- With nearly 200 updates in Q1 – 73% driven by the Idea Lab – these enhancements reflect our commitment to customer-driven development, helping customers navigate the future of work with confidence.
- To create a more seamless experience across platforms, Cornerstone is introducing a Unified Navigation, ensuring consistent design and navigation across products.
- Cornerstone continues to redefine the learning and talent journey by embedding AI-driven intelligence across the Galaxy ecosystem.
- New AI-driven skill analytics provide deep workforce insights, helping customers identify and bridge skill gaps, and AI-powered translation makes content globally accessible.
- Intelligent automation extends to reporting, where a new GenAI chatbot simplifies data analysis, empowering users to produce insights and make real-time informed decisions.
- Cornerstone is streamlining learning accessibility, automating recruiting workflows, and reinforcing security with AI-powered content management, seamless interview scheduling, and enhanced compliance measures for a smarter, more connected workforce experience.
Transformation is more than responding to change – it requires proactively shaping what lies ahead. Successful organizations cultivate agility as a core capability, embedding adaptability, rapid learning, and proactive innovation into their foundation. In times of disruption and continuous evolution, these agile capabilities empower organizations to confidently navigate uncertainty and seize emerging opportunities.
At Cornerstone, we understand that empowering people is the key to navigating the anticipation of change. While we’ve long been a leader in learning and talent management, our impact extends across the enterprise, from IT and compliance to operations and beyond.
With this release, we’re making it even easier for organizations to build a workforce that’s future-ready and helping your people keep pace and stay ahead. The Galaxy Unified Navigation delivers a seamless experience across Cornerstone products, simplifying how users interact with learning, performance, and succession solutions. AI-powered career pathing and mentorship enhancements help employees navigate growth opportunities, while ensuring required training remains a priority. Additionally, deeper workflow integrations and expanded automation capabilities enhance efficiency, allowing organizations to scale with confidence.
One of the most anticipated updates in this release is Galaxy Unified Navigation, which introduces a consistent UI across all Cornerstone products. This streamlined navigation experience ensures:
- Seamless movement between Cornerstone Learn and Elevate.
- Expanded admin configurations for easier customization.
- Out-of-the-box support for Performance and Succession menus.
In March 2025, Learn and Elevate customers can self-enable this feature as early adopters, offering a simplified and intuitive way to access important workflows.
With the update of our conversational AI assistant, employees and administrators will benefit from highly personalized AI-driven insights that:
- Streamline workflows by automating repetitive administrative tasks.
- Enhance decision-making with real-time recommendations.
- Boost efficiency by delivering proactive guidance based on user behavior.
With this release, performance management is more data-driven and intuitive:
- AI-assisted goal creation: When setting goals, employees can leverage AI-powered suggestions for goal descriptions, making them more actionable and aligned with business objectives.
- Check-in summarization: A new AI-based summarization tool will allow users to generate quick summaries of check-in notes, making performance reviews more efficient.
- Talent pool co-ownership: To streamline succession planning, talent pools can now have multiple co-owners, reducing disruptions when ownership transitions occur.
- Required training flag: Administrators can now mark mandatory training as "required," ensuring learners can filter and prioritize critical learning assignments.
- Unifying content management: A new Content Manager (open beta) simplifies how administrators create and manage different types of learning objects, including curricula, online courses, and events. AI-powered description generation further accelerates content development.
- MS Teams Integration for Interview Scheduling: Recruiters can now automate interview link generation and distribution through MS Teams, reducing scheduling errors and freeing up time for talent engagement.
- Even more secure people data & governance: User Record Templates provide greater control over access to HR data, ensuring the right stakeholders can view and manage information.
- Stronger password policies: New policies increase minimum password length, providing added security safeguards.
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA): To enhance security, MFA is now available in the CornerstoneGalaxy MobileApp for Learning Management customers, adding an extra layer of protection.
For organizations leveraging Cornerstone for Extended Enterprise, this release introduces pre-built e-commerce connectors for Authorize.net and BlueSnap. Additional CyberSource REST API integration offers even greater flexibility for managing payments and monetizing learning content.
This year, we’re rolling out a series of focused, high-impact AI capabilities designed to help customers accelerate decision-making, reduce admin burden, and personalize workflows. Customers will be able to see how Cornerstone is transforming learning, skills development, and career mobility from static processes into dynamic, responsive experiences that evolve with your business. These updates move beyond productivity gains and represent a smarter, more intuitive platform that understands the needs of employees, managers, and administrators.
With our platform’s upcoming AI features, customers will be able to:
- Accelerate upskilling with AI-powered personalized learning
- Deploy more agile and effective compliance training
- Catalyze career mobility with AI-powered talent and performance management
- Hire the right talent faster with intelligent hiring
- Design workforces smarter with AI-powered skills insights
Want to learn more about the AI coming to Galaxy? Join our April 15th LinkedIn Live event, register here.
These enhancements reflect our commitment to putting meaningful, responsible AI into action across the Galaxy ecosystem – and we are just getting started.
Your feedback continues to be a critical component of our mission to empower individuals at every level of an organization to grow, innovate, and lead with confidence. If you have an idea, please visit the Idea Lab, Cornerstone’s ideation community, where our Product team captures key needs and brings them to life in the product roadmap.
If you have questions, please reach out to your account manager or book a personalized demo.
