DDI Foundation Subscription

Imagine a personalized and immersive learning experience built specifically for frontline and emerging leaders. Your leaders are welcomed with a personalized experience that directs them to a few focus areas to get started.

Then they engage with their peers in live learning sessions that help them build foundational skills like coaching, communication, and delegation. As they get the basics down, they explore more tools to practice their new skills and start to master more advanced skills. And when a new challenge arises, they know just where to go to learn how to handle it.

That’s exactly what you get with a DDI Foundation Subscription. With five decades of scientific research and experience, we know what it takes to create meaningful behavior change for leaders—and we put every last bit of it in our subscription so you can too.

Busy leaders don’t have time for cookie-cutter programs. Research shows they want personalized learning and assessments that highlight their strengths and target their challenges. Plus, you need data to focus development plans and design more relevant learning sessions, online content, or peer discussions.

With the variety of assessments included in a DDI Foundation Subscription, you can personalize development at scale: 

• Leadership Skills Insights provide unbiased, targeted feedback on strengths and growth areas across 15 competencies.  
• Practice Simulations present realistic workplace scenarios for leaders to develop and apply foundational skills.  
• My Pathway: Leadership Core recommends content tailored to leaders after a self-assessment of styles and confidence in key skills.  
• Self-Insight Tools offer diverse opportunities for leaders to reflect and strengthen self-awareness across a range of topics.

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With data and insights from the included assessments, you can design blended learning journeys or choose from curated playlists of online content tailored to your leaders’ needs.  

Here’s a quick look at what’s included in a Foundation Subscription: 

• 45+ Courses for emerging leaders and managers 
• 55+ Microcourses—short bursts of learning on a single topic in 10 minutes or less 
• 230+ Online Learning Tools 
• 30 Business Drivers to align your business strategy to your development goals 
• 50 Frontline Leader Competencies and development guides 

And the best part? We're always adding new content and topics to address evolving leadership challenges—all at no extra cost.

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The DDI Foundation Subscription is a cornerstone for leadership success. In a commissioned Total Economic Impact™ study conducted by Forrester Consulting, a composite organization representative of interviewed customers reported a significant 424% return and $6.78M NPV. Plus, continuous leadership growth resulted in better leadership engagement and a 12% improvement in employee retention. 

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