MindLeaders is an organizational development company based in Dublin, Ohio

Dublin, Ohio

Dublin is a city in Franklin, Delaware, and Union counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 41,751 at the 2010 census. Dublin is a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. Approximately 57,000 people live within the Dublin school district....

. The company primarily offers e-learning, plus an LMS

Learning management system

A learning management system is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, and reporting of training programs, classroom and online events, e-learning programs, and training content...

-like platform, an online reference library, and a personal learning service.

MindLeaders was founded in 1981 by Carol Clark and Fran Papalios. Paul MacCartney became the president in September 2006. MindLeaders was bought by ThirdForce plc, an e-learning company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, in 2007. Brendan O'Sullivan is the chairman and CEO of ThirdForce.

Online Courses

MindLeaders sells over 2,000 online courses in a mix of business skills, software, and technical/programming topics. The courses include flash, video, demonstrations, questions, exercises, and other activities. The questions can also be taken outside of the course in a “skill assessment” that allows people to check what parts of the course material they already know or to improve their question score after taking the course.

MindLeaders Central

Central is the MindLeaders platform for running courses. Central can also launch other learning resources and manage instructor-led training. Reports are available about courses and other resources launched via Central.

PLuS Personal Learning Service

PLuS is a personalized service that has each member fill out a survey about their job requirements and training needs. The company managers can also fill out information about the training they’d like to assign. A learning advisor then sends a profile to the member to recommend which courses/learning resources would be most applicable or helpful to them. The profile can be updated quarterly.

Reference Library

The Reference Library holds online copies of 1,000 books that can be searched and read from MindLeaders Central.

Instant Mentoring

Within the MindLeaders courses, Instant Mentoring connects students to a live mentor chat session to ask questions.

Food Safety

MindLeaders announced a Food Safety package of courses in 2008 for restaurants and other food-handling businesses. These courses can be run online or via an “eL-Box,” a tablet PC that will record courses taken and quiz scores that can then send those to an online location when it’s connected to the Internet.