About

Our Founder and CEO, Gary Valkenburg, was actually a restaurant/retail trainer for nearly 20 years. As Gary spent time traveling the world opening restaurants and training staff, he realized there was really no control or consistency of locations at a head office level. Each location and every general manager was doing whatever they wanted and not following company policies and standards. That is where Gary came up with idea and need for World Manager. He set out to provide the most user friendly platform in the market for both employees and administrators. The goal, was to create a platform to allow every CEO to train, track and communicate with employees, plus control company compliance nationally and globally.

One of Gary’s specialties in training was teaching employees sales and up-selling skills. When he started World Manager he made a promise that he would not up-sell his clients, and would not lock them into the standard long term contracts.

“In my 20 years of training one of the key goals was to teach staff how to up-sell. Also, a common revenue generating technique in business is to ‘increase your wallet share by selling more to your existing clients’. I was so tired of the industry sales techniques and the long term contracts, I set out to break the traditions and be the training industry’s biggest market disruptor.” - Gary Valkenburg

Today World Manager still offers VIP treatment for all our brands including:

No fixed term contracts
Free upgrades for the life of your agreement
No price increases, ever
Free customer support
A free Relationship Manager for the life of your agreement

Introducing a new way of doing business. When it comes to growing fast, smart companies are turning to World Manager®

The World Manager® platform was launched commercially in 2005 and it is now being used by over 23,000 businesses in more than 50 countries. Over 200 million test questions have been answered globally and those same employees are now completing millions of tests annually.
Since 2005, brands using World Manager® have shown up on the Business Review Weekly (BRW) ‘Fast-Growing’ lists over 90 times. World Manager® and our brands using the platform since 2005 have won over 20 industry awards.
Doing what you need and more

Provide visibility for national managers to call specific locations to discuss mandatory training, surveys or appraisals that have not been completed, or rankings that are below the national average.
Provide area manager accountability for all their locations, as well as key performance indicators.
Provide professional PDF reports and Excel spreadsheets for all meetings.
Enable a support office to pass on updated laws, regulations and procedures to all employees worldwide.
Access the most award-winning online communications platform in the world.
More than just a pre-packaged system

Too many systems leave you wondering:

How are other industry leaders implementing their online corporate development?
What are the latest trends?
What really works online, and what doesn’t?
We have created a library of case studies designed to highlight our brands’ successes and hurdles when launching their World Manager®.