For Managers Under Pressure

Help your managers
do more with less.
Performance support
in the flow of work.

QuickCoach® gives managers and their teams help in the moment, a new skill every month, and live sessions with the experts behind the lessons. Athena, our AI performance coach, ties it together with your company’s own policies. Your L&D team builds performance for every employee, without adding headcount.

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More change, leaner teams,
and fewer people who want the job.

40%

of stressed leaders have considered leaving leadership altogether.

DDI, Global Leadership Forecast 2025. 10,796 leaders in 50+ countries.
47%

of managers say more is expected of them than a year ago, and they have to work harder.

Gartner, 2026 survey of 2,947 employees and managers.
44%

of managers worldwide have ever received any management training.

Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2025.

Priorities shift, teams run lean, and managers are expected to keep up. Those skills are not built in a single event. Managers need help in the moment, practice with people who know the subject, and reminders until new habits stick. Few L&D teams have the people to provide all of that for every manager.

So we built the pieces to work together.

Help in the moment. Skills that build over time.
Experts when you need them.

Each piece works on its own. Together they cover how managers build skills: on the job, every month, and live with the experts.

In the Moment

Athena

Coaching That Gets It Done

An AI performance coach who works through the problem with you and leaves you with a tool to use today, backed by 3,000+ expert lessons.

  • 35+ coaching tools, 11 categories
  • Uses your own documents
  • Suggests lessons in the chat
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Every Month

QuickCoach® Essentials

One Skill a Month

Pick a topic each month. Your people get a series of five-minute expert lessons on it, delivered on schedule, so new habits have time to stick.

  • 27 topics in five areas
  • 15 to 18 lessons per topic
  • For managers and employees
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Live With the Experts

Briefings and Skills Labs

Hear It, Then Practice It

Free monthly briefings with best-selling authors and researchers, and hands-on labs where managers practice the tools on their own challenges.

  • Free 60-minute monthly briefings
  • 90-minute hands-on Skills Labs
  • Small-group practice with the expert
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Expert Content

QuickCoach® Library

3,000+ Lessons. One License.

Five-minute lessons from 180+ business authors and executive coaches. Deliver them through Athena, your LMS or a link.

  • Link, embed or SCORM
  • Unlimited views, no seat fees
  • Captions in 10 languages
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For Your L&D Team

Clio

Programs in Hours, Not Weeks

The AI consultant for your L&D team. Clio diagnoses gaps, designs programs and builds business cases with 28 L&D tools.

  • Executive-ready business cases
  • Program blueprints and guides
  • Needs analysis to evaluation
Meet Clio
For Your Organization

Custom Programs

Built Around Your Goals

One session for a single team, or a three-week program for 1,000 leaders. We match the experts to your challenges and build the program around them.

  • Experts matched to your needs
  • Breakout groups by topic
  • Follow-up lessons from the library
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Help at the moment it's needed.
Back to work in minutes.

1:30 PM

A situation comes up.

A manager realizes her 2:00 one-on-one will include feedback her direct report won't want to hear.

1:32 PM

She asks Athena.

She describes the situation. Athena draws on 35+ coaching tools and your company's policies to help her plan what to say.

1:40 PM

She practices it.

Athena role-plays the conversation with her, then suggests a five-minute expert lesson on giving difficult feedback.

2:00 PM

She walks in ready.

Just enough, just in time, and just for her. When she wants to go deeper, there’s a live session with the expert.

Not another generic AI.

General AI assistants can search your files. Athena is an AI coach, set up by your L&D team and grounded in two things: expert content, and your own company and industry information.

1

She knows your company.

Your team loads Athena with your own documents: leave policies, tuition benefits, your leadership model. She coaches with them and shares the right one when it applies.

2

She's backed by experts.

Her guidance comes from 3,000+ lessons by 180+ business authors and executive coaches, not the open web.

3

She helps you get it done.

She doesn't just reflect your questions back. She works through the problem with you and hands you a tool to use today, from 35+ coaching tools.

Named to Training Industry's 2026 Watch List for AI Coaching & Learner Support Tools.

Microlearning since 2001. Now with a coach that knows your business.

Dave Ulrich
"AI is ushering in a human-capability revolution. HR's role will shift to something even more strategic: making sure the workforce is always developing the skills, knowledge, and abilities to learn and adapt."
Dave Ulrich
Rensis Likert Professor, University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Ranked #1 Management Thinker by Thinkers50
QuickCoach Expert

See a lesson for yourself.

Our library spans hundreds of topics from 180+ published experts. Here's a sample from Dr. Mary Kelly.

Dr. Mary Kelly
Book by Dr. Mary Kelly
Book by Dr. Mary Kelly
Sample lesson with Dr. Mary Kelly
63% of managers say they feel burned out or checked out, and that stress erodes judgment long before it shows. Toughness is not something you are born with; it is built before the pressure hits. Dr. Mary Kelly shares four habits that build resilience.

Help your managers perform
in the time they have.

See how Athena, the expert library and live programs work together, set up for an organization like yours.

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