InStride - Helping businesses achieve growth through online employee education

In this fast-paced world, traditional workforce education programs are slowly losing their effectiveness. Corporations today spend over $180B each year on internal and external education programs, but the impact is limited with less than 2% of employees using these programs and minimal demonstrated impact. 

InStride is reinventing the education of today's workforce, working with employers to provide opportunities to education credentials and degrees for their employees and partners through the highest-quality universities and colleges. InStride is a public benefit company that aims to become the indispensable human capital partner of organizations, helping them unlock the university ecosystem's full potential and provide meaningful, life-changing impacts for their employees.

A new way to approach workforce education​

InStride powers business growth and social impact through education. Companies can future-proof their employees and business with flexible education paths tailored to achieve meaningful outcomes. InStride has customized workforce education solutions with high ROI that positively impact your business and your employees. InStride designs programs that are strategically aligned to your organization's needs. This includes mapping your program to objectives like upskilling/reskilling, retention, development, and engagement while determining the right education paths, coverage, and eligibility.

InStride then works with the teams to get the word out, ensuring success for both employees and the organization. The organizations get full white-glove marketing and success support from the very beginning to drive interest and enrollment and ongoing employee success. InStride makes it easy to implement, manage and keep the program running. Their flexible platform minimizes the administrative burden needed to support employee participation and helps you understand how it's working with key analytics and reporting.

The InStride difference

The world is changing fast, and so are the skills employees and organizations need to develop to succeed. In the world of fast-paced innovation, employee or talent development has become a new mandate for organizations. However, executives struggle to keep workforce skills current and relevant in the face of rapid advancement. InStride's unique approach gives organizations multiple ways to meet these new challenges. It offers a better way to upskill and reskill your entire workforce. Whether you already have a set of learning solutions, are re-evaluating your current offerings, or are looking to solve a problem, InStride offers a solution that brings it all together– aligning education paths to meaningful outcomes. InStride has strategic educational programs to keep businesses and people ahead. The notable highlights include:

Top-tier academic network: Their global network of academic institutions provides access to over 1,500-degree programs, credentials, and skill-building courses designed for working adults and their families with a record of success.

Advanced technology: InStride's robust platform is simple for everyone to use. You can understand eligibility, drive awareness, guide employees, streamline billing and deliver reporting in concert with their marketing and success support.

Meaningful social impact: It lets you drive social change to truly impact lives and communities – by increasing job opportunities, earning potential, and livelihoods without the burden of high debt and inequity inherent in higher education.

Real business growth: InStride powers you to achieve your specific goals – whether it's creating a more attractive employer brand, upskilling employees, increasing diversity, improving retention, or some combination of those. All the solutions are designed to deliver high ROI.

Flexible educational programs

InStride's flexible and comprehensive platform makes launching and maintaining an education program simple for administrators and accessible to employees. You don't need an advanced degree to create a workforce education program. InStride enables you to start with what your administrators and employees need and leverage InStride's technology platform to simplify the process of offering life-changing education.

Hands off for you: The programs give you a white-glove treatment with a solution that delivers a comprehensive mix of technology and support. This combination provides everything you need to launch and operate the program.

Your brand, front and center: It helps strengthen your brand with their white-labeled, tailored technology that's designed to meet your needs. Employees also feel at ease with a branded program that feels familiar from the moment they log in.

Get the word out: You can keep your employees informed, create an omnichannel communications plan for reaching them, and remove barriers to ensure your education program meets your goals.

Performance reporting: The company allows you to explore the ROI of your education program with in-depth analytics and real-time reporting that monitors company-wide impact.

Streamline billing: You get a simplified billing, even for multiple programs and academic partners.

A global academic network with a proven impact

InStride, along with founding partner Arizona State University, created a network of top-tier academic institutions that deliver degrees, credentials, and skills designed to meet the working adult student's in-demand and future needs. InStride brings together top-tier educational institutions that have tried and tested online learning. The education programs have been curated to meet the future needs of the workforce.

InStride's mission is to develop the workforce of the future by helping large organizations provide career-boosting, life-changing opportunities to their employees. With over 1,500 degrees and credentials, InStride offers options for every employee to meet your organization's talent development needs. It has collaborations with some of the reputed universities like Arizona State University, The City University of New York, Universidad Tecmilenio, UNSW Sydney, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The company aims to become the go-to human capital partner, helping companies unlock the true power of education for their employees and, in turn, boost the outcomes for the businesses.

"The InStride technology platform is customized to reach employees, no matter who or where they are. This makes it easy for them to discover new learning opportunities."

"At InStride, we create flexible education paths that make an impact on the workforce and organizations alike."