Skillsoft has introduced Skillsoft AI Coach, a new coaching experience available through the Skillsoft Percipio platform. AI Coach gives employees private, personalized coaching tied to their role, goals, and the skills their work requires, helping organizations connect learning investments more closely to employee development and skill-building.
Skillsoft launches AI Coach on Percipio platform for personalized employee coaching.
Built on International Coaching Federation principles including active listening and goal setting.
Extends coaching beyond senior executives to more employees and leaders.
Connects coaching to learning resources and CAISY practice where appropriate.
Supports ongoing development with continuous goal reflection and progress tracking.
Available in early access to select customers now.
As AI changes how work gets done, organizations are investing in learning, leadership development, and skills-based workforce planning. But the value of those investments depends on whether employees can apply new skills in their day-to-day work. Coaching creates the structure for that application through goal setting, reflection, practice, and accountability, but it has traditionally been reserved for senior leaders and select high-potential employees. AI Coach brings personalized, AI-generated coaching into Skillsoft's skills management platform rather than leaving it as a standalone tool or executive-only resource.
AI Coach helps employees focus on the skills most relevant to their role, connects coaching to learning and practice, and continues the conversation over time by returning to goals, reflecting on progress, and identifying what to do next. The experience is built on coaching principles established by the International Coaching Federation, including active listening, reflective questioning, goal setting, and accountability. The experience is designed to continue across sessions, so employees can use coaching as part of a continuous loop of learning, practice, reflection, and guidance to their next development step. Because AI Coach is part of the Skillsoft platform, coaching can directly align to the skills employees need to build, the learning available to them, and CAISY practice where appropriate.
AI Coach enables organizations to extend coaching to more employees and leaders beyond senior executives and high-potential talent, make skills and learning more actionable by helping employees focus on the most relevant skills, connect learning to practice by pairing coaching with Skillsoft learning resources, and support ongoing development by enabling employees to return to goals and reflect on progress.
"Every organization needs people who can build the skills that move the business forward," said Bernie Barbour, Chief Technology and Product Officer, Skillsoft. "Coaching is one of the most effective ways to help employees develop those skills, but it has traditionally reached only a small part of the workforce. By bringing AI Coach into the Skillsoft platform, we can extend coaching to more employees and leaders, and connect that experience to the skills, learning, and practice that they need to grow and drive better business outcomes."
About Skillsoft
Skillsoft is a global leader in skills management for the human + AI era. The AI-native Skillsoft platform gives organizations a clearer view of workforce capability, helps close critical skill gaps, and supports the connection between skills development and business outcomes. With Skillsoft, organizations can build AI-ready teams, lower the cost and time of workforce development, and reduce execution risk as work continues to change. Thousands of organizations worldwide trust Skillsoft to power workforce readiness.
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