ESI International rebrands as Strategy Execution in new partnership with IPS Learning

Dubai, 04 November 2015 - ESI International, one of the world’s leading project management performance education companies, has teamed up with US-based IPS Learning, to form Strategy Execution, the world’s largest performance education platform.

Part of the TwentyEighty Inc. portfolio of companies, a global leader in helping companies turn planning into action, the team at Strategy Execution will continue to deliver its acclaimed schedule of training and development events in key locations across the region.

In the last two years, ESI International has presented at the Training & Development Show Middle East 2014 at Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre; the Oman Human Resources & Nationalisation Conference 2014 in Muscat; and organised special breakfast sessions for government human resources departments including the Federal Authority for Government Resources (FAHR) in Dubai.

“Research clearly shows that one of the biggest challenges in business today is aligning strategic intent with organizational performance,” said Trey Campbell, President of Strategy Execution. “Our comprehensive offerings of performance education courses, tools and resources combine the best of cutting-edge university research and proven business techniques to increase alignment and engagement across teams, business units and the entire enterprise.”

ESI was founded in 1981 and has helped more than 1.5 million professionals grow their skills in project, program and portfolio management; business analysis; and contract management. In addition to ESI’s more than 100 courses delivered in more than a dozen languages at hundreds of locations worldwide, it offers a broad range of professional education certificates. 

IPS was founded in 1988, initially as a consultancy focused on advanced project and program management as well as strategy execution. It later expanded to offer workshops as well as formal training. In 2013 it co-led the launch of The Strategic Execution Conference (executionconference.com).   

The combined companies will have offices in more than 20 cities in 15 countries around the world and will maintain its global headquarters in Arlington, Va.,  as well as regional headquarters in London for Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and Singapore for the Asia Pacific.