Training Industry is the most trusted source of information on the business of learning. Our Top Custom Content Development List is based on thorough analysis of the capabilities, experience and expertise of custom content development providers.
Custom content development primarily includes custom-designed instructional course development for external use. It encapsulates the creation of learning programs from initial design to a finished deliverable product.
We continuously monitor the training marketplace looking for the best providers of custom content development that offer a strong and diverse set of services and offerings. This annual list is designed to help buy-side organizations in their search for the right training partners.
Selection of this year’s Top Custom Content Development Companies List was based on the following criteria:
- Industry visibility, innovation and impact.
- Capability to develop and deliver multiple types of content.
- Depth and breadth of subject matter expertise.
- Company size and growth potential.
- Strength of clients and geographic reach.
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Click on a company’s logo below to find more information about its products and services. Continue scrolling for this year’s Custom Content Development Watch List Companies, representing companies with emerging or unique strengths and capabilities.
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Due to the diversity of services included in custom content development, no attempt is made to rank the companies.
Top 20 Companies
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Performance Development Group
Malvern, Pennsylvania
Performance Development Group (PDG) provides custom content to drive the behavior change businesses need to realize their goals. PDG focuses on where the need is the greatest and where change will have the most meaningful impact. PDG provides a scalable implementation capability to drive results through improved workforce performance.
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Aptara, Inc
Falls Church, Virginia
Aptara is a U.S.-based company harnessing the rapid emergence of digital media to provide customers a competitive learning advantage. It provides transformational learning and performance solutions to the world’s largest corporations. Aptara is a market leader in learning and performance solutions that deliver custom learning content.
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Cegos Group
Issy Les Moulineaux, France
The Cegos Group deploys a global offering, including turnkey and tailored training and development, operational consultancy, digital learning, managed training services, international training projects, and certificate and diploma courses in over 50 countries through its direct operations and network of partners and distributors.
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AllenComm
Salt Lake City, Utah
AllenComm designs, develops and deploys transformative learning solutions built for business impact. With some of the largest learning and development, creative, and technology teams, AllenComm creates award-winning solutions that precisely meet the needs of large organizations and are uniquely tailored and performance focused.
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Caveo Learning
Schaumburg, Illinois
Caveo Learning offers the full spectrum of training content solutions, from instructional design services to full creative design and development and custom learning technologies. Caveo is a team of expert learning professionals with decades of experience in content development across multiple modalities.
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Raytheon Professional Services
Dallas, Texas
Raytheon Professional Services (RPS) brings a strategic and consultative approach to clients' challenges. RPS develops and implements training solutions to improve workforce performance and business results.
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Infopro Learning
Plainsboro, New Jersey
For over 25 years, Infopro Learning has been unlocking human capital for organizations with custom learning and training solutions. Infopro provides a full suite of services in the training field, including content development, leadership and learning management.
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CoreAxis
Southborough, Massachusetts
CoreAxis provides a unique combination of high-impact business performance consulting coupled with custom training development and delivery. Its strength lies in its commitment to its clients. CoreAxis takes a singular approach to each engagement to develop strategies that drive lasting organizational change.
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Kineo
London
At Kineo, everyone works toward a single goal: designing better learning experiences for better results. Kineo provides award-winning bespoke, platform and off-the-shelf learning solutions that excite and engage learners and deliver real, measurable impact for organizations.
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SweetRush
San Francisco, California
SweetRush continues to lead the learning and development industry in designing and developing highly effective, engaging and learner-centric solutions. It has also garnered ample peer recognition and the trust of a world-class client base. SweetRush has partnered with 30 nonprofits and foundations and is committed to applying its craft to doing good.
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GP Strategies
Columbia, Maryland
GP Strategies has a stellar reputation due to its unique capabilities as a partner and problem solver who creates effective, performance-focused solutions. GP Strategies is an excellent content development partner, extending beyond just content development and offering end-to-end training support.
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Allen Interactions
St. Paul, Minnesota
Allen Interactions’ passion is creating meaningful, memorable, motivational and measurable experiences. As an end-to-end custom learning and technology solutions partner, it strives to connect with smart leaders and organizations to help them achieve their full potential in workplace performance and human behavior change.
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NIIT
Gurugram, India
NIIT is a market-leading learning outsourcing company offering a comprehensive suite of managed training services. Its flagship services are curriculum design and content development. Its learning solutions include instructor-led training, eLearning, performance support, social collaboration and resources for ongoing development.
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CGS Enterprise Learning
New York
CGS Enterprise Learning serves as a trusted partner to many of the world’s most dynamic companies, delivering custom learning solutions essential to scaling people, processes and performance in today’s ever-changing corporate environment. Its work ranges from interactive game-based eLearning to transformational technology rollouts.
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Ardent Learning, Inc.
Rochester, New York
Ardent Learning helps clients thrive in business by developing custom learning solutions. Ardent believes the most effective learning experience incorporates a company’s brand, culture and values. Its team is tenacious in helping clients and their people reach their goals and perform at the highest level.
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Conduent Learning
Florham Park, New Jersey
Conduent Learning provides custom course curriculum design and development tailored to customers’ specific business needs, ranging from product training to skills development to sales training across industries and delivery modalities.
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MPS Interactive
New York
MPS Interactive (MPSi) has a 30-year history of advancing the noble cause of human capital development. MPSi partners with customers to develop high performance custom content to solve mission critical priorities. Spread over 14 locations across the U.S., Europe and India, it is powered by 2500 learning professionals who are passionate about content development.
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CrossKnowledge
Suresnes, France
CrossKnowledge delivers a unique combination of digital content alongside unmatched learning technology and services. CrossKnowledge is a trusted learning partner to organizations – helping learning professionals, managers and learners acquire the skills they need to succeed.
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LEO Learning
Brighton, England
With over 30 years of experience, LEO Learning works in partnership with its clients by building strong relationships that last. With an unrivaled combination of experience, expertise and capability, its strategic offering results in effective learning that fits seamlessly into global businesses and measurably transforms performance.
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TrainingPros
Atlanta
TrainingPros serves the training, eLearning and technical writing communities by providing qualified resources to clients on a contract basis. It has a complete eLearning team ready to simplify clients’ eLearning development process.
Watchlist Companies
Watchlist
Our 2020 Custom Content Development Watch List is intended to help buyers of training services evaluate custom content development providers, representing emerging or unique strengths and capabilities.
Selection of the Watch List is based on the same criteria used for Top 20 companies.
Click on a company’s logo below to find more information about its products and services.
Due to the diversity of services included in custom content development, no attempt is made to rank the companies.
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Gronstedt Group
Denver, Colorado
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Gronstedt Group
Denver, Colorado
The Grondstedt Group is innovating the future at the intersection of gaming, virtual reality and corporate learning. Its mobile and virtual reality games and simulations offer experiential learning with the engagement and hyperrealism of the best consumer games. The Gronstedt Group boosts employee performance and drives business results for Fortune 50 leaders like Walmart, Pfizer, Novartis and KPMG.
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Ingenuiti
Virginia Beach, Virginia
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Ingenuiti
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Ingenuiti drives business performance through robust learning analysis, development, and deployment capabilities. Its award-winning custom learning solutions enable organizations to successfully implement strategic imperatives across a full range of modalities, content, and audiences.
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Actio Learning, Inc.
Naperville, Illinois
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Actio Learning, Inc.
Naperville, Illinois
Actio Learning helps business, talent and training leaders improve employee performance. Actio creates innovative employee development plans, strategic training plans, blended learning solutions, technical training and on the job training. Actio helps clients achieve goals, improve workforce performance and compel an organization forward.
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Designing Digitally, Inc.
Franklin, Ohio
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Designing Digitally, Inc.
Franklin, Ohio
Designing Digitally, Inc. is a leader in providing custom training solutions for some of the largest brands across the world. Designing Digitally partners with clients to help identify and understand employee development goals and challenges in order to create customized curriculums that ensure learning and business objectives are met.
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CLD
Belmont, Massachusetts
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CLD
Belmont, Massachusetts
CLD understands that learners in the life sciences do not learn generically. Solutions and content need to be customized to meet the needs of each unique organization.
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The Game Agency
Stamford, Connecticut
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The Game Agency
Stamford, Connecticut
The Game Agency develops game-based solutions that make corporate training, K-12 and higher education learning more effective. The Game Agency helps learners better connect with training material, and its games are used by hundreds of Fortune 500 companies and millions of students. The Game Agency designs and develops custom game solutions to meet clients' needs and requirements.
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Judge Learning Solutions
Wayne, Pennsylvania
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Judge Learning Solutions
Wayne, Pennsylvania
Judge Learning Solutions (JLS) offers a wide range of custom content development products focused on innovative, creative designs and meeting the business needs of clients. JLS’s award-winning experts use their skills and love of learning to strategize with clients and create high-quality, learner-focused solutions.
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Flare Learning (a division of Neovation Learning Solutions)
Winnipeg, Canada
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Flare Learning (a division of Neovation Learning Solutions)
Winnipeg, Canada
Flare Learning is focused on solving clients’ training challenges and provides custom learning solutions from traditional eLearning to fully adaptive microlearning. Its in-house team of experts works with clients in all industries and all levels of training expertise to help them achieve their goals and enjoy the process along the way!
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BizLibrary
Town and Country, Missouri
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BizLibrary
Town and Country, Missouri
BizLibrary’s online employee training solution is everything an organization needs to develop employees and drive measurable results. BizLibrary offers high-quality content covering topics organizations need to remain competitive, all delivered on a powerful and easy-to-use platform.
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TiER1 Performance
Covington, Kentucky
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TiER1 Performance
Covington, Kentucky
TiER1 Performance is an employee-owned consulting firm that activates strategies through people. As a Certified B Corporation®, TiER1 is passionate about consulting, designing and building people-centered business solutions that deliver meaningful, long-term success. Its team believes that the potential for any organization lies within its people.
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TTA
Marlborough, Massachusetts
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TTA
Marlborough, Massachusetts
TTA is a recognized global leader for learning and development talent and solutions. Organizations of all sizes, including Fortune 500 companies, partner with TTA to support learning initiatives of any size or scope in all locations, virtual or in-person.
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Upside Learning Solutions
Pune, India
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Upside Learning Solutions
Pune, India
Upside Learning Solutions is a leading provider of custom learning solutions to organizations worldwide. Upside Learning helps customers deliver real outcomes by achieving performance improvements aligned with business objectives. It aims to make a real impact on organizational metrics and behaviors by enabling organizations to bolster core teams.
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HurixDigital
Mumbai, India
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HurixDigital
Mumbai, India
HurixDigital is a pioneer in delivering digital content solutions for publishers and enterprises globally. HurixDigital enables clients in their digital transformation with content solutions and cloud platforms. It develops custom content that is based on fundamental learning principles, the latest technology trends and its eLearning expertise.
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eLearning Brothers
American Fork, Utah
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eLearning Brothers
American Fork, Utah
eLearning Brothers is a leader in the corporate training industry, providing a full suite of learning solutions. eLearning Brothers builds award-winning custom learning and offers a learning experience platform and learning management system for training management. It also offers hundreds of mobile-ready, off-the-shelf microlearning courses and a library of eLearning templates and assets.
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Baker Communications, Inc.
Houston, Texas
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Baker Communications, Inc.
Houston, Texas
Over 95% of Baker Communications, Inc.’s (BCI’s) business is the custom development and delivery of world-class training. As application data reveals, these accomplishments have yielded recognition for BCI and its customers. Companies like Amazon Web Services, the American Heart Association, SAP and other world class organizations trust BCI’s development for sales transformation and performance improvement.
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d'Vinci Interactive, Inc.
Hagerstown, Marlyand
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d'Vinci Interactive, Inc.
Hagerstown, Marlyand
Since 1994, d’Vinci Interactive, Inc. has been developing innovative learning experiences that empower learners to improve quality and boost performance. Today, its team designs and develops web-based training courses, interactive learning activities, instructional games, and simulations and video programs to educate, inform and inspire target audiences.
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Inno-Versity
Ada, Michigan
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Inno-Versity
Ada, Michigan
Inno-Versity is a full-service provider of custom learning solutions. Its in-house team of instructional and creative designers has worked with some of the largest companies, agencies and educational institutions in the world.
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EI Design
Bengaluru, India
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EI Design
Bengaluru, India
EI Design is a leading learning and performance support solutions provider that thrives on transforming learning. Its customers consider EI Design a trusted partner for delivering strategic learning initiatives. EI Design’s learning designs help customers achieve a superior learner experience, leading to desired performance gain and behavioral transformation.
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Tesseract Learning Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, India
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Tesseract Learning Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, India
Tesseract Learning is a dynamic custom content development organization offering a complete spectrum of digital learning solutions. Tesseract specializes in converting customers’ visions into highly impactful training programs. Whether fully virtual or blended, Tesseract is a one-stop-shop for all digital learning needs.
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LHT Learning
Westerville, Ohio
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LHT Learning
Westerville, Ohio
LHT Learning, also known as The LHT Group, provides engaging custom learning solutions that connect information to action. LHT is at the collision point of art, technology and training. LHT serves as an organization’s trusted learning advisor.
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Cinecraft Productions
Cleveland, Ohio
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Cinecraft Productions
Cleveland, Ohio
Cinecraft Productions is the oldest content development company in the world. It opened its doors in 1939, and that has made its team experts in every industry imaginable. All of Cinecraft’s work follows the seven better learning principles, including authenticity, timeliness, efficiency, relevancy, engagement, fun and accessibility.
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Roundtable Learning
Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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Roundtable Learning
Chagrin Falls, Ohio
Roundtable Learning partners with clients to drive measurable business results at every stage of the employee lifecycle. Roundtable consults with clients to bridge the gap between existing training strategies and the future of learning through technology-enhanced and blended learning solutions.
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Learning Pool
Derry, United Kingdom
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Learning Pool
Derry, United Kingdom
Launched in 2006, Learning Pool is a market-leading eLearning provider, offering award-winning, full service alongside pioneering technology and creative content. Learning Pool delivers exceptional digital learning solutions to 3 million learners in 42 languages and 23 countries. Learning Pool has 200 employees based in six offices across the U.K. and U.S.
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G-Cube Webwide Software
Noida, India
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G-Cube Webwide Software
Noida, India
G-Cube designs learning journeys for the corporate workforce. By aligning learning design principles with relevant trends, its bespoke solutions are flexible enough to meet a range of learning needs. G-Cube develops innovative mobile apps to aid just-in-time learning and specializes in services like localization, multimedia development and more.
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Yukon Learning
Richmond, Virginia
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Yukon Learning
Richmond, Virginia
Yukon Learning’s mission is simple and can be stated in one sentence: Making eLearning easy for everyone. Yukon Learning does this by providing Articulate-certified training, development and off-the-shelf customizable content.
