success story
How Kia Motors America scales learning with PlusPlus
300+
Events and learning programs delivered per year by a single-person L&D team
100+
Events offered within the first six months of deployment
5,000+
Employees supported across the organization
Kia Motors America, the North American sales subsidiary for Kia, serves a workforce of over 5,000 employees with a lean learning and development function. With a single person managing all programs, Kia needed a way to scale events, knowledge sharing, and cross-organizational learning without adding headcount. The company partnered with PlusPlus to centralize event management, automate administrative tasks, and unlock participation across its global workforce.
What were the key challenges?
Kia had a rich portfolio of learning opportunities — including live events, lectures, onboarding programs, mentoring offerings, and inclusion initiatives — but lacked a centralized system to organize, promote, and measure engagement. Learning events were scattered across email threads, spreadsheets, and calendars, making discoverability difficult and administrative tasks overwhelming for a one-person team. Without a unified platform, participation was limited and organizational learning culture struggled to gain traction.
What approach worked?
Kia implemented PlusPlus as a single source of truth for all learning programs and employee events. By relying on PlusPlus’s Events Management and automation features — including calendar invites, enrollment tracking, waitlists, attendance checks, and post-event surveys — the team dramatically reduced administrative overhead and unlocked scale. Kia also encouraged employees to create and host their own formal and informal learning sessions, including peer-driven office hours and topic-based discussions. The platform’s discoverability and unified scheduling helped the executive team promote learning opportunities company-wide and contributed to a stronger culture of collaborative learning.
Now that we have been using the PlusPlus platform, we did 30 events in Q2, and already over 70 in Q3. Being able to say we have done over 100 events within 6 months is a really big win for us.
Kia L&D Lead
Scaling event management
Centralized event catalog
PlusPlus provided a single platform where all events and learning programs — from onboarding to mentorship to peer learning — live in one place for employees to discover.
Automated event workflows
Calendar invites, waitlist management, attendance tracking, and surveys were automated, reducing the administrative burden on the L&D team.
Improved event visibility
With unified scheduling and promotion across the platform, employees were more aware of opportunities and able to engage with learning consistently.
Empowering internal contributors
Peer-driven office hours
Kia enabled employees to host informal and formal learning sessions, encouraging knowledge sharing across departments.
Training for internal trainers
The L&D team provided guidance on peer learning best practices so employees could confidently lead workshops and events.
Broad learning programs
From onboarding to diversity and inclusion initiatives, Kia centralized a variety of learning formats on PlusPlus to meet diverse employee needs.
What were the results?
A scalable learning engine for every employee
“One person can now deliver hundreds of events per year thanks to PlusPlus.”
Kia L&D Lead
Expanded event offerings
Kia delivered 100+ events within the first six months and over 300 events annually, all managed by a single L&D professional.
Reduced administrative effort
Automation features significantly reduced manual tasks, freeing the L&D lead to focus on strategy and quality.
Stronger learning culture
Centralized discovery and employee-led sessions increased awareness and participation across diverse learning programs.
Platform efficiency and scale
Unified workflows
All event planning, promotion, and measurement is centralized in one system.
Automation advantage
Built-in automation cut administrative time significantly.
High throughput
Hundreds of events can be coordinated by one person thanks to platform efficiencies.
Building a collaborative learning organization
Peer contribution
Employees hosted their own learning sessions, growing internal expertise sharing.
Broad program support
Programs spanned onboarding, inclusion, mentorship, and more — all discoverable in one place.
Culture of shared knowledge
Increased visibility and participation reinforced a culture of collaborative learning.
Empowering learning at scale with minimal resources
Kia’s partnership with PlusPlus shows how a lean L&D team can unlock large-scale learning outcomes by centralizing discovery, automating workflows, and empowering employees to share expertise. PlusPlus enabled Kia to increase both the quantity and quality of events, driving a collaborative learning culture across a workforce of thousands — all without adding staff.