WASHINGTON, D.C., July 20, 2022 — Amplify, an HR executive search and leadership development company, today announced the launch of Amplify Academy, a new HR learning and leadership development platform built from the ground up to help today’s people leaders navigate the new world of work.
Today’s HR practitioners and leaders are under immense pressure to deliver results for the business, navigate new social and business climates, and build adaptable people programs for these dynamic times. They’re asked to do more with less while carrying the heavy burdens of the past several years.
The Amplify Academy was purpose-built to help practitioners connect with resources, courses, templates, presentations, community and a range of other learning resources to help them navigate the new world of work.
The Amplify Academy consists of three components:
Amplify Academy Learning Lab — A next-generation learning platform that leverages machine learning to provide personalized recommendations to each individual learner. The Learning Lab includes a range of courses, resources, templates, presentations, videos, reports and more to support the learning needs of today’s HR and people practitioners. You can view an overview of courses, including sample titles, here.
Amplify Academy Community — A Slack community designed to help HR practitioners build their network equity and connect, collaborate and grow with peers around the world.
Amplify Academy Cohorts — Cohorts are four-week immersive peer-learning programs designed to help people leaders develop the skills, business acumen, capabilities, executive readiness and networks needed to build and lead impactful people teams through today’s times. Cohorts include hands-on learning with experienced people leaders from companies including HubSpot, VaynerMedia, Airbnb, Nextdoor, UKG, and more.
“I couldn’t be more excited to introduce the Amplify Academy. The field of HR has been under so much pressure these past several years. They need new resources, courses, templates, community and more designed for this new world of work we’re operating in. The future of work was yesterday. The Amplify Academy was designed for today and tomorrow.” — Lars Schmidt, founder, Amplify.
The Amplify Learning Lab contains a range of content types and modalities, categorized by length to help learners plan their learning including short-form (snackable: under 10 minutes) and long form (more than 10 minutes). Course modalities include:
- Courses.
- Cohort Guest Instructor Presentations.
- Learning Stacks: Highly curated collections of content organized around specific topics.
- Redefining HR Leadership Bytes: 5-minute learning clips featuring guests of the Redefining HR podcast.
- Amplify Insights: MasterClass-style produced short videos with leadership advice from experienced people leaders.
- Resources: Highly curated external articles, resources, templates, reports, benchmarks and more.
About Amplify: Amplify is a new model of agency, providing HR executive search services and an Academy to support HR learning and develop, support and connect the next generation of people leaders. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, Amplify works with companies and people practitioners around the world. Learn more at amplifytalent.com.