Ideal for L&D teams, talent development professionals,
L&D services vendors, executive coaches, and leadership development consultants
Finally, prove what your L&D programs are worth.
LDImpact turns your employee development outcomes into the one metric leadership actually asks for: business impact ROI.
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You're asked to justify the L&D budget — with business impact numbers you can't get.
Sound familiar?
Every budget cycle, leadership wants proof that employee development spending moves the business forward. But you know measuring the ROI of learning is genuinely hard. Consider these painful realities.
- Completion rates, smile sheets, and quiz scores measure activity, not outcomes. Nobody funds a course because 92% finished it.
- Correlation gets mistaken for causation. Performance went up — but was it the program, a new manager, a market shift, seasonality, or something else entirely?
- The effect is tangled up with everything else happening at the same time, so "before and after" rarely holds up to scrutiny.
- By the time you have results, the conversation — and the budget decision — has already moved on.
So L&D teams end up defending their hard work with unhelpful activity metrics, while senior stakeholders are asking about measurable business impact. It's the most requested number in the room, but hardest one to produce.
It's time to stop coming up short on delivering what executives really want to know.
While L&D leaders consistently cite "business impact" as a top strategic priority, fewer than 16% of executive leaders feel L&D effectively demonstrates business impact, largely because L&D teams continue to rely on activity-based vanity metrics. —Gartner
The solution
LDImpact measures the business impact of employee development and translates it to ROI.
Just point LDImpact at a KPI that matters — like sales per rep, first-call resolution, time-to-productivity, deal-cycle time, safety incidents, NPS, and so on. It figures out how much of the change your development program can credibly take credit for, converts that into a dollar figure, and calculates ROI against your program's cost.
You get defensible numbers and plain-language insights you can put confidently in front of senior leaders. No statistical knowledge needed.
Impact in dollars, not vanity metrics
It answers the real question: did our employee development program move the business, and by how much?
Causal rigor, not weak correlation
It uses the same methods PhD-level data scientists would use to separate your program's effect from everything else happening.
Easy to generate
It gives you plain-English insights, stakeholder Q&A, and polished PowerPoint/PDF exports — all quickly generated.
Numbers you can defend
It delivers fair and honest results that hold up when someone pushes back, because credibility is the whole point.
Easily export a one-page Business Impact Summary PowerPoint or PDF designed for you to share to executives. Swipe through the examples, and tap any one to expand it.
How it works
From KPI to defensible ROI in three steps.
Choose what you're measuring
Pick the business KPI your program was meant to move, or match a leadership skill to the metric it should influence. LDImpact supports a wide range of productivity, sales, service, and quality metrics.
Pick your analysis type
Run a quick Simple Estimate or a Controlled Comparison that matches participants against a similar group who didn't. Either way you get fair, honest, robust results.
Get your impact, ROI & insights
LDImpact isolates the program's effect, converts it to dollars and ROI, flags anything that could skew the result, and produces the insights — plus the tough questions stakeholders will ask — in plain language.
All it needs is a simple spreadsheet — one row per person with their KPIs before and after. That's it.
Features & capabilities
Everything you need to report ROI with confidence.
Business impact and ROI in real dollars
Every result is expressed as total business impact, per-participant impact, and a clear ROI against program cost.
Two levels of analysis
A fast Simple Estimate, or a Controlled Comparison — both delivering defensible, highly-credible results.
Tailored data insights
A plain-language summary of what the results mean, alongside pushback questions a stakeholder or CFO is likely to ask, with honest answers you can feel confident giving.
External-factor logging
Record the other things happening at the same time (a reorg, a new tool, seasonality) so your ROI accounts for them.
Attribution control
Decide how much credit the employee development or training program can fairly claim, and see the ROI adjust fairly to your confidence.
Outlier transparency
See the handful of standout results that can inflate or deflate an average, and remove them with one click to see how the result holds up.
Break-even analysis
Know exactly how much KPI change would have been needed to cover the employee development program's cost when ROI comes back negative.
Confidence and stability
A genuine read on how reliable the numbers are, so you know when it's a bulletproof finding versus a directional movement.
Senior-stakeholder exports
Download polished PowerPoint slides and PDF summaries that stand up to the toughest executive reviews.
Powerful ROI Forecasting
Know the target before you build the program.
Measuring ROI after a program is extraordinarily valuable. Being able to easily forecast it is too. LDImpact’s unique ROI Forecasting tool flips the question from “what did we get?” to “what do we need to achieve?” so you can build the business case and design the program before you spend the budget.
LDImpact is the first tool to both reverse-engineer the KPI improvement your employee development program requires to nail your ROI target, and pair it with insightful instructional design recommendations to improve the odds you’ll get there.
“Companies that generate actionable ROI-type measurements actually do the ROI analysis before they develop the programs.” —Josh Bersin, CEO of The Josh Bersin Company
Work backward from your ROI target
Set the return you need to justify the program, and the tool calculates the exact per-person KPI improvement required to hit it — from break-even all the way to your stretch goals.
Grounded in your real baseline
Upload your target participants’ current KPI performance so the forecast starts from where your people actually are today — not a hopeful guess.
Conservative and defensible
A belief slider and prompts about the other factors at play keep the forecast honest, so you set targets you can defend to a CFO instead of numbers you’ll have to walk back.
Instructional-design recommendations
Every forecast comes with customized, insightful instructional design considerations to raise the odds you actually achieve the ROI you’re targeting.
The full picture, at a glance
It clearly lays out the required change, the projected result, and the total dollar benefit for every ROI target between break-even and your goal.
Save, share, and export
Save every ROI forecast, revisit it any time, download a polished PDF ready for executive review, and keep the exact data you based it on.
- Build the business case before you commit. Walk into the budget conversation with a defensible target instead of a hopeful pitch.
- Set targets you can actually hit. See what break-even really requires, so you don’t over-promise a return the program can’t deliver.
- Get a plan, not just a number. The instructional design recommendations turn a target into concrete program planning decisions that move the odds in your favor.
Why it's credible
Numbers your CFO won't poke holes in.
Most "ROI of training" claims fall apart the moment someone asks a hard question about real business impact. LDImpact is built to survive that conversation. It uses the analysis methods PhD-level statisticians rely on, which is exactly what makes the wins believable.
- It accounts for the bigger picture. LDImpact logs the other factors at play and folds them into the results, instead of pretending the development program was the only thing that changed employees' performance.
- You decide what's fair. You control how much credit the development program claims. There's no black box behind the scenes overstating results.
- It shows what's skewing the result. Outliers are surfaced, not hidden, so a couple of exceptional cases can't silently inflate or deflate your ROI numbers.
- It tells you when the training didn't pay off. If an employee development program costs more than it returned, LDImpact says so. That's what makes it trustworthy when it says a program worked.
Who it's for
Built for the people asked to prove L&D's value.
L&D leaders and CLOs
Defending, protecting, or growing an employee development budget.
Talent development teams
Proving a training program's value beyond attendance, smile sheets, and quiz scores.
HR business partners
Connecting people programs to the business outcomes leadership cares about.
L&D vendors, certified coaches, and leadership development service providers
Supporting a wide range of talent development service providers who need to demonstrate hard ROI to clients.
When to use it
The right moment comes around more often than you'd think.
Whenever a development program has run and someone wants to know whether it worked, LDImpact turns the results into business impact and ROI you can stand behind. These are the moments it's built for.
After a program
You just wrapped a program
Something ran, and you're wondering what it actually delivered. Measure the real business impact and ROI so you can report results with confidence — not attendance sheets and happy-face surveys.
Budget season
You need to defend or grow your budget
Walk into the conversation with hard, defensible numbers. Turn a program's results into the dollars-and-cents language finance and leadership actually respect.
For providers
You're proving value to a client
Vendors, coaches, and consultants: show clients the measurable return of your work — not just a satisfaction score — and turn results into renewals.
Find your fit
Not sure where you fit with LDImpact's tools? Answer a question or two and find out.
We'll point you to the right starting point, whether your employee development program is still on the drawing board or already delivered.
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The interactive simulator runs a complete LDImpact analysis on realistic, auto-generated sample data — very similar to the experience you'd get with your own numbers. Pick a KPI, choose your method, and watch it produce business impact, ROI, and stakeholder-ready insights in seconds. See the outliers get flagged. Watch the ROI move when you adjust your assumptions. Export the slides. It's the whole product, on live sample data. No subscription or data upload needed.
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Plans & Pricing
Pricing that fits how you work.
Measure impact inside your own organization, or prove it for the clients you serve. Not ready to subscribe? Try the interactive simulator free — no signup required.
Ideal for L&D and talent development professionals who are internal practitioners within an organization.
Essentials
Get Rolling Today- Simple Estimate tool
- Data insights
- Stakeholder Q&A
- Email support
Pro
Most popular- Simple Estimate tool
- Controlled Comparison tool
- ROI Forecasting
- Instructional design suggestions
- Data insights
- Stakeholder Q&A
- Email support
Premium
Large Enterprise-Ready- Everything in Pro, plus:
- Up to 3 custom KPIs
- 1-hour onboarding call
- Controlled Comparison design support
- Email support with guaranteed 1-business-day response
ROI Forecasting
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- Instructional design suggestions
- Email support
Ideal for L&D vendors, leadership development professionals, and expert coaches who serve client organizations. Priced per active client organization, billed monthly — adding or removing a client organization adjusts your monthly total.
Client Essentials
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- Controlled Comparison tool
- ROI Forecasting
- Instructional design suggestions
- Data insights
- Stakeholder Q&A
- Email support
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- 1-hour onboarding call
- Controlled Comparison design support
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- Instructional design suggestions
- Email support
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Security & privacy
Built to handle as little sensitive data as possible.
- Try it with zero risk. The interactive simulator runs entirely on auto-generated sample data, so you can evaluate the platform without using your own data.
- Encrypted, in transit and at rest. Everything you send travels over encrypted (HTTPS/TLS) connections and is stored on Amazon Web Services in the United States. Read more about our Information Security Practices.
- No individual names exposed. When LDImpact writes insights, it sends only aggregate, de-identified summaries, never individual names or records.
- No NPI collected. We do not capture any Non-Public Personal Information (NPI) for data analysis.
- Your data is yours. You retain ownership of it. We don't sell it and we don't use it for advertising.
Questions about security? Email support@ldimpact.com.
Stop defending your L&D budget with vanity metrics. Start reporting ROI.
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