Our clients are our best advertisement!
A recent quote from the Training and Development Manager of an ASX top 20 company.

"We have looked at a lot of vendors, course material and delivery platforms – most of which have not been suited to our specific needs.

One valuable resource we have identified is Redbean Learning Solutions.
I met Paul McKey, CEO of Redbean, at a conference in Sydney earlier this year.  He gave an excellent presentation on e-learning and has been one of the few individuals who gives common sense advice and realises that different organisations require different approaches. 

I am sure that you get inundated with vendors who try to push product with the promise that they will “solve all your learning challenges”.  The advantage of Redbean is that they are not a vendor or a software company, but an organisation which assists you to develop and implement an e-learning strategy specifically for your organisation."

Recent Redbean Clients

Redbean provides Learning and Development consulting services across the government, corporate and education sectors. Our specialty lies in the selection, design and development of online interactive learning systems, including courseware and content. The following list represents a cross section of international clients that we have successfully worked with to provide high quality learning solutions.

QBE Insurance has offices in over 42 countries with annual revenues exceeding US$12B. With a rapidly expanding organisation and the need for greater conistency across its international operations QBE found it required a new global learning and performance support system. This task along with the design of the organisational change programs necessary for such a large initiative prompted QBE to look for a fresh and independent approach.

Redbean spent the better part of 2006 developing an international learning and development vision and strategy that would help provide QBE with the responsive global workforce it required for further expansion. In addition the consulting process showed that the merging of L&D activities with performance support would provide greater support and accountability to the business units through improved reporting and greater efficiency in the learning process. Redbean then developed a design for new Learning and Performance Support Systems that took into account a future organisation where both new hires and seasoned industry employees could gain global access to personalised and timely learning.

Apple Computer Australia has a reseller channel of over 300 stores around Australia. The staff in these stores need a constant stream of information and skills relating to the new technologies continually being developed.

Redbean delivered an online certification program to Apple reseller staff in Australia for a period of over eight years through our online arm - BigTree OnLine.

This task included all the certification program design; management of the program and the several thousand registered users of BigTree; design of a unique Learning Management System; and design and development of all the courseware utiised in the three major certification programs.

Paul McKey, as an ex Apple Training Manager, has also consulted to various divisions within Apple in both Australia and the USA on the deployment of online learning, interface design and certification.

NextEd Limited is a Hong Kong based systems integrator engaged in providing infrastructure to post-secondary education and training providers, primarily in Asia.

As a start up company in 1998 they required a Chief Technology Officer who could design and build a global online education system. The system had to be fully replicated and redundant (requiring servers in 6 locations around the world), multi-lingual and provide unique student administration and management systems. Paul McKey's knowledge of both the technology and educational design required allowed him to build the team which had this world first system operational with over 150 university courses in just over nine months.

The courseware and academic staff required adaptation to the new paradigm and NextEd pioneered a number of business, education and technology initiatives utilised by their university clients and thousands of students.

NextEd still enjoys leadership in the provision of multi-lingual online learning systems to universities around the world based on the original blueprint.

Brisbane City Council (BCC) is arguably the largest local government authority in the world. Their call centre alone has a staff of over 350.

In February 2003 BCC's Customer Services division embarked on an ambitious project (and timeline) to be delivering the majority of their dynamic training requirements online by July 2003.

Paul McKey was engaged to work closely with staff to design and implement a project plan which included installing a new learning management system; training key staff in its use; in the art and science of instructional design for online learning and the development of original courseware; coordinating the technical and educational requirements of the system; and leaving BCC with a sustainable and self-sufficient model for the development of future programs.

The project was carried out on time and within budget.