Special Message from our founder - Eyal Shahar

Dear OTA Family,

During this holiday season, we reflect on 2022 as well as look with anticipation to a brand-new year ahead of us.

This year we celebrated our 25th year in business. I have a business mantra I often remind my team, which is that the only constant in business is change. Change has certainly been constant in our 25 years in business. And no year proves this point better than 2022. We all have faced challenges during this past year ranging from the changing economic conditions with a double-digit percentage point downtrend in the broad markets to navigating a post-pandemic new normal. We have faced these challenges with courage and confidence, knowing that challenges create new opportunity.

During 2022, we completely re-engineered our Options program curriculum to provide more impactful, hands-on applications of the strategies learned in the class. In addition, we expanded, our education offerings to include a new product line, Focus Courses, providing a short-form, 1-day course with follow-up application sessions “focusing” on a specific strategy or topic.  Many of our students have enrolled in one or more of the six courses now available in the Focus Course Library.

In last year’s holiday greeting, we introduced the development of a new technology that we were building called Stratos, which is an “Integrated Learning Engine” that works with CliK. In 2022, this award-winning technology earned the prestigious Brandon Hall Gold Award for Excellence in Emerging Learning Technologies and was implemented throughout our live class sessions both in center and online. The technology allows students and instructors to share chart layouts, stream desktops, highlight tools, and play games, all to enhance the learning experience!

It's amazing to think that another year has come and gone, and how quickly our most precious commodity, time, passes us by. Our team is excited about the coming year as we continue our mission to deliver innovative new products and services for our students.

I am very thankful to have an incredible team who is passionate about helping you.  But, most of all, I am thankful for each of you.  Our students give us purpose.

I wish you and your family happy holidays and wonderful new year!

Warm wishes,

Eyal