cost Governance Review
Executive decision packStopSimplifyConsolidateMonitor
M Matrix QualityA Actual SpendT Travel & DowntimeR Risk & Governance
M.A.T.R. is the diagnostic structure used to produce the decision pack. It is not a separate product.
Why SKUA
Built on 12 years inside complex training operations.
SKUA was founded by Tiemen van der Linden, a former Operations Director with 12 years of hands-on experience in training, competence and skills assurance.
Before founding SKUA, he reviewed more than 100 training matrices across clients, rigs, platforms and site locations, led multiple matrix and TMS implementations, and built training management teams responsible for cost control, delivery and compliance.
12 years
inside training operations
Hands-on experience across training matrices, skills assurance, TMS implementations and training management.
100+
training matrix reviews
Across clients, rigs, platforms and site locations — often repeated as roles, requirements and operations changed.
$20M+
annual training spend
Experience in organisations where training decisions carried significant financial and operational consequences.
500+ locations
250,000 people
At peak, the training and competence data environment covered more than 500 platforms and site locations, representing approximately 250,000 people.
Independent by design
Experience shows us where to look. Independence allows us to challenge what we find.
SKUA does not sell courses. Its role is to determine which requirements are necessary, where cost is leaking and how matrix governance and training delivery can improve.
Enterprise matrix experience. Operational delivery knowledge. Provider-agnostic advice.
Start here
Before cutting training, understand the system driving the cost.
The free tools are initial signals, not the full SKUA Review. Start with the Training Spend Leakage Scan if you want to qualify potential cost and governance pressure.
Free qualification tool
Training Spend Leakage Scan
Identifies whether a Training Cost Governance Review is likely to be relevant.Start the free Leakage Scan →Free operational calculator