Hill Associates is a premier provider of Education and Marketing Services. For over 25 years, we have demystified the complex world of telephony, network, security, and data communications for the most recognized players in the industry. Today we offer a variety of programs: leader-led courses, hands-on workshops, self-directed e-learning, and virtual classroom e-learning—all focused on enabling success in this rapidly evolving industry. Our Marketing Services bring objective industry and subject matter expertise to sales events, customer meetings, white papers, and Webinars.

At Hill Associates, our collaborative approach addresses each client’s unique needs and challenges. Whether it’s strategic executive briefings, programs for field teams, network engineers, or corporate IT, or marketing initiatives designed to bring knowledge to prospects, Hill Associates delivers your solution.

Classroom Learning (private groups only)

Technology Courses: Recognized worldwide for leader-led programs, Hill Associates offers leader-led programs in over 30 subject areas. From one-day courses to multi-week curricula, nobody does it better.

Hands-On Workshops: The Hill Associates Workshop Series features state-of-the-art equipment and modest class sizes for an enhanced learning experience. We bring the workshop to you.

Strategic Seminars: These seminars provide today’s industry leaders with targeted strategic information, enabling them to make sound decisions that will positively impact their company and the industry.

Comprehensive Product and Services Positioning: We partner with you to create customized programs that enable your sales and sales support force to understand your products and services, close that sale, and increase revenues.

E-Learning (private and public sessions)

Live E-Learn Events: A virtual classroom experience where participants attend 2-hour seminars using VoIP technology, whiteboards, graphical presentation, breakout rooms, and more. Over 40 titles are currently available.

Computer-Based Training

ExperTech 2.0: Stand-alone learning modules accessible over the Web or via CD-ROMs. The courses include audio, interactive elements, review slides, and final exams. The courses range from two to four hours long, and the participant can expect to spend about twice this amount of time to complete the course. Our library includes topics such as Telephony Fundamentals and Data Communications Fundamentals, TCP/IP, Ethernet, Metro Ethernet, IP Telephony, Storage, Security, and IMS, but specific topics can be developed.

Professional Services

Marketing Services: Let Hill Associates design and deliver custom programs to enable you to uncover new possibilities, shorten the sales cycle for your products and services, and increase your revenue targets.

Needs Assessment: We help you evaluate your knowledge needs through competency modeling and gap analysis, using surveys and interviews.

Blended Curriculum Development: We are pioneers of the blended program, combining classroom and e-learning solutions to meet general or specific training needs for large or small populations.

Custom Content Development: With a large library of core material to draw from, we can rapidly assemble a custom course or curriculum and team with you to augment it with your specific product and services information.

The Hill Associates Difference

Why Hill Associates? Because Hill Associates understands the players in the telecommunications industry. We have more than 25 years partnering with the leaders in the business. Our industry insight and quality programs provide future-minded companies with the know-how to stay ahead in the highly competitive telecommunications environment. That is our promise to our partners, and that is how, each day, we create new leaders in telecommunications.

Whether you are a telecommunications provider or a provider of technology solutions, we understand that a knowledgeable team with a solid foundation in technologies and their company’s products will perform better, differentiate themselves, and be more successful against competition.

Or perhaps you are a user of the technology. Hill Associates understands the players working with you and is therefore able to suggest solutions that best address your business challenges. Our value is that we can help you navigate the complexity of choices to provide an unbiased, vendor-neutral business solution—one that also addresses rapidly changing technology. We enable you to maximize limited funds so that you can effectively use your chosen technology.

Our Philosophy

Hill Associates can help you succeed using our C3E framework.  We develop customized programs around technology, applications, and products that are contextual, connected, continuous, and experiential (C3E). 

Contextual ensures that the technology and products address key business concepts that concern you or your customers. Connected relates all of the things happening with telecommunications to the world at large, not just one particular technology or product. Continuous means that learning is ongoing, not just a one-time event. Finally, experiential means that your team members must participate in order to learn. 

Our C3E concept is designed to be a consistent, holistic structure that enables the maximum performance from your organization. This unique concept has led our partners to achieve the goals they seek related to their business objectives in today’s competitive market.

Our Commitment to Our Partners

• To Transfer Knowledge: For 25 years, Hill Associates has ensured that its partners—whether large or small, from marketing or sales, technical or not, senior executives or users—are kept current on the latest trends in telecommunications strategies and technologies.
• To Help Partners Leverage Their Knowledge: We want our partners to benefit from the information presented, to obtain maximum results, and to help leverage the knowledge gained to provide clarity to present and future circumstances.
• To Provide Expert Advice: We guarantee to provide expert advice that will achieve maximum results, and stand behind the quality of every training course.
• To Meet Individual Needs: Our staff of industry experts create customized program content based on your needs and goals using best practices and proven methodologies.
• To Deliver High-Impact Programs: As a result of all the above, we are able to provide and deliver unmatched program experiences that will have an impact on your organization.

Reasons for Hill Associates’ Success

• We are strategic collaborative partners of leading organizations, working with Sales, Marketing, Training, and Talent Development groups as though we were on staff.
• We continually study the industry to uncover the trends, the hot topics, and new regulations that directly impact your company’s business and telecommunications strategies.
• We develop new programs that address the ever-changing demands of the industry.
• We help organizations achieve management objectives that directly impact the bottom line.

Let Hill Associates Be a Part of Your Success

When it comes to growing your business today, nothing can be taken for granted. Your best competitive assets are a knowledgeable and skilled team. 

Our partners choose us for our unmatched combination of currency and depth of material, course design, technical expertise, and the dynamic and engaging learning environment our instructors present regardless of the delivery mode.

Whether a solutions provider or user of those solutions, you need an organization that can provide trusted, reliable advice. Let Hill Associates help you navigate the road to success.