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Brendan Noud

CEO & co-founder at LearnUpon and 2 other companies
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Brendan is the CEO & co-founder of LearnUpon, the leading cloud-based learning management system (LMS). With over a decade of experience in the eLearning industry, Brendan helped launch LearnUpon in 2012 on the belief that a learning platform should be quick to set-up, easy to use, and backed by exceptional 24/7 customer support. Today over 1,000 customers worldwide use LearnUpon to train their employees, customers, partners and resellers. LearnUpon was named Technology Company of the Year at the 2018 Technology Ireland Awards. In late 2020, he was selected as an Endeavor Entrepreneur among a global leadership community of, by, and for high-impact entrepreneurs.

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  • Boost Employee Engagement with Effective Corporate Training
    Brendan emphasizes that "corporate learning programs increase engagement and motivation." He advises defining clear goals and partnering with experts to personalize and gamify learning. This approach respects employees' time, keeps content relevant, and aligns with individual needs, ultimately reducing turnover and achieving business objectives.
  • Gamification Revolutionizes Corporate Training: Insights from LearnUpon CEO
    Brendan highlights gamification's role in boosting employee engagement and skill enhancement through game-like elements in training. He notes, "Gamification enhances learner adoption, engagement, and completion rates." LearnUpon's partnership with Moxa led to 3,600 course completions in three months, showcasing gamification's impact on learning outcomes.
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  • "Large companies currently use hundreds of applications on average to get work done, which leads to lower productivity and disjointed workflows. To uplift your ROI and engage your learners more efficiently, integrate your LMS into your wider tech stack. Start with your human resource information systems (HRISs), such as Workday or BambooHR, but don’t stop there. Integrate your LMS with applications and programs like Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and with any other tools your learners use on a daily basis. In doing so, learners can access the training they need, in the flow of work. This will reduce context switching and maximize the impact of your programs and the productivity of your people. When thinking about how an LMS can play the role of delivering just-in-time learning, balancing easy discoverability without being overly intrusive is key."

    (Training Industry, 2023)

  • “Our goal at LearnUpon is to empower organizations to deliver the right learning at the right time and in the right place, and LearnUpon Anywhere is an exciting step on that journey, Now organizations can integrate learning where it will get the most engagement — their digital product or solution — creating a more targeted, friction-free experience that increases customer success.”

    (CustomerThink, 2024)

  • “We saw an opportunity with external audience training or extended enterprise training. So companies are not just training their employees but actually training their customers. For example, software companies train their customers on their software to onboard them quicker and more efficiently or to train their partners. We like where learning is going in terms of real-time, just-in-time learning. That’s where the future is. And we want to play a key part in that and be recognised globally for being best in class when it comes to getting the right learning to the right people at the right time."

    (Forbes, 2022)

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