Skillsoft Corp. (Skillsoft) empowers organizations and learners to unlock their full potential by delivering personalized, interactive learning experiences and enterprise-ready solutions.
Powered by artificial intelligence (‘AI’), and strengthened by a broad ecosystem of partners, the Skillsoft platform helps customers solve some of today’s most complex business challenges, including bridging skill gaps, improving talent retention, driving digital transformation, and future-proofing the workfor...
Skillsoft Corp. (Skillsoft) empowers organizations and learners to unlock their full potential by delivering personalized, interactive learning experiences and enterprise-ready solutions.
Powered by artificial intelligence (‘AI’), and strengthened by a broad ecosystem of partners, the Skillsoft platform helps customers solve some of today’s most complex business challenges, including bridging skill gaps, improving talent retention, driving digital transformation, and future-proofing the workforce. Skillsoft is the talent development partner of choice for thousands of organizations – including 60% of the Fortune 100 – and serves a global community of more than 95 million learners.
Measurable Outcomes: The company doesn’t just deliver training; it measures and optimizes for real business impact.
Technological Innovation: With AI-powered personalization and dynamic content curation, the company helps to prepare organizations for the future.
Blended Learning Experiences: From leadership development to technical training, the company’s solutions combine coaching, assessments, and benchmarking for a 360° approach to talent development.
Enterprise Scalability: Skillsoft’s solutions are built to serve the needs of the Global 5000, empowering organizations to scale learning across dispersed and hybrid teams.
Skillsoft has two operating and reportable segments: Talent Development Solutions (‘TDS’), which consists of both the company’s Organization Platform and Learner Platform, and Global Knowledge (‘GK’), or its instructor-led training (‘ILT’) platform. These two businesses are highly complementary and give Skillsoft a differentiated value proposition.
Skillsoft's TDS segment brings a strong foundation of products and customers. The company’s TDS enterprise-grade solution serves more than 3,000 customers and 38 million employees worldwide. The company’s TDS Learner Platform is a world-renowned consumer scale and experience learner platform that serves more than 58 million learners worldwide. It delivers AI-led, interactive, and multi-modal experiences, a premium technology learning brand, outcome-based learning through benchmarks, enterprise-grade security and integrations, and extensive coverage of topics across business, technology, and compliance skills.
The company’s GK segment is centered around ILT, or live learning, with face-to-face delivery by experienced instructors, both in-person and virtually. GK is the live learning partner of choice for 50% of the Fortune 1000 corporations, with a large, but focused, schedule of vendor-authored and certified courses utilizing certified instructors.
Enterprise Platform and Capabilities
Skillsoft provides more than 300,000 learning assets and more than 225,000 hours of learning experiences designed to help organizations and learners build critical technology, leadership, business, and compliance skills. The company’s AI-driven, immersive organizational platform, Percipio, makes skilling personalized and accessible, offering a blend of self-paced online courses, hands-on practice labs, virtual live online classes, coaching, and more to close skill gaps and mitigate risk. Because it's mobile-first and cloud-based, it's available anytime, anywhere, on any device.
In fiscal 2025, Skillsoft added several new learning experiences to its organization platform, including Interactive Skill Benchmarks, AI Learning Assistants, an AI-powered Role Advisor, and enhancements to the company’s AI-powered coach, Skillsoft CAISY, to help its customers and learners accelerate the development of in-demand skills and position their businesses for the future. Additionally, it announced multiple partnerships and integrations with best-in-class human capital management (‘HCM’) software companies, such as Workday and SAP SuccessFactors, to deliver even more impactful talent development programs. Key capabilities and offerings within the Skillsoft platform include the following.
Benchmarks
The ability to benchmark an organization’s overall skills, as well as any given individual on a team, is critical to an organization’s transformational success. The company’s proprietary Benchmarks take an innovative, criterion-based approach to assessing skill proficiency and provide a starting point on the current state of skills as an overall enterprise, as well as the specific skill levels of individual employees. This baseline enables customers to continually measure the impact skills transformation is having on both the organization and learner.
In fiscal 2025, the company released Interactive Benchmarks, which provide a hands-on, dynamic approach to skill assessments built around demonstrable learning outcomes and on-the-job application. Interactive Benchmarks cover crucial technology subjects in AI, programming, data science, and more, with key features, including:
Interactive Virtual Environments: Enable learners to apply skills in simulated practice scenarios – such as writing and executing code – that mirror real-world projects.
Outcome-Oriented Assessments: Emphasize broader learning results to ensure learners grasp core concepts and understand how skills are utilized in their roles.
Personalized Results and Feedback: Provide proficiency scores and AI-generated content recommendations based on a learner’s assessment performance for guided upskilling.
Dashboards: Provide a comprehensive view of an organization’s skills, helping leaders identify areas of strength or needed improvement and track skill growth.
Skillsoft CAISY (Conversation AI Simulator)
CAISY, an AI-powered, experiential coaching solution, eliminates the ‘trial-by-error’ approach in critical workplace conversations by providing a secure environment where employees can simulate discussions, receive real-time feedback, and increase their proficiency in effective communication. Skillsoft recently unveiled multiple new CAISY features, including:
CAISY for You: Highly customized scenarios blending practice and role modeling help employees develop skills tailored to their organization’s key needs and use cases.
60+ new learning scenarios: Expanded collection of scenarios spanning leadership, risk, and technology topics – ranging from ‘Handling a Report of Harassment’ to ‘Discussing Compensation’ – prepares employees to successfully navigate a wide range of common, yet complex workplace challenges.
Skillsoft AI Assistants
Skillsoft offers a variety of AI Assistants to drive efficiency and deeply personalize the learning experience:
The AI Assistant in the company’s Percipio platform is accessible anytime, anywhere, offering a personalized guide to better outcomes by recommending meaningful and relevant learning experiences based on each learner's unique needs.
The company’s AI-assisted search functionality uses GPT technology to improve the discovery of relevant learning experiences by refining ambiguous search queries, recommending related searches, and responding in real time to direct questions.
For tech skills, the company’s AI Learning Assistant delivers instant, personalized guidance to help learners work through coding challenges, check the solution code, and explain errors and concepts within seconds — without leaving the platform.
The company’s Skillsoft Coaching AI Assistant helps learners create a personalized coaching plan, providing suggestions based on their role and focus areas for skill development.
Compliance Suite
Skillsoft’s Compliance Suite is a new offering within the company’s compliance training solution that transforms how customers develop the competencies needed to identify and mitigate business risk and drive measurable change across their workforce. The Compliance Suite delivers several new features, including:
Dynamic Content: Enables learning administrators to easily deliver risk-based training programs tailored to each employee’s role, location, responsibilities, regulations, and beyond.
A Fully Integrated and Customizable Experience: Skillsoft compliance training is now integrated into Skillsoft’s organizational platform, consolidating all of the company's learning solutions under a single platform.
Risk Dashboards & Analytics: Enhanced program dashboards allow administrators to see the progress and effectiveness of compliance assignments.
Emerging Risks & Laws: Skillsoft's expanded curriculum covers emerging, critical topics, such as the European Union (‘EU’) AI Act and Canada Law 25, equipping customers with the knowledge needed to navigate complex compliance landscapes effectively.
AI-Powered Learning: Skillsoft CAISY provides an interactive experience for learners to practice real-world compliance situations in a safe environment, including protecting personally identifiable information (‘PII’), delivering respectful communication, and identifying bribes.
Skillsoft Coaching
Skillsoft uniquely partners across all areas of workforce transformation, working with customers to assess and benchmark employees, provide learning, application, and a safe space to practice that ensures that initiatives are easy to administer and measure. The company’s coaching platform consists of enhanced targeted top-tier content, human and AI coaches, and technology that is intended to help to transform people and organizations to drive lasting measurable outcomes.
Skillsoft Coaching leverages the company’s success teams and platform capability to create engagement, focus, visibility, and accountability. From the C-suite to individual contributors, the company’s coaching solution scales effortlessly across all organizational tiers. With 10+ years of professional experience themselves, the company’s International Coach Federation (‘ICF’) and European Mentoring and Coaching Council (‘EMCC’) coaches have a 98% match success rate.
Skillsoft Enterprise Integrations
The company’s enterprise integrations seamlessly blend and deliver measurable interactive learning experiences to an organization's daily-use tools and tech:
Learning Platforms: Organizations can integrate Skillsoft with their Learning Management System (‘LMS’) or Learning Experience Platform (‘LXP’) to deploy, enable discovery, and track Skillsoft learning experiences with minimal administration.
Identity and Access Management: Organizations can drive adoption and speed their learners to their skilling experiences with Security Assertion Markup Language (‘SAML’) Single Sign-On (‘SSO’). Learners can use existing credentials to log into learning applications, ensuring a smoother start to each session.
Learning Record Store (‘LRS’) Integration: Organizations can capture and analyze outcomes in their LRS regardless of where learners access Skillsoft's interactive learning experiences.
Human Capital Management (‘HCM’) Integration: Organizations can leverage their HCM data to automate learner and audience management, ensuring every learner has access and that every report accurately reflects the organization.
Skillsoft Content Marketplace
Skillsoft's Percipio is an AI-driven open platform that integrates content from leading partners to enable its clients to achieve their strategic outcomes. Partner content is discoverable via search, browse, recommendations, assignments, notifications, and beyond. Skillsoft clients may curate all content, regardless of source, into tailored learning pathways unique to their organization and benefit from automated catalog syncs and tracking in reports and dashboards.
Learner Platform
The company’s learner platform, TDS Learner, delivers a hands-on and comprehensive technology skilling solution for proactive transformation. TDS Learner allows learners to learn, practice, and apply new in-demand technology skills across AI, Machine Learning, Cloud, Cybersecurity, DevOps, Programming, and more, in a unified interactive learning environment.
With deeper integration of generative AI (‘GenAI’) into TDS Learner, Skillsoft is providing a highly interactive and immersive learning experience to help build critical technology skills to succeed in the era of AI. TDS Learner’s new AI-powered capabilities elevate its interactive-first approach to skilling and help learners increase comprehension, practice and apply skills in simulated work environments, and tackle complex programming problems with greater confidence and efficiency. The enhancements include:
Prompt engineering functionality: By accessing ChatGPT directly within TDS Learner, learners can gain hands-on experience using GenAI tools as part of the programming workflow and build critical AI-related skills.
Code explanations and project hints: AI-powered coding assistance and an intelligent hint system provide learners with customized and contextualized information based on the state of their code to accelerate projects and improve debugging skills.
Mock interview simulator: Building on the company’s GPT-4 powered job-readiness checker, forthcoming mock interviews will help learners strengthen communication skills and prepare for technical interviews to land a new role.
Virtual coding assistant: Real-time feedback and custom guidance bring increased interactivity and personalization to learning journeys.
Competition
The company’s direct and indirect competitors include, among others:
Within the company’s Leadership and Business offering, vendors, such as LinkedIn Learning, CrossKnowledge, Harvard ManageMentor, and OpenSesame;
Within the company’s Skillsoft Coaching offering, vendors like BetterUp, EZRAx, and CoachHub;
Within the company’s Technology Skills offering, vendors, such as Pluralsight, Udemy, Safari (O’Reilly), Coursera, and Udacity;
Within the company’s Compliance offering, vendors, such as Navex Global, LRN, SAI Global, J.J. Keller, and UL-PURESafety; and
Within the company’s ILT offering, vendors, such as Learning Technologies Group, QA, Fast Lane, and Educate 360.
Growth Strategy
The learning market is large, growing, and rapidly evolving, driven by technological change and market factors impacting organizations of all sizes. The company has identified an opportunity to be more effective and efficient in its talent and market approach. Underpinning its own growth plans are three strategic priorities:
Optimizing the company’s go-to-market — This is central to the company’s growth strategy and how it intends to more efficiently and effectively serve organizational and learner needs.
Building momentum with talent champions — By understanding where they are in their talent journey.
Investing in the company’s partner ecosystem for scalable growth — The company’s goal is to redefine how it partners and who it partners with, and build the systems, processes, and teams necessary to execute.
Go-To-Market
At Skillsoft, the company’s commitment to serving customers is paramount. It has focused on streamlining the organization by creating two business units – TDS and GK – to simplify its processes across sales, marketing, product development, and back-office operations.
The company’s customer-centric focus prompts it to meet the customer where they are in their journey and support them to solve their issues in commercially viable and effective ways.
The company’s customer engagement model, powered by an unwavering commitment to delivering measurable outcomes for its customers, is intended to enable long-term growth. It continues to:
Drive Strategic Acquisition - With an integrated, collaborative team of sales representatives and industry specialists working together at each stage of the sales process, the company ensures that it is effectively reaching out to companies seeking holistic skills transformation solutions that go beyond content and platform. It is positioned to help these companies link professional development to key organizational goals, like onboarding, reskilling, leadership preparedness, governance, and employee retention.
Manage the Customer Journey - The company’s Customer Success team builds and maintains strong relationships with customers, partnering closely to understand evolving business goals and to align learning solutions to meaningful business value. With their partnership and guidance, customers are able to meet learning and development objectives, and achieve skills transformation at scale.
Drive Impact with Professional Services - With a dedicated team of consultants, the company defines, designs, and delivers customized learning experiences that drive skills development and impact to organizations. The company’s team works to ensure the seamless integration of its platform into its customers' ecosystems and deliver bespoke solutions to meet the unique requirements of their business, industry, and geography.
Utilize Global Partnerships - The company has direct sales coverage throughout North America and most of Europe, and dedicated teams in India, Australia/New Zealand, and Singapore. For the remaining markets, particularly the major markets of Asia (Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia), Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa, it leverages strategic partnerships with direct resellers and Original Equipment Manufacturers (‘OEMs’). The company’s strategic partner network provides comprehensive global coverage, broadens its market reach, and drives revenue growth.
Seasonality
The company’s business is subject to significant seasonality in bookings and billings, with the fourth fiscal quarter (year ended January 31, 2025) typically representing more than 40% of annual volume. The company’s TDS segment experiences the most seasonality, with the fourth fiscal quarter typically representing nearly 50% of annual volume. It generally recognizes revenue from subscription fees on a straight-line basis over the term of the contract; thus, while the company’s billings are seasonal, revenue recognition is not subject to significant seasonality. However, accounts receivable and deferred revenue balances, as well as cash flow, are impacted significantly by its seasonality.
History
Skillsoft Corp. was incorporated in 2019.
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