Ideal for L&D teams, talent development professionals,
L&D services vendors, executive coaches, and leadership development consultants
Forecast your L&D program's ROI before you build it. Prove it after you run it.
The end-to-end ROI system for employee development: forecast a defensible target before you spend the budget, then measure the real business impact after.
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You're asked to justify the L&D budget twice: to make the case before, and to prove the impact after. And, you seriously struggle to gather that data.
Sound familiar?
Leadership wants a credible business case up front and hard proof of impact after. Both are genuinely hard to produce. Here's why.
- Vanity metrics. Completion rates and smile sheets measure activity, not outcomes.
- Correlation mistaken for causation. Was it the program, or a new manager, a market shift, or seasonality?
- Too late. By the time you have results, the budget decision has already moved on.
- And that's just the "after." Before a program even starts, you're asked for an ROI target with no credible way to set one.
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 forecasts and measures the business impact of employee development, and translates both into ROI.
Simply point LDImpact at one of the many . Before a program, it works backward from your ROI target to the improvement you'd need. After, it credits your program fairly and converts the change to dollars and ROI.
Defensible numbers and plain-language insights for senior leaders. No statistics knowledge needed.
Impact in dollars, not vanity metrics
Did it move the business, and by how much?
Causal rigor, not weak correlation
The methods PhD-level data scientists use to isolate your program's effect.
Easy to generate
Plain-English insights, stakeholder Q&A, and polished PowerPoint/PDF exports, fast.
Forecast the ROI before you build the program, then prove it after. Swipe through examples, each showing the plan and the proof for the same program.
How it works
From business case to proven ROI, across the whole program.
Forecast it before you build
Set your ROI target. LDImpact works backward to the exact per-person KPI improvement you'd need, grounded in your real baseline, plus instructional-design tips to raise your odds.
Run your program
Deliver the program with a defensible target in hand. When it wraps, bring back a simple spreadsheet of each person's KPI before and after.
Measure it and prove the ROI
LDImpact isolates the real effect (Simple Estimate or Controlled Comparison), converts it to dollars and ROI, and explains the result, plus the questions stakeholders will ask, in plain language.
Both the forecast and the measurement run on a simple spreadsheet, one row per person. That's it.
Measure it after the program
Everything you need to prove the impact with confidence.
Business impact and ROI in real dollars
Total impact, per-participant impact, and ROI against cost.
Two levels of analysis
A fast Simple Estimate or a rigorous Controlled Comparison, both defensible.
Tailored data insights
Plain-language findings, plus the CFO's likely pushback questions, with honest answers.
Attribution control
Decide how much credit the program fairly claims, and watch ROI adjust.
Break-even analysis
Know the KPI change needed to cover program cost when ROI is negative.
Senior-stakeholder exports
Polished PowerPoint and PDF summaries that survive executive review.
Forecast it before the program
Know the target before you build the program.
Measuring ROI after a program is valuable. Forecasting it is too. LDImpact’s ROI Forecasting flips the question from “what did we get?” to “what do we need?”, so you build the business case before you spend the budget.
Work backward from your ROI target
Set the return you need; the tool calculates the exact per-person KPI improvement to hit it, from break-even to stretch goals.
Grounded in your real baseline
Upload participants’ current KPI performance so the forecast starts where your people actually are, not a guess.
Conservative and defensible
A belief slider and external-factor prompts keep it honest, so you set targets you can defend, not walk back.
Instructional-design recommendations
Every forecast includes tailored instructional-design considerations to raise your odds of hitting the target.
Why it's credible
Numbers your CFO won't poke holes in.
Most tools "prove" ROI by asking people to estimate it. LDImpact measures it from your real business data, and gives you two ways to do it, depending on the data you have. Both are built to survive a hard question from finance.
Simple Estimate
A fast, powerful before-and-after read. No comparison group needed, and it works at any size.
- Built on your real before-and-after numbers, not surveys or guesses.
- You set how much credit the program fairly claims, with no hidden adjustment working behind the scenes.
- Accounts for the other things happening at the same time.
- Flags the outliers that can skew an average, and tells you how confident to be.
Controlled Comparison
When you have a large group of people trained vs. not trained, it returns an unassailable measure of impact.
- Compares your people against a genuinely similar group who didn't take the program, built from your own data.
- Refuses a weak match instead of forcing a flawed comparison.
- Confirms both groups were already moving together before the program, so the difference is really the program.
- Stress-tests the result against hidden factors, and runs in seconds, not the weeks this usually takes.
And when a program didn't pay off, LDImpact says so, whichever method you use. That's what makes it believable when it says one worked.
Find your fit
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We'll point you to the right starting point, whether your program is still planned or already delivered.
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Plans & Pricing
Pricing that fits how you work.
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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
Forecasting only- ROI Forecasting
- 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
Excellent Value- Simple Estimate tool
- Controlled Comparison tool
- ROI Forecasting
- Instructional design suggestions
- Data insights
- Stakeholder Q&A
- Email support
Client Pro
Most popular- Everything in Client Essentials, plus:
- 1-hour onboarding call
- Controlled Comparison design support
Client ROI Forecasting
Forecasting only- ROI Forecasting
- Instructional design suggestions
- Email support
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Built to handle as little sensitive data as possible.
- Encrypted, in transit and at rest. Data travels over HTTPS/TLS and is stored on AWS in the United States. See our Information Security Practices.
- No individual names exposed. Insights use only aggregate, de-identified summaries, never individual names or records.
- Your data is yours. You own it. We don't sell it or use it for advertising.
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