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The ROI Academy appoints new Commercial Director

Henley on Thames, UKLearning NewsThe ROI Academy

With projected growth in excess of 100% per annum over the next 3 years, The ROI Academy, the UK's leading organisation for evaluating and measuring training, appoints Mike Leeson as its Commercial Director.

The ROI Academy™ has for the last 3 years been working with major companies as varied as Nestlé and The Kuwait Petroleum Company to provide measurement and evaluation of the impact and value of some of their major training programmes. Implementing The ROI Academy™'s suite of tools and techniques ensures the best alignment of their training programmes with their business objectives. The tools enable clients to:

Model the potential impact and value of a programme.
Maximise the impact and value from the training using the unique "what if" scenarios to select the best model.
Measure the results and evaluate the impact of training programmes over time on specific job roles and business goals.

In addition, The ROI Academy™ runs courses to enable both training and business managers to understand and implement the principles, tools and techniques in the workplace.

Hedda Bird, founder and director, of The ROI Academy said "We are projecting growth in excess of 100% per annum over the next 3 years. The Academy needs some-one that can oversee that growth and ensure that we remain client focussed through this exciting period. We are very pleased to have recruited Mike Leeson who has a track-record of growing profitable and successful businesses within the training industry and within technology-led environments.

Mike Leeson said "I am very pleased to be joining The ROI Academy™ at such an exciting time. The tools and techniques that the ROI Academy™ has developed really address the long standing industry issues of proving the value and impact of training. I believe that the fact that the tools allow pre-event modelling as well as post-event measuring is extremely significant and differentiates us from other organisations".

Mike will be focusing on the large national and global businesses as well as public sector clients that are implementing ROI Academy™ solutions.