Leading Coaching and Talent-Building Platform Team Up To Democratize Leadership Development at all Levels of Enterprise
Learn In, Sounding Board, Inc. provide the winning combination to upskill employees for business impact.
February 19, 2021 – Learn In, the world’s first upskilling-as-a-service platform that empowers companies to keep employee skills current among rapid technological change, is partnering with Sounding Board, Inc., the leading Coaching Enablement Platform and managed coach network that scales, manages and measures complex leadership development programs across the enterprise. Together, they provide the essential tools all companies require to gain competitive advantage in an increasingly competitive world.
Long-reserved for the C-Suite, coaching has seen explosive growth in the last decade, as HR and People officers reached critical mass in needing to upskill employees at all levels of a company just to meet basic business objectives. Coaching improves work performance, team effectiveness, communication skills, and time management skills. 86 percent of companies that expanded coaching programs stated that they pay for themselves with gains in productivity and employee satisfaction, resulting in measurable business impact.
“Sounding Board recognizes that leadership development shouldn’t be a perk reserved for the C-suite. A strong leadership bench throughout the organization creates a competitive advantage” said David Blake, CEO of Learn In.
Sounding Board is the only unified coaching platform and managed coach network that scales, manages and measures complex leadership development programs across the enterprise. Its AI-powered platform provides an agile learning environment, aggregated actionable data insights, and measurement in one place. Clients saw major improvements across key capabilities, including a 173% increase in the ability to successfully interact with others across all functions.
“Our clients see major improvements across key leadership capabilities in less than six months,” said Christine Tao, Co-founder and CEO of Sounding Board. “Partnering with Learn In will help us bring coaching out of the boardroom and into the (home) office to enable companies to unlock leadership that drives growth.”
Learn In works with enterprise businesses to build high-skill, on-the-job training programs into their benefits packages, integrating top online courses, coaching, and tuition assistance. Learn In also offers coaching to connect learners of all abilities and available time with relevant programs. The Learn In platform also measures outcomes and tracks the cost advantages of upskilling internally instead of hiring or training externally.
Together, Sounding Board and Learn In offer enterprises access to top upskilling programs and provide an end-to-end, cloud-based coaching platform that allows enterprises to seamlessly manage, scale, and measure coaching on one unified platform. In simple terms, Sounding Board connects its world-class leadership coaches to employees for upskilling and leadership development. As a result, the partnership will enable businesses to better meet the urgent need for workforce upskilling and leadership growth at scale.
About Springboard
Vemo Education transforms the way schools attract students and measure outcomes. Colleges, workforce development organizations, and employers Springboard is on a mission to transform one million lives through education by 2030. More than 20,000 students across 100+ countries have used Springboard to advance their careers. Springboard believes that each student is unique, and needs a learning experience designed to fit their life’s pace, supported by advisors and mentors. Graduates have landed jobs with employers like Microsoft, Facebook, and Boeing. Springboard has also trained corporate teams at Visa, Gusto, and The North Face. Springboard is a 2020 Inc. 5000 company based in San Francisco and is backed by leading venture capital firms including Telstra Ventures, Vulcan Capital, SJF Ventures, Reach Capital, Pearson Ventures, International Finance Corp., Costanoa Ventures, Learn Capital, and Blue Fog Capital.
About Learn In
Learn In offers the world’s first upskilling-as-a-service platform that helps companies remove every barrier that stands between them and the future of work. Co-founded by founders of popular learning platform Degreed, the company is backed by leading edtech & future-of-work V.C.s, including GSV, Album, Firework Ventures, and Village Global. We are on a mission to transform the modern workforce, and our launch was covered in CNBC, USA Today, EdTechReview, EdSurge, Deseret News, and Techcrunch, among others.
