Portland, OR, July 11, 2023 – OpenSesame, the business training platform for L&D professionals seeking innovative solutions and world-class courses, is proud to announce the launch of Simon, a first-of-its-kind course creation and translation platform. The launch of Simon marks the beginning of a new chapter for the elearning industry. Organizations who do not have the time or money to invest in language translations for multilingual staff are now able to develop high-quality courses quickly and translate them just as easily with this powerful course creation platform.

“Simon represents a significant milestone in global workforce training and embodies our commitment to innovation. By integrating course creation, multilingual translations, and immersive learning experiences, Simon empowers organizations to deliver inclusive, impactful learning that transcends language and accessibility barriers. It’s a testament to our mission to help companies develop the world’s most productive and admired workforces.”

Josh Blank, President and Chief Product Officer at OpenSesame

Unlike any existing tool today, Simon offers a game-changing approach to course creation and translation. Leveraging its intuitive interface, L&D professionals and subject matter experts can easily create courses that are as enticing and engaging as the content learners interact with on social media and other parts of the web—with no extensive instructional design or technical expertise required. 

When a course is created, with just one click Simon will translate its text, audio, and video into multiple languages. As a cloud-based software tool, Simon can be accessed from any browser and changes to course content will be automatically updated for learners in any learning platform. This streamlines workflows, reduces costs, and enables organizations to quickly scale up the inclusivity of their training offerings. And, by offering more training in learners’ preferred languages, they increase the efficacy and relevancy of the material, too. 

Simon is already redefining elearning success. Publishers like TED@Work, Axonify, and ej4 have started using Simon to create, translate, and publish their courses in OpenSesame’s marketplace. In terms of course ratings, Simon courses consistently outperform those created using other publishing tools, reinforcing its effectiveness and quality. 

Simon will save organizations with diverse workforces—especially enterprise organizations—immense time and money, while also giving their learners more engaging and personally relevant training. You can learn more about Simon during the virtual launch event on Tuesday, July 18. 

About OpenSesame:

OpenSesame, the leading provider of online business training, is the choice for L&D professionals wanting to drive learning initiatives forward with innovation, agility, and care. We offer the world’s most comprehensive digital learning catalog, with regularly updated content from expert publishers in a variety of formats and languages. By providing comprehensive learning resources and innovative tools like Simon, OpenSesame empowers L&D professionals to exceed their goals and champion learning across their entire organization.

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Both executives bring decades of experience in technology, talent, finance, and governance to OpenSesame.

Dr. Elkeles has spent 30 years in the human capital space working with technology companies, including 25 years as the Chief Learning and Talent Officer at Qualcomm. She has held key positions in the tech industry, including Chief Human Resources Officer, Chief Talent Executive, and Chief People Officer. In these roles, Dr. Elkeles has led global-scale human capital programs, including talent acquisition, talent development, compensation, benefits, HR systems, organization design, employee communications, DEI, and worldwide HR operations. She has authored four books on Human Capital and was named CLO of the Year by CLO Magazine. Tamar’s governance roles include Board Director for GP Strategies (NYSE: GPX) and G3 VRM (NASDAQ: GGGVU). She holds both an M.S. and PhD in Organizational Psychology.

“The workforce is in a state of transition. Companies are investing in their talent through training as a key differentiator for attraction and retention,” Ms. Elkeles said. “And OpenSesame is at the forefront, providing solutions to leverage learning and development in this new world of work.”

For the past 30 years, Ms. Rollins has guided companies through complex and challenging corporate governance, audit, and reporting processes, especially during periods of high growth. During her 28 years with Deloitte, Ms. Rollins held key leadership roles, including Audit and Assurance partner. Her experiences in innovative and cutting-edge companies prepared her well for corporate governance roles. She is currently a member of the boards of Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB), Xometry, Inc. (Nasdaq: XMTR), Science 37 Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: SNCE), and Dwolla, Inc., as well as several non-profit entities, the Austin Healthcare Council, Great Austin Black Chamber of Commerce, and the Austin Chapter of Ascend.  Ms. Rollins holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics-Accounting and International Relations from Claremont McKenna College. 

“OpenSesame’s growth trajectory is remarkable,” Ms. Rollins said. “The company’s offerings are invaluable with a broad course catalog and ability to expand the elearning footprint to people not already exposed to online learning. Plus, the capacity to easily customize courses into native languages is a market differentiator for the company’s quality programming versus its competitors.”

In a short time, companies worldwide have reimagined how to develop their employees remotely. For global and remote workforces across all industries, OpenSesame is an  indispensable solution with a catalog of 25,000+ elearning courses in 19 languages and courses from world-class content partners such as TED and Harvard Business Publishing.

“The services and breadth of courses we offer are changing the way people learn and work throughout the world. It starts with the people and expertise we have attracted to build OpenSesame,” said Don Spear, CEO of OpenSesame. “Ms. Rollins and Dr. Elkeles bring  valuable practitioner perspectives and decades of experience in global growth, change, diversity, and scalability.”

To meet the unmet training needs of today’s virtual workforce, OpenSesame combines the best publishers and subject-matter experts with its own curation team. Learning administrators can easily customize and deploy specific learning paths across any organization. 

“OpenSesame continues to invest in partnerships, technology, and customization,” said Chris Bounds, Chairman of the Board at OpenSesame. “The modern workforce expects customized content that is easy to engage with—personalization is crucial to the future of learning.”

For more information about OpenSesame’s courses and DEI progress survey, visit https://www.opensesame.com.

About OpenSesame

OpenSesame helps develop the world’s most productive and admired workforces through powerful online learning in every industry. With the most comprehensive catalog of elearning courses from the world’s top publishers, OpenSesame helps global companies every step of the way. With over 25,000+ courses, the platform serves all industries in all markets.

Media contact

Hallie Janssen
hallie.janssen@opensesame.com
(917) 253-7355

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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 – 16 March 2021 – OpenSesame, the global elearning innovator, today celebrates its inclusion in Oregon Business’s 2021 list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon.” In its debut year, OpenSesame ranked No. 27 in the large company (100 or more employees) category.

The 100 Best Companies to Work For program ranks employers based on confidential responses from employees residing in Oregon to survey questions across several categories, including work environment, decision-making and trust, benefits and compensation, career development and learning. 

“In this past pandemic year, the 100 Best Companies survey takes on more meaning and importance than ever before,” the Oregon Business Journal stated in its announcement recognizing the winners. “These employers are evidence that there are businesses that care about keeping their workforces happy whatever the circumstances, and that despite one of the biggest changes to workplace norms ever experienced in a generation, companies can make it work and even come out better from the experience.”

Oregon Business highlighted OpenSesame’s professional development program as a standout based on employee feedback. In addition to its robust onboarding and company-wide training program, all full-time employees receive a full week of paid time off for continuing education, along with an reimbursement allowance equivalent to one week’s salary for conferences, courses, books and other expenses. 

“This recognition means a lot to us, especially because it’s based on feedback from our employees,” said Don Spear, CEO of OpenSesame. “Despite all the challenges of the past year, our employees continued to deliver exceptional support to our customers and learners, and we are extremely thankful to every member of our team for all they do to make OpenSesame a great place to work, even when we’re all working remotely.”

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 contacts

Jessica Layfield

Customer Marketing and PR Manager

jessica.layfield@opensesame.com

(971) 512-7742

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Portland, OR – 23 February 2021 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of SunShower Learning to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to further expand the curated offering of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training.

SunShower Learning is the expression of founder Joel Lesko’s passion for film, online learning and diversity, equity and inclusion. Lesko is a documentary filmmaker, author and speaker on unconscious bias and creating a more respectful workplace who has worked with leading organizations including Liberty Mutual Insurance, AT&T, UCLA and others to support their DEI initiatives.

“OpenSesame believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are fundamental human rights issues — not compliance requirements,” said Spencer Thornton, Senior Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “As the world leader in curated enterprise learning, we are committed to using the powerful tools of training and education to help our customers drive meaningful change within their organizations. Partnering with SunShower Learning, an award-winning DEI course publisher, allows us to continue setting the standard for online DEI training content.”

“I’m excited about being part of OpenSesame Plus so that our programs are more readily available to organizations who are eager to walk their diversity, equity and inclusion talk,” said Lesko about SunShower Learning’s partnership with OpenSesame. “I appreciate OpenSesame’s commitment to DEI training and with their support, we’ll be able to accelerate our development of courses. Our goal is to create learning experiences that deliver emotional impact and concrete skills that people can practice to disrupt unconscious bias, disarm microaggressions and help create more inclusive, respectful workplaces where people feel like they belong.”

Click here to view all SunShower Learning 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 SunShower Learning

SunShower Learning produces emotionally impactful Diversity, Equity & Inclusion training that not only raise awareness about unconscious bias, microaggressions and stereotypes, but also give you tools that your people can learn and practice. Real skills. The goal? To help you create a more respectful workplace made up of individuals who respect each other individually and collectively. A workplace where people feel like they belong. At SunShower, they focus on DEI and how better communication across differences fuels collaboration and innovation. Diverse companies perform better. Inclusive companies perform even better! You can look at the research! SunShower’s programs have won many awards and received high praise for excellence. Most of all, they routinely get feedback from trainers and managers in the workplace who value the HBO-level quality, the “no cringe” scenarios and the skills that change behaviors, not just attitudes. To learn more, visit https://www.sunshowerlearning.com.

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Portland, OR – 18 February 2021 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of Management Pocketbooks to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to add accessible, micro-courses on a wide range of topics for managers, leaders and employees.

Management Pocketbooks has published dozens of books on a wide range of topics including communication, people management, finance, teambuilding, sustainability, sales, professional development, coaching, managing change and many more subjects. Working with OpenSesame, they’ve brought their books to life in engaging video-based courses that meet the accessibility requirement of Section 508 / WCAG 2.1 AA standards, and which offer supplemental downloadable resources for continue individual or group study, blended-learning and in-person or virtual instructor-led training.

“Employees have more demands on their time today than ever before, so employers are looking for content that allows learners to quickly consume information and immediately apply it to their roles,” said Spencer Thornton, Senior Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “Management Pocketbooks’ focus on creating training that is simple, accessible and of real practical value made them a perfect fit for the OpenSesame catalog.

“The concept of bitesize learning was barely known when Management Pocketbooks published its first accelerated learning resources,” said Adrian Hunt, Director of e-Publishing, Management Pocketbooks. “Now, in partnership with OpenSesame, we’ll be bringing our acclaimed body of work to an even wider audience. Bitesize just became even more mouth-watering!”

There are 17 Management Pocketbooks courses currently available exclusively in the OpenSesame catalog, with more than 50 additional courses in production and scheduled to be released later this year. Click here to view all Management Pocketbooks 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 Management Pocketbooks
Speed of learning and transfer of knowledge lie at the heart of the Management Pocketbook courses. They are developed by skilled communicators, management and L&D professionals who know how to make their messages simple, accessible and of real practical value. Management Pocketbooks delivers bite-sized learning — courses average around 12 minutes seat-time apiece — on a wide variety of topics of importance to managers, leaders and employees in every industry. Their highly-visual approach combines presenter-style videos with informative graphics. In addition, downloadable resources help the learner as well as facilitators continue their education offline, individually, in groups, or as part of virtual or in-person instructor-lead training. To learn more, visit www.pocketbook.co.uk.

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“We are delighted to welcome one of the best-known names in business education to the OpenSesame catalog,” said Spencer Thornton, Senior Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “As companies continue to pivot in response to today’s challenging business environment, leaders are seeking new ideas and inspiration to keep their teams motivated and engaged. OpenSesame’s partnership with Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning enables our customers to put ideas from some of the world’s most successful businesses and thought leaders to work in their own organizations.”

Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning, a wholly-owned, not-for-profit subsidiary of Harvard University, turns the most important and provocative ideas influencing business—fueled by the latest thinking in Harvard Business School, Harvard Business Review, and other world-renowned experts— into impactful and actionable skill-building and learning experiences that help build strong leaders across organizations. Companies using OpenSesame can now access Harvard ManageMentor® through the OpenSesame catalog.

“The last few months have upended business as we know it, and the future will continue to be an environment of continued uncertainty and complexity,” said Ian Fanton, Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Learning at Harvard Business Publishing. “Leadership matters more than ever as we all work to keep our talent encouraged, productive, collaborating, learning, and leading themselves and others in our organizations. Today’s leaders want engaging, actionable learning experiences that are relevant to their needs and can be completed on their own schedules. As part of the OpenSesame catalog, we can now deliver our flexible and adaptive learning experiences, fueled by the best ideas in business, on any learning management system (LMS), allowing us to reach more leaders around the world regardless of which technology platform they use.”

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, but you’ll also find it simple to use and administer your elearning courses. To learn more, visit www.opensesame.com.

About Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning

With more than 25 years of success delivering dynamic learning experiences to the world’s biggest brands, Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning partners with Global 2000 companies to co-create leadership-development solutions that align with strategy and engage learners. The company combines unrivaled subject-matter expertise and scale with unmatched flexibility and contextualization to bring the right programs to the right learners in the most useful ways. From highly focused executive leadership programs to enterprise-wide engagements for thousands of global employees, each learning experience leverages the remarkable depth and breadth of Harvard Business School and Harvard Business Review resources, industry experts, technology-enabled and user-friendly solutions, and a creative, collaborative mindset to help clients discover something new. The result is stronger companies better prepared to meet their challenges and thrive both today and in the future. Harvard Business Publishing is comprised of three market groups—Higher Education, Corporate Learning, and Harvard Business Review Group—and is an affiliate of Harvard Business School. To learn more, visit www.harvardbusiness.org.

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Portland, OR – 3 November 2020 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of OpenMind to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to expand its library of corporate wellness courses. These new courses, developed exclusively for OpenSesame, pair short, introductory-level courses with downloadable resources that help employees incorporate mindfulness into their daily routines.

“Keeping employees focused, engaged, healthy and happy is more important than ever,” said Spencer Thornton, Senior Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “Being successful in today’s environment of constant change takes more than technical skills; it requires knowing how to handle stress, build resilience, solve problems, and take care of both your mind and body. I’m excited to welcome this unique offering of mindfulness and corporate wellness courses to our catalog.”

OpenMind’s cinema-style, video-based training walks learners through instructor-led exercises in meditation, breathing, nutrition, stress reduction, focus and other topics proven to help create happier, healthier workforces and improve productivity. Learners will want to return to these courses again and again as they develop and hone self-care practices they can use at work, at home, or on the road.

“We recognized a growing market demand for mindfulness and wellness training, particularly with the additional stress and anxiety people are experiencing this year,” said Dave McFarland, Senior Manager of Content at OpenSesame. “OpenMind makes mindfulness more accessible by illustrating how practices like meditation or yoga can seamlessly fit into employees’ busy schedules. I’m delighted to bring our customers such high-quality original content through our partnership with OpenMind, whose courses are available exclusively in the OpenSesame catalog.”

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 OpenMind

The OpenMind catalog offers courses to help people be more productive, energized and happy by taking care of their bodies and minds. The video-based training is provided by professional practitioners in mindfulness, yoga, physical therapy, and other wellness disciplines. Short, focused courses teach learners how to meditate, be more mindful and stretch their bodies to increase focus, reduce stress, and live and work better.

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Portland, OR – 8 October 2020 – With the majority of U.S. colleges moving to online offerings or imposing strict restrictions on campus life in response to the coronavirus pandemic, many students chose to put their higher education plans on hold this semester. Coursica, a new program powered by online learning innovator OpenSesame, aims to bridge the gap for these students with a new type of virtual internship, or “virtualship.” 

“Pausing or delaying formal education, especially for financial reasons, shouldn’t prevent students from learning,” said Don Spear, CEO of OpenSesame. “We founded OpenSesame on the idea that education and training can advance everyone, and Coursica allows us to leverage our comprehensive catalog to develop the next generation of learners and leaders.”

The first half of the Coursica program is a training virtualship consisting of 100 hours of curated courses from the OpenSesame catalog, virtual mentoring sessions with the Coursica advisor team, and professional development reading. Students who complete the first part of the program are eligible to apply for paid on-the-job virtualships at OpenSesame or its partner companies in 2021.

Other business leaders joining Spear on Coursica’s advisor team include fellow OpenSesame co-founder Josh Blank, XCOM Chief Human Resources Officer/Head of HR Tamar Elkeles, New York Times bestselling author Yogi Roth, diversity and inclusion consultant Tara Cooper, and digital marketing specialist Jalyssa T. Woodall.

“Coursica equips participants with the abilities and experience students need to launch their careers,” said Alex Hernandez, Senior People Experience Manager at OpenSesame, who is overseeing the Coursica program. “The core courses in the curriculum teach essential work-ready skills and the additional learning paths allow students to widen their skillsets in disciplines like project management, programming languages, sales, and information technology.”

Applications for Coursica are now open. To qualify, applicants must be currently enrolled in college courses, taking a gap year/semester, or have recently graduated college. For more information, visit www.coursica.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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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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Selection to the 2020 Training Industry Top 20 Health and Safety/Compliance Training Companies List was based on the following criteria:

• Breadth and diversity of health and safety/compliance training offerings.
• Ability to deliver training in preferred modalities.
• Company size and growth potential.
• Quality of clients and geographic reach.

“Compliance training — especially when it comes to topics like diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and employee health and safety (EHS) — is about more than just checking a box,” said Don Spear, CEO of OpenSesame. “When implemented successfully, organizations can leverage compliance programs to build respectful, inclusive, engaged and ultimately more productive teams. With thousands of courses in multiple languages and formats, OpenSesame helps companies streamline these initiatives by providing a single source of training content that can address all their compliance needs, from HR and safety to IT, finance and more.”

“The 2020 Top 20 Health and Safety/Compliance Training Companies List represents leading companies in the market offering interactive and engaging content that ensure employees’ health and safety and compliance of organizations,” said Ken Taylor, president of Training Industry, Inc. “These providers have stayed on top of the changing business environment by offering new and refreshed content to address diversity in the workplace and provide resources during the coronavirus pandemic.”

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 Training Industry, Inc.

Training Industry is the most trusted source of information on the business of learning. Our authority is built on deep ties with more than 450 expert contributors who share insights and actionable information with their peers. Training Industry’s live events, articles, magazine, webinars, podcast, research and reports generate more than 5 million industry interactions each year, while the Top 20 Training Companies Lists help business leaders find the right training partners.

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Portland, OR – 14 September 2020 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of The Expert Academy to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to expand its offerings of video-based courses featuring world-famous presenters. The UK-based publisher helps organizations support both personal and professional development of workforces in unique and highly applicable topics.

Through storytelling and case studies, world-renowned subject matter experts captivate learners not only in the most in-demand business skills, but also in topics unparalleled to anything currently available in the OpenSesame catalog. In addition to improving their negotiation, sales management, brand building and public speaking skills, learners can become coffee connoisseurs, startup business entrepreneurs and even fearless swimmers. The Expert Academy’s courses maximize knowledge retention through supporting guides, workbooks and exercise and Q&A. 

“The Expert Academy is a perfect addition to OpenSesame Plus due to their high-quality content coupled with their world-renowned experts,” said Spencer Thornton, Senior Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame, “their courses give global companies an opportunity to train employees in more diverse topics, both professionally and personally.”

“We are thrilled to be part of OpenSesame Plus,” said Ben Hedley, Founder of the Expert Academy, “we have been partners with OpenSesame for many years and we are confident that our premium-quality video production and carefully curated courses with world-leading experts will bring extreme value to OpenSesame Plus customers.” 

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 Expert Academy

The Expert Academy has inspired and helped over 100,000 learners enrich their lives through online learning. Developed in collaboration with highly respected, world-leading experts, The Expert Academy’s premium-quality courses are based around content-rich, bite-sized lectures for a truly immersive and transformative educational experience.

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Selection to the 2020 Training Industry Top 20 Online Learning Library Companies List was based on the following criteria:

• Industry visibility, innovation and impact.
• Breadth and quality of courses and content.
• Company size and growth potential.
• Strength of clients and geographic reach.

“We are honored that Training Industry once again recognized OpenSesame as a leader in online learning,” said Don Spear, CEO of OpenSesame. “We strive to push ourselves, our publishers, our LMS partners, and the industry forward to meet our customers’ rapidly evolving training needs. Collectively we provide companies of all sizes and in every industry with the best curated content, tools, resources, and support they need to implement successful eLearning programs.”

“This year’s Top 20 Online Learning Library Companies List features a strong set of organizations offering relevant, up-to-date, on-demand content and personalized features that enhance the learning experience,” said Ken Taylor, president of Training Industry, Inc. “Through reinforcement tools, assessments and pathways, these companies have exceeded expectations in engaging the learner and sustaining the impact of training.”

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 Training Industry, Inc.

Training Industry is the most trusted source of information on the business of learning. Our authority is built on deep ties with more than 450 expert contributors who share insights and actionable information with their peers. Training Industry’s live events, articles, magazine, webinars, podcast, research and reports generate more than 5 million industry interactions each year, while the Top 20 Training Companies Lists help business leaders find the right training partners.

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Portland, OR – 20 July 2019 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of Real Projects to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription, to expand its curated library of topics of remote working, business travel, cybersecurity and business skills. 

Enterprise companies leverage the OpenSesame Plus subscription with over 7,500 curated courses—now including Real Projects’  learner-focused courses— to develop employee’s professional and information security skills.

Real Projects brings 15 years of experience delivering unique elearning resources for some of the UK’s largest organizations. They’ve drawn on their expertise in elearning, game design, UX/UI and creative writing to develop the courses available within OpenSesame Plus. Understanding that organizations have complex training needs, Real Projects offers a diverse course library created to address critical issues learners face in today’s work environment. 

“Real Projects proactively creates courses that align with organizations evolving L&D’s objectives” said Spencer Thornton, Senior Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “As changing events occur in today’s world, it is important to have a trusted partner who can develop elearning content according to customer needs”

“OpenSesame provides the ideal platform for our content to reach a worldwide audience,” said Scott Hewitt, Real Projects’ Founder and CEO. “receiving detailed feedback from OpenSesame allows us to improve our courses, develop and grow. This partnership significantly  improves the learner experience in any organization.”

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 Real Projects

Real Projects are expert course creators with 15 years of experience delivering innovative elearning content. From multinationals to start-ups, organizations rely on Real Projects’ focus on creative content and a rewarding learner journey to upskil their employees. To learn more, visit www.realprojects.co.uk

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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.

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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, OR – 24 June 2020 – OpenSesame, the global elearning innovator, today announced its selection as the “Overall e-Learning Company of the Year” in the second annual EdTech Breakthrough Awards program in recognition of its efforts to support employers in safely educating and ensuring the health and productivity of their workforces during COVID-19.

The EdTech Breakthrough Awards honor excellence and recognize the innovation, hard work, and success in a range of educational technology categories, including Student Engagement, School Administration, Adaptive Learning, STEM Education, e-Learning, Career Preparation, and many more. This year’s program attracted more than 1,750 nominations from over 15 different countries throughout the world. 

When the coronavirus became a global pandemic, OpenSesame quickly mobilized to curate and provide organizations free access to courses about infection control and remote working to help prevent the spread of the virus and save lives. OpenSesame continued to update its offering in real time to reflect shifting business needs by adding professional development courses to support furloughed workers and later offering training to prepare employees to return to the workplace.

Thousands of organizations representing over 16 million learners worldwide requested access to these free courses, demonstrating the essential role digital learning plays in ensuring business continuity during a crisis. 

“As workplaces rapidly become more virtual, many organizations realized that elearning offers the best option to scalably train their teams, and not just in times of crisis,” said Don Spear, CEO of OpenSesame. “Companies that utilized our free courses are now shifting to planning ongoing training programs for their people in the emerging new business environment.” 

“While several elearning providers stepped up to provide free training resources in response to this crisis, OpenSesame’s commitment to continuously adjusting its offering to meet the changing needs of organizations as the situation evolved makes them stand out from the pack,” said James Johnson, managing director of EdTech Breakthrough. “We want to congratulate them for their quick adaptation, their determination, and their overall innovative contributions in the EdTech space with our ‘Overall e-Learning Company of the Year’ award.”

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 EdTech Breakthrough

Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the EdTech Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in educational technology products, companies and people. The EdTech Breakthrough Awards provide a platform for public recognition around the achievements of breakthrough educational technology in categories including e-learning, student engagement, school administration, career preparation, language learning, STEM and more. For more information, visit EdTechBreakthrough.com.

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Portland, OR – 23 June 2020 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of Skill Boosters to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to expand its curated library of diversity and inclusion, leadership and business skills training courses.

Enterprise companies leverage the OpenSesame Plus subscription with over 7,500 curated courses—now including Skill Boosters’ contemporary and drama scenario-based courses—to increase inclusivity in the workplace and develop learners’ professional skills.

For over 20 years, industry leaders and public organizations around the world have relied on Skill Boosters for training featuring real-life experiences coupled with best practice analysis and advice from leading management thinkers and subject matter experts.

“Skill Boosters offers courses that are relevant to today’s workplace reality,” said Spencer Thornton, Senior Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “Organizations must train employees to adapt to unprecedented social and economic change, as well as technological advances.”

“As the premier elearning provider, OpenSesame ties together a broad and diverse content offering with the highest quality standards for their customers. We are delighted to expand our partnership with OpenSesame to reach a wider global business audience than we’ve served before,” said Bryan De’Ath, Founder & CEO of Skill Boosters.

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 Skill Boosters

Skill Boosters upskills learners with effective and engaging elearning courses featuring leading experts, thought-provoking drama scenarios, compelling interviews and best-practice case studies. To learn more, visit www.skillboosters.com

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Portland, OR – 29 May 2020- OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of Seven Dimensions to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to expand its curated library of business and wellbeing courses with engaging TV series-like elearning.

Enterprise companies leverage the OpenSesame Plus subscription with over 7,500 curated courses—now including Seven Dimensions’ comedic and interview-style courses—to develop learners’ personal and professional skills.

Seven Dimensions combines top quality film-making with a psychology-based approach to learning. For over 40 years, Seven Dimensions has produced innovative business, documentary, investigative and comedy programs in Australia and the United States. 

“Online training is always more effective when learners are having fun,” said Spencer Thornton, Senior Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “Adding Seven Dimensions to our OpenSesame Plus subscription brings their unique approach to microlearning and high entertainment value to better engage learners.” 

“OpenSesame shares our commitment to online learning with a difference, offering a wide range of topics, blending humor, expert insights and advice that comes from the heart,” said Eve Ash, Founder and CEO of Seven Dimensions. “Their quality standards are exceptionally high and are sensational curators.”

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 Seven Dimensions

Seven Dimensions (7D), founded by Australian psychologist Eve Ash, has 40+ years of creation of hundreds of videos and courses that entertain and deliver powerful, practical strategies for improving business and wellbeing. A focus on keeping courses short, memorable and engaging has made 7D a popular and sought-after brand worldwide. For more information, visit https://www.opensesame.com/s/7-dimensions

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Portland, Ore. — 27 May 2020 — OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced American Management Association (AMA) has been added to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to expand the leadership, management, and business skills offering. 

Global 2000 companies leverage the OpenSesame Plus subscription with over 7,500 curated courses — now including AMA’s real-world scenario-based courses — to develop learners’ leadership and soft skills.

Since 1923, organizations worldwide, including the majority of the Fortune 500 companies and most government agencies, have turned to AMA as their trusted partner in professional development and draw upon its experience to enhance skills, abilities, and knowledge with noticeable results from day one.

“For nearly a century, AMA has transformed the way business professionals think and work,” said Spencer Thornton, Senior Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “We are excited to add their expertise and content to the OpenSesame catalog to help organizations develop their future leaders.”

“It was critical for us to find a partner that could help us gain exposure to a large and passionate user base,” said Daniel Goeller, Learning Solutions Manager of American Management Association. “OpenSesame’s position as an industry leader and experience as a trusted adviser to their customers led us to this partnership.”

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 American Management Association

American Management Association (“AMA”​) is a world leader in professional development, advancing the skills of individuals and organizations to drive business success. AMA’s approach to improving performance combines experiential learning—learning through doing—with opportunities for ongoing professional growth at every step of one’s career. Their online courses feature real world management and business scenarios as well as self assessments and knowledge checks for increased engagement. Furthermore, their simple and modern course design appeals to a wide range of learners seeking essential skill development.

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Portland, OR – 21 May 2020– OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of Ideas for Leaders to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to expand the business skills offering with actionable insights from the research of top business schools. 

Enterprise companies leverage the OpenSesame Plus subscription with over 7,500 curated courses—now including Ideas for Leaders’ research-based animated courses on an exclusive basis—to develop learner’s leadership and soft skills. Academic research can often be complex. However, Ideas for Leaders presents findings in an accessible and digestible format using high-quality animations and engaging learner interactions.

“We are excited to exclusively offer Ideas for Leaders’ newly released courses to OpenSesame customers, ” said Spencer Thornton, Senior Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “This addition to the OpenSesame Plus catalog will help develop leaders in any organization.”

“When choosing a partner to exclusively distribute our courses, we were looking for someone who would listen, adapt, guide and inform us in our content strategy,”  said Roddy Millar, Co-Founder and Chief Executive of Ideas for Leaders. “OpenSesame offers us a truly collaborative partnership focused on offering the very best content to our mutual customers.” 

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 Ideas for Leaders

Ideas for Leaders works with faculty and researchers at the world’s foremost business schools, for almost a decade,to identify the latest insights, research and practices from the leading thinkers in the fields of leadership, organisational behaviour, applied neuroscience and psychology and translating that into easily digestible and applicable pieces for those of those in the ‘real world’ beyond academia.

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“Organizations around the world are planning and preparing to return to the workplace on different timelines,” said Don Spear, OpenSesame CEO. “At OpenSesame, we believe elearning can provide a critical and efficient path to prepare employees for the changes they will face when they return to the new normal in their workplace.”

Through 15 June 2020, any organization can join the more than 11 million learners already signed up for free access to over 100 curated elearning courses from OpenSesame to support their employees during this crisis. Other topics in this free offer include professional development for furloughed workers and employees working from home as well as coronavirus prevention and remote working best practices.

For more information and free access to the courses, visit go.opensesame.com/return-offer.

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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Global 2000 companies leverage the OpenSesame Plus subscription with over 7,500 curated courses—now including GLS’s interactive, gamified and scenario-based courses—to develop organizational online safety and cyber security awareness.

For over 30 years, GLS has provided cybersecurity awareness and compliance training programs in multiple languages to effectively develop the digital skills needed in today’s evolving business environment at organizations of all sizes. Courses include interactive activities, games, and assessments to engage and measure effectiveness of the training. 

“As more organizations are driving digital transformation of their businesses, they need more sophisticated technical training for their IT technical teams,” said Spencer Thornton, Senior Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “GLS’s interactive, multimedia, IT, and language training will ensure OpenSesame customers are ready for the digital future.” 

“Through our expanded partnership, organizations wrestling with the toughest IT security challenges they have ever faced can now access our cybersecurity awareness and secure coding training from OpenSesame.” said Larry Cates, President and CEO of Global Learning Systems. 

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 Global Learning Systems

With more than 30 years of experience developing behavior change programs, Global Learning Systems is an industry leader in security awareness training. The company helps businesses identify areas of vulnerability and change employee behavior to create a security-minded and compliance-oriented workforce. For more information, visit https://www.globallearningsystems.com

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“At OpenSesame, we believe elearning provides the most efficient path to educate your workforce, especially during this unprecedented time when many employees work remotely,” said Don Spear, OpenSesame CEO. “For companies who have furloughed workers or have employees working from home, online training can keep employees productive during their leave as well as develop their skills until business operations resume after this crisis ends.”

With more than 10 million learners already signed up for access to its coronavirus preparedness and remote working courses, OpenSesame expands its free offer to include over 100 curated elearning courses. Through 15 June 2020, any organization can gain free access to additional professional development courses for its employees who are working from home or furloughed.

For more information and free access to the courses, visit go.opensesame.com/wfh-offer.

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“At OpenSesame, we strive to fully support our customers, and any company, in protecting their employees as well as ensuring productivity of their workforce,” said Don Spear, CEO. “With the impact of COVID-19 growing exponentially every day, travel bans widening and instructor-led training no longer an option, elearning presents the best option for organizations to train and safeguard their workforces.”

Through 15 May 2020, any organization can gain access to these free courses on coronavirus preparedness and remote working best practices to deploy to its workforce.

For more information and free access to the courses, visit go.opensesame.com/free-offer.

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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London, UK – 11 March 2020 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, today announced its inclusion as a Potential Performer on the 2020 Fosway 9-Grid for Digital Learning, an annual analysis of HR, talent and learning vendors with a focus on customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa. 

The Potential Performer recognition by Fosway, generally awarded to new and emergent solutions, highlights OpenSesame’s growing market presence in the European digital learning market since its incorporation in 2011. OpenSesame opened its London office in September 2019 to strengthen its regional partnerships and support for its growing global customer base. 

David Wilson, CEO of Fosway, said, “One of the key benefits of the 9-Grids is the ability it gives us to recognise the value of providers in every zone. Potential Performers usually indicate innovative and newer market entrants, which perfectly describes OpenSesame’s expansion into Europe. It’s positive to see some disruption in the digital learning market and greater choice for buyers than ever before.” 

“It is an honor to appear for the first time in the Fosway Digital Learning 9-Grid,” said Don Spear, CEO of OpenSesame. “This recognition acknowledges the increasing market awareness of OpenSesame in Europe and our role in innovating the European elearning industry.”

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 Fosway 9-Grid

Fosway Group is Europe’s #1 HR Industry Analyst. The Fosway 9-Grid provides a unique assessment of the principal learning and talent supply options available to organizations in EMEA. Now in its sixth year, the analysis is based on extensive independent research and insights from Fosway’s Corporate Research Network of over 150 customer organizations, including BP, HSBC, PwC, RBS, Sanofi, Shell and Vodafone.

Visit the Fosway website at www.fosway.com for more information on Fosway Group’s research and services.

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Portland, OR – 10 March 2020 – OpenSesame, the global elearning innovator, announced a partnership with Northpass to deliver its curated 20,000+ elearning courses on Northpass’ learner-first platform. From fast-growing companies to the Fortune 500, modern companies looking to integrate and scale learning across distributed workforces trust Northpass to educate their workforce.

“We’re excited to partner with OpenSesame, the leading content provider for professional elearning to power Northpass’ built-in Course Marketplace,” said Rob Krystyniak, VP of Product and Engineering at Northpass. “The synergy between OpenSesame’s extensive course content and Northpass’ intuitive and engaging learning experience will help accelerate the learning and training process for our customers.”

OpenSesame’s partnership with Northpass makes impactful and high quality learning easily accessible for organizations who already understand the digital world best. Through the integration now available to Northpass customers, internet-first companies like Uber, Lyft, Airbnb and Rover can enhance their organizational training and overall learner experience. 

“OpenSesame helps companies upskill and train distributed workforces by enabling access to elearning anywhere, anytime and on any device,” said Tom Turnbull, Vice President of Partnerships at OpenSesame. “We are excited about partnering with Northpass to empower companies across the gig economy to grow and scale their businesses.”

About Northpass 

Northpass is a new breed of learning technology designed specifically for today’s digital economy. Founded in 2013, Northpass delivers learning that works for internet-first companies like Uber, Shopify, and BambooHR. Today’s top digital brands leverage the Northpass learning platform to accelerate growth, improve service quality, and increase brand loyalty.

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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Portland, OR – 26 February 2020 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced iAM Learning was added to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to expand its curated library of safety, well-being, and soft skills courses. 

Global 2000 companies leverage the OpenSesame Plus subscription with over 6,000 curated courses—now including iAM Learning’s animated short-format courses—to keep employees safe, motivated, and happy while keeping the organization compliant.

From the creative minds that originally developed the very popular Learning Heroes courses, iAM Learning blends the art of storytelling and stunning animation to bring content to life and engage learners. Using likable characters and captivating stories, iAM Learning courses help enterprise organizations ensure their employees are engaged in learning with bite-sized training content that’s fun, vibrant, and authentic.

“While ever-important, the topic of employee health and safety — particularly mental health — is often hard to broach; yet it remains at the top of every L&D professional’s mind,” said Spencer Thornton, Senior Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “iAM Learning’s thoughtful and effective approach to these sensitive topics helps organizations meet compliance requirements as well as also sets up employees for long-term growth and success.”

“Employees need compelling, memorable training to help them upskill quickly as well as keep them safe and engaged throughout their career,” said Tom Moore, Chief Operating Officer of iAM Learning. “ We’re excited that, through our new partnership with OpenSesame, our immersive, bite-sized animated elearning courses will reach more organizations around the world and help them solve their training challenges.”

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 iAM Learning

iAM Learning is disrupting what you know about learning. Our course designers use high-end animation, lovable characters, and captivating stories to make even the most serious subjects appealing and unforgettable. Transform the way your workforce trains and retains with the bitesize animated elearning library your people will love. What are you waiting for? Visit www.iamlearningcontent.com to learn more.

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Learning Technologies London brings together 8,500+ learning and development professionals to showcase organisational learning and the technology used to support learning at work. OpenSesame will speak on best practices for building global elearning programs on 12 February from 13:15 – 13:45 PM in Theatre 10 and showcase its machine learning-driven curation tools on 13 February from 15:30 – 16:00 PM in Theatre 7. 

At Learning Technologies London, OpenSesame will host elearning consultations at stand J55 to share best practices for curating courses for training programs and increasing elearning utilization.

“With the opening of our London office last year, we are thrilled to be at Learning Technologies UK again this year to share how we can provide regional support for European organisations and their training needs,” said Mehdi Tounsi, Sr. Regional Director Europe of 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.

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Learning Technologies France builds on the success of Learning Technologies UK by bringing together 7,000+ learning and development professionals to showcase organisational learning and the technology used to support learning at work. Attendees enjoy showcases that include the latest technologies, learning solutions, and hands-on features. In addition to the largest free L&D seminar programme of any learning event in Europe, the conference programme includes speakers such as Muriel Penicause, Minister of Labor, and many more.

OpenSesame will showcase its machine learning driven curation tools at stand G44 and speak on best practices for building global elearning programs on 6 February from 12:30 – 12:50 in Théâtre 4.

“With the opening of our office in London earlier this year, we can help European organisations meet their compliance, safety, and leadership development goals and objectives with our machine learning and expert curation,” said Mehdi Tounsi, Sr Regional Director Europe at OpenSesame. “We look forward to attending more regional events in Europe to connect with our European customers, publishers and partners.”   

To register and for more information on Learning Technologies France, please visit: https://www.learningtechnologiesfrance.com/welcome

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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Portland, OR – 31 January 2020 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced The Jeff Havens Company has been added to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to expand its curated library of business skills, safety, and compliance courses. 

Global 2000 companies leverage the OpenSesame Plus subscription with over 6,000 curated courses—now including The Jeff Havens Company’s highly engaging business training—to help address critical skills gaps, position talent for successful long-term careers, and future-proof their organization.

Over the past 15 years, The Jeff Havens Company has applied its uniquely humorous training approach to a wide range of the modern business world’s most pressing issues including customer service, leadership, and safety. With the belief that nobody ever learns anything if they’re too bored to listen, The Jeff Havens Company aims to improve businesses worldwide—while having fun doing it. 

“As the driving force behind The Jeff Havens Company content, Jeff delivers high-energy, highly engaging, and hilarious content,” said Spencer Thornton,  Senior Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “His extraordinary business insight and memorable delivery ensure high learner engagement and training to remember.” 

“OpenSesame is one of the most responsive companies we’ve ever partnered with,” says Jeff Havens, Founder and CEO, The Jeff Havens Company. “OpenSesame provides us with real-time feedback on course adoption to inform how we continue to grow. It’s fantastic to partner with a company that takes an active role in partner success and will be equally dedicated to our customers’ success as lifelong learners.”

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 Jeff Havens Company

With a mission to provide serious solutions in a seriously funny way, The Jeff Havens Company is unique in the world of corporate training and L&D. Their video-based courses tackle everything from industrial safety to corporate ethics to customer service, and their content will provide your employees with the skills they need to become better employees, salespeople, and leaders. And it will all happen while your people are actually enjoying the process of becoming better. Countless studies have shown that people remember information better and longer if that information is delivered in a humorous way, and so The Jeff Havens Company has made it their mission to incorporate as much entertainment as possible into our training products without interfering with the learning process. To put it another way, you’ll receive all the education of a more traditional training course with all the entertainment value of a comedy show. That’s something most training companies can’t do, and it’s the reason that The Jeff Havens Company content has found favor with thousands of companies across virtually every industry. For additional information, visit JeffHavens.com, follow us on Twitter @iamjeffhavens or connect with us on LinkedIn.

Media contact:

Diane Haines

Vice President of Marketing

(503) 808-1268

diane.haines@opensesame.com

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Portland, OR – 20 December 2019 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, today announced a partnership with Traliant, a provider of award-winning sexual harassment elearning courses, to expand its offering of interactive compliance training within the OpenSesame Plus subscription. 

Enterprise organizations leverage the OpenSesame Plus subscription—now including Traliant’s behavior-based training—to help create an ethical, compliance-based workplace culture. 

Traliant combines the best elements of video storytelling and elearning tools in its award-winning discrimination and harassment prevention training for office environments, hotels, restaurants, healthcare, retail, construction, and industrial/manufacturing organizations. Additionally, all Traliant courses are available in multiple languages to help global organizations meet their complex training requirements. 

“From small organizations to Global 2000 enterprises, meeting compliance requirements has grown increasingly more complex with ever-changing regulations,” said Spencer Thornton, Senior Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “Adding Traliant content to the OpenSesame Plus subscription helps organizations meet the compliance needs of their multi-lingual and diverse workforces.”

“We partnered with OpenSesame because they share our commitment to world-class customer service and engaging learning content,” said Mike Pallatta, Traliant CEO and Co-Founder. “We look forward to expanding the delivery of our compliance and HR courses to more organizations, whether their workforce is local or international.”

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 Traliant
Traliant was founded by industry veterans from some of the world’s most successful compliance training companies to meet the challenge of transforming compliance training from boring to brilliant. Backed by Martinson Ventures, Traliant delivers award-winning, bite-sized compliance training on an eLearning platform that enables fast and easy customization. Courses are available on numerous workplace topics including Diversity Training and Sensitivity Training. For more information, visit www.traliant.com.

Media contacts:

OpenSesame
Diane Haines
Senior Vice President of Marketing
(503) 808-1268
diane.haines@opensesame.com

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PORTLAND, OR – 3 December 2019 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, has announced an expanded partnership with Degreed, the cloud-based skills tracking and development platform to deliver curated elearning courses (20,000+) to Degreed customers. Enterprise companies can now access OpenSesame elearning courses within Degreed’s built-in index of open learning resources, which includes millions of videos, articles, blog posts, books, podcasts and subject matter experts.

Learning experience platforms such as Degreed help companies unlock and deliver a broad range of learning content without the burden of managing multiple systems or providers. Degreed brings together educational resources, including OpenSesame’s curated course library, so they can be curated together, recommended and tracked in a more holistic learning experience for employees as part of their everyday routines and workflows. 

“We pride ourselves in enabling learners to take control of their learning using a highly personalized platform,” said Rob Wellington, Director of Business Development for Degreed. “OpenSesame has become an industry standard for aggregating and curating elearning content which complements Degreed’s value proposition to deliver a broad range of learning through our platform.”

“OpenSesame and Degreed have frequently partnered together over the past few years to solve the training challenges of our mutual customers,” said Tom Turnbull, Vice President of Partnerships at OpenSesame. “We are excited to expand our partnership by formally integrating our curated library into the Degreed platform.” 

About Degreed 

Degreed is a better, smarter way to discover, learn and measure the skills you need for the future. Degreed connects all the resources people use to learn and grow, including corporate learning systems and millions of courses, videos, books, articles, podcasts, and subject experts from thousands of sources. Then we add data science and machine learning to provide people and businesses with the tools, analytics and feedback they need next. Founded in 2012, Degreed is headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in Salt Lake City, New York and Amsterdam.

Rob Wellington

Degreed

rwellington@degreed.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.

Diane Haines

OpenSesame

(503) 808-1268

diane.haines@opensesame.com

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OEB brings together 2,500+ participants from multinational companies to SMEs, from higher education and research institutions to schools. Together, the attendees explore the opportunities and challenges that are changing the world of learning and how to choose and use various technologies. Registrants attend over 120 breakout sessions to discover proven practices, approaches and strategies from leading institutions and organisations. 

“With the opening of our office in London earlier this year, we can help European organisations meet their compliance, safety, and leadership development goals and objectives with our machine learning and expert curation,” said Tom Turnbull, Vice President of Partnerships at OpenSesame. “We look forward to attending more regional events in Europe such as OEB to connect with our European customers, publishers and partners.”   

To register and for more information on OEB Berlin, please visit: https://oeb.global/

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.

Diane Haines

OpenSesame

+1 (503) 808-1268

diane.haines@opensesame.com

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PORTLAND, OR – 30 September 2019 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, has announced a partnership with Appinium, a leading provider of content distribution and tracking solutions on the Salesforce App Cloud, to deliver its curated 20,000+ elearning courses on the Salesforce platform. As enterprise organizations look to close skill gaps, training needs to occur within everyday workflows to maximize employee uptake, engagement and impact.

Global 2000 companies trust OpenSesame to design training programs to make their workforces more productive. It is challenging to show a direct link between training and productivity. However, by providing contextual, targeted training in a Salesforce deployment strategy and environment, learning can be woven into the learners’ natural workflow and no longer isolated in a learning management system (LMS).

Appinium combines modern video and learning management in the Salesforce Lightning Platform to drive unparalleled audience engagement, analytics, and outcomes. Their 100% native apps are designed to empower their clients with unique content access control and consumption analytics so they can directly show the relationship of training engagement on profitability and performance. 

“Our world is in the middle of the 4th industrial revolution. With the rise of automation and artificial intelligence, it’s more important than ever to adapt our skills to stay competitive,” said Steve Jacobson, co-founder and Managing Director of Appinium. “By partnering with an industry leader like OpenSesame, it allows us to use our 100% native Salesforce video and learning distribution platform to advance employee skills and improve both individual and company financial performance.”

“OpenSesame’s curated catalog of the world’s best elearning courses helps companies design and deploy impactful training programs through their learning management systems,” said Tom Turnbull, Vice President of Partnerships at OpenSesame. “We are excited to partner with Appinium to deliver the same tremendous value on the Salesforce platform.” 

OpenSesame elearning natively in Salesforce Community Cloud leveraging Appinium Lightning Components

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 Appinium

Appinium is the brainchild of Learning Management System (LMS) and Salesforce ecosystem veterans, developed with the specific objective of making video and multimedia content come to life across the Salesforce platform. We have brought to market two unique, but complementary, solutions: ViewTrac and LearnTrac. Our video/multimedia application and LMS are the only 100% native Salesforce apps to enable the full spectrum of learning and video engagement analytics throughout all elements of the Salesforce environment. Appinium is disrupting how and when content can be consumed and tracked all on top of the Salesforce Platform with singular goal of providing the exact right content, to the exact right person, at the exact right time to drive behavior change using cutting edge analytics and insights. To learn more, visit www.appinium.com. 

For more information:

Diane Haines

OpenSesame

(503) 808-1268

diane.haines@opensesame.com

Steven Jacobson

Appinium 

(310) 415-2969

sjacobson@appinium.com

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Portland, OR (17 September 2019) – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the winners of the first annual OpenSesame Learning Excellence Awards during their user conference last week in Portland, Oregon. 

The Learning Excellence Awards program recognizes OpenSesame customers that leverage learning technology, creativity, innovation and blended learning in developing successful training programs. Finalists and winners for each category were as follows:

2019 OpenSesame Learning Excellence Awards winners:

• • Most Creative Launch of a Training Program or Initiative – Incomm
  • Most Innovative Training Program – EnerSys Inc.
  • Most Successful Training Program or Initiative – GenesisCare
  • Successful Use of Blended Learning – Aimbridge Hospitality
  • Most Innovative Learning Culture- Choctaw Nation

2019 OpenSesame Learning Excellence Awards finalists:

• • Most Creative Launch of a Training Program or Initiative – Pacific Seafood
  • Most Innovative Training Program – Chocotaw Nation
  • Most Successful Training Program or Initiative – Toshiba
  • Successful Use of Blended Learning – Delaware North

“We were overwhelmed with the quality of applications this first year of the OpenSesame Learning Excellence Awards,” said Don Spear, CEO of OpenSesame. “Our customers are achieving amazing success by innovating the learner experience and their training programs. It’s an honor for us to help them in transforming their workforces.”

About OpenSesame 

OpenSesame helps companies 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.

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Portland, OR (12 September 2019) – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, hosted more than 200 customers, course publishers and LMS companies at its annual user conference 11-12 September in Portland, Oregon. 

This year’s conference featured a keynote by Donald Taylor, Chairman of the Learning and Performance Institute, as well as sessions covering topics such as global learning organizations, smart curation, artificial intelligence and machine learning, best practices for LMS/LXP integration, maximizing elearning utilization and finding training budget in your organization. 

A new Publisher Expo at the event showcased some of OpenSesame’s most popular course publishers. Attendees visited the OpenSesame headquarters office in downtown Portland and networked at Providence Park during a National Women’s Soccer League match between the Portland Thorns and the North Carolina Courage.  

 “We uniquely bring our customers, learning management systems providers and elearning course publishers together to simplify the entire enterprise elearning ecosystem,” said Don Spear, CEO of OpenSesame. “Gathering them together at our user conference showcased how this ecosystem can transform training into true business impact for our customers.”

About OpenSesame 

OpenSesame helps companies 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.

 For more information, visit www.OpenSesame.com

Media Contact

Diane Haines

SVP of Marketing 

 diane.haines@opensesame.com

(503) 917-4568

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Portland, OR – 30 August 2019 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of Bigger Brains to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to broaden its curated library of business skills and software training courses. As enterprise organizations shift from expensive, in-person classroom training to elearning, employee engagement remains a high priority for talent development.

Global 2000 companies leverage the OpenSesame Plus subscription with over 5,000 curated courses—now including Bigger Brains content— to foster a learning culture that inspires employees, propels teams as well as leaders, and maximizes productivity.  

Bigger Brains replicates the benefits of in-person classroom training such as interaction, dialogue, interrogation, and humor with its “Uniquely Engaging” teacher/learner video-based format. Best known for their award-winning Microsoft® Office and Office 365® courses, Bigger Brains offers a diverse library covering software, productivity, and management topics. 

“While costly and time-consuming, classroom training does provide many benefits that are challenging to emulate in digital form,” said Spencer Thornton, Senior Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “Adding Bigger Brains content to the OpenSesame Plus subscription helps organizations leverage the benefits of classroom training combined with the convenience of elearning through a unique format that delivers interaction and engagement to boost employee productivity skills.” 

“OpenSesame has much higher quality standards than any other elearning course aggregator,” says Chip Reaves, President of Bigger Brains. “Joining the OpenSesame Plus subscription allows us to expand the reach of our Microsoft and productivity courses to more global enterprises who expect the best, unique, curated content.”

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 Bigger Brains

Founded in 2012, Bigger Brains produces award-winning elearning content in their “Uniquely Engaging” teacher/learner format. Most courses focus on topics related to Microsoft Office, Office 365, and general business productivity. To learn more, visit getbiggerbrains.com. 

Media contact:

Diane Haines

Vice President of Marketing

(503) 808-1268

diane.haines@opensesame.com

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SuccessConnect in Las Vegas will bring together executives and leaders in HR, IT and other lines of business to explore successful digital HR strategies in the experience economy. Hot topics will include the Human Revolution and using SAP SuccessFactors solutions to help bring organizations’ purpose to life, put more meaning into people’s work and create engaged workforces that improve both performance and profit. OpenSesame’s continued cooperation with SAP is helping companies lead with purpose and transform the people experience with SAP SuccessFactors solutions. OpenSesame specifically helps companies design and deploy training programs that transform their people experience through a seamless integration with SAP SuccessFactors solutions. At SuccessConnect Las Vegas 2019, OpenSesame will host a booth (S1) to answer questions and engage with attendees on the importance of elearning to a company’s culture.

“Through an integration with SuccessFactors’ Open Content Network (OCN), OpenSesame enables SuccessFactors customers to instantly provide thousands of courses to their learners,” said Tom Turnbull, Vice President of Partnerships at OpenSesame. “Every year, we look forward to sharing how we can curate the best fit training programs and help maximize employee engagement for SuccessFactors customers at SuccessConnect.”   

The future workplace looks very different than what we see today, from technology advancements to the changing nature of jobs, skills and careers. No matter how much technology helps automate, one thing will never change: people and their experience at work make the difference.

To register and for more information on SuccessConnect 2019, please visit: https://events.sap.com/successconnect/en/las-vegas-2019. 

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.

Diane Haines

OpenSesame

(503) 808-1268

diane.haines@opensesame.com

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Portland, OR – 11 July 2019 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced TalentQuest has been added to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to broaden its curated library of supervisory and leadership training courses. As enterprise organizations grow and evolve, their leaders need to be equipped with effective training tools to quickly ramp new supervisors, enhance critical management skills, and build successful, productive teams. 

Global 2000 companies leverage the OpenSesame Plus subscription with over 6,000 curated courses—now including TalentQuest content— to help address critical skills gaps, position talent for successful long-term careers, and future-proof their organization.

TalentQuest combines over 40 years of talent management expertise with behavioral science into short, engaging microlearning courses to help companies more effectively hire, manage, develop, and retain the best talent. By linking development to competencies, Global 2000 companies can drive organizational success by helping develop better leaders, build high performing teams, and retain top talent. 

“At the core of every successful company lies a strong and effective leadership team. As enterprises grow their multigenerational workforces, the need to quickly develop excellent leaders becomes increasingly more important,” said Spencer Thornton, Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “Adding TalentQuest to our OpenSesame Plus subscription helps organizations build leadership skills effectively and efficiently, positioning them for long-term success.”

“OpenSesame delivers innovative online learning experiences and leadership development programs,” says Mahim Mishra, President, Global Talent Development at TalentQuest. “Together with OpenSesame, we will make it easier for organizations to build better leaders.”

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 TalentQuest

TalentQuest has a 45-year history of helping our clients unleash the power of their people. Fueled by behavioral science and our proprietary TQ Talent Insights, our innovative Talent Management and Learning Solutions enable organizations to shift from a one-size-fits-all to an individualized approach to talent management and development. For additional information, visit www.talentquest.com, follow us on Twitter (@TalentQuest), or connect with us on LinkedIn.

Media contact:

Diane Haines

Vice President of Marketing

(503) 808-1268

diane.haines@opensesame.com

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Portland, OR – 28 June 2019 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of Mind Channel to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to expand its offering of multilingual and microlearning courses. As microlearning has gained in popularity due to its easy consumption by learners, enterprise companies also need to offer this training in the multiple languages spoken by its global workforce. 

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

With the goal of increasing learner engagement, Mind Channel creates short, fun, and accessible training to grow and develop global employees quickly and efficiently. Their microlearning courses are fully localized in English, Spanish, French and Brazilian Portuguese.

“In today’s fast-paced business environment, learners often don’t have time to sit through traditional long-format training nor do L&D professionals have time to search for high-quality content in multiple languages,” said Spencer Thornton, Vice President of Curation at OpenSesame. “Adding Mind Channel to our OpenSesame Plus subscription ensures global organizations have modern training that meets the needs of their diverse workforce.”

“OpenSesame’s unrivaled reach and reputation in the online learning industry will be a great way for us to expand our audience,” says Claudia Mcfarlane, Director of Mind Channel. “We are excited to partner with OpenSesame to provide short, engaging, and to-the-point microlearning designed 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 Mind Channel

Mind Channel provides new and innovative microlearning content for the modern employee, creating short bite-sized modules using high-quality character based animation. The content is fun and informative and subjects covered include personal development, leadership, sales, project management, and beyond. To learn more, visit www.mind-channel.com

Media contact:

Diane Haines

Vice President of Marketing

(503) 808-1268

diane.haines@opensesame.com

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PORTLAND, OR – 11 June 2019 – OpenSesame, the elearning innovator providing the world’s most comprehensive online catalog of curated elearning courses, today announced their membership in the SAP PartnerEdge program to further enhance the learning experience for SAP SuccessFactors customers.

As a part of the SuccessFactors’ Open Content Network, OpenSesame elearning courses already seamlessly integrate with the SuccessFactors LMS. Through the SAP PartnerEdge program, OpenSesame will be able to deliver even deeper benefits via the available enablement tools and APIs from SAP software business applications.   

“SAP SuccessFactors customers are currently leveraging the Open Content Network to quickly launch their training programs with OpenSesame elearning courses,” said Tom Turnbull, Vice President, Partnerships of OpenSesame. “Expanding our partnership with SAP by joining the PartnerEdge program will strengthen our ability to expand the learning ecosystem for our mutual SuccessFactors LMS customers.”

For more information please visit https://www.opensesame.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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Diane Haines

OpenSesame 

(503) 808-1268

diane.haines@opensesame.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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​Approximately 40 game developers will be given their choice of 5 training topics that are relevant to today’s business needs, and over the course of a weekend work to create a new and unique approach to knowledge communication. Over $4,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded at the end of the Training Jam in different categories: Best Game Prototype, Best Game Concept, and Participants’ Favorite.

Why is delivering knowledge via gaming important? Millennials are now the largest generation in the workforce, with Generation Z just starting their first jobs. These two generations are accustomed  to getting entertaining and educational content from YouTube, Snapchat, social media channels, and other online sources. If the training content that these new generations encounter in the workplace isn’t received well, it won’t hold their attention, won’t engage them, and ultimately won’t be effective. That translates to a big problem for organizations recruiting a generation that consistently cites access to career advancement training as something that is extremely important to them.

The status quo  is “Gameification”, which is  adding entertainment elements to course design,and has had mixed results. OpenSesame wants to forge a new path.

“This isn’t about elearning gamification, where game-like elements are layered onto traditionally designed courses. Instead we want to spur innovation by having independent game designers, experts in entertaining and engaging users, create real games that transfer knowledge. We want to see if we can trainify gaming, not gamify training,” – states Josh Blank, Co-Founder, and SVP & GM at OpenSesame.

A project like this is a natural for OpenSesame. Founded as an innovative answer to a need in the corporate training world for curated, relevant, quality and affordable off-the-shelf courses, OpenSesame has always pushed the boundaries.

“Innovation that has practical applications is in our DNA, so bringing diverse groups together like corporate learning experts and game designers to pioneer a new way of thinking in course design seemed instinctive to us,” said Blank.

To assist with the endeavor, OpenSesame has put together a group of experts to mentor the competitors and help judge the final products. The judges include:

• Bob Gerard, Gaming Industry Veteran

• Casper Mørck, Siemens, Manager Learning Technology – Americas

• Dan Myers, Starz VP Organizational Development

• Jana Humphreys, Vivid Learning Systems, Director – Learning Solutions

• Megan Riede, PubMatic Director, Learning and Development

• Peter Lund, SuperGenius Studio COO

The Training Jam powered by OpenSesame will take place at DeskHub (334 NW 11th Ave) in Portland, Oregon April 22-24, 2016.

Hashtag: #TrainingJam2016

To learn more about the Training Jam, visit www.Training-Jam.com or follow @trainingjam on Twitter.

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With a catalog of 20,000+ titles spanning 15 major categories, OpenSesame Books offers instant access to a comprehensive business and employee development library, available on any device. OpenSesame Books offers business oriented content to professionals in formats ranging from books and case studies to industry reports and journals.

Powered by BlueBottleBiz, the content is published by over 150 providers such as HarperCollins, Palgrave Macmillan, Elsevier, McGraw-Hill, and Wiley which allows OpenSesame Books to continually update its content for business training and development.

Popular titles include The End of Power by Moises Naim, The Complete Guide to Google Advertising by Bruce C Brown, All About Hedge Funds by Ezra Zask, and The Creative Society by Lars Tvede.

“We are continually listening to our customer’s needs. Frequently, we heard our Fortune 1000 customers asking for an ebook product designed to complement their company’s internal training and development programs. OpenSesame Books fills those needs perfectly.” said Don Spear, CEO of OpenSesame.

The addition of books expands and strengthens OpenSesame’s professional training and development tools. Rather than read an entire ebook, businesses have the option to handpick and compile individual chapters from multiple publications to create custom Discovery Paths for their employees.

The combination of OpenSesame’s already large library of elearning courses with OpenSesame Books provides businesses with even more flexibility to create individualized training with high quality content.

Some other exciting features of OpenSesame Books:

• Users can add new titles and reading packages to suit their own internal training needs.
• The OpenSesame Books library is refreshed daily to keep content current and up-to-date.
• The growing catalog includes titles in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and soon Chinese.
• OpenSesame Books gives clients access to all 20,000+ titles and  automatically adds new content to catalogs with no added cost to their customers.
• The user-friendly search engine can search within individual chapters or entire books.
• The program also provides access to usage statistics and analytics that allow for accurate tracking of the most read books, category engagement, most shared content, popular activities, and more.

Companies are increasingly designing their training programs and recognizing that their employees have varied learning styles. They are replacing the “one size fits all” method of staff development with integrated programs that cater to different learning styles. Combining elearning courses with ebooks adds critical tools for the Learning and Development professional to utilize.

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Since our launch, we have built a platform that dramatically reduces the time from need to training solution, with courses that are available instantly online, through email, or in any Learning Management System (LMS). We have helped large corporations eliminate elearning waste, paying only for the courses they use, and saving 40-50% in the process. Plus, we have grown our catalog to 20,000+ courses, making us the world’s largest source for elearning courses focused on employee training.

But there is still more work to be done.

We want to continue improving and growing OpenSesame, which is why are pleased to announce we recently raised $8 million in a Series A funding round, lead by Partech Ventures.

The additional funding will allow us to expand our sales, engineering and marketing teams to continue product improvements and execute on new product ideas that we plan to roll out in 2014. We are also excited to add Nicolas El Baze, General Partner at Partech Ventures, to our board. Nicolas brings both operational experience and international connections to the team.

The elearning market is growing at an exponential rate, even as training managers are expected to work with less and less budget. OpenSesame already provides a simple and affordable way to get the most from your elearning budget, without having to worry about a long-term commitment. This recent round of funding ensures we’ll only get better from here.

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Since our launch in 2010, we have expanded rapidly – from the size of our content catalog, to the number of publisher partners to the size of our team. This group of new hires will enable us to continue building the world’s marketplace for buying and selling online training content by increasing the pace of product development and continuing to provide the best customer service in the online training industry.

We believe strongly that the quality of our business is based on the quality of our team, and we’re proud to be building a talented, effective and fun group of people, both in our Portland office and around the world. Meet our three new hires:

Dave Depper

Dave Depper is an Oregon native who graduated cum laude from the University of Oregon in 2002 with a B.S. in Computer and Information Science. Dave has more than 10 years of experience as a software developer, Microsoft Certified Professional, and as a professional touring musician. Dave will focus his engineering talents on the OpenSesame API, making it possible for technology partners to integrate browsing, purchasing and using courses from the OpenSesame catalog of training courses into any learning management system.

Edward Irby

Edward Irby is a user experience designer and developer who works with clients to create websites that help customers understand businesses’ services and products. With prior experience at CPUsage, Portland Community College and with freelance clients as a developer and designer, Edward has a deep understanding of usability balanced by an eye for design. At OpenSesame, Edward will work closely with both the community development team and the engineering team to improve site usability and create a highly functional website that is easy for the OpenSesame community to use.

Alexandra Hernandez

Alexandra Hernandez is a business development manager who specializes in content acquisition and community building in the entertainment and startup sectors. Alex recently relocated to Portland from Los Angeles, where she achieved a master’s degree at the University of Southern California and developed experience working at NBC. At OpenSesame, Alex will lead the customer service team, focusing on providing an incredible customer experience that delights OpenSesame customers.

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