Acorn PLMS

I am the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Acorn, developer of the Acorn Performing Learning Management System. My role involves overseeing high-level development, marketing strategy, people, and operations. I am very hands-on in every department. I do my best to attend every meeting amongst my teams and want to make sure everyone’s voice is heard within our company in terms of direction and improving processes.

Acorn is an AI-powered Performance Learning Management System (PLMS) that addresses the topics of performance & learning in one platform, allowing enterprises, governments and other orgs worldwide to consistently align individual growth with business objectives. With Acorn, leaders can continually assess and improve learners based on specific company and role-based capabilities. The perfect enabler for employee training, onboarding, compliance training, association learning, & more.

Across our years in the L&D space, we've spoken directly to thousands of global industry leaders and end users. We've heard many times over from both sides of the table that corporate learning is disconnected from performance; and there isn't a proper solution for this problem. Legacy LMS and Performance solutions have failed to inspire growth. Expectations for businesses, governments, nonprofits and other institutions to perform have skyrocketed as the world gets more connected, busier and focused on efficiency. However, organizations are bogged down by their slowest link – smart people who could be operating at their maximum potential but aren’t.

Acorn is the antidote as a PLMS - we've created this software solution to address these issues head-on. Modern L&D experiences need a Performance Learning Management System (PLMS) platform to link learning and performance so that organizations can meet their goals in one place. It is important that this is done in one system, after decades of failed integrations from disparate systems built for different goals.

To L&D and HR professionals, Acorn is the platform for building inspiring and efficient training experiences that engage people to be exceptional at their companies.

To business leaders, Acorn is the PLMS platform that tightly syncs L&D investments to performance, helping organizations meet and exceed their goals.

Because of how our software is built specifically to align individual growth with business objectives, we work best with organizations in industries such as government, nonprofit, software & tech, healthcare, resources, legal, and industrial sectors. 

We have 4 key features in mind when we designed our PLMS. The platform is to allow users to focus on impact and not overload, deliver effective blended learning, link learning with performance, and lastly, report in minutes not hours.  Apart from this, we focus on making sure we integrate with existing internal systems and third-party content providers, security compliance (including IRAP, ISO, and WCAG), SCORM and TinCan compliance, gamification features, and capability mapping. All features of our product come ready-to-use within Acorn.