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Acorn

Acorn is a skills and development platform with full learning management, built in Canberra for mid-sized and growing organisations in Australia.

Overview

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Acorn

Business Description

Acorn is a skills and development platform that maps the skills each role requires, shows where every person stands against them and captures evidence of skills in action. It includes full learning management, so learning sits inside the same platform as the skills it is meant to build.

Acorn sits alongside an organisation's HRIS rather than replacing it. Customers span government, regulated industry, healthcare, energy, higher education and professional services. Acorn has offices in Canberra and Sydney, and in Vancouver, Canada.

Service & Expertise

Learning, Training and Capability Development

LMS Learning Management Systems

Acorn provides LMS Learning Management Systems from Canberra and Sydney to organisations across Australia and internationally, with learning management built into a skills and development platform that maps content to the capabilities each role requires.

  • Compliance content is mapped to roles, departments and locations so the right people are assigned the right training automatically, with enrolments, due dates and reminders managed through automated workflows.
  • Migration of SCORM, xAPI and PDF content is supported along with historical learner records and completions, and most teams are live within 4 to 8 weeks including setup, branding and initial content migration.
  • The platform is SOC 2 Type II compliant, supports SAML and Acorn SSO, and can be fully branded at both the tenancy and cohort level without developers.
  • Out of the box integrations include Microsoft Teams, Zoom, LinkedIn Learning, Go1, OpenSesame and Skillsoft, and a Universal Adapter Integration syncs completions from external platforms for unified reporting.

Best for: mid-sized and growing organisations in government, regulated industry, healthcare, energy, higher education and professional services.

Performance and Talent Management

Skills Frameworks and Capability Architecture

Acorn provides Skills Frameworks and Capability Architecture from Canberra to organisations across Australia and internationally, mapping the skills each role requires with defined proficiency levels.

  • Every role in Acorn has the skills it needs mapped to it, and assessments show where each person stands against the level the role requires.
  • Gap analysis compares a person’s assessed proficiency to the level required for their role and identifies high performers ready for progression, supporting succession planning.
  • Development plans prepare employees for future roles.

Best for: organisations that want a capability picture of their workforce to back talent decisions.

Operational Coverage

  • ACT (Hybrid) Level 7, 1 Farrell Place, Canberra ACT, 2601
  • New South Wales (Hybrid)

Industry

Industry Experience

Information Media and Telecommunications

Contacts & Channels

FAQs

What does Acorn do that an LMS alone does not?

Acorn starts with the skills each role requires and where each person stands against them, and includes full learning management so learning sits inside the same platform as the skills it is meant to build.

How does Acorn fit with the systems we already have?

Acorn sits alongside your HRIS rather than replacing it. Integrations include Microsoft Teams, Zoom, LinkedIn Learning, Go1, OpenSesame and Skillsoft, and SAML single sign-on is supported.

Where is Acorn located?

Acorn has offices in Canberra and Sydney in Australia and in Vancouver, Canada.

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