Your fractional L+D team

Let's Create Confident Employees + Happy Customers

Modern Training is a fractional learning + development (L+D) team for companies and their frontline teams. We plan, build, and deliver training for growing and enterprise brands in restaurants, retail, hospitality, and more. Passionately collaborative, we work as if we're in the building with you.

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Your On-Demand L+D Team

Some companies need a full training program built from scratch. Some need extra hands to hit a deadline. Some need a partner to lead strategy from the first meeting. We do all of it, at the size and speed you need, so your team gets senior L+D talent without adding headcount.

We come from operations, so the training we build works where your teams actually work: on the floor, on the line, and on the go.

What We Do

AI Services

Train your people. Train your AI. Transform your workforce. We help your teams adopt and optimize AI at work: a role-based curriculum, hands-on mentoring, and ready-to-install AI knowledge. We're bringing our L+D craft to AI.

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L+D Services

Your on-demand L+D team for learning strategy, content management, translation + localization, LMS selection + services, SOP + knowledge management, and change management.

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Programs

Complete training programs for the roles that run your operation: trainers, hourly teams, supervisors, managers, and multi-unit leaders. Custom-built for your concept and expedited by our prebuilt library, so you launch faster and pay less than building from scratch.

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Content

Prebuilt courses you can license once and train with forever, plus custom courses, video, and print built for your brand. Pay once, train forever, with unlimited learners and no subscriptions.

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Train Your People. Train Your AI. Transform Your Workforce.

Most teams have AI tools. Few teams use them well. We close the gap from both sides: we train your AI on what your company knows, and we teach your teams to use it with confidence.

AI for Work

Confident AI users by role, from nervous newcomers to executives setting strategy

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AI Mentoring + Managed Services

A hands-on partner who stays past the launch until AI is part of how your teams work

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Prebuilt Agents + Knowledge Bases

Ready-to-install AI knowledge that gives your AI real expertise, on any platform

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Why Teams Choose Modern Training

  • We work like we're in the building with you, learning your brand and operations deeply and collaborating with every stakeholder.

  • We come from operations. Our roots are in the field, so we build training that works on the frontline, not just in a boardroom.

  • We build for teams and whole organizations, so learning sticks across departments and locations.

  • We're an award-winning team, and our clients genuinely like working with us, which is half the battle in any project.

We measure what matters

A drive-thru training program we built with a global partner lifted:

+2.2%
overall guest satisfaction
+2.4%
speed of service

Meet Some of Our Clients

We serve brands in restaurants, retail, hospitality, and more.

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"Working with the Modern Training team has felt more like a friendship than a working relationship. Everyone is so kind, joyful, and personable. It's rare to connect with people you enjoy going to meetings with. We not only laugh and have fun, we produce some incredible work together."
Tim Gwynn, Director of Global Learning + Development, Krispy Kreme
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How We Work

Working with us starts with a conversation, not a contract.

Phase 1

Before the contract

We listen, learn your brand and goals, and send a clear proposal: deliverables, timeline, investment, and how we plug into your team. No surprises.

Phase 2

During the project

We kick off fast, set a baseline to measure against, and build side by side with your team through every round of review.

Phase 3

After launch

We support a clean handoff, help you measure results against what the business cares about, and stay a message away for updates and ongoing support.

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Who We Are

We're former operators with roots in the field. We've seen what great training can do, how it empowers teams, strengthens operations, and drives real change, and that's why we build learning that makes work better.

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Common Questions

What does Modern Training do?

Modern Training is a fractional L+D team. We plan, build, and deliver training for companies and their teams, including AI adoption services, L+D services like translation and LMS management, complete training programs by role, and prebuilt and custom content.

What is a fractional L+D team?

It's senior learning + development talent on demand. You get a full team of strategists, writers, and designers at the size and speed you need, and your budget goes to the work instead of new headcount.

What industries do you work with?

Mostly restaurants, retail, and hospitality, and we've delivered for brands in logistics, technology, and other industries too. Our roots are in frontline operations.

Do you offer prebuilt or custom training content?

Both. Our prebuilt catalogs cover food + beverage and retail with a one-time purchase and lifetime license. Our custom work covers courses, video, and print built for your brand. Most projects blend the two.

Can you help our teams adopt AI?

Yes. We train your AI on what your company knows, and we teach your teams to use it with confidence, through the AI for Work curriculum, hands-on mentoring, and ready-to-install Knowledge Bases.

How do we get started?

Schedule a call or email us at [email protected]. Discovery conversations are free, and we move at the speed you need.

Let's Meet

Ready to move learning forward for your teams? We'll start with where you are and build from there.