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Making Work Better

At Valence, we're revolutionizing leadership development and workplace collaboration through the power of Generative AI.

Our Vision: An Affordable Personal AI Work Coach for Everyone

We're committed to offering every leader, manager, and employee access to an affordable Personal Work Coach powered by advanced AI. This coach will act as an executive coach, mentor, and teacher, providing a safe, confidential space for skill-building and growth. It integrates seamlessly with company values and leadership frameworks, offering personalized support at every career stage.

By democratizing access to high-quality, personalized learning and development, we aim to unlock human potential across all levels of an organization.

Our Journey and Expertise


We were uniquely positioned to build this AI coach. Since our founding in 2018, we've led the development and deployment of manager-first tools to help leaders guide their teams more effectively. We've worked closely with dozens of Fortune 500 companies, including Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and AstraZeneca, supporting hundreds of thousands of managers and teams. This deep understanding of workplace dynamics and leadership challenges has been crucial in developing our AI solutions.

In early 2023, we launched our AI-Powered Leadership Coach, an enterprise-ready solution already deployed in dozens of Fortune 500 companies, supporting tens of thousands of managers. Today, our AI solutions are bringing personalized learning and support to life for a rapidly growing user base across major corporations; Valence's AI-powered personal leadership coach, Nadia, has become the most widely used AI-Coach in the Fortune 500.

Leadership


Parker Mitchell, Founder and CEO of Valence, is driving our mission to build software that democratizes the best learning experiences. An award-winning technology and social entrepreneur, Parker has been named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young, was selected as one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40, and has received two Honorary Doctorates of Engineering, among a dozen other awards.

Our Commitment


We're dedicated to responsible AI development, prioritizing privacy, security, equity, and fairness in every aspect of our products. Our goal is to augment human potential and make work more meaningful and efficient for millions of employees worldwide.

Looking Ahead

By 2026, we aim to provide our transformative and affordable AI-Powered Leadership Coach to over 10 million leaders and employees, fundamentally changing how people learn, grow, and collaborate in the workplace.Join us in shaping the future of work, where AI doesn't replace human potential but amplifies it, making every workday a little easier, a little better, and a lot more impactful.

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AI-Native Leadership Coach

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AI will change the face of leadership development, learning and collaboration at work

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.

Parker Mitchell

“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.“

Parker Mitchell

Founder & CEO

Adeleine Loi

"We are getting really good feedback on how Valence is helping us scale because we don't need a team coach with every single team. It's enabling us to empower our people leaders"

Adeline Looi

Global Head of 
Talent Development

WHERE WE STARTED

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.

Parker Mitchell

“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.”

- PARKER MITCHELL, FOUNDER & CEO, VALENCE

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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