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The Manager’s Rehearsal Room
Rising Team started by giving managers a script for better team conversations. Now it uses what teams choose to share to make AI coaching less generic - and hard conversations a little less improvised.
The School for Adults That Found Its Classroom at Work
LifeLabs Learning began with a slightly eccentric question: what if adults could practice the human skills nobody teaches in school? The answer became a global corporate classroom built around tiny behaviors, live rehearsal, and the useful discovery that a workshop is only the beginning.
The Concept Agency and the art of explaining a knuckle
A touchscreen that knew how you touched it. A camera with a summer-vacation pitch. The Concept Agency’s technology work offers a useful lesson in making unfamiliar products feel understandable.
What AED 1,500 Buys at Dubai Business Women Council
A membership buys access to workshops, mentors and a business community. Dubai Business Women Council’s real proposition is what women can learn to do once they get there.
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.
OpenSesame
OpenSesame is a Portland, Oregon-based e-learning company that runs an online marketplace of curated corporate training courses. Founded in 2011, it aggregates content from hundreds of publishers into a single catalog of tens of thousands of courses spanning business skills, compliance, safety, leadership, technology and wellness, and integrates that content directly into a customer's existing learning management system. The company sells to enterprise and mid-market employers who want to buy, curate and deliver workforce training without stitching together dozens of separate vendors.
Hone
Hone is a San Diego-area software company that delivers leadership and human-skills training to enterprises through small-group, live virtual classes led by expert facilitators, paired with program-management technology and, since 2025, a voice-first AI coach called Hone AI. Founded in 2018 by FanDuel co-founder Tom Griffiths and former CultureIQ leaders, Hone helps companies deploy, manage, and measure manager, leadership, and DEIB training at scale for distributed and hybrid teams. It has trained more than 50,000 people for customers including IBM, Rubrik, Thumbtack, and Rover.