AI-Ready Workforces Start Here: The Next Evolution of Cornerstone Galaxy at HR Tech 2025

By: Cornerstone OnDemand Inc. via Business Wire

September 16, 2025 at 09:00 AM EDT

Next evolution of the Cornerstone Galaxy platform empowers people and digital agents to boost enterprise productivity, accelerate revenue growth, and drive efficiency

Cornerstone OnDemand Inc., a leader in workforce agility solutions, today presented at the 2025 HR Technology Conference the continued evolution of its Galaxy platform, delivering advancements in AI technology designed to transform how organizations develop and manage their people and agents or ‘digital workers’ and align workforce skills at scale.

The Cornerstone Galaxy platform combines a suite of multi-role AI agents, AI-native conversational and immersive learning experiences, and dynamic skills intelligence, all within one unified system that is trained on individual skills and workforce data. Today, organizations face the pressure to adopt AI pilots and workflows, but approach these challenges as a technology project when it needs to be a capability shift. When workforce planning and development drive AI adoption, instead of treating AI as a bolt-on, it ensures the technology fits business needs; employees build new skills, AI agents stay compliant, leaders stay aligned, and outcomes can be measured.

Key innovations to and across the Cornerstone Galaxy platform include:

Cornerstone’s system of AI agents, powering hyper-personalization and productivity: Trained on organizations’ unique workforce data, a new system of learner, admin, and content AI agents embedded across Cornerstone Galaxy automates tasks, personalizes learning experiences, and delivers richer insights seamlessly integrated into the flow of work.
- Conversational, context-aware learning experiences: An AI-native interface leverages enterprise knowledge and learner context to enable dynamic, multimodal content creation and personalized recommendations.
- Administrator workflows: It’s not just employees who benefit from agentic AI. Cornerstone administrators are freed from repetitive tasks like assignment management, compliance monitoring, and content setup. Cornerstone agents will automate all of this, giving administrators the freedom to focus on higher-value work.
- Generative and immersive content at scale: Cornerstone’s content agents transform traditional training formats like SCORM into interactive, conversational experiences, making legacy content searchable, explainable, and engaging in real time. Organizations can extend training into multiple modalities, such as video and podcasts, and with Cornerstone Immerse, bring immersive formats like VR, voice, and video avatars to life - creating experiences that align with modern learner expectations.
AI mastery personalized for employees: Upskilling for the entirety of the workforce with relevant, curated AI fluency content from beginner to mastery across all modalities, targeted personalized learning with AI-driven curation, and virtual human coaching conversations. Cornerstone recently partnered with Simplilearn to bring additional courses and certificates to its Content Subscriptions in Q4 2025 for skills areas such as machine learning, generative AI, prompt engineering, and agentic workflows.
Cornerstone Galaxy AI: The proprietary AI technology powering the entire Cornerstone Galaxy workforce agility platform, updates include:
- Cornerstone AgentReady, creating compliant AI agents: Announced at Cornerstone Spark in May, Cornerstone AgentReady goes beyond basic guardrails to ensure agents are truly workforce-ready. Each agent is trained, tested, and certified before deployment, enabling organizations to move beyond low-risk tasks and scale AI into more meaningful, business-critical use cases.
- Embedding context-aware learning agents in the flow, across platforms: Model Context Protocol (MCP) support brings AI-powered learning directly into platforms like Microsoft and Salesforce, enabling learning in the tools employees use every day.
- Industry-leading AI Skills Engine powering Galaxy and Workforce Intelligence: Cornerstone Galaxy now integrates *SkyHive’s Knowledge Graph* to power a skills engine that drives smarter workforce planning, targeted learning and clear career paths, informed by daily scans of terabytes of labor market data. Workforce Intelligence uses that engine to reveal capability gaps for organizations relative to the market around them, giving them context for planning and measuring success.

"Every customer I have spoken with over the last year has the same concern, how do they unlock the value of AI and get their workforce ready for the changes that it will bring," said Himanshu Palsule, Chief Executive Officer at Cornerstone. “AI adoption fails when it's being treated as a bolt on, this expansion of our Cornerstone Galaxy platform helps align AI adoption with strategic business goals, by offering the personalization individuals need with multi-role AI agents, uncovering real-time skills intelligence, and create meaningful AI-powered experiences in the flow of work."

“IT and legal teams today are worried about employee usage of AI tools, often citing concerns around data security and privacy,” said Ben Eubanks, Chief Research Officer, Lighthouse Research. “Cornerstone has built AI capabilities to enable personalized learning experiences that meet strict enterprise standards for those two concerns; however, from a user perspective, Cornerstone's solutions offer a rich learner experience that is personalized and powered by the company's own data. It's a powerful, low-risk way to weave AI into learning for employers across the globe."

For more information on today’s news check out “What Cornerstone unveiled at HR Tech 2025 and why it matters for your organization” and visit https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/platform/.

At HR Tech? Visit the Cornerstone booth #5220 for demos of Cornerstone Galaxy, including our Learn, Elevate, and Transform solutions. Cornerstone will also be hosting an ‘AI and Skills Expert Corner’ within the booth where attendees can ask industry and Cornerstone experts anything about skills and AI. Experts will include analysts from Josh Bersin Partners, Sapient Insights, Lighthouse Research, Constellation Research, Forrester Research, and more.

Follow Cornerstone on social media for the latest updates and announcements at the 2025 HR Technology Conference & Exposition at https://www.linkedin.com/company/cornerstone-ondemand/.

About Cornerstone

Cornerstone powers the potential of organizations and their people to thrive in a changing world. Cornerstone Galaxy, the complete AI-powered workforce agility platform, meets organizations where they are. With Galaxy, organizations can identify skills gaps and development opportunities, retain and engage top talent, and provide multimodal learning experiences to meet the diverse needs of the modern workforce. Approximately 7,000 organizations and 140 million users in 180+ countries use Cornerstone Galaxy to build high-performing, future-ready organizations and people today.