What if training wasn’t just a chore but something genuinely engaging? Maybe interactive, gamified content that actually gets people excited? It’s not just a nice idea; it’s backed by numbers. A 2019 study saw a whopping 89 percent of employees report feeling more productive at work when gamification is incorporated into their tasks, and 88 percent even say it makes them happier.

Even more important, one-third of respondents said they were keen on more game-like training features. But the real kicker? While 83 percent of those who experience gamified training said they’re more motivated and energized, 61 percent of respondents experiencing traditional, non-gamified version end up feeling bored. It’s clear: Making training interactive is not just a win; it’s a game-changer.

With this in mind, OpenSesame is thrilled to announce the addition of a new publisher to our OpenSesame Plus subscription: E-SEC, a pioneer in compliance and business skills training.

Essential training with an interactive twist

E-SEC stands out in the elearning landscape with over a decade of experience in crafting innovative 3D elearning and training products. Their courses are offered in multiple languages, including English, French, German, and Italian. These materials aren’t just informative, they’re also designed to be engaging and concise, with an average course length of just 15 minutes.

Here’s why we’re so excited about adding E-SEC to our marketplace. First, their use of 3D animations and simulations takes elearning to a new dimension. This immersive approach not only enhances engagement but also aids in better retention of complex concepts. E-SEC’s gamification with branching choices introduces a level of interactivity that’s rare in elearning—this method aligns with the evidence that gamified learning can boost motivation and enhance retention.

E-SEC also understands the importance of assessment and supplemental resources. Post-assessment tools check learner comprehension, while supplemental resources provide more avenues to explore topics in depth.

Among their top courses are timely and relevant subjects like:

• Cyber Security
• Working from Home: Digital Security
• Whistleblowing

These courses embody E-SEC’s belief that elearning experiences should be more than educational, they need to be engaging and relevant to today’s corporate landscape, too.

At OpenSesame, we share that belief whole-heartedly, and are so pleased to welcome E-SEC into the Plus subscription. Browse our catalog and preview the innovative and engaging courses from E-SEC—compliance and business skill training just got a whole lot more interesting.

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Portland, OR – 11 March 2021 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of The Galvanizing Group to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription. The partnership expands OpenSesame’s curated library of courses designed to sharpen critical business relationship building skills.

“Strong, trust-based relationships are key to personal and professional success,” said Patrick Galvin, Chief Galvanizer of The Galvanizing Group. “Relationship building is integral to the advancement of successful and productive teams in every industry worldwide. Together with OpenSesame, we will transform organizations by transforming the way people build and maintain relationships.”

Applying the timeless principles of Patrick Galvin’s best-selling book, The Connector’s Way, The Galvanizing Group helps high-performance companies and teams grow bottom line results through better internal and external relationships. In OpenSesame, it sees a global partner committed to developing online learning programs that deliver a systematic and measurable approach to business relationship building.

“Relationship building—specifically, connecting—is a skilled activity that can be learned, improved, and measured,” said Spencer Thornton, Senior Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “In an increasingly virtual world, making meaningful connections is more important than ever.  We are delighted to make The Galvanizing Group’s interactive and user-friendly elearning courses available to our OpenSesame Plus subscription customers.” 

“Everything in business is connected to other people,” concluded Galvin. “We’re thrilled to be working with OpenSesame and its team of smart and talented individuals who are committed to building strong relationships and serving the needs of its customers and publishers.”

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About OpenSesame

OpenSesame helps develop the world’s most productive and admired workforces. With the most comprehensive catalog of elearning courses from the world’s top publishers, we are here to help you every step of the way, from finding courses, mapping them to your core competencies, syncing them with your LMS to increasing utilization and improving your L&D programs. Not only will you have the flexibility of multiple purchasing options from OpenSesame, you’ll find it simple to use and administer your elearning courses. To learn more, visit www.opensesame.com.

About The Galvanizing Group

The Galvanizing Group, www.thegalvanizinggroup.com, is a Portland, Oregon-based learning and development company that helps high-performance companies and teams grow bottom line results through better internal and external relationships. Our innovative coaching, training, and online learning programs deliver a systematic and measurable approach to business relationship building that is used by growing businesses and Fortune 100 companies selling products and services B2B and B2C.

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Portland, OR – 24 March 2021 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of Trüpp to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to further expand its library of business skills, management and compliance training. 

Trüpp’s online courses are at the forefront of modern instructional design; incorporating contemporary imagery, video, and interactive design elements, that provide a user experience similar to the way a person generally navigates and consumes web content. The curriculum takes a refreshing and action-oriented approach, with effective tools and takeaways that can be applied in any workplace.

“As we continue to grow our catalog, modern interfaces that cover key topics are essential for next-generation learners,” said Spencer Thornton, Senior Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “By using an approachable tone and relevant examples grounded in real-world experiences, Trüpp creates elearning content that resonates with and inspires learners. We’re excited to make their engaging and interactive courses available to our customers as part of the OpenSesame Plus catalog.” 

“OpenSesame’s dedication to providing high-quality content and an engaging learner experience aligns perfectly with Trüpp’s commitment to making premier elearning courses for HR compliance, manager development, and other workplace topics,” said Jean Roque, President/CEO of Trüpp. “Unlike elearning aggregators that prioritize quantity over quality, we appreciate how OpenSesame sets itself apart by providing a carefully curated course library that reflects the modern-day workplace. Trüpp’s partnership with OpenSesame enables our elearning courses to easily reach a broader audience, and the feedback from OpenSesame and its customers informs our course development priorities.” 

Click here to view all Trüpp courses available exclusively from OpenSesame.

About OpenSesame

OpenSesame helps develop the world’s most productive and admired workforces. With the most comprehensive catalog of elearning courses from the world’s top publishers, we are here to help you every step of the way, from finding courses, mapping them to your core competencies, syncing them with your LMS to increasing utilization and improving your L&D programs. Not only will you have the flexibility of multiple purchasing options from OpenSesame, you’ll find it simple to use and administer your elearning courses. To learn more, visit www.opensesame.com

About Trüpp

Trüpp is an HR service provider focused on helping your business thrive! We offer a fresh, modern approach to online learning, presenting meaningful content that is both engaging and practical. Built upon the combined knowledge of an entire team of specialists with decades of experience in HR-related fields, Trüpp delivers reliable, compliant, and in-depth training that supports the success of your organization and its employees. Trüpp provides an eLearning curriculum focused on a range of employment and workplace topics, including manager training, respectful workplace training, compliance, and human resources training. To learn more, visit www.trupphr.com. 

Media contact:

Jessica Layfield

Customer Marketing and PR Manager

jessica.layfield@opensesame.com 

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Portland, OR – 23 March 2021 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of Mind Tools for Business to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to expand its selection of leadership, management and personal effectiveness online training courses.

“At Mind Tools for Business, we are proud of the essential role that our digital learning resources and tools play in so many of our clients’ learning ecosystem,” said Nahdia Khan, Head of Learning Community and Customer Voice at Mind Tools for Business. “We recognize that learning leaders worldwide are challenged to select the ‘best’ resources from a wide range of specialist providers, each excelling in their particular fields.”

Building on the belief that learning is a motivating enterprise, Mind Tools for Business offers interactive, relevant and thought-provoking content to stimulate employees, support change, and enable problem-solving. Mind Tools for Business views the inclusion of its content and tools in the OpenSesame Plus library as a testament to the quality and utility of its ready-to-use catalogue of learning content, tools and resources. 

“With its refreshingly rigorous standards of quality and effectiveness, only the best learning resources make it into OpenSesame Plus,” added Khan, “which means that learning leaders can be confident that the resources they source through this avenue will hit the mark for their people.”

“With the world of work constantly changing and evolving, companies need leaders who can confidently motivate and manage their teams in any situation or environment,” said Spencer Thornton, Senior Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “We are pleased to partner with Mind Tools for Business to make a selection of their vibrant and engaging leadership, management and personal effectiveness resources available to enterprise organisations everywhere through our OpenSesame Plus library.”

Click here to view all MindTools for Business courses available from OpenSesame.

About OpenSesame

OpenSesame helps develop the world’s most productive and admired workforces. With the most comprehensive catalog of elearning courses from the world’s top publishers, we are here to help you every step of the way, from finding courses, mapping them to your core competencies, syncing them with your LMS to increasing utilization and improving your L&D programs. Not only will you have the flexibility of multiple purchasing options from OpenSesame, you’ll find it simple to use and administer your elearning courses. To learn more, visit www.opensesame.com.

About Mind Tools for Business

Mind Tools for Business by Emerald Works is a global business with a passion for making a difference and changing lives through learning. Working in partnership with our clients, we provide opportunities for people to grow and impact society in a way that helps build a prosperous future for all. 

Mind Tools for Business by Emerald Works believes when people are inspired to learn they are empowered to thrive and develop – achieving more for themselves, for their communities and for their economies. This motivates us, unites us and inspires us in pursuit of our mission to empower people to flourish at work through practical workplace performance tools and resources.

Visit www.emeraldworks.com/mind-tools-for-business to learn more about our performance tools and resources.

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Portland, OR – 16 March 2021 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of Everything is on the Record to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to deliver timely training about communicating in a digital world that sees all, hears all and tells all.

Everything Is On The Record leverages the decades of experience its training coaches have had in boardrooms, locker rooms and newsrooms to teach professional athletes and sports teams how to use the press and social media to their advantage. Working with the elearning experts at OpenSesame, they turned Everything Is On The Record’s coaching sessions into engaging on-demand online courses that help leaders, managers, and employees become more effective communicators both online and in person.

“We have known for a while that our media training, executive consultation and insight into effectively and safely using social media platforms could be extremely beneficial to an audience well beyond the highly demanding people and organizations we’ve worked with over the years in professional sports,” said Ric Bucher, well-known sports personality and partner in Everything Is On The Record. “OpenSesame provided the ideal platform to reach that audience. Their guidance and technical expertise in shaping our content to be digestible, informative and entertaining was indispensable. We are excited about becoming an ever-growing part of their global catalogue.”   

Everything Is On The Record’s courses engage learners with presenter-style videos that draw cautionary tales from real-world social media events, as well as quizzes, prompts and self-reflection activities. Subjects include understanding the crossover between a corporate and personal brand, simple steps to help you post more effectively and safely, scrubbing your social media, controlling media interviews, presenting yourself in meetings, and handling inappropriate social media posts by employees.

“Even though these platforms have been part of our daily routines for years now, very few people have actually had any formal instruction about how to harness the power of social media while avoiding the pitfalls of accidentally going viral,” said Spencer Thornton, Senior Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “We are delighted to bring Everything Is On The Record’s unique perspective on media relations, social media and branding to our customers as elearning courses in our catalog.”

Click here to view all Everything Is On The Record courses available exclusively from OpenSesame.

About OpenSesame

OpenSesame helps develop the world’s most productive and admired workforces. With the most comprehensive catalog of elearning courses from the world’s top publishers, we are here to help you every step of the way, from finding courses, mapping them to your core competencies, syncing them with your LMS to increasing utilization and improving your L&D programs. Not only will you have the flexibility of multiple purchasing options from OpenSesame, you’ll find it simple to use and administer your elearning courses. To learn more, visit www.opensesame.com

About Everything Is On The Record

Everything Is On The Record is a media training consultancy. Their team of experts educates CEOs, coaches, athletes and media personalities how not only to survive but thrive in a world where EVERYTHING is on the record. To learn more visit www.everythingisontherecord.com.

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Portland, OR – 28 September 2020 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of UK-based publisher Skillshub to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription, expanding its curated library of engaging business, sales and leadership courses.

Skillshub leverages the most up-to-date research on modern-day learning methods to create training that actually sticks. Offering a mixture of motion graphics, presenter-led and animation formats, Skillshub’s library of over 500 elearning courses are written by L&D professionals — not programmers — with the goal of improving performance. Their short sessions focus on one specific skill or behaviour at a time to maximize learner retention and deliver impactful, engaging learning experiences ideal for the ever-increasing workloads employees face.

“Skillshub offers an extensive collection of sales effectiveness content for both new and seasoned sales professionals.” said Spencer Thornton, Senior Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “We know this is a critical and growing need for many of our customers.”

“OpenSesame includes only the highest-quality courses in its elearning catalog, so getting their stamp of approval in offering Skillshub courses to their customers is an award in itself,” said Jenny Verman, Head of Digital Learning at Skillshub. “We look forward to growing our partnership and producing content relevant to both current workplace training needs and with the way the world changes in years to come.”

About OpenSesame
OpenSesame helps develop the world’s most productive and admired workforces. With the most comprehensive catalog of elearning courses from the world’s top publishers, we are here to help you every step of the way, from finding courses, mapping them to your core competencies, syncing them with your LMS to increasing utilization and improving your L&D programs. Not only will you have the flexibility of multiple purchasing options from OpenSesame, you’ll find it simple to use and administer your elearning courses. To learn more, visit www.opensesame.com.

About Skillshub
Skillshub is part of the 5 time award winning, MTD Training Group, who have trained staff for over 9000 organisations worldwide. Our off-the-shelf eLearning is written and developed by our In-house specialist training team and we’re experts in what we do. All of our eLearning courses are designed to be brain friendly and are focused on taking action back in the workplace. We’re an L&D Organisation, not a digital organisation and that makes a big difference to produce top quality content that is engaging and embedded by the learner with taking up minimal time of their working day. For more information visit: www.skillshub.com

Media contact:
Jessica Layfield
Customer Marketing and PR Manager
(971) 512-7742
jessica.layfield@opensesame.com

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Portland, Ore. — 1 July 2020 — OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced a strategic partnership with TED to premiere TED@Work, a new product suite for workplace learning, and to bring a selection of its content to the OpenSesame catalog. TED@Work aims to transform workplace learning by inspiring new ways of working in business-critical areas at all levels of organizations worldwide. 

TED, the nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, challenges conventions, shares solutions, and offers new perspectives in the form of TED Talks delivered by leading thinkers and doers.  With a signature blend of innovation, insight, and storytelling, TED@Work enhances Learning & Development programs by coupling curated TED Talks with a new, lightweight course experience providing actionable learning steps and additional resources. Learners will reflect on concepts, put ideas into action immediately, and understand new ways of working inspired by the idea. TED@Work also includes new turnkey resources to fuel discussion-based learning using TED Talks. Organizations can leverage the power of the TED brand to spark thoughtful discussions among teams. 

OpenSesame and TED will also be offering the TED Masterclass course for the LMS, an 11-lesson public speaking course designed to help learners identify, develop, and share their best ideas, inspired by Head of TED Chris Anderson’s best-selling book: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking. Short and powerful TED-Ed animations curated for business will also be made available through the OpenSesame Plus catalog and TED@Work.

“TED brings together individuals from every discipline and culture seeking a deeper understanding of the world,” said Don Spear, CEO at OpenSesame. “We are excited to bring the power of ideas through TED@Work to organizations so they can transform their workforces with unique training only available from TED.”

Colin Helms, TED’s Head of Media, said: “For years, Learning & Development professionals around the world have reached out to us inquiring how they could leverage the power of TED to enrich their learning programs. After two years of development, we are extremely proud to bring TED@Work to organizations. TED relies on strategic partners to help us expand our footprint, and we are excited to be premiering TED@Work with the elearning experts at OpenSesame.”

For more information, visit www.opensesame.com and tedatwork.ted.com. 

About OpenSesame

OpenSesame helps develop the world’s most productive and admired workforces. With the most comprehensive catalog of elearning courses from the world’s top publishers, we are here to help you every step of the way, from finding courses, mapping them to your core competencies, syncing them with your LMS to increasing utilization and improving your L&D programs. Not only will you have the flexibility of multiple purchasing options from OpenSesame, you’ll find it simple to use and administer your elearning courses. To learn more, visit www.opensesame.com.

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About TED

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, often in the form of short talks delivered by leading thinkers and doers. Many of these talks are given at TED conferences, intimate TED Salons and thousands of independently organized TEDx events around the world. Along with TED@Work, a program that reimagines TED Talks for workplace learning, TED’s other initiatives include: TEDx, which licenses thousands of individuals and groups to host local, self-organized TED-style events around the world; the TED Fellows program, which selects innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities; The Audacious Project, which surfaces and funds critical ideas that have the potential to impact millions of lives; TED Translate, which crowdsources the subtitling of TED Talks so that big ideas can spread across languages and borders; and the educational initiative TED-Ed. TED also has a growing library of original podcasts, including The TED Interview with Chris Anderson, TED Talks Daily, WorkLife with Adam Grant, Pindrop and TEDxSHORTS.

Follow TED on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and on LinkedIn.

Media contacts:

Jessica Layfield

(503) 808-1268

jessica.layfield@opensesame.com 

Erin Allweiss

No. 29 for TED

tedpress@thenumber29.com.

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Portland, Oregon — May 29, 2019 —  OpenSesame, the elearning innovator providing the world’s most comprehensive online catalog of curated employee training courses, today announced it raised a $28 million growth equity round led by FTV Capital. OpenSesame will use the proceeds to continue enhancing its machine learning-driven curation tools, expand its course offerings, and scale its sales and marketing functions to serve businesses worldwide. This funding round includes participation from existing investors including Altos Ventures. As part of the transaction, FTV partner Chris Winship will join the OpenSesame board of directors.

As workforce training rapidly shifts from classroom to online delivery, OpenSesame is disrupting the standard elearning model by curating the most comprehensive catalog of over 20,000 elearning courses from hundreds of the world’s top publishers and helping companies ensure the success of their training programs. OpenSesame helps businesses around the world find courses, map them to core competencies, sync them with a company’s learning management system (LMS) to increase utilization and improve learning & development (L&D) programs.  OpenSesame has flexible buying options to meet every training need, and the technology platform is simple to integrate and use. Leveraging machine learning and expert advisors, OpenSesame helps curate the best variety of courses for evolving enterprise training requirements, driving employee engagement and increasing elearning utilization. OpenSesame serves a wide range of clients, including governments and Global 2000 companies in services, manufacturing, technology, and highly regulated industries such as financial services and health care.

“Our goal is to make elearning accessible, convenient, and meaningful to all EnerSys employees.” said Drew Krajewski, director of global training & development for EnerSys, a Fortune 1000 OpenSesame customer. “Actual customer service of this caliber is a rarity, and OpenSesame does it right. We don’t consider OpenSesame a vendor. They’re our partner.”

“Based on FTV Capital’s long and successful enterprise SaaS investment track record, we are excited to have them lead our Series C funding,” said Don Spear, CEO of OpenSesame. “This investment coupled with their extensive network of strategic advisors will help OpenSesame to continue to rapidly grow and innovate to meet the constantly evolving training needs of our customers as they prepare their employees for the future of work.”

“Enterprises spend over $30 billion annually on external learning content and programs to maintain a highly skilled, competitive workforce, as well as to comply with complex regulatory requirements,” said Chris Winship, FTV Capital partner. “OpenSesame is capitalizing on key trends that are transforming the workplace, including a more mobile workforce, evolving millennial preferences and behaviors, and the rapid adoption of enabling technologies such as cloud and collaboration. We are extremely impressed with the OpenSesame management team, the market leading solution they have built and their outstanding growth trajectory, and we are excited to join forces in this next phase of growth.”

About OpenSesame

OpenSesame helps develop the world’s most productive and admired workforces. With the most comprehensive catalog of elearning courses from the world’s top publishers, we are here to help you every step of the way, from finding courses, mapping them to your core competencies, syncing them with your LMS to increasing utilization and improving your L&D programs. Not only will you have the flexibility of multiple purchasing options from OpenSesame, you’ll find it simple to use and administer your e-learning courses. To learn more, visit www.opensesame.com.

About FTV Capital

FTV Capital is a growth equity investment firm that has raised over $2.7 billion to invest in high-growth companies offering a range of innovative solutions in three sectors: enterprise technology & services, financial services and payments & transaction processing. FTV’s experienced team leverages its domain expertise and proven track record in each of these sectors to help motivated management teams accelerate growth. FTV also provides companies with access to its Global Partner Network®, a group of the world’s leading enterprises and executives who have helped FTV portfolio companies for two decades. Founded in 1998, FTV Capital has invested in 108 portfolio companies. FTV has offices in San Francisco and New York. For more information, visit www.ftvcapital.com.

Media contacts:

Laura Cruz, TenorPR for FTV Capital (917) 406-7517 laura@tenorpr.com

Diane Haines, OpenSesame (503) 808-1268 diane.haines@opensesame.com

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Portland, OR – May 17, 2019 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of UL to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to expand its global offering of curated safety and compliance training critical to enterprise organizations. Today’s highly technical and often hazardous work environments, combined with swiftly changing technology and increasingly stringent regulations, demand businesses provide thorough, industry-specific training to keep their employees safe and minimize risk.

The OpenSesame Plus subscription, with over 6,000 curated courses—now including UL course content—is the go-to solution for Global 2000 companies to help streamline processes, develop and retain top talent, and future-proof their organization.

Founded in 1894, UL offers over 125 years of deep expertise in health and safety, compliance, sustainability, and workplace excellence, and more than 1,300 industry-specific courses offered in up to 19 languages.

“In today’s increasingly complex work environments and ever-changing compliance requirements, organizations need to minimize risk and prevent injuries on the job,” said Spencer Thornton, Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “Adding UL course content to the OpenSesame Plus subscription enables businesses to provide industry-specific health, safety, and compliance training quickly and easily to their global workforce.”

“Empowering trust in the safety, security, and sustainability of products, organizations, and supply chains is at the core of UL’s mission,” remarked Scott Barnard, Managing Director of UL PURE Learning. “We’re excited to expand our strategic partnership with OpenSesame to expand access of on-demand compliance and safety elearning courses for global enterprises.”

About OpenSesame

OpenSesame helps develop the world’s most productive and admired workforces. With the most comprehensive catalog of elearning courses from the world’s top publishers, we are here to help you every step of the way, from finding courses, mapping them to your core competencies, syncing them with your LMS to increasing utilization and improving your L&D programs. Not only will you have the flexibility of multiple purchasing options from OpenSesame, you’ll find it simple to use and administer your elearning courses. To learn more, visit www.opensesame.com

About UL

UL PURE Learning empowers organizations to protect the well-being of workers, reduce risk, improve productivity, enhance compliance, and drive measurable business improvement through its EHS, learning, and compliance platforms. We are a division of UL, the premier global independent safety science company that has championed progress for 120 years. To learn more, visit ulpurelearning.com.

Media contact:

Diane Haines, Vice President of Marketing

(503) 808-1268

diane.haines@opensesame.com

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Portland, OR – 25 April 2019 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of Mindscaling to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to expand its world-class offering of curated leadership training critical to enterprise organizations. In today’s complex, increasingly global ecosystem where business challenges evolve at record speed, organizations need to prepare leaders and managers for the future.

The OpenSesame Plus subscription, with over 6,000 curated courses—now including Mindscaling—is the go-to solution for hundreds of Global 2000 companies to help streamline processes, develop and retain top talent, and future-proof their organization.

Mindscaling works with best-selling business authors and speakers to capture, translate, and convert their ideas into actionable learning experiences. Mindscaling believes that, by leveraging thought leadership, everyone can scale their mind for greater impact—driving engagement and creating positive change. The courses, most offered as effective microlearning lessons, are carefully crafted with award-winning instructional design, rich media, and dynamic interaction for optimal engagement and knowledge retention.

“As organizations grow and evolve their workforces, they need to develop tomorrow’s leaders to manage and inspire their employees,” said Spencer Thornton, Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “Adding Mindscaling courses to our OpenSesame Plus subscription ensures organizations have the impactful training to develop leaders who create real change and produce results.”

“We are delighted to partner with OpenSesame who has raised the bar of the elearning experience. Their customers expect a variety of powerful, and practical, learning experiences and that’s our sweet spot,” remarked Shawn Hunter, CEO of Mindscaling. “Joining the OpenSesame Plus subscription helps us extend our ability to easily reach global enterprises. We’re excited to have a partner who shares our vision for developing leaders at all levels.”

About OpenSesame

OpenSesame helps develop the world’s most productive and admired workforces. With the most comprehensive catalog of elearning courses from the world’s top publishers, we are here to help you every step of the way, from finding courses, mapping them to your core competencies, syncing them with your LMS to increasing utilization and improving your L&D programs. Not only will you have the flexibility of multiple purchasing options from OpenSesame, you’ll find it simple to use and administer your elearning courses. To learn more, visit www.opensesame.com.

About Mindscaling

Mindscaling specializes in creating digital and live in-person learning experiences designed specifically to develop leaders, change mindsets, enhance culture and drive new behaviors for companies large and small. We build leadership development curriculum and solutions at scale to drive impact across your organization. To learn more, visit mindscaling.com.

Media contact:

Diane Haines, Vice President of Marketing

(503) 808-1268

diane.haines@opensesame.com

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Portland, OR – April 9, 2019 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced new publishers added to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to further expand the curated course offering. Because enterprise companies have many different needs when it comes to their global talent development strategies, it’s critical that they have access to a broad catalog of elearning courses of the highest quality and engagement level.

Over the past few months, these publishers have joined the OpenSesame Plus subscription:

Engage in Learning: Engage in Learning uses visually compelling graphics and images with built-in multimedia elements to deliver key pieces of information clearly and concisely.

Packt: Packt develops effective elearning solutions for businesses and IT professionals so technical teams have the most up-to-date essential training they need to stay relevant and the organization needs to stay competitive and secure.

Speexx: Speexx develops innovative, award-winning language training programs that help global organizations increase productivity by improving employee business communication skills.

Video Arts: Founded by actor John Cleese, Video Arts uses humorous story lines and familiar actors so you can change the way people behave at work.

WILL Interactive: WILL Interactive develops high-quality, interactive, and engaging courses that utilize real-life scenarios and encourage the learner to drive the story by choosing how to respond to each situation.

“With more than 6,000 courses, OpenSesame constantly upgrades its OpenSesame Plus content library to serve the evolving needs of our customers. As we serve more Global 2000 enterprises, the need for interactive, multimedia, IT, and language training has grown even more critical.” said Spencer Thornton, Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame.

About OpenSesame

OpenSesame helps develop the world’s most productive and admired workforces. With the most comprehensive catalog of elearning courses from the world’s top publishers, we are here to help you every step of the way, from finding courses, mapping them to your core competencies, syncing them with your LMS to increasing utilization and improving your L&D programs. Not only will you have the flexibility of multiple purchasing options from OpenSesame, you’ll find it simple to use and administer your elearning courses. To learn more, visit www.opensesame.com

Media contact:

Diane Haines, Vice President of Marketing

(503) 808-1268

diane.haines@opensesame.com

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Did you know that the average cost of a work-related injury is over $39,000? The National Safety Council further states that, depending on the type of injury, that cost can reach upwards of $80,000. Additionally, each OSHA penalty for non-compliance costs $13,260 with willful or repeated offenses clocking in at $132,398 per violation.

While, alone, these numbers are staggering, combined with days and productivity lost, decreased employee morale, increases in workers’ compensation insurance rates—not to mention the emotional, physical, and financial duress experienced by employees and their families—an on-the-job injury is a risk organizations want to avoid at all costs.

Build a Culture of Workplace Safety

Combined with a workplace safety plan, comprehensive safety training is a critical starting point—particularly for new or younger employees in hazardous work environments. The Insurance Information Institute stresses this importance, stating that workplace safety training should be included as part of employee onboarding and offered on a regular basis as a refresher.

Fortunately, technological advances have enabled organizations to train their workforce—particularly those with employees in the field—more efficiently and effectively through modern elearning. Employees without daily computer access at work can easily take safety courses on mobile devices, at warehouse kiosks, or in short scheduled group sessions. Better yet, health and safety elearning courses provide an easy and cost-effective way to supplement your organization’s unique training program requirements.

With a deep history in workplace health and safety dating back to 1894, Underwriters Laboratories—now UL—helps companies demonstrate safety, confirm compliance, enhance sustainability, manage transparency, deliver quality and performance, strengthen security, protect brand reputation, build workplace excellence, and advance societal wellbeing.

As a global, accredited standards developer, UL has written over 1600 standards defining safety, security, quality, and sustainability—so it’s not surprising that UL EHS elearning courses are considered an integral part of today’s modern safety training programs.

Now available as part of the popular OpenSesame Plus subscription, you can put to work UL’s 125 years of experience at your organization more easily than ever. The robust catalog of over 1,300 targeted courses covers all aspects of safety and compliance training, across all industries, in over 15 languages. From first aid and fall prevention to hazard communication and personal protective equipment (PPE), you’ll have the safety training you need to meet the needs of your diverse workforce.

For more information on UL or to get help with finding the courses you need, contact your Customer Success Manager, our Customer Support team, or call (503) 808-1268.

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