Founded in 1996 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Ninth House, Inc. provides a unique blended learning solution, integrating content from leading business experts with self-paced online courses and practical simulations to more effectively develop leaders at all levels of an organization. With instructors that include industry luminaries like Ken Blanchard, Tom Peters and Peter Senge, the Ninth House curriculum addresses the most relevant issues an organization faces-from leadership and innovation, to building community in the workplace, to managing change.
The Ninth House® Blended Approach combines the community and interaction of the classroom with the reach and affordability of online learning to deliver the teachings of the world's foremost business thinkers across the organization. This innovative, blended approach to corporate learning has resulted in 75-95% course completion rates at industry-leading organizations and is specifically designed to accelerate and support training initiatives across the entire organization. With Ninth House, organizations are more agile, innovative and achieve greater business results. To start using Ninth House services, only a Web browser and an internet connection are necessary.
The Ninth House Name
From its inception, Ninth House sought to create a whole new approach to learning built on the power of storytelling. Our founders discovered that the oldest known storytellers (Ancient Sumerians, “The Epic of Gilgamesh”) believed that we move through 12 stages or “houses” in our life journey, learning something special at each stop along the way. The Ninth House was dedicated to personal growth and long-distance travel. The modern Zodiac refers to it as "The House of Philosophy" and the search for truth. So today when learners experience the Ninth House, they’re entering a special place, focused on their own development, where the name itself tells a story.
As a profitable, privately held corporation, Ninth House has trained hundreds of thousands of learners and is depended on by leading global enterprises such as The United States Navy, U.S. Department of Justice, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, Amazon, Sony, Wachovia, American Express, and Pfizer among others.