Nexient
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Nexient Learning is one of the largest corporate training providers in Canada. Nexient is based in Toronto
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, Ontario
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, Canada
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, and is a subsidiary of Global Knowledge of Cary
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, North Carolina
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. Nexient Learning trains over 100,000 students at all experience and organization levels each year. With courses and development programs in Information Technology, Business Process Improvement and Leadership and Business Skills, Nexient is the only provider in Canada to offer training in all business disciplines.

On June 26, 2009, Nexient announced that it had entered into creditor protection under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada), to allow Nexient to conduct a sale process of its assets and to provide financing to continue operations without disruption. On August 24, 2009, Global Knowledge announced the completion of the acquisition of the assets of Nexient. The company operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Knowledge.

Origins

Nexient was created out of a series of acquisitions and mergers among some of Canada's largest skills development firms. The primary companies involved in recent years include CrossOff Incorporated's wholly owned subsidiary Polar Bear Corporate Education Solutions (formerly IBM
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's PBSC, Acerra Learning, and CDI Corporate Education Services. Other Canadian firms which became part of Nexient through prior mergers include BroadLeaf (formerly Keltic Learning Centres), ExecuTrain, KnowledgeAbility, Salient, CompuLearn, and several others.
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