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Cost management, taught through practice

  • Step-by-step workshops grounded in real budgeting scenarios
  • Participants from every county, no commute required
  • Skills you can apply to an actual project within days
Workshop participants working through a cost management exercise together

Where the idea started

Cost management is one of those subjects that most people encounter too late — after a project has already gone over budget, or after a business decision has quietly eroded margin for months. Wexvontia Hex was built to change that timing.

Practical skill over theoretical knowledge — that phrase guided every decision about how these workshops are structured. Each session centres on a real scenario: a procurement decision with competing suppliers, a project budget with unexpected scope creep, a pricing model that needs rebuilding from scratch.

Geography should not determine who gets access to quality training. Operating fully online means a participant in Donegal works through the same exercises, gets the same feedback, and builds the same skills as someone based in Cork or Kilkenny.

Online workshop session showing collaborative cost analysis in progress

The people who run the workshops

Orlaith Fennelly

Lead Instructor — Cost Management

Spent twelve years in procurement and financial planning before moving into education. Designs the core workshop exercises and leads the live sessions on budgeting and variance analysis.

Tadgh Ó Briain

Workshop Facilitator

Focuses on the collaborative exercises and small-group feedback. Brings a background in project cost control across construction and IT sectors, which keeps the scenarios grounded in how costs actually behave.

Siobhán Cullinane

Curriculum Designer

Builds the assignment sequences and ensures each step connects logically to the next. Her process means participants rarely feel lost — the difficulty increases gradually, with enough context at each stage to keep moving.

Fionnuala Reardon

Participant Support

Handles onboarding, technical questions, and the between-session check-ins that help participants stay on track. Available by email and during open office hours each week.

Instructor reviewing cost data with a workshop participant during a live online session

How the workshops are structured

Each workshop follows the same basic logic: introduce a cost problem, work through it in stages, then review what the numbers actually revealed. There are no passive lectures — every session requires participants to make decisions and defend them.

  1. A real scenario is introduced with incomplete information, mirroring how cost problems arrive in practice
  2. Participants build out their analysis using the tools covered in that session
  3. Small groups compare approaches and identify where assumptions diverged