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Most Leadership Training Fails. Droste Group Bet Its Business on the Fix.
A woman-owned firm in the shadow of Detroit's auto plants built its business on a blunt premise: most leadership training doesn't stick. Here is how Droste Group tries to make it stick anyway.
Wavestone
Wavestone grew from a French telecom consultancy into a €954 million transformation firm by joining strategy to implementation. Its next test is whether a founder-controlled European challenger can turn enterprise AI from experiments into working systems.
Userlane
The intelligence to see the impact of your software and AI. The assistance to help your people get work done.
Whatfix
The company nobody notices - because if Whatfix is doing its job, you never read the manual. Inside the Bengaluru-and-San Jose startup teaching a billion-dollar software stack to explain itself.
Apty
Apty is an AI-powered Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) that layers on top of enterprise applications like Salesforce, Workday, Oracle and ServiceNow to guide users through complex workflows, validate their inputs in real time, automate repetitive steps and surface where people get stuck. Founded in 2018 by Krishna Dunthoori as letzNav and later renamed Apty, the Austin-based company helps large organizations - including customers such as Delta Air Lines and Boeing - turn expensive software purchases into actual, measurable adoption and ROI. Apty has raised roughly $12.9M and serves over a thousand enterprise customers and millions of end users.
Pandatron
Pandatron is an AI change-activation platform that helps large enterprises turn strategy into execution. Its conversational AI runs private, role-tailored coaching conversations with thousands of employees at once, then feeds leaders real-time behavioral intelligence on readiness, resistance and risk. Founded in Helsinki and now with a San Francisco presence, Pandatron works with Fortune 500 companies including SAP, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, Merck and Skanska to make coaching-driven change dramatically cheaper and more measurable.
Prodly
Prodly is a Palo Alto-based software company that builds DevOps automation for Salesforce, focused on the parts of the platform that most deployment tools ignore: configuration data. Its AppOps suite handles release management, sandbox seeding, automated regression testing, data migration and compliance reporting so admins and developers can move CPQ, Revenue Cloud and other low-code changes between environments without hand-copying records or breaking production. Founded in 2014 by Max Rudman - who previously founded SteelBrick, the product Salesforce acquired and rebranded as Salesforce CPQ - Prodly raised a $10M Series A in 2021 and positions itself as the tool teams add when relational data deployment is the gap other DevOps platforms leave open.
Swantide
Swantide is a San Francisco-based AI company that puts a Salesforce admin in your keyboard. Founded in 2020 by Taylor Lint, the platform connects to a company's Salesforce instance to automate configuration changes, debug issues, document processes automatically, and answer team questions in plain language. Backed by $7M in seed funding from Menlo Ventures and others, Swantide helps ops, sales, and revenue teams cut Salesforce go-live times from weeks and months down to hours and days.
Tigerhall
Tigerhall is an AI-powered Change Activation Platform that helps Fortune 1000 transformation leaders communicate, train and measure organizational change at speed. Founded by Nellie Wartoft in 2018, it serves enterprise customers in 32+ countries.