Extended enterprise learning and instructional design expertise strengthens CPN’s ability to help organizations connect partner training to measurable business performance.
BlueStreak Learning has joined the Channel Performance Network (CPN), bringing decades of expertise in instructional design, eLearning development, learning technology, certification, and extended enterprise education to an ecosystem focused on improving performance across distributed networks.
BlueStreak Learning is a full-service eLearning firm that helps organizations design, develop, and implement learning experiences aligned with business and learning objectives. Its services include instructional design and course development, learning technology selection, and eLearning strategy consulting. The company has particular expertise in extended enterprise programs serving partners, dealers, franchisees, resellers, and customers.
That expertise directly supports the mission of the Channel Performance Network.
Founded by LatitudeLearning, CPN brings together consultants, technology providers, service firms, trainers, advisors, and specialists whose capabilities contribute to stronger franchise, dealer, distributor, reseller, contractor, service partner, and other distributed networks.
For BlueStreak Learning President and Chief Solutions Architect Jennifer De Vries, effective partner training begins with a question that goes beyond course completion: Can people actually apply what they learned?
“Can they actually go out there and do the job that you taught them to do? That’s training, very clearly training,” De Vries said during a Training Impact Podcast conversation with LatitudeLearning Founder and CEO Jeff Walter.
That performance-oriented philosophy is central to BlueStreak Learning’s approach. De Vries has more than 25 years of experience directing training technology programs. Her background includes developing eLearning strategy and partner certification at IBM, research with Bersin & Associates, eLearning leadership at Joint Commission Resources, and early virtual reality-based training work at Motorola.
Her experience also reinforces an important idea behind CPN: training should contribute to business performance, not exist as an isolated activity.
Walter and De Vries explored that idea in Episode 22 of the Training Impact Podcast, BlueStreak Learning: Proven Strategy for Powerful ROI in Partner Training. Their conversation focused on measurable ROI, certification, learning technology, and the difference between simply providing content and building training that changes performance.
“When training improves the quality of service, it can make or save the organization millions of dollars. The real measure isn’t whether the training itself breaks even. It’s the business performance that training helps create,” said Jeff Walter, Founder and CEO of LatitudeLearning.
That measurement challenge is increasingly important for organizations operating through external networks.
A franchisor may need franchisees to execute consistently. A manufacturer may depend on dealers and service technicians to represent its products correctly. A technology company may need resellers to sell, implement, and support increasingly complex solutions. In each case, training matters because partner capability affects business performance.
But training alone is not enough.
Organizations also need the right knowledge, technology, operations, leadership, measurement, governance, incentives, and support systems surrounding their partners. CPN is designed to connect those disciplines and help establish Channel Performance as a recognized business discipline.
BlueStreak Learning strengthens that ecosystem with expertise in designing learning experiences that move beyond information delivery toward application and measurable results.
The company’s approach to certification illustrates that distinction. During the podcast, De Vries described effective certification as more than completing required courses and passing tests. Drawing on her experience with IBM channel partners, she discussed using blended programs that combined foundational learning with hands-on workshops where participants had to apply what they had learned.
That focus on application aligns closely with CPN’s core belief: organizations do not succeed simply because they have partners. They succeed because their partners perform.
By joining CPN, BlueStreak Learning adds instructional design, learning strategy, technology consulting, certification, and measurement expertise to a growing network of specialists working across the different factors that influence distributed-network performance.
BlueStreak Learning is a full-service eLearning firm specializing in instructional design, course development, eLearning strategy, and learning technology consulting.
The company has extensive experience developing programs for the extended enterprise, including partners, dealers, franchisees, resellers, and customers. Jennifer De Vries, MA, CPT, serves as President and Chief Solutions Architect.
The Channel Performance Network is an ecosystem of consultants, technology providers, service firms, trainers, advisors, and experts focused on improving performance across franchise, dealer, distributor, service partner, reseller, contractor, and other distributed networks.
CPN brings together expertise spanning training, knowledge, operations, technology, leadership, measurement, governance, customer experience, and other capabilities organizations need to scale channel performance.
LatitudeLearning provides training infrastructure for organizations that need to scale performance across distributed networks.
LatitudeLearning LMS helps organizations train, certify, and enable franchisees, dealers, distributors, partners, contractors, and other external audiences. LatitudeLearning also develops Lumina, an AI knowledge companion designed to answer questions using approved company resources rather than the public internet.
LatitudeLearning founded the Channel Performance Network to connect the expertise organizations need to improve performance throughout their extended networks.
Patricia Douglas
Channel Performance Director