Understand the Market

Our annual State of the Industry report on the leadership training market provides an overview of current training and sourcing practices in companies that partner with training organizations to use leadership development programs to facilitate the growth and development of their managers and individual contributors. These insights will help you understand the leadership training market and the evolution into virtual leadership development. 

The report also contains a snapshot of leadership development sourcing practices and highlights Training Industry’s Top 20 Leadership Training Companies. Our industry report intelligence is derived from over 15 years of corporate training marketplace analysis and sizing. We have compiled this data from over 500 training and development vendor submissions to our annual Top 20 awards lists. 

What’s Included in This Report

• Market Sizing. 

• • Learn about the size of the global and North American corporate training markets, the breakdown of spending, including internal and external spending, and the size of the global and North American leadership training markets. 

• Sourcing Practices. 

• • Find out how providers offer leadership training programs, how providers sell their programs and insights on the current buyer experience. 

• Market Insights. 

• • Discover which leadership levels and industries receive leadership training, clients’ biggest training challenges, the leadership training audience, how programs are delivered (modalities) and how delivery has changed.

• 2023 Top 20 Leadership Training Companies. 
• Mergers, acquisitions and funding in the leadership training market. 

What’s Not Included

• Benchmarking. 
• Geo-splits. 
• Demographics. 
• Expenditure per employee. 
• Learning hours used per employee. 
• Expenditures as a percentage of payroll. 
• Payroll and revenue.

Who is the Best Fit for This Report

• Learning and development professionals.
• Leadership training managers. 
• Leadership training companies. 
• Buyers and suppliers looking for:
• • Market education.
  • Competitive insights.
  • Data-driven research.
  • Information regarding strategic decisions and investments.

Why We Did the Report

We’ve always known the importance of effective leadership, which is why leadership training has been one of the largest and fastest-growing segments of the training market. Training Industry introduced the Top 20 Companies Lists for leadership training in 2010 to help L&D professionals locate the best potential training partner for their organizations’ needs. This report uses data and market insights to cover changes in the leadership development market over time, the size of the current market, universal and emerging topics and trends based on our Top 20 Leadership Training Companies Lists.