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C-Learn is now launching as a new digital learning platform, enabling companies and professionals to build practical and domain-specific competencies in contract management—when and where it suits them.
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Contract management is playing an increasingly central role in modern organisations, as highlighted in NSCCM’s latest analysis of contract management in Denmark from October 2025. At the same time, the complexity of day-to-day contract management continues to grow: more complex agreements, increasing regulatory requirements and new demands related to compliance, cybersecurity, and data protection, more volatile markets, and the rapid emergence of new technologies and AI. Together, these developments are placing new—and different—pressures on organisations working with contracts.
As a result, many organisations find themselves lacking the competencies needed to manage and govern contracts effectively in this new reality.
This is the challenge that the new learning platform C-Learn aims to address.
C-Learn is a digital platform offering practice-oriented online training in contract management. The goal is to make it easier for both organisations and professionals to build the competencies required to work with contracts in a value-creating and practical way—tailored to their specific contract management reality.
Co-founder René Franz Henschel explains:
“Contract management is becoming increasingly specialised and complex. Many organisations find that traditional learning formats do not always match the real-world challenges employees face—especially as contracts become more technology-driven, regulatory, and domain-specific.”
While many existing contract management courses tend to focus heavily on theory, C-Learn takes a different approach. While recognising the importance of deep subject-matter expertise—such as that offered by partner institution NSCCM—C-Learn’s clear ambition is to create learning that can be applied directly in practice.
This is particularly relevant when it comes to operationalising regulatory requirements in concrete contract and collaboration processes.
The platform’s courses are based on the international Contract Management Standard (CMS) from National Contract Management Association, but are translated into domain-specific training with real-life cases, work situations, and tools that participants can use directly in their day-to-day work.
Co-founder Peter Due Yding highlights the value of this practical format:
“C-Learn has the potential to bridge the gap between theory and reality by combining some of the most experienced practitioners with a format that is visual, structured, and accessible. At the same time, I hope it can help reshape expectations of the contract management discipline—making it more hands-on, more visual, and far more applicable in everyday work.”
C-Learn is designed as a flexible learning solution, allowing users to decide their own pace and timing. The courses are modular and can be tailored to both individual needs and organisational competency development.
This makes it possible to integrate learning into a busy workday without compromising on quality.
The platform aims to offer a broad and domain-specific course catalogue, targeting contract managers, procurement professionals, legal specialists, project managers, and others responsible for contracts and commercial relationships.
Co-founder Pauline Moltke Thybo adds:
“C-Learn combines high-quality, practical learning with strong contract management principles, implementation of best-practice ways of working, and an engaging learning design. It helps build strong competencies and working practices across teams—not just in theory, but in a way that improves day-to-day performance and supports successful and sustainable change.”
C-Learn offers not only individual courses but also company-specific learning programmes, where content can be tailored to the organisation’s specific needs and processes.
The ambition is to strengthen organisations’ overall contract management capability—reducing risk, improving collaboration, and increasing value creation in contract work.
Co-founder Gert Grann Jacobsen says:
“C-Learn aims to renew the market for contract management training. We offer high-quality, affordable online training programmes that can be completed individually or as part of blended learning formats. All instructors at C-Learn are experienced practitioners with expertise across the entire contract lifecycle—from analysis and negotiation to implementation and ongoing management.”
Behind C-Learn is a team with diverse experience in contract and commercial management, united by a shared ambition to make the discipline more applicable in practice.
Professor René Franz Henschel brings many years of experience in research, teaching, and development of contract management as a discipline through, among others, NSCCM. He is also one of the few individuals in Denmark recognised as a Fellow by World Commerce & Contracting.
Gert Grann Jacobsen contributes extensive experience from leadership roles in international companies such as SimCorp, as well as many years working with commercial contracts, negotiation, and implementation in practice.
Pauline Moltke Thybo brings broad experience in learning design and organisational implementation of new ways of working and change management, while Peter Due Yding has specialised for years in contract design and visualisation of complex contracts through VIXCO.
Together, the ambition is to make competency development in contract management more flexible, practical, and relevant to the reality organisations face.
Contract management is a growing discipline across industries, but it is still characterised by a lack of standardisation and structured competency development.
With C-Learn, the ambition is to contribute to a higher level of professionalisation through structured, accessible, and practice-oriented learning.
