Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology
Enterprise Learning covers all aspects of employee development, training, leadership development, and the operations, governance, technologies, and tools of corporate training. This is a $240 billion industry filled with complex and powerful solutions to help people learn and progress at work.
I am getting tired of reading stories about AI eliminating jobs. While AI does eliminate tasks and many routine activities, the real story is quite the opposite: AI makes jobs more interesting, more valuable, and ultimately more rewarding (financially and otherwise).
I don’t say this because I’m an HR and HR technology analyst, but because ... Read more»
This week Workday announced a bold and ambitious AI strategy around its new technology platform Sana. We have been partners and users of Sana for three years, so much of this discussion is also based on our own experience building our HR Superagent Galileo, which runs on Sana.
Who Is Sana?
First, it’s important ... Read more»
We recently published our new Definitive Guide to Corporate Learning and defined a new role for L&D: Dynamic Enablement. In this role the training teams move beyond education and credentialization and use the expertise in their libraries (and from experts) to deliver “dynamic enablement” to employees in the flow of work.
I used to call ... Read more»
Ok let me get you excited about our fifth-annual HR leadership conference, Irresistible 2026 at USC in Los Angeles. Here are the top 10 reasons to come and bring your team!
Following our launch of The Definitive Guide to Corporate Learning, where we detail the enormous shift from formal training to AI-powered content and enablement, the vendor market is moving fast. In this article I want to highlight the major vendors so HR leaders and CLOs can get a sense of what’s going on.
The ... Read more»
It’s a tumultuous time to be a leader. From the acceleration of AI to the change in global politics, I think it’s worth asking: *What has changed about leadership?*
Over the years, I’ve read hundreds of books on leadership and it feels like trendy topic. From the foundational teachings of Peter Drucker to the command ... Read more»
Everywhere I go people talk about reskilling, upskilling, and accelerating the adoption of AI. This week I met with more than 200 CHRO’s in India and Singapore and the #1 topic was AI readiness: how can we accelerate AI fluency and capability in all areas of the company?
Well we’ve been studying corporate training for ... Read more»
The global market for professional development (training, certification, and upskilling) is over $400 billion, and almost a third of this is focused on topics and technologies that aren’t company specific. During the last three decades, much of this demand has been fulfilled by training providers: online course libraries, video libraries, simulations, expert assessments, and many ... Read more»
Today, only a few weeks after acquiring Paradox and Flowise, Workday announced the acquisition of another AI company: Sana Labs (for $1.1 billion).
Sana, the company that we partner with for Galileo and Galileo Learn, is a pioneering AI-native platform designed for learning, knowledge management, and agentic applications. The Sana Agent and ... Read more»
Introducing Galileo® for Managers, the leadership guru at the fingertips of every manager.
It’s hard to be a manager: hiring people, setting goals, creating alignment, and coaching can be difficult. And expectations for leaders are high: companies are trimming mid-level leaders every day.
What if you had an AI agent trained on every possible ... Read more»
If you think software programming is a techie niche for hoodie-clad coders pounding on keyboards, think again. Welcome to a new era, one where every business leader, HR professional, and even frontline manager is, in effect, a software engineer.
That may sound strange, but stay with me. Because this shift is about empowerment, AI, and ... Read more»
This week we launched a bold new course “Reinventing L&D: Join The Revolution,” a comprehensive program filled with information and case studies on the reinvention of corporate learning. Not only is this course essential to training and HR professionals, it’s also a mandate for people with roles in sales enablement, manufacturing training, and ... Read more»
As many of you know, we believe we’re beginning a massive AI revolution in corporate learning. This revolution will dramatically change what L&D does, how L&D operates, and how the content and coaching market evolves. In this article I’ll update you on the major vendors and give you a roadmap for evolution.
Paradigm Shift: ... Read more»
Today we are excited to launch Galileo Learn™, a revolutionary new platform for corporate learning and professional development.
Originally designed as a major upgrade to The Josh Bersin Academy, Galileo Learn™ is a paradigm-shattering system which leverages AI, the Galileo Agent, and more than 700 new courses and professional development experiences derived from ... Read more»
I adore the human resources profession. These folks are responsible for hiring, development, leadership development, and some of the most important issues in business. And despite the history of HR being considered a compliance function, the role is more important than ever. CHRO salaries, for example, have increased at 5-times the rate of CEO pay ... Read more»
