Xcelus, LLC Wins Gold Stevie® Award in 12th Annual American Business Awards for Best Training VideoABA14_Gold_V2

PROVO, UT, June 16, 2014  Xcelus, LLC won the Gold Stevie award for “Best Training Video” Friday evening in The 2014 American Business Awards for its online compliance training video Xcelus developed for Life Technologies.

The American Business Awards are the nation’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small.

Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word for “crowned,” the trophies were presented to winners during a gala banquet on Friday, June 13 at the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park Hotel. More than 400 nominees and their guests attended. The presentations will be broadcast by the BizTalk Radio Network this week on Tuesday and Friday nights.

Stevie Award winners were selected by more than 240 executives worldwide who participated in the judging process this year.

“It is an honor for our company to have been recognized at the American Business Awards,” said Todd R. Corbett, President and Founder of Xcelus, LLC. “Since compliance training is mandatory for employees, why shouldn’t it be award winning training? This award reaffirms our dedication to that mission to create online compliance training that employees would actually like to take.”

The award winning training video focused on Code of Conduct training for employees. Xcelus’ services for this project included instructional design, script development, storyboard development, video motion graphics, video shooting and editing, video compression, online video hosting, and employee tracking and reporting.

Xcelus has earned numerous awards for their customized online  training videos, including multiple silver and bronze Telly Awards, which recognize “the finest video and film productions, and work created for the Web” and five Horizon Interactive Awards for excellence in interactive media production. The company has produced video for notable clients including Hitachi, Life Technologies, HID Global, and BiogenIdec.

More than 3,300 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories, including Most Innovative Company of the Year, Management Team of the Year, Best New Product or Service of the Year, Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year, and Executive of the Year, among others.

More than 200 executives across the country participated in the judging process to determine the Finalists and Stevie Award winners. To view the full list of Stevie Award winners, please visit: www.stevieawards.com/aba.

About Xcelus
Xcelus, an award-winning leader in corporate learning solutions, develops innovative and unique online training for sales, marketing, compliance, and employee communications. Offerings include Mobile Learning Solutions, Learning Technology Solutions (XPortal), Content Development Solutions, and Compliance Solutions. Xcelus’ training development capabilities include video production, animation, e-learning, mobile courses and apps for iPad and Android devices. Xcelus is a private company founded in 2005 and is based in Provo, Utah. The Xcelus staff includes proven leaders in instructional design, script writing, mobile learning, design, animation, and video production. For more information, please visit www.xcelus.com.

About The Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in five programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. A sixth program, the German Stevie Awards, will debut later this year. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.

Details about The American Business Awards and the lists of honorees in all categories are available at www.stevieawards.com/aba