Professional & Business Services

Austin, Texas – September 21, 2026 -- 360training.com, Inc. has acquired select assets from Atlantic Training, adding 305 workplace safety, OSHA, HR compliance and soft-skills courses to its commercial training portfolio.

Deal adds two decades of workforce compliance expertise

Atlantic Training, founded in 2005, has served more than 10,000 clients and delivered over 5 million courses to organizations ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. The acquired assets include the company's course catalog across dozens of industries and its WAVE EHS management software.

San Francisco – September 21, 2026 -- Whipsaw, the design and innovation firm behind Tonal, Owala, and Brita, has launched a new 10-week cohort of The Workshop, its accelerator for early-stage hardware founders, with a Demo Day set for December 2026.

New cohort targets health, wellness, and home hardware startups

The program, which kicked off earlier this month, brings together early-stage founders building products across health, wellness, and home categories. Unlike traditional accelerators built on lectures and pitch competitions, The Workshop pairs founders directly with Whipsaw's multidisciplinary team of industrial designers, experience designers, engineers, strategists, and brand experts.

Brooklyn, N.Y. – September 21, 2026 -- C&C Branding has launched Titan SoundSM, a newly service-marked offering that merges leadership development with brand strategy for executives and rising leaders.

Titan Sound targets two distinct executive moments

The service is built for leaders pursuing new roles, helping them identify industries and situations where they are best suited while shaping a voice that boards, teams, peers, and customers can trust. It also serves leaders navigating organizational transitions, forming the narrative and strategy needed to drive change internally and externally.

Beijing – September 20, 2026 -- Nearly 390 representatives from 41 countries and regions gathered in Beijing on September 18 for the China Arbitration Summit 2026, an event that drew over 5.14 million online views from 55 countries and regions.

Four institutions co-host flagship dispute-resolution forum

The China High-level Dialogue on Maritime and Commercial Arbitration was jointly organized by the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), the China Maritime Arbitration Commission (CMAC), the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), and the All China Lawyers Association (ACLA). The summit served as the flagship event of the 14th China Arbitration Week, which ran 77 seminars across 40 cities in 10 countries and regions from September 15 to 21.

Shanghai – – September 20, 2026 -- Kmind Consulting became the first Chinese strategy consulting firm to host an executive program in Silicon Valley, bringing more than 100 technology and consumer-sector executives to the Computer History Museum on September 18.

Kmind chairman Noah Xie leads first Chinese strategy session in Silicon Valley

Noah Xie, Chairman and CEO of Kmind Consulting, led the Executive Strategy Program, presenting the firm's Next Generation Strategy framework to an audience of technology and consumer business leaders. The framework blends Eastern wisdom with Western theory and has been applied by Kmind across more than 100 companies to date.

Hollywood, Fla. – September 20, 2026 -- Fast Guard Service has expanded its emergency fire watch response program, targeting arrival at many assignments within four hours of deployment for businesses and property managers facing impaired fire protection systems.

Fast Guard Service targets four-hour emergency deployment for impaired fire systems

The nationwide security and fire watch provider now offers 24/7 emergency fire watch coverage across the United States, including last-minute deployments for properties with sprinkler or fire alarm impairments, active construction, or system maintenance requiring dedicated monitoring.

Personnel maintain patrols, logs and site-specific post orders

Fire watch personnel conduct scheduled patrols of designated areas, monitor for fire or hazardous conditions, maintain required fire watch logs and follow site-specific post orders throughout each assignment.

McLean, Va. – September 20, 2026 -- Attain Partners has been named to Consulting Magazine's 2026 Best Firms to Work For list, marking the second consecutive year the McLean, Va.-based management and technology consulting firm has earned the national honor.

Attain Partners ranks among 10 firms in the Best Midsized Firms category

The firm is one of ten organizations recognized in the 2026 Best Midsized Firms to Work For category. The annual program evaluates consulting firms across six areas: culture, career development, work/life balance, client engagement, compensation and benefits, and firm leadership, based on confidential surveys of each firm's consultants.

Durham, N.C. – September 20, 2026 -- Accredit Solutions has launched Accredit Induct, a workforce readiness product that blocks credential issuance and site access until mandatory training and compliance requirements are verified as complete.

Platform links identity, training completion and access permissions into a single workflow

Built on the Accredit Platform and aligned with the Accredit OS operating model, Accredit Induct assigns role-based requirements, delivers digital induction content and tracks completion in real time. Unlike a standalone Learning Management System, the tool ties induction status directly to an individual's identity and credential record, making completion a condition of credential approval rather than a separate administrative record.

Arlington, Va. – September 19, 2026 -- The International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) has released ANSI/ISEA Z308.1-2026, the sixth revision of the American National Standard for workplace first aid kits, now recommending naloxone as a standard supply amid rising opioid-related deaths on the job.

Overdose deaths now account for nearly 10% of workplace fatalities

Fatal overdoses represent close to 10 percent of workplace deaths, yet only 28 percent of employers report being fully stocked with naloxone at worksites, according to a National Safety Council survey cited by ISEA. CDC data show more than 80,000 drug overdose deaths in 2024, with opioids involved in the majority of cases.

Chicago – September 19, 2026 -- Relativity has integrated its Relativity aiR legal AI platform with OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing legal teams to manage case operations through natural language commands.

Legal teams can now stand up matters directly from ChatGPT Enterprise

The integration lets users create new matters, align workspaces to existing data structures, and manage access and workflows in Relativity aiR without leaving ChatGPT Enterprise. Relativity says the connection preserves the security and permissions of existing legal workflows while keeping substantive data analysis inside its own platform.