Partnerships & Alliances (March 2025)

The latest training industry mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and more.

  • Training magazine formed a new partnership with The Training Marketplace (thetm.com) and the Learning & Development Professionals Club (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/44759/). The Training Marketplace is an online platform that connects 8,000 global training providers with buyers with zero broker fees. The Learning & Development Professionals Club is a LinkedIn community for L&D networking and development opportunities. The collaboration will include global research and insights from L&D Professionals Club members shared in Training’s new Training Pulse column.
  • Class Technologies, Inc., a global leader in virtual classrooms, formed a strategic partnership with Docebo, a provider of learning platforms, to transform virtual instructor-led training (VILT). Docebo customers now can integrate their existing Docebo training content into Class to better enable learners within a synchronous environment. Class also will provide Docebo users with new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and analytics.
Edited by Lorri Freifeld
Lorri Freifeld is the editor/publisher of Training magazine, owned by Lakewood Media Group. She writes on a number of topics, including talent management, training technology, and leadership development. She spearheads two awards programs: the Training APEX Awards and Emerging Training Leaders. A writer/editor for the last 30 years, she has held editing positions at a variety of publications and holds a Master’s degree in journalism from New York University.