Planning a full year of workforce training is a lot easier when you don’t have to start with a blank page.
The 2027 OpenSesame Course Calendars are here to help you map out timely, relevant learning throughout the year. Each calendar pairs monthly themes with handpicked courses from the OpenSesame catalog, giving you ready-to-use ideas for keeping important skills and topics visible all year long.
This year’s lineup covers the training your business depends on, from safety, compliance, and cybersecurity to leadership, AI, workplace culture, wellness, certifications, and more. Whether you’re reinforcing critical requirements, building workforce capability, or looking for new ways to keep employees learning, there’s a calendar to help you plan ahead.
2027 Course Calendars
- Course of the Month
- AI
- Book of the Month
- Certifications
- Compliance
- Cybersecurity
- Leadership
- Global Safety
- U.S. Safety
- Sports
- Wellness
- Workplace Culture
Course of the Month
Not sure where to start? Start here.
The 2027 Course of the Month Calendar gives you a timely course to spotlight every month, with topics connected to moments throughout the year. From mentoring and career development to inclusion, resilience, and wellbeing, the lineup offers a simple way to keep learning relevant across your workforce.
AI
AI skills are quickly becoming workforce skills.
The 2027 AI Course Calendar goes beyond basic tool training to explore what employees and leaders need to work effectively and responsibly with AI. Monthly topics include agentic AI, governance, AI leadership, change readiness, prompting, practical applications for HR and marketing, risk, evaluating AI outputs, and AI fluency.
Use it to build practical AI capability while strengthening the human judgment needed to apply AI responsibly at work.
Book of the Month
Bring fresh ideas into the workday, one book at a time.
The 2027 Book of the Month Calendar turns ideas from popular business and personal development books into opportunities for ongoing learning. Monthly selections explore leadership, innovation, habits, change resilience, strategy, customer service, communication, growth, and wellbeing.
It’s an easy way to spark new thinking and conversations without asking employees to add another entire book to their reading list.
Certifications
Help employees build skills they can demonstrate as well as apply.
The 2027 Certifications Course Calendar highlights professional development and certification opportunities across project management, Six Sigma, AI, cybersecurity, AWS, HR, OSHA safety, IT service management, Adobe Photoshop, and more.
Use the calendar to connect employee development with recognized skills and credentials throughout the year.
Compliance
Compliance training shouldn’t disappear from view once the annual requirement is complete.
The 2027 Compliance Course Calendar keeps important workplace responsibilities top of mind with monthly topics covering data protection, cybersecurity, harassment and discrimination, workplace safety, password security, modern slavery, bias, hiring, workplace violence, civility, anti-corruption, and more.
Each month offers another opportunity to reinforce responsible behavior and help employees understand what to do when it matters.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity isn’t just an IT responsibility. Everyday employee decisions can help protect the business or expose it to unnecessary risk.
The 2027 Cybersecurity Course Calendar keeps important security behaviors visible throughout the year with monthly topics covering ransomware, deepfakes, insider threats, business email compromise, multi-factor authentication, cyber hygiene, shadow IT, supply chain security, passwords, and more.
Use it to build stronger security habits and help employees recognize risks before they become bigger problems.
Leadership
Strong leaders aren’t built in a single training session.
The 2027 Leadership Course Calendar creates a year-long rhythm of development around the skills managers and leaders use every day. Monthly themes include vision setting, decision-making, delegation, change leadership, feedback, conflict resolution, influence, resilience, inclusive leadership, mentorship, executive presence, and succession planning.
Use it to help leaders keep developing as the needs of their people and business change.
Global Safety
Safety requires consistent attention, especially when you’re supporting employees across different roles, locations, and working environments.
The 2027 Global Safety Course Calendar provides monthly learning around safety culture, carcinogens, water safety, ISO 45001, fire safety, forced labour, heat stress, young worker safety, first aid, emergency preparedness, fatigue, and more.
It’s a practical way to keep safety visible throughout the year and reinforce the knowledge employees need to recognize and respond to workplace risks.
U.S. Safety
When safety training matters, there are no second chances.
The 2027 U.S. Safety Course Calendar keeps practical workplace safety topics front and center throughout the year. Monthly selections cover bloodborne pathogens, burns and wounds, chemical safety, distracted driving, emergency response, safety culture, heat illness, ergonomics, slips and falls, winter driving, and more.
Use it to reinforce safer behaviors and keep employees prepared for the hazards they may encounter on the job.
Sports
Bring some game-day energy to professional development.
The 2027 Sports Course Calendar connects major moments across the NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, NWSL, NCAA, and PGA calendars with skills employees can use at work. Monthly courses explore teamwork, resilience, confidence, relationship building, leadership, mentorship, mental wellness, and more.
It’s a fun way to turn moments employees may already be talking about into opportunities to learn.
Wellness
Wellbeing looks different from month to month and person to person.
The 2027 Wellness Course Calendar takes a broad approach to supporting employees throughout the year, with monthly learning on financial wellness, heart health, sleep, stress relief, self-awareness, energy, nutrition, digital balance, mental health, ergonomics, gratitude, and self-compassion.
It’s an easy way to keep employee wellbeing visible while giving people practical ideas they can apply in their work and lives.
Workplace Culture
Culture is built through everyday behaviors, conversations, and decisions.
The 2027 Workplace Culture Course Calendar focuses on the skills that help people work better together through change. Topics include psychological safety, allyship, resilience, human-centered leadership, authenticity, autonomy, curiosity, connection, civility, appreciation, and renewal.
Use it to keep the behaviors that shape a healthy, productive workplace part of the conversation throughout the year.
Make 2027 easier to plan
You don’t need to reinvent your learning program every month to keep it relevant.
Start with the calendars that match your biggest priorities, or mix and match across them to build a learning plan that covers critical requirements, essential skills, and ongoing workforce development.
With the year mapped out ahead of time, you can spend less time wondering “What should we promote this month?” and more time making sure your people get training that works when it matters most.
Want help building a learning program that fits your workforce? OpenSesame can help you go beyond a calendar with curated recommendations, expert guidance, and training aligned to your organization’s priorities.
