Training Industry is the most trusted source of information on the business of learning. Our Top Assessment and Evaluation List is based on thorough analysis of the capabilities, experience and expertise of assessment and evaluation providers.
Assessments refer to the process or act of evaluating an individual or organization’s knowledge, skills or performance related to a particular subject, topic or process.
Assessment and evaluation providers offer a variety of measurement solutions that include tools and frameworks to evaluate training effectiveness and other outcomes before, during or after a training engagement.
We continuously monitor the training marketplace looking for the best providers of assessments and evaluations that offer a breadth of capabilities and techniques. This annual list is designed to help buy-side organizations in their search for the right training partners.
Selection of this year’s Top Assessment and Evaluation Companies List was based on the following criteria:
- Diversity of assessment capabilities.
- Quality and innovation of evaluation techniques.
- Company size and growth potential.
- Quality and number of clients/users.
- Awards, recognition and competitive differentiation.
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Due to the diversity of services included in assessments and evaluations, no attempt is made to rank the companies.
Top 20 Companies

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Profiling Online
Sydney
Profiling Online is an assessment and evaluation technology company that helps organizations create agile, mobile-friendly assessments based on their unique competency frameworks. It creates beautiful tools to engage participants, streamline processes, and deliver exceptional and meaningful reports and insights.
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BTS
Stockholm, Sweden
BTS is a world-leading strategy implementation firm focused on the people side of strategy. Its assessments are innovative, scalable and consistently provide measurable impact. Integrated across all areas of the business, BTS’s history of highly effective assessments qualifies its practice as a leader in the field.
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GP Strategies
Columbia, Maryland
GP Strategies is a leading workforce transformation partner — one of the few dedicated global providers in the marketplace providing custom solutions. Whether businesses success requires a change in employee performance and mindset, learning technologies, or critical processes, GP Strategies is the transformation partner organizations can trust.
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Korn Ferry
Los Angeles, California
Korn Ferry offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to enhance organizations’ talent development and management capabilities. Using its experience with some of the largest and most diverse organizations around the world, it has created assessment solutions that give organizations the freedom to create the right program for your organization.
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Insights
Dundee, Scotland
Insights is dedicated to creating a world where people truly understand themselves and others, and are inspired to make a positive difference in everything they do. Insights delivers programs that help companies all over the world enhance self-awareness, communication and teamwork to get the very best from their people.
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Saville Assessment
London
Saville Assessment prides itself on the development of one of the most valid psychometric assessments on the market and pushes boundaries to accommodate clients with varying requirements and budgets. Its innovative solutions provide an engaging candidate experience by showcasing its clients’ brand and giving candidates a realistic job preview.
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Aon
London
From talent evaluation and leadership assessment to performance and compensation management and workforce planning, Aon works to support its clients’ human resources (HR) strategies. It has programs and tools that identify, engage, reward, develop and motivate people to reach their full potential.
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Core Strengths
Carlsbad, California
Core Strengths’ award-winning assessments have helped managers unlock results through relationships. For 49 years, Core Strengths has taught teams how to improve performance, break through conflict and transform their culture.
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Hogan Assessments
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Hogan Assessments is a global leader in personality assessments, helping businesses reduce turnover and increase productivity by hiring the right people, developing key talent and evaluating leadership potential. Its assessments are available in 57 countries and 46 languages and are used by more than 70% of the Fortune 500.
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Mercer
New York
Mercer’s talent experts have been helping organizations — from multinationals to start-ups — grow and develop their people for over 70 years through consulting, information solutions, technology, tools and exclusive research. Mercer makes it its job to keep companies ahead of the market with its holistic approach to all things talent.
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TTI Success Insights
Scottsdale, Arizona
TTI Success Insights reveals human potential, so its network can realize and release the potential of their organizations and individuals. TTI Success Insights has been in business since 1984 and is a shining example of what happens when organizations put people first.
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Extended DISC North America, Inc.
Magnolia, Texas
Extended DISC offers customizable, internationally validated, GDPR-compliant assessments for clients’ unique needs and preferences. Content can be tailored to specific job roles and industries. Pair, team and organizational assessments can be generated without creating additional employee questionnaires.
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Genos International
Sydney
Genos International is a global team of changemakers, using emotional intelligence to enhance how we connect, communicate and collaborate at work. Transforming these essential people skills at work also makes a difference in peoples’ relationships outside of the workplace. People become better parents, partners, siblings and friends. That’s why Genos calls its work game-changing for business and life-changing for people.
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Center for Creative Leadership
Greensboro, North Carolina
Since pioneering the use of assessments and feedback in leadership development, Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) has become a world leader in providing assessments that produce valid, reliable and actionable results. Supported by over 50 years of research, CCL’s assessments provide superior normative data.
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Explorance
Montreal, Canada
Explorance is a journey analytics provider that empowers organizations to make the right decisions through fact-based feedback data. With its Blue and Metrics That Matter offerings, Explorance is at the heart of the learning organization’s continuous improvement strategy.
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Objective Management Group, Inc.
Westboro, Massachusetts
Objective Management Group, Inc. (OMG) founded the sales assessment industry and celebrated 30 years and 2 million salespeople assessed in 2020. OMG provides the most insightful sales force evaluations and accurate sales candidate assessments and helps companies of all sizes in over 200 industries.
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MHS, Inc
Toronto, Canada
MHS Talent Development is trusted by global businesses looking for flexible and engaging solutions to hire, identify, develop and retain highly skilled employees, leaders and teams. MHS connects performance metrics with organizational goals to help you uncover the value of a measurable, data-driven approach to workforce optimization.
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TRACOM Group
Centennial, Colorado
TRACOM is the creator of SOCIAL STYLE, the world’s most effective interpersonal skills program, according to a research study by Colorado State University. These assessments and evaluations have been used by tens of millions of people in nearly 100 countries, and TRACOM continually works to update, enhance and improve the model.
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DDI
Bridgeville, Pennsylvania
DDI is a global leadership consulting firm that helps organizations hire, promote and develop exceptional leaders at every level. Built on five decades of research and experience in the science of leadership, DDI’s evidence-based assessment and development solutions enable the success of millions of leaders around the world.
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PSI Services
Glendale, California
PSI empowers people in their careers and drives organizational success. PSI designs robust solutions by blending best-in-class assessment content, cutting-edge technology and deep consulting expertise. It has over 70 years of experience providing worldwide testing solutions and works with over 2,000 experts globally to deliver over 15 million assessments each year.
Watchlist Companies
Watchlist
Our 2020 Assessment and Evaluation Companies Watch List is intended to help buyers of training services evaluate assessment and evaluation training 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 assessments and evaluations, no attempt is made to rank the companies.

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SalesBoost
Plano, Texas
SalesBoost
Plano, Texas
SalesBoost is a patented, software as a service, skill-based training and coaching solution that improves the value of organizations’ human capital. SalesBoost leverages technology to fill gaps in learning retention, adoption of new skills and time to proficiency.
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OPRA Psychology Group
Wellington, New Zealand
OPRA Psychology Group
Wellington, New Zealand
OPRA Psychology Group is a specialized provider of leading-edge selection tools and talent development solutions that are robust and supported by research. It works with businesses to recruit, develop and retain high-performing staff through practical and customized human resource solution and psychology applied to work.
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Tilt Inc.
Raleigh, North Carolina
Tilt Inc.
Raleigh, North Carolina
Tilt 365 delivers the best new personality framework and fresh, relevant assessments that grow agility through character strength development in people, teams and culture. Its certified network of coaches and trainers deliver coaching, consulting and workshops that build an agile culture that speeds innovation.
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Qstream
Burlington, Massachusetts
Qstream
Burlington, Massachusetts
Qstream is a microlearning solution backed by science and practice to boost learner performance through knowledge reinforcement, engagement and analytics. Qstream builds high-performance teams by delivering a microlearning experience that reinforces job-critical knowledge in minutes a day, exposing a real-time view of performance readiness.
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Accendo Technologies
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Accendo Technologies
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Accendo Technologies operates at the cross-section of three crucial aspects – measuring talent, providing talent consulting and delivering strategic talent management features on a technology platform that sits alongside core human resource (HR) management system applications while delivering missing functionality and advanced analytics to help HR perform with more agility.
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Relias
Morrisville, North Carolina
Relias
Morrisville, North Carolina
Specializing in healthcare education, Relias is a global software company that helps over 11,000 clients reduce risk, resulting in better clinical and financial outcomes. Relias follows principles of adult learning and uses performance metrics and assessments to reveal specific skill gaps and addresses them with targeted learning.
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Mandel Communications
Capitola, California
Mandel Communications
Capitola, California
Mandel Communications is the global communication skills training company for organizations that believe in unleashing the potential of their employees. Their proprietary personal listening assessment enhances employees’ listening skills, learning and application on the job — helping companies discover new ways to help their people think, speak and listen more effectively.
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Leadership Management International, Inc.
Waco, Texas
Leadership Management International, Inc.
Waco, Texas
Leadership Management International, Inc. is an application and service represented in over 80 countries worldwide.
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Isograd, Inc.
Paris
Isograd, Inc.
Paris
Isograd, Inc.’s Test on Software Applications (TOSA) is a proficiency-based digital skills assessment and certification for recruitment, learning and development, and education. It provides tests for many popular applications, digital literacy and coding. Using adaptive testing and item response theory (IRT) scoring, TOSA precisely evaluates individuals’ skills and identifies skill gaps and progression.
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The Regis Company
Golden, Colorado
The Regis Company
Golden, Colorado
The Regis Company creates leadership development programs across the world's most progressive organizations. Its targeted design methodology, innovative technology and analytics-driven approach results in impactful and transformative learning experiences that improve decision-making and build leadership capabilities for leaders at all levels.