Trade Compliance Training, Empowering Teams and Reducing Risk
Meet the Trade Compliance Academy, formerly Content Enablers - now part of Skill Dynamics. Built for real-world application and designed by expert-practitioners, our role-based eLearning is designed to equip trade compliance professionals with the knowledge and confidence to navigate complex export controls, sanctions, and regulations. Whatever your sector, we’re here to help you turn compliance from a risk into a strategic advantage.
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Trade Compliance Training Aligned with Key Competencies
The Trade Compliance Academy is built around five key competencies and courses range in scope and depth, from general awareness to expert-practitioner. Tailored by role, geography and industry, learning plans offer a comprehensive and personalized program to reduce risk and support operations.
Import
Get to grips with forecasting methods, managing uncertainty, and integrating demand signals into sales and operations planning.
Export
Master U.S. and global export controls, including EAR, ITAR, OFAC, and country-specific regulations, to ensure compliant, confident trade across borders.
Anti Corruption
This module builds confidence in handling contracts, navigating compliance, and understanding the regulations that shape procurement and operations.
Security
This module builds confidence in handling contracts, navigating compliance, and understanding the regulations that shape procurement and operations.
Sanctions and Embargoes
Demystify the numbers behind supply chain performance. This module gives learners the financial fluency to drive better decisions.
On Demand Courses
Search our on-demand courses to quickly find training on a range of trade compliance topics. We specialize in focused, in-depth learning plans through our academies.
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Learn MoreHow Our Trade Compliance Training Works
Our trade compliance training is designed for general awareness, functional involvement and practitioner level skillsets. We work with customers to ensure courses align with industry and geographic requirements, providing independent, third-party credibility for trade compliance training across an organization.
Set-up
Configured to requirements. Systems are configured based on geography and industry to ensure the relevant regulations are covered. Content can also be personalized to include company specific policies and information.
Review
Built around role levels, learning plans are developed following a review of job roles and their level of involvement in trade compliance.
Learn
Designed for high impact and busy schedules. Created by experts, our practical, real-time trade compliance content is delivered in engaging and memorable formats, designed for busy professionals.
Insight
Driven by data and transparency. Managers can track progress, spot gaps and demonstrate impact with deep analytics, intuitive dashboards and real-time results.
Certify
Internationally recognized certification. Learners receive certifications based on their level of course completion and recognized by leading industry bodies.
From Theory to Practice
Our eLearning turns regulatory complexity into practical know-how. Trade compliance professionals don’t just learn the rules - they apply them through realistic tasks, decision-making frameworks, and guided exercises that build lasting confidence and job-ready capability.
Practical Application
Learners apply global controls through realistic tasks like identifying license exceptions or drafting justifications. Training is built around real workflows and always reflects the latest BIS, DDTC, OFAC, EU, and other global regulatory guidance.
Guided Processes
Courses walk learners through essential decision-making sequences - like the Order of Review - helping them determine jurisdiction, classify items, and assess license requirements accurately. These guided processes combine step-by-step instruction with real-world examples to ensure confident, compliant execution.
Compliance Frameworks
Courses provide practical decision-making frameworks that help learners navigate complex trade-offs - like balancing risk, loss, and cost allocation in buyer-seller communications. From classification workflows to screening protocols, each tool is grounded in current U.S. regulations to support sound, consistent compliance decisions on the job.
Retention Tests
Key concepts are reinforced through interactive scenarios that require learners to apply their knowledge in context. From classifying items under the USML or CCL to identifying red flags in export transactions, learners build real-world readiness, not just theoretical understanding.
What Happens When Teams Get the Tools They Need
Grow Talent Faster
Tailor learner journeys to each individual’s job role and knowledge level, following a comprehensive and continual skill-based assessment.
Increase Operational Efficiency
Realize significant efficiency gains across supply chain operations, driving cost optimization and reducing carbon output.
Promote Best Practice
Embed a deep understanding of best practice throughout the corporation, ensuring all team members know and can adapt to standard ways of working.
Reduce Business Risk
Improve team compliance, ensuring staff are up to date with global trade and regulatory standards, avoiding costly fines, delays and reputational damage.
Retain and Motivate Teams
Help learners feel great about their role & their future, helping staff retention and accelerating careers.
Meet Global Standards
Gain internationally recognized certifications, with multilingual support, to meet global standards.
Quantify Training Impact
Make smarter decisions with data that tracks knowledge application, identifies gaps, and demonstrates business impact.
Enable Business Transformation
Take the team on your transformation journey, whether it’s a centralized restructure, digitalization or sustainability improvements.
Trade Compliance Training Certifications
Content Enablers offers trade-practitioner-level certification courses in the areas of export compliance, customs compliance, and U.S. sanctions that pair detailed and current core content with ongoing continuous learning webinars to keep learners on the leading edge of the regulatory environment. Courses are certified by the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and the Institute of Export and International Trade in the UK, both highly respected academic institutions in the international trade arena.
Practical Content, Developed By Trade Compliance Experts
Every piece of content is developed by seasoned professionals who have extensive, hands-on experience in senior trade compliance roles. Our network of subject matter experts, ensure that all trade compliance training is comprehensive, current and effective.
Darrell Spires, Trade Compliance Academy Subject Matter Expert
Jayachand Pachakkil, Trade Compliance Academy Subject Matter Expert
Philip Sutter, Trade Compliance Academy Subject Matter Expert
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Frequently Asked Questions
Very directly. The Trade Compliance Academy’s training reflects the realities of your job function, industry, and trade compliance responsibilities. Whether you work in engineering, marketing, HR, IT, or executive management, our courses are tailored to the trade compliance challenges most relevant to your role. We offer tiered learning paths - introductory, intermediate, and advanced - so you can build on your knowledge at the right level. And our courses include real-world scenarios, case studies, and practical examples based on common industry transactions to help you immediately apply what you’ve learned to your day-to-day responsibilities.
Yes. The Trade Compliance Academy’s content is continually monitored and updated in real time by our global team of subject matter experts, so our training reflects the latest changes in global trade compliance laws, regulations, and enforcement priorities.
Yes. Most Trade Compliance Academy courses come with Certified Export Specialist (CES), Certified Customs Specialist (CCS), or Licensed Customs Broker (LCB) continuing education credits from the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America as well as certificates of completion from the George Maston University’s Schar School of Policy and Government and the UK’s Institute of Export & International Trade (IOE&IT). These credentials can enhance your professional profile, demonstrate your commitment to compliance excellence, and support advancement in your trade compliance career.
To be truly effective, and complete, trade compliance training should include training on what the laws and regulations are and how to apply them. The Trade Compliance Academy’s proprietary curating and content development tools allow organizations to assign just the right content to each learner based on their job functions, compliance responsibilities, locations, products, etc., and then embed their organization’s compliance guidance, policies, procedures, and work instructions directly into the training. With the Trade Compliance Academy, learners understand the regulatory requirements as well as their organization’s policies and procedures, and how to apply both within their organization’s unique operational context. Our team of expert content developers, instructional designers, and production specialists will partner with you to create high-impact, customized training that reflects both the letter of the law and the realities of your business.
We offer flexible deployment options to meet the needs of any organization, whether or not you have a Learning Management System (LMS) in place:
- SCORM Packages for Internal LMS Integration – Our training courses are available as SCORM-compliant packages that can be easily integrated into your organization's existing LMS. This allows you to assign courses, send automated training notifications to employees, and track progress and completion using your internal reporting tools.
- Trade Compliance Academy Learning Management System (LMS) – If your organization does not have an internal LMS, you can use our cloud-based LMS. We manage the setup, enroll learners in the appropriate training, send personalized login instructions via email, and provide real-time progress reports and completion analytics to help you stay compliant and informed.
- Offline Access via Direct Download Links – For learners who cannot access either your company’s LMS or our LMS, we offer direct course download links. These allow users to complete training modules offline, ensuring accessibility even without an internet connection.
At the Trade Compliance Academy, we provide comprehensive support before, during, and after the deployment of your training program to ensure a smooth implementation and ongoing success. Every client is assigned a dedicated Learning Success Partner who serves as your primary point of contact. Your Learning Success Partner will assist with setup, onboarding, and troubleshooting, and is committed to responding to all inquiries within 24 hours. In addition, our expert support team is always available to help with technical issues, user access problems, or general questions.