New vision, new products, new faces: Everything Cornerstone accomplished in Q2

It’s no secret that we are all navigating an ever-evolving business landscape, with change acting as the one constant driving our journey. But this continuous change and workplace transformation goes beyond technological innovations or geopolitical shifts. It boils down to one truth: there is a fundamental difference in how we are working, learning and growing today.

For us, one word captured the essence of what Q2 was all about as we navigated these ongoing workplace changes: agility.

Agility is reflected in our product innovation, in our outlook on the future of work and in our belief in what will solve so many of the workplace changes and challenges that organizations face today.

In Q2, we didn’t shy away from this change but rather embraced it, building solutions and plans around it that would provide our customers and our people with the tools and insights needed to thrive and remain agile through every twist and turn.

Let’s dive into everything Cornerstone was up to in Q2...

Q2 kicked off with an enormous bang as we embarked on our 14-city global Connect Live tour. Taking on Chicago, Sydney, London and more, we joined our worldwide customer and partner community in some of the world’s biggest cities to share, shape and showcase the future of work, from Cornerstone’s eyes.

Each event was overflowing with customer success stories, showcasing their innovative approaches to corporate learning and development across their organizations. We shared exclusive first looks at our new AI-driven solutions, engaged in thoughtful presentations and discussions with industry thought leaders and dissected today’s most pressing industry issues and trends —from the disruption of AI to immersive learning experiences and more.

As with every opportunity we get to interact with our customers, Connect Live was nothing short of inspiring. We left feeling more motivated than ever to continue exploring how we can help our customers and their people thrive in today’s talent landscape and future-proof their workforces.

The excitement didn’t stop there. Our customers continued the momentum as they trusted us to take their learning capabilities to the next level. We’re proud to share that in Q2, we welcomed an incredible group of new customers to the Cornerstone squad, including:

• ALPLA Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co KG

• BAYERNOIL RaffineriegesellschaftmbH

• CALAF GRUP 1964, S.L.U.

• City Colleges of Chicago

• City of North Las Vegas, NV 

• Heartland Food Products Group

• Hilton Worldwide 

• Kalmar Global

• Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation

• Repa

• Société EXSTO GBS

• Southern Cross Healthcare

• State of Ohio

• Whitestar Asset Solutions, SA

And have continued or expanded our valued relationships with:

• AAK

• Administração Geral Tributária

• AS 4Finance

• CCA Law Firm

• CESCE

• CFE S.A.

• City of Kobe

• Colonnade Insurance S.A.

• DENSO International Europe B.V.

• Deoleo Global SA

• Enel S.p.A.

• Epson Europe B.V.

• Europol

• Fisher & Paykel Healthcare

• GALERIA Karstadt Kaufhof GmbH

• Hitachi Rail STS Spa

• Howden Joinery Limited

• IFAD

• ISQ

• Italiaonline S.p.A.

• Just Born 

• Les Mills New Zealand

• Ministry of Health, Australia

• Novartis Pharma AG

• NSW Department of Customer Service

• OZ design Furniture Pty. Ltd.

• Raising Cane’s 

• RGF Staffing Belgium NV

• Sidel Participations SA

• SkyCity Entertainment group

• SSAB AB

• St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

• Stadion Feijenoord NV

• State Library of New South Wales

• Stevanato Group

• Sunbelt Rentals

• Te Puni Kōkiri

• United Airlines 

• Veritas Technology

• Viterra B.V.

• Westlake Chemical

• Wind Tre SpA

When we weren’t busy traveling the globe, we also announced a pretty monumental launch...

Cornerstone Galaxy — our new, AI-powered workforce agility platform — hit the scene in Q2 and made quite a splash. Aimed at solving the workforce readiness gap (which has created a growing imbalance between the skills demanded by the future and our capacity to meet them), Cornerstone Galaxy helps organizations break down their barriers to transformation by identifying skills shortages currently undermining their ability to sustain corporate performance.

With the launch of Cornerstone Galaxy, we’re proud to say we are actively making it easier than ever for our customers to elevate their people, support their skilling and development and transform their workforces to continually adapt, thrive and grow. Because at Cornerstone, we truly believe that when people are at their best, organizations are at their best.

In tandem with our Galaxy launch, we also released our 2024 Workforce Readiness Gap Report in partnership with Lighthouse Research. Diving even deeper into the contributing factors of today’s workforce readiness gap, this report helps organizations across the globe better understand the impact of workforce agility and the role it can play in employee and organizational success.

Did you know that less than half of employers know of existing skills gaps inside their organization and fully leverage those in their talent development strategies? This striking lack of skills awareness means organizations can't train, empower or effectively activate their people to adapt to changing business needs.

In Q2, our endless pursuit to help our customers become agile and build skills-based organizations took a giant leap forward as we announced the acquisition of SkyHive, an AI-powered skills intelligence platform. With the addition of new skills intelligence capabilities and a team of highly specialized domain experts, we’re excited to say that we have accelerated our reskilling capabilities with predictive labor market intelligence, automated job architecture management, rapid skill proficiency detection, and other services to help our customers create agile, future-ready workforces.

The enhancements across our product portfolio continued in Q2 with the launch of Cornerstone Learning Fundamentals. An all-in-one learning solution for mid-sized organizations, Learning Fundamentals combines out-of-the-box, pre-packaged learning management products and services, expertly curated learning pathways, and a consumer-grade learner experience.

We know that mid-sized organizations need to deploy training and provide development opportunities to retain their high performers, just like larger enterprises. We also know that for organizations to provide their people with the strongest skills development opportunities, they need a solution that helps them ramp up quickly and grow with their changing needs. That’s why we’re so proud to bring Learning Fundamentals to the table, to give our customers a greater opportunity to deliver essential training while providing personalized and engaging learning experiences to their employees.

If you’re interested in learning more, check out our full blog post here!

Fun fact: Cornerstone’s Content Subscriptions has more than 1,500 customers and 4.1 million subscribed users who have completed more than 11 million course registrations and 150 million minutes spent learning in 2023 alone.

With those numbers comes an incredible responsibility and commitment to ensure we’re offering our customers the latest and greatest modern learning content that powers their people with the unique and agile skillsets they need to thrive.

Needless to say, we were thrilled in Q2 to announce that Discovery and Fluency content from Udacity, a leader in digital education training, is now available within Cornerstone Content Subscriptions, offering premium professional skills and technology content, co-created with industry leaders such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft.

Together with Udacity, we are accelerating the power of learning, driving people growth and supporting organizations as they develop the skills of the future to drive business transformation.

With this newest addition to our Content suite, we’re excited to offer our customers an even greater selection of thoughtfully curated content that will no doubt accelerate the power of learning, drive people growth and support their organizations as they develop the skills of the future to drive business transformation.

Q2 was an incredible quarter for Cornerstone award wins as we humbly accepted several industry awards for our customer experience, product innovation and exceptional leadership, including:

• American Business Awards Woman of the Year – Business Services Industries – Toya Del Valle – Silver Winner

• CSO Awards 

• G2 Enterprise Leader Award

• G2 Highest User Adoption Award

• G2 Users Love Us Award

• Human Resource Executive Top 100 HR Tech Influencers – Karthik Suri 

• Human Resource Executive Top 100 HR Tech Influencers Winner – Karthik Suri 

• Lighthouse Research & Advisory HR Tech Awards – Best Talent Intelligence Solution

• Software Reviews Champion 

• Telly Awards – Diversity, Equity & Inclusion – Silver Winner

• Telly Awards – Training for Corporate Use – Bronze Winner 

• The Software Report Top 25 HR Software Executives Winner – Carina Cortez

• The Webby Awards – Webby Honoree 

• TrustRadius Move Loved Award

• TrustRadius Top Rated Award Winner

As always, we are honored to receive such standout industry recognition from some of today’s most respected industry experts and awards.

And that’s a wrap! While Q2 kept us busy — and on our toes — we're already diving into a summer of growth and new opportunities. We can’t wait to share what’s in the queue and recap all that we have planned for a triumphant Q3.

Check back for more!