San Francisco, Calif., July 28, 2025–SweetRush, a global leader in innovative learning strategies, solutions, and technologies, is proud to announce its fourth consecutive year as eLearning Industry’s Number One Content Provider for Immersive Learning.

Immersive learning, which includes augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR), empowers employees to learn by doing as they apply new skills to complex scenarios, experience situations from the perspective of others, make real-time decisions, and respond to the outcomes of their words and actions—all within a safe, controlled virtual environment. 

Immersive technologies also offer an opportunity to boost the impact of live experiential learning (LEL) with hands-on skills practice, personalized and adaptive learning paths, and authentic, on-the-job scenarios that unfold in real time. Immersive LELs help L&D leaders extend the benefits of high-quality, high-value learning and skilling to a remote audience and leverage a range of rich data points to measure the impact of each experience. 

eLearning Industry founder Christopher Pappas describes immersive learning as “a must-have for corporate learning” with “foundations in behavioral and cognitive science.” 

Pappas explains, “The best content providers use immersive learning with VR to provide memorable experiences and accelerate employee proficiency. All is done through an immersive training environment where your workforce can test real-life scenarios—no wonder this emerging type of training is so impactful.”

He attributes SweetRush’s sustained No. 1 ranking to its “cutting-edge immersive solutions” and “highly engaging experiences that lead to deep knowledge retention and skill mastery.” 

Danielle Silver, XR Solution Architect at SweetRush, shares, “Receiving this honor for the fourth consecutive year is a testament to SweetRush’s relentless pursuit of innovation in our rapidly evolving technological world. Our team not only stays ahead of the curve but actively shapes it, delivering highly impactful learning experiences through the strategic application of AI, WebXR, VR, and AR.”

Esteban Cascante, SweetRush Director of Production, Project Management, and XR, cites his team’s learning-first approach, ongoing exploration of emerging technologies, and “deep commitment to delivering business value by upskilling a global audience of learners” as integral to its success. 

Cascante adds, “With the incorporation of AI into our immersive simulations, we are able to create more realistic and complex experiences every time, allowing the learners to apply their critical thinking and getting real-time custom feedback that allows them to improve their skills for real-life situations. Thanks to the rich data generated by immersive learning experiences, L&D leaders and their business partners can monitor their people’s preparedness to weather and adapt to change.”

A technology-agnostic company, SweetRush bases its approach on each client-partner’s organizational, learning, and business needs, rather than a single product or platform. World-class client-partners like Hilton, Capgemini, Google, Coursera, Bayer, and Bridgestone trust the SweetRush team’s unbiased expertise in immersive learning strategies and technologies, AI strategy and implementation, needs analysis, and learning science.

SweetRush’s innovations include its AI-L&D Continuum,™ AI-infused immersive learning and coaching experiences, Transformational Design Standards (TDS), and award-winning custom learning solutions. SweetRush’s innovative, effective approach to learning and agency-level creative design have been inspiring L&D leaders and stakeholders since 2001.

If you’re curious about the opportunity to enhance performance, boost productivity, and drive transformation with immersive learning, we’d love to chat! Reach out to connect with one of our experts. 

About SweetRush

SweetRush is trusted by many of the world’s most successful companies to help them improve the performance of their employees and extended enterprise. SweetRush is known for strategic thought leadership and exceptionally creative and effective solutions that combine the best of learning experience design with highly engaging delivery. SweetRush services include strategy consulting and analysis, custom L&D solution design and development, high-performing staff-augmentation talent staffing, certification development, and innovative learning technologies such as VR, AR, and AI. SweetRush’s work has earned a long list of awards and accolades in collaboration with its world-class clients. Discover more at www.sweetrush.com.

San Francisco, Calif., April 29, 2025  – SweetRush, a global leader in supplying high-performing L&D talent and creating innovative learning experiences, is proud to announce its inclusion in Training Industry’s list of Top Staffing and Temporary Resources Companies in 2025. This recognition highlights SweetRush’s proven ability to provide its client-partners with high-performing staff augmentation talent.

Training Industry, a trusted source of information on the business of learning, compiles its annual Top Staffing and Temporary Resources Companies list based on a thorough analysis of providers offering outsourced personnel to address talent gaps. The list selection criteria include the scope and quality of staffing roles and resources offered, market presence, brand visibility, innovation and impact, strength of client portfolio and customer relationships, and business performance and growth trajectory.

This acknowledgment from Training Industry underscores SweetRush’s deep expertise in sourcing and placing high-performing L&D professionals across a wide range of roles, including in-demand talent such as AI experts and facilitators, subject matter experts, strategy consultants, learning experience designers, and learning project managers.

SweetRush’s extensive network of top-tier talent dates back to its founding in 2001. Since its inception 24 years ago, the SweetRush Talent Solutions team has partnered with world-class organizations like Intel, Coursera, Hilton, and Mars to augment their teams with L&D specialists for projects of all sizes—even supplying 40 instructional designers for one client in record time. 

SweetRush Recruiting Manager Ann Cathers credits SweetRush’s success to its relationship-based recruiting strategy and consultative approach to sourcing talent. She explains, “We’ve intentionally built an extensive network of top-tier talent, and we see ourselves as the bridge between our caring relationships with our talent and our clients. We’ve found that this relationship-centered recruiting model produces exceptional results. Our clients know they can come to us for end-to-end, highly effective learning experiences or a passionate performance consultant, so we are set to help our clients achieve their L&D goals and navigate the future of work.”

A temporary L&D staffing strategy has proven more vital than ever as L&D leaders respond to ever-evolving business needs by seeking opportunities to reduce costs, scale operations, and access in-demand skills. SweetRush’s Talent Solutions Director Rodrigo Salazar credits his team’s success to its ability to recruit, retain, and support L&D professionals for the entire duration of their placement. 

Salazar observes, “What truly sets us apart is the heart and extensive industry knowledge of our team. Not only do they bring deep expertise in L&D, but it’s their empathy and care in every interaction that elevates every placement. It’s not just about filling roles—it’s about unlocking the full potential of our consultants and ensuring they feel seen, valued, and empowered every step of the way, while helping our clients thrive in a constantly shifting environment.”

Renowned for its L&D-first innovations such as its AI-L&D Continuum, immersive learning strategies, Transformational Design Standards (TDS), and award-winning custom learning solutions, SweetRush’s high-performing team has been inspiring L&D leaders and stakeholders for over two decades.

Got an L&D talent need of your own? Whether you’re seeking an AI expert, a unicorn SME, or a top-tier learning experience designer, we’ve got the next perfect-fit team member to bring your learning deliverables to fruition—and we’d love to chat about the possibilities.

About SweetRush

SweetRush is trusted by many of the world’s most successful companies to help them improve the performance of their employees and extended enterprises. SweetRush is known for strategic thought leadership and exceptionally creative and effective solutions that combine the best of learning experience design with highly engaging delivery. SweetRush services include strategy consulting and analysis, custom L&D solution design and development, high-performing staff-augmentation talent staffing, certification development, and innovative learning technologies such as VR, AR, and AI. SweetRush’s work has earned a long list of awards and accolades in collaboration with its world-class clients. Discover more at www.sweetrush.com.

Since 2020, PMQ has earned 14 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards,12 Gold awards and an Horizon Interactive Gold Award

San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 18, 2023 — SHRM, the foremost expert, convener, and thought leader on issues impacting today’s evolving workplaces., and SweetRush, a leading provider of custom learning solutions, collaborated to create an interactive, gamified, and highly engaging virtual leadership development program: The SHRM People Manager Qualification (PMQ). 

As “the voice of all things work,” SHRM’s experts know that people managers have the greatest potential to impact an organization’s culture and well-being. As SHRM President and CEO Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., explains, “There is no relationship in the workplace more powerful than the one between people managers and employees.”With their outsized influence on team members’ engagement, satisfaction, and psychological safety, managers must develop nuanced skills such as communication, empathy, performance management, and situational judgment. Yet managers often step into leadership roles without guidance or training, which has a deleterious effect on their teams: SHRM’s 2022 Global Culture Report reveals that one in three workers worldwide state that their manager’s can’t lead a team.

PMQ is the SHRM-SweetRush team’s ingenious response to the urgent need facing SHRM’s extended enterprise of 325,000 members in 165 countries. To serve the 27 performance objectives and 110 behavioral indicators defining successful management, the team crafted a scenario-based virtual learning solution in the form of a series of animated episodes, organized into “seasons,” just like learners’ favorite streaming shows.  

The binge-worthy PMQ series follows six diverse characters, all new people managers, who represent a range of ethnicities, gender identities, bodies, abilities, and personalities. Along the way, they share experiences and support and illustrate examples—and nonexamples—of management skills, behaviors, and emotional intelligence. Branching assessments put the learner at the center of the action in a “season finale” that forces them to think on their feet to solve authentic management challenges. 

Mary Harding, SweetRush Account Manager, shares, “SHRM is, and has always been, a team that likes to dream big for their audience, and PMQ is no exception. This leading-edge program features excellent content delivered in a relevant and engaging way. SHRM and SweetRush work side by side to provide new and experienced people managers with a learning experience that taps into real-life situations.” 

PMQ’s innovative approach to people management training has been recognized with numerous creative and L&D industry awards, Since 2020, PMQ has earned 14 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards, including 12 Gold awards, as well as a Horizon Interactive Gold Award. 

Ninety-six percent of learners rate PMQ a great tool for new people managers, characterizing it as “binge-worthy,” “actionable,” and “confidence-building.” One learner enthusiastically adds, “The content was real! It was almost as if someone was watching my life and creating content from it. The information learnt is timely, useful and applicable.” 

As the world of work continues to evolve, the SHRM-SweetRush team looks forward to serving people managers and their teams with fresh, relevant solutions that help them thrive together. 

About SHRM

SHRM creates better workplaces where employers and employees thrive together. As the voice of all things work, workers and the workplace, SHRM is the foremost expert, convener and thought leader on issues impacting today’s evolving workplaces. With nearly 325,000 members in 165 countries, SHRM impacts the lives of more than 235 million workers and families globally. Learn more at SHRM.org.

About SweetRush
SweetRush’s focus on team culture and craft is reflected in loyal clients, uniquely low turnover of teammates, a 20+-year track record of success, and a remarkable portfolio. Our work with clients creating custom solutions for talent empowerment and people success has earned us gold awards from our peers and high rankings on top industry lists.

We are over 200 people strong and have been in business since 2001. Our service areas include Custom Learning (including eLearning, mobile, gamification, and virtual training), Talent Solutions (temporary talent to augment our clients’ L&D teams), XR/Immersive Tech (VR, AR, AI, and emerging technologies), Transforming Leaders & Culture (expert coaching and consulting to create connected, unified cultures, leaders, and teams), and Good Things (amplifying the impact of nonprofits and the social impact space). Every day, we give thanks for the trust of our world-class clients. Learn more and get in touch with SweetRush at www.sweetrush.com. 

U.S. Chamber Foundation and SweetRush bring the industry-leading Talent Pipeline Management® Academy online via TPM Co/Lab™, empowering a broader learner audience with the skills to develop local talent pipelines and meet industry needs.

San Francisco, Calif., December 11, 2023  –  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, a leading national organization dedicated to strengthening communities through education and workforce initiatives, and SweetRush, a leading provider of custom learning solutions, announced their scaling of a learning program that provides tools to address the nationwide skills gap.

The U.S. Chamber Foundation’s Talent Pipeline Management® (TPM) framework is a talent development strategy that offers data-driven, outcomes-based methodologies to prepare current and future talent for the workforce by ensuring that workers’ skills align with employers’ needs.

The TPM Academy® is a program empowering state and local chambers of commerce, employers, and education and training providers to learn to apply the TPM strategies and create a talent pipeline based on industry needs. Whereas traditional education-employer partnerships tend to rely on solutions developed by the supply side, TPM puts employers in the driver’s seat as they communicate their most critical job needs to their education and training partners. Through the U.S. Chamber Foundation-SweetRush relationship, this training experience is now available online and on demand via TPM Co/Lab™, an online learning community, to benefit more communities in their use of the transformative workforce approach.

“The U.S. Chamber Foundation team were collaborative partners who were closely invested and involved from initial solutioning all the way through to implementation,” says SweetRush Solution Architect Joe Henderson. “Together, we took a highly successful existing program—TPM Academy—and scaled it for a virtual- and blended-learning audience. Throughout this journey, they remained dedicated to continuous improvement, refining and enhancing the program to better meet the evolving needs of the audience. Working together on TPM Co/Lab has been a pleasure, and we’re gratified at the opportunity to support U.S. Chamber Foundation’s goal of empowering employers to build talent pipelines in their industries and communities, all while striving for ongoing improvement and innovation.”

With three different learning modalities—in-person, blended, and fully online—learners throughout the U.S. Chamber Foundation’s vast extended enterprise can find a TPM Academy format that fits their schedules and preferences.

In every format, the TPM Academy program empowers learners to engage in the six TPM strategies. Strategy 1 starts with employers identifying one or more talent challenges and forming a “collaborative.” Next, Strategies 2 through 4 provide a systematic process for employers to gather and share their workforce data in a format that can facilitate new career pathway partnerships or improve existing ones by getting data on talent needs, specific skills, and talent suppliers—making them better, more clear communicators of their demand. Strategies 5 and 6 help employer-led collaboratives put their data to work by co-designing internal and/or external talent pipelines, making them more resilient to external disruptions and shocks like an economic recession or a pandemic, and continuously improving them with trusted provider partners. The TPM Academy approach to creating a talent pipeline has been recognized with numerous learning and development awards, including three 2023 Brandon Hall Group Gold Awards for its unique approach to blended learning for the extended enterprise. Employers such as Detroit’s DTE Energy and the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation have revitalized their talent pipelines with the TPM strategy.

“SweetRush has been an invaluable partner in taking the next step in our evolution to transform our in-person TPM Academy trainings to an engaging, interactive online learning experience,” said Jaimie Francis, vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. “Their stellar team helped us navigate how to create the best experience for our learners so that they are empowered with the tools and information necessary to co-design talent supply chains to help students and workers access and succeed in career pathways. We look forward to continued collaboration and bringing this learning experience to more communities across the world in search of workforce strategies and solutions.”

The U.S. Chamber Foundation-SweetRush team continues to be inspired by the opportunity to help employers, workers, and education providers meet the demands of the perpetually evolving business environment. The team looks forward to continued support of the U.S. Chamber Foundation’s extensive learner audience as they build the talent pipelines that strengthen the economy, one TPM implementation at a time.

Learn more about the TPM Academy and TPM Co/Lab.

About the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation harnesses the power of business to create solutions for the good of America and the world. We anticipate, develop, and deploy solutions to challenges facing communities—today and tomorrow. Learn more about the U.S. Chamber Foundation’s work at uschamberfoundation.org/.

About SweetRush

SweetRush is trusted by many of the world’s most successful companies to help them improve the performance of their employees and extended enterprise. SweetRush is known for exceptionally creative and effective solutions that combine the best of learning experience design with highly engaging delivery.

SweetRush services include custom L&D solution design and development, high-performing staff-augmentation talent staffing, certification development, cultural alignment, and innovative learning technologies such as VR, AR, and AI. SweetRush’s work has earned a long list of awards and accolades in collaboration with its world-class clients. Discover more at www.sweetrush.com.