Continuing to strengthen business development team, Upside Learning has onboarded Kamal Lambaa to fast-track company’s growth in APAC.

Upside Learning, a leading service provider of end-to-end digital learning solutions for Fortune-1000 companies across the globe, has appointed Kamal Lambaa as AVP – Business Development. Kamal will be leading sales for the APAC region, strategizing and planning the overall sales action.

Kamal is an enthusiastic sales development professional with over 20 years of diverse experience BFSI, FMCG & Retail sectors. He has contributed to various roles in sales, trade marketing, marketing & sales development with P&L responsibility. Kamal has worked with multi-cultural teams across Asia & Middle East regions, contributing to business with his experience and applicable business solutions. He has worked on business transformation projects in sales, learning & OD functions. Having contributed to the L&D field with his array of experience, he is able to add value and provide relevant solutions for most of the business scenarios, with appropriate customer focus & stakeholder management both within and outside the organization. Kamal has also lead many L&D and OD initiatives to enable the frontline teams to perform better, his initiatives are across the learning mediums to maintain a healthy mix of “clicks & bricks.”

Amit Garg – Founder & CEO of Upside Learning, commented, “Kamal is a great addition to Upside team bringing not only his industry expertise but also his passion for developing & empowering people. His extensive experience and strong relationships will nurture business growth by forging strong partnerships in the APAC region enabling us to explore newer opportunities and deliver better customer experience.”

About Upside Learning

Since 2004, Upside Learning has consistently delivered best-in-class custom learning solutions to organizations worldwide. The focal point has been to help customers deliver real outcomes by helping them achieve performance improvements that are aligned with their business objectives. Upside Learning aims to make a real impact on organizational metrics and behaviors by supporting organizations to bolster their core teams.

With experience in offerings such as Virtual Instructor-led Training, Bespoke Learning, Learning Consultancy, Performance Support Aids, eBooks, or Game-based learning, Upside Learning strives to add value to every learning solution it creates.

Upside Learning aims to go beyond the ordinary and predictable with their mantra of ‘Go Beyond’. As part of the ‘Go Beyond’ initiative, Upside Learning nudges its internal teams, customers, and the entire L&D community to treat every learning initiative as an enabler of employee performance. The ‘L&D Go Beyond Podcast’ is a significant and noteworthy part of this initiative, which features workplace learning leaders from across the globe sharing their insights and experiences. Over the years, Upside Learning has won more than 90 awards and accolades (including several Brandon Hall Group Excellence awards).

Learn more about Upside Learning at: www.upsidelearning.com

Upside Learning has onboarded Alesiya Khan to further strengthen its Instructional Design function.

Upside Learning, a leading service provider of end-to-end digital learning solutions for Fortune-1000 companies across the globe, has appointed Alesiya Khan as Senior Manager – Instructional Design. Alesiya will be leading the instructional design efforts for the pre-sales and innovation functions at Upside Learning.

Alesiya has been in the elearning industry for around 16 years and has worked on a variety of domains and learning modalities. An eager learner with an open mindset, Alesiya has had the privilege to work on projects that cater to various audiences like middle school students, medical students, corporate white- and blue-collar workers, etc. She has worked on various learning solutions inclusive of, but not limited to, K12, business simulations, systems trainings, videos, microlearnings, mini-games, rapid development trainings, and game-based learnings. In addition to being a passionate instructional designer, she is an avid learner. She is fascinated by new things; be it a new learning trend or a language or a new culture. Academically, Alesiya holds a Master’s degree in Computer Application and a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce.

Amit Garg – Founder & CEO of Upside Learning, commented, “Alesiya joining us adds to our team’s strength in the instructional design function and will help us add an edge to our learning solutions. Her extensive experience in the eLearning domain associated with account handling, people management, and pre-sales will definitely enable us to provide better customer experience.”

About Upside Learning

Since 2004, Upside Learning has consistently delivered best-in-class custom learning solutions to organizations worldwide. The focal point has been to help customers deliver real outcomes by helping them achieve performance improvements that are aligned with their business objectives. Upside Learning aims to make a real impact on organizational metrics and behaviors by supporting organizations to bolster their core teams.

With experience in offerings such as Virtual Instructor-led Training, Bespoke Learning, Learning Consultancy, Performance Support Aids, eBooks, or Game-based learning, Upside Learning strives to add value to every learning solution it creates.

Upside Learning aims to go beyond the ordinary and predictable with their mantra of ‘Go Beyond’. As part of the ‘Go Beyond’ initiative, Upside Learning nudges its internal teams, customers, and the entire L&D community to treat every learning initiative as an enabler of employee performance. The ‘L&D Go Beyond Podcast’ is a significant and noteworthy part of this initiative, which features workplace learning leaders from across the globe sharing their insights and experiences. Over the years, Upside Learning has won more than 90 awards and accolades (including several Brandon Hall Group Excellence awards).

Learn more about Upside Learning at: www.upsidelearning.com

The leading learning solutions provider strikes big at Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards 2021, wins a total of 14 awards, including 4 Golds.

Upside Learning, a leading global provider of end-to-end digital learning solutions for Fortune-1000 companies, has won 14 coveted Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards for 2021, in collaboration with multiple clients. This win was announced on Aug 19, 2021, in an online webinar organized by the Brandon Hall Group. The winners are listed at https://excellenceawards.brandonhall.com/winners/.

These prestigious awards are a testimony to the world-class learning solutions that Upside Learning builds to help its clients achieve real outcomes from their training programs. The details of Upside Learning and their clients’ winning entries are as follows:

• Gold for ‘Best unique or innovative learning and development program’ won in collaboration with The World Bank.
• Gold for ‘Best benefits wellness and well-being program’ won in collaboration with The World Bank.
• Gold for ‘Best advance in compliance training’ won in collaboration with The World Bank.
• Gold for ‘Best advance in custom content’ won in collaboration with The World Bank.
• Silver for ‘Best unique or innovative learning and development program’ won in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
• Silver for ‘Best advance in custom content’ won in collaboration with The World Bank.
• Silver for ‘Best advance in custom content’ won in collaboration with Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited.
• Bronze for ‘Best advance in custom content’ won in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
• Bronze for ‘Best advance in compliance training’ won in collaboration with ISS A/S.
• Bronze for ‘Best use of video for learning’ won in collaboration with ISS A/S.
• Bronze for ‘Best advance in custom content’ won in collaboration with ISS A/S.
• Bronze for ‘Best unique or innovative learning and development program’ won in collaboration with Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited.
• Bronze for ‘Best advance in employee engagement’ won in collaboration with Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited.
• Bronze for ‘Best learning team’ won in collaboration with Colgate-Palmolive.

Amit Garg – Founder & CEO, Upside Learning Solutions, is ecstatic with this win. He says, “We’re thrilled to make it big at Brandon Hall Group awards this year. It is an honor to be recognized for our expertise in developing high-quality custom content that delivers measurable results for our customers.” Amit adds, “I’d like to congratulate the entire team at Upside Learning for their spirit to Go Beyond and create learning solutions that make a business impact. We definitely make a powerful team internally, and when this amazing team joins hands with world-class clients, the results are bound to be phenomenal. A big thank you to all our clients who trusted us with their critical projects.”

“Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards in 2021 provide much-needed and well-deserved recognition to organizations that went above and beyond to support their stakeholders during the unprecedented disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Brandon Hall Group COO and leader of the HCM Excellence Awards Program Rachel Cooke. “The awards provide validation of best practices in all areas of HCM at a time when they have never been more important to employers, employees and customers.”

Entries were evaluated by a panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts, Brandon Hall Group analysts and executives based upon these criteria: fit the need, design of the program, functionality, innovation and overall measurable benefits. Excellence Award winners are scheduled to be honored at Brandon Hall Group’s HCM Excellence Conference, Feb. 1-3, 2022, at the Hilton West Palm Beach, Florida.

About Upside Learning

For over 17 years, Upside Learning has consistently delivered best-in-class custom learning solutions to organizations worldwide. The focal point has been to help customers deliver real outcomes by helping them achieve performance improvements that are aligned with their business objectives. Upside Learning aims to make a real impact on organizational metrics and behaviors by supporting organizations to bolster their core teams.

With experience in offerings such as Virtual Instructor-led Training, Bespoke Learning, Learning Consultancy, Performance Support Aids, eBooks, or Game-based learning, Upside Learning strives to add value to every learning solution it creates. In its 17 years of business, Upside Learning has won more than 60 awards (including several Brandon Hall Group Excellence awards) and many accolades.

Learn more about Upside Learning at: www.upsidelearning.com

About Brandon Hall Group

Brandon Hall Group operates the largest and longest running awards program in Human Capital Management. As an independent HCM research and analyst firm they conduct studies in Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Talent Acquisition and HR/Workforce Management. These benchmark studies help organizations by providing strategic insights for executives and practitioners responsible for growth and business results.

Coupling the research studies with the best practice from the awards, Brandon Hall Group has helped more than 10,000 clients globally and more than 28 years of delivering world-class research and advisory. At the core of our offerings is a membership program that combines research, benchmarking and unlimited access to data and analysts. Membership enables executives and practitioners to make the right decisions about people, processes, and systems, coalesced with analyst advisory services which aim to put the research into action in a way that is practical and efficient.

Brandon Hall Group has also launched professional certifications for business and human capital management professionals to upskill themselves and gain credentials for career advancement.
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Upside Learning’s new podcast series aims to help the L&D community with useful workplace learning insights

Upside Learning, a leading service provider of end-to-end digital learning solutions for Fortune-1000 companies across the globe, has recently launched its new podcast – L&D Go Beyond.

The podcast, hosted by Amit, Garg, Founder and CEO of Upside Learning, features L&D leaders and experts from across the globe who share their insights and experiences on various topics pertaining to workplace learning.

Amit, who has already hosted several guests for this podcast, finds the experience very enriching. He says, “We, at Upside, have always nudged our teams, our clients, and the L&D community to do more and go beyond the ordinary. L&D Go Beyond Podcast is another big step in the same direction. A significant and noteworthy part of our Go Beyond initiative, this podcast is for anyone who is constantly intrigued by how workplace learning can be leveraged to help people develop in an organization.”

“We want everyone to leverage and build on the knowledge that L&D veterans from across the globe have to share. I am already quite intrigued by the insights shared by the some of our podcast guests so far. I am sure our audience will also feel the same and will find the podcast to be of immense value”, adds Amit.

Know more about the L&D Go Beyond Podcast here: https://upsidelearning.com/podcast/

About Upside Learning

Since 2004, Upside Learning has consistently delivered best-in-class custom learning solutions to organizations worldwide. The focal point has been to help customers deliver real outcomes by helping them achieve performance improvements that are aligned with their business objectives. Upside Learning aims to make a real impact on organizational metrics and behaviors by supporting organizations to bolster their core teams.

With experience in offerings such as Virtual Instructor-led Training, Bespoke Learning, Learning Consultancy, Performance Support Aids, eBooks, or Game-based learning, Upside Learning strives to add value to every learning solution it creates.

Upside Learning aims to go beyond the ordinary and predictable with their mantra of ‘Go Beyond’. As part of the ‘Go Beyond’ initiative, Upside Learning nudges its internal teams, customers, and the entire L&D community to treat every learning initiative as an enabler of employee performance.

Over the years, Upside Learning has won more than 60 awards (including several Brandon Hall Group Excellence awards) and many accolades.

Learn more about Upside Learning at: www.upsidelearning.com

With its new eBook, Upside Learning digs deep into the science of learning engagement.

Upside Learning, a leading service provider of end-to-end digital learning solutions for Fortune-1000 companies across the globe, has recently published a new eBook titled ‘Go Beyond: Design for Learning Engagement.’

This eBook, authored by Amit Garg, Founder and CEO of Upside Learning, draws on learning science and captures some of Amit’s latest thinking on this topic of wide interest – learning engagement. It aims to introduce readers to some interesting concepts on the science of learning engagement which they can apply to their training programs to make them more engaging. In addition to the design considerations for learning engagement, the book talks about how to measure learning engagement and illustrates all these concepts through some supportive studies and engaging stories.

Amit says, “There is no engagement unless you deliberately design for it based on your organization’s needs, your learners’ profile, and the tried-and-tested science of learning. This eBook is a guide for anyone who wants to understand this science to get better at creating engaging learning programs.”

You may download the eBook here:
https://upsidelearning.com/ebook/gobeyond-design-for-learning-engagement/

To explore other eBooks and resources by Upside Learning, please visit:
https://upsidelearning.cominsights/

About Upside Learning

Since 2004, Upside Learning has consistently delivered best-in-class custom learning solutions to organizations worldwide. The focal point has been to help customers deliver real outcomes by helping them achieve performance improvements that are aligned with their business objectives. Upside Learning aims to make a real impact on organizational metrics and behaviors by supporting organizations to bolster their core teams.

With experience in offerings such as Virtual Instructor-led Training, Bespoke Learning, Learning Consultancy, Performance Support Aids, eBooks, or Game-based learning, Upside Learning strives to add value to every learning solution it creates.

Upside Learning aims to go beyond the ordinary and predictable with their mantra of ‘Go Beyond’. As part of the ‘Go Beyond’ initiative, Upside Learning nudges its internal teams, customers, and the entire L&D community to treat every learning initiative as an enabler of employee performance. The ‘L&D Go Beyond Podcast’ is a significant and noteworthy part of this initiative, which features workplace learning leaders from across the globe sharing their insights and experiences.

Over the years, Upside Learning has won more than 60 awards (including several Brandon Hall Group Excellence awards) and many accolades.

Learn more about Upside Learning at: www.upsidelearning.com

Upside Learning has onboarded Isha Sood to lead their Marketing Function.

Upside Learning, a leading service provider of end-to-end digital learning solutions for Fortune-1000 companies across the globe, has appointed Isha Sood as AVP – Marketing. Isha will be leading the marketing function.

Isha is a seasoned marketeer with experience spanning content marketing, advertising, and communications. With experience in leading marketing for retail, technology, and learning content services in the past, Isha is driven by the dynamism that marketing brings along every day. A lifelong learner, Isha believes in hands-on learning and constant upskilling to be on top of her game. Her formal educational experience includes an MBA in Marketing and Information Technology and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Applications. She has a number of accomplishments to her credit including multiple academic and professional awards and recognitions.

Amit Garg – Founder & Director of Upside Learning, commented, “Isha joining us adds to our team’s strength in developing innovative and insightful content for our readers while helping us reach to our right target audience to drive the business growth of our company. Her extensive experience and expertise in the eLearning domain and her knowledge of the global learning industry will help us build on our existing client relations, which will enable us to deliver a better customer experience. While continuing to explore newer opportunities and building new relations”

About Upside Learning

Since 2004, Upside Learning has consistently delivered best-in-class custom learning solutions to organizations worldwide. The focal point has been to help customers deliver real outcomes by helping them achieve performance improvements that are aligned with their business objectives. Upside Learning aims to make a real impact on organizational metrics and behaviors by supporting organizations to bolster their core teams.

With experience in offerings such as Custom Learning, Learning Consultancy, Performance Support Aids, Game-based learning, Virtual Instructor-led Training, Upside Learning strives to add value to every learning solution it creates.

Over the years, Upside Learning has won more than 52 awards (including several Brandon Hall Excellence Awards) and many accolades.

Learn more about Upside Learning at: www.upsidelearning.com

Building on its presence across USA, Upside Learning has onboarded Amit Yakhmi as AVP – Business Solutions for the USA region.

Upside Learning, a leading service provider of end-to-end digital learning solutions for Fortune-1000 companies across the globe, has appointed Amit Yakhmi as AVP Business Solutions for the US region, Amit will be taking care of Upside Learning’s business on the west coast. USA is one of the key markets for Upside Learning and accounts for more than 35% of its business.

Amit has a proven track record in building long-term client relationships and customer success, creating sustainable sales and revenue growth. He has more than 20 years of executive-level experience across Client Engagement, Sales, Marketing & Business Administration, and Digital Transformation. He is passionate about technology and solutions. Amit has consistently helped several leading organizations achieve business impact by offering comprehensive learning solutions. Amit holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from University of Mumbai.

Amit Garg – Founder & Director of Upside Learning, commented, “Amit Yakhmi joining us adds to our team’s strength in USA. His extensive experience and expertise in the eLearning domain and his knowledge of the global learning industry, will help us build on our existing client relations in USA, which will enable us to deliver better customer experience. While continuing to explore newer opportunities and building new relations”

About Upside Learning

Upside Learning provides learning solutions to organizations worldwide. Be it an Instructor-led Training, Bespoke Learning, Learning Consultancy, Performance Support Aid, eBook, or Game based learning, Upside Learning strives to add value to every learning solution it creates.

To support its specialized offerings, the company has a dedicated infrastructure, including the Testing Lab (which can handle virtually any browser and hardware combination), R&D and fully responsive content framework. In its 15 years, Upside Learning has won 48 awards (including 19 Brandon Hall Excellence Awards) and several accolades.

Learn more about Upside Learning at: www.upsidelearning.com

Upside Learning Solutions, a leading provider of Custom learning solutions has been listed in the Training Industry, Inc’s – Top 20™ Custom Content Development Company Watch List and Top 20™ Training Outsourcing Company Watch List for the year 2020 yet again. This is the fifth time that Upside Learning has been recognized as a leading Content Development Company.

Selection to the 2020 Training Industry Top 20™ Custom Content Development Company and Training Outsourcing Company Watch List was based on the following criteria:

• Industry visibility, innovation and impact
• Capability of developing and delivering multiple types of content
• Depth and breadth of subject matter expertise
• Company size and growth potential
• Strength of clients and geographic reach

“The companies selected for this year’s Custom Content Development and Training Outsourcing Watch List represent specialized and emerging organizations that use innovative tools to create interactive and immersive custom solutions,” said Danielle Draewell, market research analyst at Training Industry, Inc. “These companies assist clients all over the world with a wide range of learning needs.”

Amit Garg, CEO & Founder – Upside Learning Solutions said “It is a great feeling for every one of us at Upside Learning, we feel delighted to be featured among the Top Custom Content Development and Training Outsourcing – Watch List, offering the best-in-class learning solutions, These two back to back accolades are a testament to the capabilities of our 150+ learning specialists who strive to Go Beyond and design engaging Learning solutions for our clients.”

About Upside Learning

Upside Learning is a leading provider of custom learning solutions to organizations worldwide. They help their customers deliver real outcomes by helping them achieve performance improvements that are aligned with their business objectives.

By making the effort to Go Beyond at each step of the designing process, Upside Learning aims to make a real and sustainable impact on organizational metrics and behaviours by supporting organizations to bolster their core teams, be it operations, sales or human resources.

Upside Learning provides consultancy for crafting effective learning solutions, custom eLearning, responsive and mobile learning, performance support, translation and localization, video and animations, and instructor-led trainings.

In its 16 years, Upside Learning has won 48 awards (including 19 Brandon Hall Excellence Awards) and several accolades.

Learn more about Upside Learning at: www.upsidelearning.com

Continuing to build on its large base of customers in North America Upside Learning has brought on Vikram Tayde as AVP – Business Development for the US region.

Upside Learning, a leading service provider of end-to-end digital learning solutions for top-notch companies across the globe, has announced the appointment of Vikram Tayde as AVP Business Development for the US region, which accounts for 50% of Upside Learning’s business.

Vikram comes with an extensive experience spanning two decades across US and India in learning development, delivery, and management world. With veritable expertise in managing large programs in learning content development & IT development operations, he enjoys challenges that lie at the intersection of client success and learning delivery.

Amit Garg – Founder & Director of Upside Learning, commented, “We are confident that Vikram, with his extensive experience and expertise in the eLearning domain and his knowledge of the global learning industry, will help us increase our presence in US and by being closer to our clients from North America, it will help us deliver better service to them.”

About Upside Learning

Upside Learning provides learning solutions to organizations worldwide. Be it an Instructor-led Training, Bespoke Learning, Learning Consultancy, Performance Support Aid, eBook, or Game based learning, Upside Learning strives to add value to every learning solution it creates.

To support its specialized offerings, the company has a dedicated infrastructure, including the Testing Lab (which can handle virtually any browser and hardware combination), R&D and fully responsive content framework. In its 15 years, Upside Learning has won 48 awards (including 19 Brandon Hall Excellence Awards) and several accolades.

Learn more about Upside Learning at: www.upsidelearning.com

Upside Learning Solutions, a leading provider of custom learning solutions has been listed in the Training Industry, Inc’s – Training Outsourcing Companies Watch List yet again. This is the fourth time that Upside has been recognised as a leading training outsourcing company.

Trainingindustry.com compiles a list of the top learning providers worldwide every year after thorough analysis of the capabilities, expertise and experience of each company considered.

Upside Learning has been recognised particularly on these counts:

• Innovative service offerings
• Ability to provide services on a global basis
• Profile of clients

For over 14 years, Upside Learning has consistently delivered best-in-class custom learning solutions, offering a wide range of learning solutions that include Custom eLearning, Multi-device/ Responsive eLearning, Performance Support Aids, Learning Consultancy, Instructor-led Training, Videos, eBooks, Games and more.

Upside Learning has implemented more than 5000 projects and won more than 42 industry awards and recognitions.