Ask a Trainer: How Can I Protect My Organization’s Employee Experience Budget?

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In this week’s Ask a Trainer guest post, Peter Brussard offers advice for how HR and L&D teams can connect employee experience programs to business success.

Acquisition of Bridge will expand LTG’s capabilities in the mid-enterprise market.

At Bridge, we love to build great software. Six years ago, we first brought the Bridge Learning Management System (LMS) to market. Since then, our offering has expanded with the addition of performance, engagement, and career development tools enabling companies to deliver a unique, employee-centric experience for development and productivity, all integrated in a single, easy-to-use, SaaS-based platform. Employees thrive when they’re inspired to learn and grow. 

Bridge is the People Matter Most Platform for a reason. Our mission: deliver a learning and performance platform that helps employees and managers transform their organization through connected learning, performance alignment, and career growth. With it, you can put employees first—and chart your organization’s course to greater achievement.

Part of LTG

Today, Bridge enters the next phase of its innovation and growth. Learning Technologies Group plc (LTG), the provider of services and technologies for digital learning and talent management, has agreed to acquire Bridge from Instructure Inc. The acquisition significantly extends LTG’s learning and talent offering in the important mid-enterprise market. The addition of Bridge is highly complementary to the Group’s existing offerings: PeopleFluent, which serves the large enterprise market, and BreezyHR, which serves the small and medium-sized business market. This latest addition enables LTG to provide a holistic learning and talent development offering to meet the needs of small, mid-size, and large enterprises, three distinct groups with varying needs. 

“Leading companies focus on creating an engaging culture that unlocks the potential of each employee. In today’s disruptive work climate, smart companies provide opportunities that facilitate connection, alignment, and growth for their people and teams,” said John Knotwell. “Bridge is proud to be among the most sought after HR solutions for learning and performance management.”

John Knotwell, General Manager for Bridge

The combination and integration of Bridge with LTG’s other portfolio offerings will create opportunities for cross-sell and upsell-led growth.

“I am delighted to welcome Bridge to LTG. Bridge adds real strength and depth to our learning and talent offering for the mid-enterprise market, which has attractive structural dynamics.”

-Jonathan Satchell, Chief Executive of LTG

The vast majority of our customers have common goals focused on enabling employees to grow, achieve their best potential, and helping them gain the skills they need to succeed. Bridge users enjoy high user adoption because it’s built with the flexibility and ease-of-use needed to meet the diverse needs unique to high growth and medium-sized organizations.

We are excited about this opportunity and what it means for our Bridge customers. Our technology is poised to transform talent management so our customers can transform their businesses.

Learn more about our acquisition by reading the LTG press release, and for our customers, stay tuned for updates from your customer success team.

About Learning Technologies Group

Learning Technologies Group is a leader in the high-growth workplace e-learning industry. The Group offers truly end-to-end learning solutions ranging from strategic consultancy, through a range of content and platform solutions to analytical insights that enable corporate and government clients to meet their performance objectives. LTG is listed on the London Stock Exchange Alternative Investment Market (LTG.L) and headquartered in London. The Group has offices in Europe, the United States, Asia-Pacific, and South America. For more, visit ltgplc.com.

About Bridge

Bridge is a Learning & Performance platform that uniquely combines learning management, career & skill development, and performance management, all in one solution. With Bridge, you can turn stale and ineffective learning & performance review programs into a seamless, dynamic, and engaging experience for employees and managers alike. Used by more than 800 companies worldwide, Bridge helps companies achieve their strategic people development goals by facilitating connection, alignment, and growth across the entire organization. Learn more at www.getbridge.com/en_gb/ 

Akash Savdharia

Akash Savdharia

Akash is an entrepreneurial technology executive with over 10 years of experience bringing SaaS products to market that solve impactful data-driven problems. Prior to joining Bridge, Akash was the co-founder and CEO of Patheer, an AI-powered talent marketplace to help companies grow and retain employees by empowering them to discover new career paths and opportunities internally. At Patheer, he drove the company's vision, strategy, and products, which revolutionized the enterprise talent and career mobility space. In September 2020, Learning Technologies Group acquired Patheer to bolster its product and technology expertise in this fast growing market. At Bridge, Akash is the Vice President of Talent Solutions, and continues to drive the vision, growth, and strategy for skills and talent mobility.

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