We have built the best and safest
AI-Native Leadership Coach
AI has the power to democratize how we support leaders. Imagine every manager - and every employee - having their own personal work coach.
In 2022, the power of Large Language Models became clear, and Valence saw the potential to upend traditional models of leadership development and learning, and to be able to offer personalized learning and guidance, at enterprise scale.
So in early 2023, we went all in on Generative AI - building a brand new, AI-Native solution.
Valence's AI-Powered Leadership Coach is enterprise ready and already deployed in dozens of the Fortune 500.
It is trained to act like a coach and mentor, and is bringing personalized learning and support to life for tens of thousands of managers already.
In the next three years, we want to be able to offer the transformative power of an AI-Powered Work Coach to over 10 million leaders and employees.
“In a world where AI can cause anxiety around automating away jobs, we want to help companies offer solutions that augment their leaders and employees — and AI’s power to democratize coaching is the perfect use case.“
Where we started:
Team tools for busy managers
We began in 2018 focusing on teams - helping managers and team members to interact and collaborate better, to understand how their working styles affect performance, and to build more effective habits.
These tools are designed for the busy manager, saving them a little time, making their lives a little easier, and helping them to be a little better.
For the past five years, we’ve been privileged to work with dozens of Fortune 500s, from CocaCola to Nestlé to AstraZeneca to offer these tools at scale and support hundreds of thousands of their managers and teams.
The Power of Gen AI:
Personal, Meet Scale
We believe that in the near future, every leader, manager and employee will have a Personal Work Coach that will transform how people learn, grow and collaborate.
This Personal Work Coach is more than just a place to ask questions - it’s purpose built to help employees become better leaders and collaborators.
It will be your executive coach - asking insightful questions.It will be your mentor in a traditional “apprenticeship” model of learning, helping you with role-modeling, tips, feedback and building a skill over time.
It will be your outlet and sounding board, helping you manage the frustrations that are part of work.
It will also be your teacher, supporting you through your company’s learning or leadership programs, weaving in your company’s values and leadership frameworks, helping you interpret 360s, better unpack the dynamics of your team, practice a difficult conversation.
The key characteristic is that this work coach will be 100% focused on the well-being, skill-building, growth, effectiveness and leadership of the individual at work. Conversation are utterly private, allowing a safe, confidential space for people to learn at every stage of their career.
“The Gen-AI revolution is bringing this dream of democratization to life faster than we could have ever imagined. We believe that within 3 years, every leader, manager and employee will have a Personal Work Coach that will transform how people learn, grow and collaborate.”
Dreaming Big
We would like to offer a Personal Work Coach to every employee, regardless of seniority.
We think a world where everyone has a coach is a world where collaboration and human connection will be augmented, a world where potential is more important then credential, and world where work is a little easier, a little better, a little more meaningful.
Responsible building
We believe AI has enormous potential - and that companies building it have to be incredibly responsible stewards. At Valence we care deeply about privacy, about security, about equity, about fairness. We bake the principles into every product and engineering decision that we make, so that our customers can be confident that the solutions they deploy will be safely embraced by their entire workforce.
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