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.

• Kathleen Dawn, ESI Contract Management Instructor since 1986

• 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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