David Whitney

David Whitney is a finance trainer who makes business numbers understandable, relevant, and useful for non-financial audiences. With 18 years of experience across finance, operations, and leadership development, he helps managers gain the confidence to engage with budgets, forecasts, profitability, and cost decisions without feeling intimidated. David is practical, down-to-earth, and refreshingly clear. His sessions avoid unnecessary jargon and focus on the metrics, conversations, and decision points that managers actually face. He is popular with technical and operational teams that need to become more commercially aware. David has delivered programmes for manufacturing, engineering, healthcare, education, logistics, and service-based businesses.