Sponge is a leading digital learning provider founded in 2004 with over 200 employees across Europe. Sponge offers innovative and engaging learning solutions to drive behavioural change, with data-driven outcomes, within global organisations.

About Sponge.

Over more than 20 years, Sponge has been the people enablement partner of choice to 43% of the Interbrand Global 100, one in 10 of the Nasdaq, and a third of Europe’s Fortune 500.

Supporting leaders tasked with high-stakes transformation, they’ve spent over 20 years delivering targeted shifts in behaviour, culture, and capability through unforgettable learning. Sponge's approach combines strategic learning consultancy, grounded in the science of what moves people, with world-class creative—delivered end-to-end across digital, blended, and in-person experiences.

Sponge also offers learning technology and ready-to-go training solutions for large-scale compliance, through their specialist arm, Sponge Compliance. Along with an adaptive compliance learning library of over 200 courses, this includes Spark LMS, a cloud-based Learning Management System, and 460+ compliance-complementary microlearning courses.

Sponge primarily serves large (50k employees+) multinational organisations across diverse sectors including pharmaceutical, retail, technology, automotive, manufacturing and engineering, finance, professional services, and FMCG with a focus on the UK, the USA, and Europe.

Sponge's recent award wins include:

  • Brandon Hall Group HCM Awards – ‘Best Compliance Training’ – Gold - 2025
  • Brandon Hall Group HCM Awards – ‘Best Unique or Innovative Learning and Development Programme’ – Gold - 2025
  • Brandon Hall Group HCM Awards – ‘Best Use of Blended Learning’ – Silver - 2025
  • Training Industry - Top 20 company, Online Learning Library - 2025
  • Training Industry - Top 20 company, Custom Content Developer - 2025
  • Fosway 9-Grid™ - ‘Core Leader’ – 2025
  • LPI - Gold Accreditation - 2025
  • Brandon Hall Group L&D Tech Awards - Best Advance in Learning Management Technology for Compliance Training - Silver - 2024
  • Brandon Hall Group HCM Awards – ‘Best Learning Programme Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy’ – Gold - 2024
  • Brandon Hall Group HCM Awards – ‘Best Custom Content’ – Gold - 2024
  • Brandon Hall Group HCM Awards – ‘Best Competencies and Skill Development’ – Silver - 2024
  • Brandon Hall Group HCM Awards – ‘Best Customer Training Programme’ – Silver - 2024
  • Training Industry - Top 20 company, Online Learning Library - 2024
  • Training Industry - Top 20 company, Custom Content Developer - 2024
  • Learning Excellence Awards - Product or Process Training - Winner - 2024
  • Learning Excellence Awards - LMS and Learning Process - Winner - 2024

To find out more about Sponge's solutions and to see how we can make your learning unforgettable, please visit: http://www.spongelearning.com

 

Media enquiries.

For any media enquiries, please contact the Sponge Communications team at: communications@spongelearning.com

 

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No. of employees:
200+
CEO:
Adam Poulter

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Olivia Haywood
spongelearning.com
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