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Skillable launches streamlined, AI-powered creation tools for easier lab implementation

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Skillable, the pioneer in experiential learning and skill validation, announces new AI-creation functionality to improve team efficiency and lab creation, along with notable leadership hires, including Karie Willyard, former Chief Learning Officer (CLO) at Visa, SuccessFactors, and Sun Microsystems. The new leadership additions and accolades further strengthen Skillable’s growth trajectory.

Skillable, the pioneer in experiential learning and skill validation, announces new AI-creation functionality available to lab creators, that streamline and speed up script creation. With the Skillable AI Copilot, authors no longer have to build their scripts from scratch, while the Script Library come with shareable and reusable pre–built scripts that can be implemented in just three clicks. The product enhancements underpin Skillable’s continued commitment to helping organizations design and deploy lab environments in a scalable and rapid way.

Skillable has also made notable leadership hires, with Karie Willyard, former Chief Learning Officer (CLO) at Visa, SuccessFactors, and Sun Microsystems, joining Skillable as its CLO in residence and Advisor. She will work closely with Skillable’s leadership team to support its global growth and customer-centric product innovation. Ken Talanian has also been appointed Skillable’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) with a remit of supporting Skillable’s next growth stage.

Former Head of Product Management and Design for Hands-On Learning at Pluralsight, Nate Barrett, has joined Skillable as Senior Vice President of Product, bringing a wealth of data, cloud, and SaaS product leadership expertise to the team. Finally, Dave Reed has joined as Senior Vice President of Corporate & Business Development, to drive global growth via channel development and a broad partner ecosystem.

The product updates and new appointments build on a period of strong performance from Skillable, which includes 8,062,095 labs delivered in 2023 (Year-on-year growth of 27%) plus the most G2 badges earned by the company in a quarter (bringing the total to 214 badges to date). Skillable continues to be recognized by G2 and others, for its innovation in skill validation and its high levels of customer satisfaction and adoption.

Skillable delivers hands-on skills lab experiences for employees that accelerate and reinforce knowledge transfer and validate skill development, in a repeatable and scalable way across a workforce. Discover the difference that Skillable Labs can make in your business, learn more here or speak to the team at Learning Technologies 2024, booth L35, April 17-18 in London, UK.

Skillable is the trusted pioneer and innovator in performance-based learning and skill validation. In job-specific scenarios customizable to any organization, people build and assess their skills through hands-on experiences that accelerate job readiness and produce evidence-based skill intelligence. Since 2004, more than 400 global customers have created and launched 35 million labs, using Skillable to practice and validate their skills in live learning environments. To learn more, visit skillable.com.

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