ESI Instructors

ESI Thought Leaders Bring You Best-In-Class Course Content and Delivery


To our students, instructors "are" ESI, so we make a significant investment in recruiting and developing the most qualified professional instructors to represent ESI around the world.

  • ESI has more than 600 instructors based globally.
  • We use locally or regionally based instructors to reflect local customs, language and knowledge.
  • Our instructors are industry experts with an average of over 20 years of direct, hands-on experience in their fields.
  • Based upon 490,000 ratings since 1997, ESI’s average instructor rating is 9.3 out of 10.
  • Only 3% of applying candidates are selected to become ESI instructors

Read our featured instructor interviews below, and see why our students give ESI instructors top marks for their real-world guidance.

Carl Seargent, ESI Project Management Instructor since 2007

Trina Hope, ESI Project Management Instructor since 1995

Dr. Prasad Kodukula, ESI Project Management Instructor since 1998

James Nagle, ESI Contract Management Instructor since 1998

Carl Pritchard, ESI Project Management Instructor since 1996

Roy Rogers, ESI e-Training Instructor since 2001

Dr. Barry Smith, ESI Project Management Instructor since 1988

Peggy Wallis, ESI Project Management Instructor since 1996

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