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Corporate Training

Invest in Your People. 
Grow Your Business.

Corporate Training at Okanagan College is about bringing ongoing learning to your organization through customized contract training.  

We provide private training and team building for businesses, non-profit organizations, and professional associations.  Whether you have a group of employees with a specific skills gap or need a comprehensive training and development plan across your company, we can help. 

We deliver diverse training programs to your employees at your workplace, on campus or online, on the dates and times that you choose.

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Why choose OC?

  • Experienced and talented instructors
  • Regional and industry specific point of view’s added to training
  • Fully customized curriculum with targeted learning outcomes
  • Flexible delivery options available to fit your team
  • Assistance with government grants like WorkBC’s B.C. Employer Training Grant 

 

What we offer

Areas of training

Corporate Training takes the knowledge contained in Okanagan College’s degree and apprenticeship programs, vocational certificates and industry partnerships and makes it accessible to you, your stakeholders and your employees. We have hundreds of courses and more than 25 certificates to draw from. 

Using our current professional experts and our history of curriculum development experience, we customize the factors below to create your perfect training solution:

  • Leadership
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer and Office Productivity
  • First Aid and Safety Training
  • Grant and Business Writing
  • Non-profit and Social Services Sector
  • Project Management
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)
  • Workplace Health, Safety and Wellness
  • Sales and Customer Service
  • Trades Industry

Trades Corporate Training at Okanagan College is about bringing ongoing learning to your organization through customized contract training.  

Find out more

We design custom courses and programs quickly and effectively. We can work with you to perform a needs assessment and design a curriculum around the results. 

As a College with deep ties to the industries which drive our economy, we pride ourselves on training that reflects the specific nature and challenges of those industries.  As a learning institution we are experts at curriculum development, allowing us to develop targeted workshops and programs on demand.

Clients can be involved in the training process to the degree that best suits their time or business. If you don’t have the time, you can leave the whole process to us. If you’d prefer to be involved in the details of instructor selection, workbook development, and custom content, we can work together every step of the way.  Contact our Contract Training Specialist to get started.

 

If you’re seeking professional development for one or two of your employees, Continuing Studies and Corporate Training offers our professional development programming regularly throughout the year at our campuses. Through a sponsorship agreement, you can arrange to send your employees to our programming and be invoiced directly, so that you can take advantage of reimbursement training grants.

Contact our Contract Training Specialist to learn about the sponsorship process for your employees.  It’s quick, easy and ensures a straightforward billing process in the case of course changes or cancellations.

 

Corporate training with Okanagan College is streamlined and straightforward:

  1. Discuss your needs with our Corporate Training Specialist
  2. Receive a training outline and quote
  3. Finalize details, dates and locations, and sign agreements
  4. Work with our subject matter experts to tailor the curriculum

The contract training process can take as little as 2 weeks from start to finish depending on the training, and can be organized months in advance to accommodate long term scheduling and development plans of your business.


We remain committed to being competitive with private industry training and the open enrolment tuition listed here. As every contract training service is customized to meet your needs, Corporate Training with Okanagan College provides a quote specific to your training for every offering. Our quotes are also designed to provide what you need to apply for WorkBC’s B.C. Employer Training Grant. Successful applicants of this grant can be reimbursed for portions of their training costs. Visit WorkBC for more details.

Our campuses

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Kelowna
Revelstoke Centre
Revelstoke Centre
Penticton campus of Okanagan College from a bird's eye view.
Penticton
Salmon Arm campus from a bird's eye view
Salmon Arm
Vernon campus from a bird's eye view
Vernon

Corporate Training Specialist

Corporate Training at Okanagan College provides practical, tailored solutions to support businesses and organizations in developing their workforce. As your Corporate Training Specialist, Mike Champigny acts as an extension of your training and development team, helping you identify challenges, access college resources, and lower training costs through group rates and grant funding.

Mike has led and developed teams in the Community Economic Development sector and managed government-funded employment services contracts. He has over 10 years of experience supporting employers with workforce development, human resources, and training and can talk to you about how investing in staff training can boost productivity, competitiveness, and employee engagement.

Passionate about finding innovative solutions, Mike is ready to help you enhance the competency and effectiveness of your staff. Connect with him today to explore how Okanagan College can support your organization’s training needs.

corporatetraining@okanagan.bc.ca 

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Testimonials

"The management training program provided by Okanagan College has more than surpassed our expectations. We recognized a significant skills gap with our managers and supervisors who mostly had been promoted from within. They had great technical knowledge but the leadership fundamentals were missing and this program was exactly what was needed to give them a great foundation for the future."

-Jeff Green, Director of Human Resources, CPHR
Factors Group of Nutritional 
Companies Inc

 

"This was so very interesting and well done! The food and wine pairings opened my pallet for a new experience.  Was a great way to spend a day with the ladies from the office – a great way to break down the walls of a group that work day to day together."

-Jaylyn Jager, participant, on a custom built team building experience

"The City of Vernon and Okanagan College have collaborated over the past four years many times to develop customized Corporate Training programs for our staff.  Their instructors are knowledgeable, enthusiastic and extremely helpful in designing and implementing the programs we require to develop capacity. Because of the tailored training, we are able to transfer the learning from the classroom to the workplace and measure its impact."

-Joanie Clary, Advisor, Learning & Development
City of Vernon

"The Okanagan College facilitators were keen, prepared and engaging. They heard and understood our unique First Nation training needs. They assured that they developed and consequently delivered a tailor-made “Supervisory and Leadership” program that fully addressed and satisfied our organizational needs."

-Pauline Terbasket, Executive Director
Okanagan Nation Alliance

Our clients

Alpine Aerotech
Andrew Peller
Askew’s Foods
Boyd Autobody & Glass
City of Kelowna
City of Vernon
Community Futures North Okanagan
 

Country Prime Meats
Factors Group
Kingfisher Boats
Norsteel Building Systems
North Okanagan Friendship Society
Okanagan Nation Alliance
Pro Builders Supply Inc

Reidco Metal Industries
SW Event Technology
Universal Packaging
Venture Training
Westbank First Nation
Wilson Beck Insurance

 

InspirED is short for inspired education and it's what we offer through Continuing Studies and Corporate Training at Okanagan College.

Corporate Training
Phone
250-762-5445
1-877-755-2266 (toll-free)
Email
corporatetraining@okanagan.bc.ca
Office Hours
Sunday: Closed
Monday - Friday: 8:30-16:30
Saturday: Closed