Learning & Development Consulting Services
Build a smarter learning strategy around your people, performance goals, and business priorities.
TrainSMART’s Learning & Development consultants help organizations identify workforce skill gaps, uncover performance challenges, and build learning strategies designed to create measurable business impact.
Rather than starting with a course or predetermined training solution, we start by understanding what your organization needs to accomplish. We assess your people, processes, existing learning programs, business objectives, and performance gaps to determine where learning can make the greatest difference.
From training needs analysis and learning strategy to instructional design, program evaluation, and implementation planning, TrainSMART gives internal L&D and business leaders the expertise and capacity to move learning initiatives forward.
Strategic Learning & Development Consulting for Organizations
The right training solution starts with the right strategy.
TrainSMART partners with organizations that need more than an off-the-shelf course. Our Learning & Development consultants work alongside business leaders, HR teams, subject matter experts, and internal L&D departments to understand performance challenges and determine the most effective path forward.
We can help your organization:
- Identify workforce skills and performance gaps
- Conduct a training needs analysis
- Align learning initiatives with business objectives
- Evaluate existing training programs and content
- Build learning and development roadmaps
- Determine the right learning modalities
- Design scalable learning programs
- Establish training measurement strategies
- Modernize outdated learning programs
- Support large or complex training initiatives
The result is a learning strategy built around your organization—not a generic training catalog.
When Organizations Need Learning & Development Consulting
Organizations often know something needs to change before they know exactly what the learning solution should be.
TrainSMART’s consultants can help when:
Your Training Isn’t Producing the Results You Need
Employees may be completing training without consistently applying new skills on the job. We help determine whether the issue is content, instructional design, reinforcement, delivery, manager support, or something outside training altogether.
You’re Scaling Across Teams or Locations
Rapid growth can create inconsistencies in how employees are onboarded, developed, and trained. We help organizations develop learning strategies that can scale while maintaining consistency and quality.
You Need to Identify Skills Gaps
Before investing in new programs, we can assess current capabilities against the skills employees need to perform successfully.
Your Existing Training Needs to Be Modernized
Legacy PowerPoints, outdated instructor materials, inconsistent facilitator guides, and disconnected eLearning can be transformed into cohesive learning experiences.
You’re Launching a New Initiative
New systems, processes, products, roles, regulations, or organizational changes may require a structured learning strategy to prepare employees for what comes next.
Your Internal L&D Team Needs Additional Capacity
TrainSMART can become an extension of your team, providing specialized expertise or additional resources without requiring you to permanently expand internal headcount.
Our Learning & Development Consulting Process
Every engagement is different, but our consulting work typically follows a disciplined process designed to connect learning decisions to business performance.
1. Understand Your Business Goals
We begin by learning about your organization, workforce, culture, strategic priorities, operational challenges, and desired outcomes.
The objective is not simply to determine what employees should learn. It is to understand what employees need to do differently or better for the organization to achieve its goals.
2. Conduct a Training Needs Analysis
We identify gaps between current and desired performance.
Depending on the engagement, this may include stakeholder interviews, employee feedback, surveys, assessments, workflow analysis, existing-content reviews, observations, performance data, or conversations with subject matter experts.
3. Identify Skills and Performance Gaps
Not every performance problem requires training.
Our consultants help separate knowledge and skill gaps from process, technology, communication, incentive, role-clarity, or organizational issues.
That distinction helps organizations invest learning resources where they can have the greatest impact.
4. Develop the Learning Strategy
Once priorities are clear, we determine how learning should support the business.
The strategy may address audiences, learning objectives, curriculum structure, modalities, sequencing, reinforcement, measurement, technology, facilitator requirements, and scalability.
5. Build the Training Roadmap
TrainSMART translates the strategy into an actionable roadmap.
Depending on the organization, the roadmap may include instructor-led learning, virtual learning, eLearning, microlearning, job aids, assessments, coaching, facilitator resources, reinforcement activities, or blended learning journeys.
6. Measure, Evaluate, and Improve
Learning should evolve as the organization does.
We help establish meaningful measures of success, evaluate program performance, gather feedback, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
Learning & Development Consulting Services
TrainSMART can support a specific learning challenge or serve as a strategic partner across a larger initiative.
Training Needs Analysis
Identify the knowledge, skill, and performance gaps affecting employees, teams, or business units before determining the appropriate learning solution.
Learning Strategy Development
Create a clear learning strategy that connects employee development to organizational priorities, workforce needs, and measurable business outcomes.
Learning Program Assessment
Evaluate existing training programs, curricula, learning materials, and delivery approaches to determine what should be retained, improved, redesigned, or retired.
Curriculum and Learning Roadmaps
Organize individual learning activities into structured curricula and development journeys that guide learners from foundational knowledge through application and mastery.
Instructional Design Consulting
Determine how content should be structured, taught, reinforced, and evaluated to create effective adult learning experiences.
Organizational Development Consulting
Support broader workforce and organizational initiatives involving leadership capability, communication, culture, change, collaboration, and employee performance.
Learning Technology and LMS Consulting
Evaluate how learning technology can support your strategy, including LMS requirements, content deployment, learner access, reporting, and administration.
Training Measurement and Evaluation
Establish methods for evaluating learning effectiveness, behavior change, learner performance, and business impact.
Learning Program Management
Provide strategic oversight and additional expertise for complex learning initiatives, including planning, stakeholder coordination, curriculum development, rollout strategy, and continuous improvement.
From Learning Strategy to the Right Training Solution
A consulting engagement may reveal that your organization needs one solution—or a combination of learning approaches.
TrainSMART can help move the strategy into implementation through specialized learning and development services.
On-Site Corporate Training
When employees benefit from live, instructor-led learning together, TrainSMART can deliver customized on-site corporate training directly at your organization’s location.
Virtual Corporate Training
Bring employees together through facilitator-led virtual learning designed for remote, hybrid, or geographically dispersed teams.
Custom eLearning Development
Transform complex information, processes, systems, or skills into interactive digital learning experiences employees can access when they need them.
Instructional Design Services
Work with experienced instructional designers to develop new learning experiences or redesign existing training using proven adult-learning principles.
Training Content Development
Develop facilitator guides, participant workbooks, job aids, activities, scenarios, assessments, and other learning materials designed around your workforce.
Blended Learning Solutions
Combine instructor-led training, virtual learning, digital content, reinforcement, performance support, and other modalities into a connected learning experience.
Learning Strategy Before Training Delivery
One of the most important questions organizations can ask is not:
“What training should we buy?”
It is:
“What performance problem are we trying to solve?”
TrainSMART helps organizations answer that question before resources are committed to developing or delivering training.
A learning initiative may ultimately require on-site training, virtual instruction, eLearning, coaching, performance support—or no formal training at all.
Our role is to help you determine the right solution based on the business need.
Why Organizations Choose TrainSMART’s L&D Consultants
30+ Years of Learning & Development Experience
TrainSMART has worked with organizations across industries to solve learning, workforce development, and performance challenges.
Adult Learning and Instructional Design Expertise
Our recommendations are grounded in how adults actually learn, practice, retain, and apply new skills.
Strategy and Execution Under One Roof
Organizations can engage TrainSMART for consulting alone or continue working with our instructional designers, developers, facilitators, and learning professionals as the strategy moves into implementation.
Solutions Built Around Your Organization
We do not begin with a predetermined course or technology. Recommendations are based on your workforce, objectives, culture, constraints, audience, and business environment.
Support for Complex Learning Initiatives
TrainSMART can support projects involving multiple audiences, locations, learning modalities, subject matter experts, facilitators, and stakeholders.
An Extension of Your Internal Team
Our consultants can work alongside internal L&D, HR, operations, leadership, and subject matter experts to provide additional expertise and capacity when it is needed.
A Strategic Learning & Development Partner
TrainSMART’s role is not to recommend training simply because training is what we provide.
Our consultants ask questions first.
- What is happening today?
- What needs to happen differently?
- Who needs to perform differently?
- What is preventing them from doing so?
- What role should learning play?
- How will success be measured?
Those questions help organizations make smarter learning investments and build programs that address real workforce needs rather than symptoms.
Whether you need help diagnosing one performance challenge or developing an enterprise learning strategy, TrainSMART can provide the expertise to move from uncertainty to a clear plan.
Learning & Development Consulting Expertise
TrainSMART can connect organizations with specialists across areas such as:
Learning & Development Consulting
Learning strategy, workforce development, training roadmaps, program evaluation, and performance improvement.
Instructional Design Consultants
Curriculum architecture, adult learning strategy, content design, assessments, activities, and learning experience development.
Organizational Development Consulting
Leadership capability, culture, organizational effectiveness, employee development, and change initiatives.
Change Management Consulting
Learning and communication strategies that help employees successfully adopt new processes, systems, behaviors, and ways of working.
Learning Technology Consulting
Guidance around learning systems, LMS strategy, digital learning delivery, content requirements, and learner experience.
Frequently Asked Questions About Learning & Development Consulting
What does a Learning & Development consultant do?
A Learning & Development consultant helps organizations identify workforce learning and performance needs and develop strategies for addressing them. This may include needs analysis, skills-gap assessment, learning strategy, curriculum planning, instructional design, program evaluation, learning technology, and measurement.
When should an organization hire an L&D consultant?
Organizations often use L&D consultants when internal teams need specialized expertise or additional capacity, when existing training is not producing desired results, during periods of growth or transformation, or when a new learning program needs to be created or redesigned.
What is a training needs analysis?
A training needs analysis identifies gaps between current and desired employee performance and determines whether training can help close those gaps. The process may examine skills, knowledge, processes, roles, systems, business objectives, employee feedback, and performance data.
How does TrainSMART identify workforce skills gaps?
The approach depends on the organization and project. TrainSMART may use stakeholder interviews, surveys, assessments, performance information, observations, workflow analysis, employee feedback, existing learning materials, and subject matter expert input to identify potential gaps and priorities.
Can TrainSMART evaluate an existing training program?
Yes. TrainSMART can evaluate existing curricula, instructor-led programs, eLearning, facilitator materials, participant resources, assessments, reinforcement strategies, and delivery methods to identify opportunities for improvement.
Can TrainSMART help build an enterprise learning strategy?
Yes. TrainSMART can help organizations create scalable learning strategies covering multiple audiences, business units, locations, skills, and learning modalities.
Can TrainSMART support our internal Learning & Development team?
Yes. TrainSMART frequently works as an extension of internal teams, providing additional strategy, instructional design, development, consulting, or program-management capacity.
Can TrainSMART help determine the right training delivery method?
Yes. The appropriate approach depends on the audience, learning objectives, complexity, geography, timeline, available technology, need for practice, and other business requirements. A solution may include instructor-led, virtual, digital, blended, or performance-support components.
Can TrainSMART also implement the learning strategy?
Yes. When implementation is needed, TrainSMART can support instructional design, content development, eLearning, virtual learning, blended learning, and on-site corporate training delivered directly to your employees.
How does TrainSMART measure learning effectiveness?
Measurement depends on the objectives of the initiative. Evaluation may consider learner reaction, knowledge or skill acquisition, application on the job, performance indicators, stakeholder feedback, employee behavior, and relevant business outcomes.
Build a Smarter Learning Strategy
You don’t have to know exactly what training solution you need before contacting TrainSMART.
That’s what consulting is for.
Tell us what is changing, where performance is falling short, or what your workforce needs to accomplish. Our Learning & Development consultants can help you identify the challenge, determine the right strategy, and build a practical roadmap forward.