Landmark Education Company Overview
Landmark Education is a global educational enterprise committed to the fundamental principle that people have the possibility of success, fulfillment, and greatness.
It offers The Landmark Forum, seminars, and courses that are innovative, effective, and immediately relevant. The ideas, insights, and distinctions on which Landmark Education's technology is based and the results it has produced make Landmark a leader and innovator in the field of training and development.
The work of Landmark Education is the product of extensive research and development in individual and organizational effectiveness and communication. Landmark uses its leading-edge educational methodology to enable people to produce extraordinary results and enhance the quality of their lives.
Time magazine noted that Landmark Education is quickly "becoming a global brand name." Headquartered in San Francisco, Landmark now offers programs in more than 120 cities via 55 major offices worldwide. In addition, Vanto Group, a wholly owned subsidiary, offers corporate consulting internationally. Hundreds of thousands of people on five continents have participated in The Landmark Forum, Landmark seminars, and Landmark courses.
Landmark Education is a for-profit company 100% owned by approximately 450 employees through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and similar international plans. The organization's executive team reports to a Board of Directors that is elected annually by the ESOP. All executives are paid in the 25-50 percentile of the compensation range for executives in companies of comparable size.
In 2008, Landmark Education’s revenues were approximately $89 million. Landmark’s four primary expense areas are real estate, travel, telecommunications, and personnel. Since Landmark Education was formed in 1991, no dividends have been paid to its stock holders. In those years where the company generated surpluses, the surpluses were invested into making Landmark Educations programs, initiatives, and services more widely available, including providing scholarships for the Landmark Forum to all police, firefighters, and clergy in most countries around the world.
Landmark Education and its subsidiaries hold memberships in the following professional associations and organizations:
• American Society for Training and Development,
• International Society for Performance Improvement,
• American Management Association, and
• Academy of Management.
With over 800 professionally trained course leaders, Landmark is strongly motivated to provide the best educational experience for the more than 200,000 people worldwide that participate in its courses each year.