The Institute for International Research
IIR SA is the leading provider of strategic conferences, training courses, customised training solutions and exhibitions which are highly focused on issues facing industry on a day-to-day basis
IIR believes passionately in the power of knowledge and skills to act as a lasting catalyst to organisational achievement. Established in 1973, IIR is now the world's largest Human Capital Company with a global network of 45 businesses and 116 operating units. Every year, IIR works with hundreds of thousands of business executives providing them with knowledge and skills through training, conferences, seminars, e-Learning, blended solutions, exhibitions, consulting and mentoring.
Geographically, IIR has the broadest and deepest global reach with companies in 22 countries and doing business in 70. Organisationally, IIR businesses work with CEOs through to front-line staff. By media, IIR continues to pioneer new formats from Large Scale Events to Blended Solutions.
Our family of companies has grown rapidly, again both organically and through the acquisition of Council on Education in Management in 1995, ESI International in 1997, Omega Performance Corporation in 1999 and Huthwaite and AchieveGlobal in 2000, Communispond in 2002, Forum in 2003 and Adam Smith and Robbins-Gioia in 2004. These businesses are now using IIR’s international infrastructure to develop markets throughout the world.
