San Francisco, CA, October 2, 2025 — SweetRush, a global leader in innovative learning strategies, solutions, and technologies, is thrilled to announce that it has signed a service partner agreement with Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. (“Cornerstone”), a leader in workforce agility solutions. This new partnership constitutes an addition to a previously signed advisory agreement between SweetRush and Cornerstone.
This strategic collaboration empowers both SweetRush and Cornerstone to better serve their client-partners with a comprehensive range of solutions to address their L&D and talent needs. The natural symbiosis between SweetRush’s learning design, LMS integration, and content expertise, and Cornerstone Galaxy, a complete AI-powered workforce agility platform unifying learning, performance, and compliance management, enables client-partners to maximize their investment in their people and address critical skill gaps.
Gail Eisenstein, Senior Director of Custom Learning at SweetRush, explains, “This partnership is a natural fit. It enables us to bring our award-winning custom learning solutions to more clients, and we will better support Cornerstone customers, amplifying the impact to both businesses and learners.”
“At Cornerstone, we believe that collaborative partnerships are an important driver in advancing our customers’ learning and talent strategies,” said May Huffer, Alliances Manager at Cornerstone. “SweetRush’s expertise in custom eLearning, immersive design, and seamless platform integration makes them the perfect complement to our Cornerstone Galaxy platform. By combining our technology leadership with SweetRush’s creative solutions, we empower organizations to build agile, future-ready workforces, driven by AI-powered, skills-first strategies that are essential in today’s dynamic landscape.”
Approximately 7000 organizations and 140 million users in 180+ countries use Cornerstone Galaxy to build high-performing, future-ready organizations and people today. A leader in workforce agility, Cornerstone has been recognized by top analyst firms with over 19 analyst awards in 2025 alone.
Cornerstone’s AI-powered Galaxy platform is a unified talent-management suite that enhances workforce agility through an integration of L&D, performance management, compliance management, and workforce planning, enabling organizations to optimize talent strategies across the entire employee lifecycle.
John Cleave, SweetRush Director of Systemic Solutions, is thrilled about the partnership. “In order to improve employee performance,” he observes, “you need to do more than develop training; you need to develop an end-to-end, sustainable learning strategy. Our partnership with Cornerstone OnDemand enables us to do that, which better serves our many joint customers.”
The SweetRush-Cornerstone partnership offers a unique value proposition, with SweetRush providing specialized content development and platform delivery expertise to significantly enhance the value of Cornerstone’s product suite. Together, the two companies amplify each other’s ability to deliver custom learning strategies and solutions, and to better incorporate advanced technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR), GenAI, and robust labor analytics for strategic talent development.
Annie Hodson, Chief Client Solutions & Marketing Officer at SweetRush, adds, “From the start, it was clear that Cornerstone and SweetRush share a deep commitment to excellence and a passion for creating meaningful learning. This collaboration isn’t just about combining technologies or services—it’s about a mutual dedication to helping people reach their full potential.”
This alignment underscores SweetRush’s commitment to expanding its strategic partnerships via diversified service offerings that ensure all clients receive holistic, impactful learning solutions tailored to their evolving needs.
Known for its L&D-first innovations such as its AI-L&D Continuum™, immersive learning strategies, Transformational Design Standards (TDS), and award-winning custom learning strategies and solutions, SweetRush has been inspiring L&D leaders and stakeholders since its founding in 2001.
Cornerstone, in turn, has grown since 1999 to become a global leader in learning technology and ecosystems with solutions for organizations of every size, in every industry. It continues to enhance its ability to create AI-powered, skills-led development experiences, aligning learning opportunities with skill requirements to foster talent growth and make the process of upskilling more efficient, effective, and engaging.
If you’re feeling inspired by the opportunity to build an integrated skills-first learning strategy within a world-class ecosystem, we’d love to discuss the possibilities! Reach out to share your vision.
About SweetRush
SweetRush is trusted by many of the world’s most successful companies to help them improve the performance of their employees and extended enterprises. SweetRush is known for strategic thought leadership and exceptionally creative and effective solutions that combine the best of learning experience design with highly engaging delivery. SweetRush services include strategy consulting and analysis, custom L&D solution design and development, high-performing staff-augmentation talent staffing, certification development, and innovative learning technologies such as VR, AR, and AI. SweetRush’s work has earned a long list of awards and accolades in collaboration with its world-class clients. Discover more at SweetRush.
