Kanata · Ottawa, Ontario
We design corporate training programs, build the e-learning and gamified modules that carry them, and advise on the business and IT decisions around them.
About us
We work the other way. Kanata Business Drivers builds training that people finish and use, and we build the technology underneath it — the platform, the modules, the digital resources — so the program keeps working after the workshop ends.
Our expertise spans training and development, education, HRTech, SaaS, gaming, consulting, and internet services. That mix is the point: the same team that designs your onboarding curriculum can build the platform it runs on.
Three practices
Business, marketing, IT, artificial intelligence, and leadership — designed as programs, not one-off sessions.
IT management, gamified training development, website and e-commerce build, and digital resource creation.
Business strategy, digital marketing, and practical IT and AI integration for teams that have to ship.
Services
Engagements are scoped individually. Most clients start with one line item and expand.
Programs for managers and individual contributors, run in person or virtually. Built around what people have to do differently afterwards, not a topic list.
Onboarding and general training built as interactive modules — scenario-based, multimedia, assessed. Designed for new hires who need to be productive quickly.
Remote and self-paced courses for distributed teams, including the assessment tools that show whether any of it landed.
Sites and storefronts built to be maintained by the people who own them, with the analytics and content structure set up from day one.
Information technology management for small and mid-sized organizations — planning, vendor decisions, and the systems work that follows.
The supporting material a program needs to survive: job aids, reference libraries, video, and internal documentation.
Working with owners and leadership on where the business is going and what capability it needs to get there. Frequently the conversation that precedes a training program.
Search, social, and content — set up so your team can run it themselves once we hand it over.
Finding where AI and automation genuinely help in your operations, then training your people to use them — rather than buying tools nobody adopts.
Our approach
We start with what your people actually need to do differently, then build to that. Nothing off the shelf.
We apply the tools and methods that exist now — including AI where it earns its place, and not where it doesn't.
We stay close to your team for the length of the project and pull in outside subject-matter experts when a domain calls for it.
Why clients pick us
You aren't handing a curriculum to a separate development shop. The people who design the program build the system it runs on.
Everything we make is something your team can run without us. No dependency by design.
Our senior people teach at the post-secondary level and deliver corporate work. Rigour and practicality, not one or the other.
We keep a bench of subject-matter trainers and pull the right one in rather than pretending to cover every domain ourselves.
Selected work
SaaS company
Consulting firm
Educational institution
Leadership
Founder
“Most corporate training gets bought, delivered, and quietly forgotten. I started Kanata Business Drivers to do the opposite — build programs people actually finish, and build the technology that keeps them working long after the workshop ends.”
“That shapes how we work. We start from what your people need to do differently rather than a topic list, we use the tools that genuinely exist today, and we bring in specialists by domain instead of pretending to cover everything ourselves. Everything we build is meant to be handed over and run without us.”
Nancy Wheeler · Founder
Contact
Email or call with a description of the problem. We'll come back with whether we're the right fit and what an engagement would look like.