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Employers globally struggle to find people with the commercial skills they need today.

ESI Fixes this problem.

 

 

Our mission is simple:

To Professionalise Sales Today!

ESI is fixing the global sales talent and skills shortage by providing a suite of online sales training and certification solutions – globally.

Commercial roles are the hardest for employers to fill globally. This is because the skill of selling has evolved profoundly in recent years but traditional sales training has not kept pace with that evolution.

ESI was founded to fix this talent and skills shortage. We provide a fully online, always-available subscription-based sales training and certification solution. ESI’s Growth+ platform develops the complex skills employers demand of their people today but rarely find. This enables employers to attract, retain and develop high-performing commercial talent – wherever they are and whenever they like.

ESI is also establishing a new global certification standard for professional sales – providing our community with the opportunity to have those skills recognised and certified.

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Who We Are.

ESI is a team of learning & technology professionals that believe passionately in the ability of digital learning to develop people and transform their careers. We have been immersed in the digital learning industry for decades and have built, managed and sold businesses all over the world.

ESI is an international business based in Dublin, Ireland with a community of customers, learners, alumni, partners & advisers all over the world.

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Always Learning.

We believe that the global shortage of commercial talent can be fixed through a new paradigm of skills development, training and certification.

The skills employers require today cannot be learned on a training course: they must be developed over time and on the job. Digital learning is the perfect medium for this process and we have set about building a solution based on instructional science that has been designed to be truly different and proven to change behaviour and improve business performance – every single day.

As a business and as people, we challenge the tired and outdated sales training status quo. We are market-led – developing relevant skills online using a combination of world-class instructional design, global accreditation and customer success.

Our Values.

ESI as a business and a learning solution embraces 3 key values that are
intertwined into everything we do:

Excellence

Here at ESI, we believe in excellence and high-performance in everything we do – from the quality of our learning philosophy to the world-leading customer success model that our clients & learners love.

Creativity

You cannot create a unique, unrivalled solution without being groundbreaking & innovative. ESI was created and designed to be different from the get go. We seek to make a little bit of history every single day.

Grit

Sales can be tough sometimes. We ask our learners to embrace that adversity and use it to their advantage and to drive their own performance. We wouldn’t dare ask anything of our learners that we wouldn’t ask of ourselves.

Our History.

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Before 2018

Years of research & due diligence on sales skills, certification and the global shortage of sales talent. Curriculum design begins.
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2018

ESI is founded and first investment round closed. Entrepreneurial Sales Curriculum signed off. Blended pilot programme completed and first ESI certifications issued. Global Sales Skills Council meets for the first time in Dublin, Ireland – in person!
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2019

Product & platform technology stack selected. Development of Growth+ begins and first fully online product launched. First ESI customers signed in the UK & Ireland.
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2020

First customer in US secured. ESI Partner+ programme launched and first international partners signed. The ESI programme secures credit-rating paving the way for the first graduates of the ESI Professional Diploma. First micro-credential launched. ESI launches an international Scholarship programme for people who lose their jobs in the Covid pandemic.
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2021

International expansion continues. ESI community now truly global with learners and graduates active from Sydney to California. First ESI graduate in Asia. Especially striking is the number of non-native English speakers graduating from ESI including learners in France, Italy & Poland.
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What the world says about ESI: 

  “ESI fills a gap in our offering and increases both revenue and our credibility as a trusted adviser.” 

I now have a trusted partner to whom I can refer clients.

ESI’s big difference is its accessibility: it is remote learning and self-directed whereas others are classroom-based or 1:1 training. It is also more 21st Century whereas others are more old school.

Find out how ESI can
transform your sales teams today!

Contact us now to find out more