About
Founded by trainers tired of measuring seat-time instead of change
Open Trainings started in Bangalore in 2015 as a three-person facilitation practice. Eleven years on, it is a registrar of applied training: we design programmes, deliver them ourselves or hand them off to a client's own certified trainers, and report cohort results back the way a registrar reports an exam result, plainly and on a fixed schedule.
Where it started
The founding team had spent the previous decade delivering vendor-certified technical courses and watched the same pattern repeat: a class full of engaged learners, a certificate printed at the end, and no measurable change in how the team worked three months later.
Open Trainings was built around a different default: no programme goes live without a baseline assessment and a follow-up report, whether the client asks for one or not.
Where it is now
Delivery teams now operate out of Bangalore, Dubai and Nairobi, with live online delivery and travel-based in-person work extending well beyond those three cities. The catalogue has grown from technical certification prep into leadership, compliance and customer operations tracks, following demand from the same L&D teams that commissioned the early technical cohorts.
The registrar model has stayed the same: a diagnostic before a proposal, an assessment before and after delivery, and a report that goes to the person who commissioned the work.
How we work
Four commitments that don't change per client
No curriculum ships without a baseline
Every cohort takes a pre-assessment. Without one, there's no honest way to claim a programme produced a lift.
Facilitators sit in the industry first
Facilitators for technical and compliance tracks have worked in the field they teach, not just delivered slides about it.
The report goes to whoever commissioned it
Cohort-level results are sent to the sponsoring manager or L&D contact as a matter of process, not on request.
Internal capacity is treated as a deliverable
Where a client wants to run future cohorts themselves, that handover is planned in from the first proposal.
The registry