Learning & Development Consulting Solutions
The hard part is knowing where to start.
GP Strategies Advisory works alongside CLOs, CHROs, and learning leaders to diagnose, design, and deliver the strategies that make learning a genuine driver of business performance. We bring 60 years of learning and development consulting expertise, AI-powered tools, and a practitioner-led approach that connects every recommendation to measurable outcomes. Not a support function. A competitive advantage.
The Gap Between Learning Strategy and Business Performance
Today’s CLO isn’t just responsible for training. They’re expected to lead workforce transformation, prove ROI), implement technology at pace, and guide their organization through constant disruption, often with flat budgets and lean teams.
The challenges we hear most often:
- No clear connection between learning investment and business outcomes
- Technology acquired faster than it can be adopted
- Transformation initiatives that stall at implementation
- Learning functions structurally misaligned with where the business is heading
These are strategy problems. They require strategic thinking, not more training.
(GP Strategies Measuring the Business Impact of Learning 2025)
Only 1 in 3
organizations report their L&D budgets are aligned to business goals.
(GP Strategies Measuring the Business Impact of Learning 2025)
Our Learning & Development Consulting Capabilities
Most learning and development consulting focuses on strategy documents when the real issue is execution at scale, adoption that sticks, or proving impact to a skeptical board. We close the gap between what your learning function plans and what it actually delivers.
Strategic Learning Consulting
We help CLOs and learning leaders design the learning organizations, ecosystems, and operating models that perform, starting with where capability gaps exist.
- Learning organization design and operating model development
- Learning Organization Health Assessment (LOHA)—an eight-week diagnostic with roadmap
- Skills-based organization strategy and implementation
- Learning culture and governance frameworks
Learning Technology Consulting
We are vendor-neutral advisors with deep expertise across LMS, LXP, and AI-enabled platforms with the experience to know what separates implementation from true adoption.
- LMS / LXP strategy, selection, and implementation
- AI-enabled learning platform advisory
- Learning technology ecosystem design and integration
- Vendor evaluation and contract advisory
Learning Transformation & Change Management
Large-scale learning transformations fail more often in the change management phase than in the strategy phase. We address the full picture—people, processes, and governance—not just the learning design.
- End-to-end learning transformation strategy and roadmap
- Organizational change management planning and delivery
- Change adoption measurement and course correction
- Stakeholder engagement and communication frameworks
Learning Measurement & Analytics
We build the measurement frameworks and analytics infrastructure that connect learning investment to the business outcomes that boards and CFOs actually care about.
- Measurement Map®—causal mapping of learning to business priorities
- Learning analytics platform implementation (including Watershed/xAPI)
- Impact studies, ROI analysis, and executive-ready reporting
Program & Project Management
Multi-workstream learning initiatives regularly underperform because the execution infrastructure wasn’t there. We bring the frameworks and rigor to keep complex programs on track.
- End-to-end learning program management and project management office design
- Risk management, stakeholder alignment, and executive reporting
- Project recovery and course correction
Our Approach to Learning & Development Consulting
For 60 years, GP Strategies has helped the world's leading organizations turn learning strategy into business performance. That depth is what makes learning velocity possible at the advisory level—the ability to move from diagnosis to measurable impact without losing rigor or relevance along the way.
We operate at the pace of your business. From 8-week diagnostics to rapid technology selection, we compress timelines without cutting corners.
Relevance
We know what good looks like. Decades of benchmarking across industries mean our advice is grounded in what actually works at scale.
Quality
We measure outcomes, not activities. Every recommendation is tied to a performance metric your leadership cares about.
Our Consulting Frameworks & Tools
Decades of consulting across the world’s most complex learning organizations has produced proprietary tools that bring structure, speed, and rigor to every engagement.
Learning Organization Health Assessment (LOHA)
An 8-week diagnostic that benchmarks your learning function across critical dimensions and produces a customized improvement roadmap.
Measurement Map®
A proprietary approach that creates a visual, causal map between learning investment and strategic business goals—giving CLOs the evidence base to demonstrate ROI and secure continued investment.
Transforming an L&D Function End-to-End for a Global Financial Services Company
An investment and banking company needed a learning governance model that could keep pace with the business, but its L&D function was reactive, fragmented, and disconnected from strategy. GP Strategies led a full learning transformation: redesigning the operating model, building a data-driven content strategy, creating an integrated talent experience, and introducing new roles to proactively manage the learning ecosystem.
- $600K saved annually in lost productivity through a governance-driven content audit
- Transitioned from push-to-pull learning through a skills-based, performance-aligned model
- Delivered an agile operating model designed to keep pace with industry changes
- Built an enterprise-wide calendar for all regulatory and mandatory learning
Start With Your Strategy Gap, Not a Service Menu
Most consulting engagements look good in the proposal and stall at implementation. We build L&D strategies that show up where it counts: in business outcomes, board-ready measurement, and a learning function that actually performs. We’ll start with your challenge, not our capabilities, and show you what learning velocity looks like for your organization.