Today, at the Irresistible 2024: The Global Conference for HR Leaders and Their Teams, the world’s most trusted human capital advisory firm, The Josh Bersin Company, formally launched general availability of Galileo™.
An AI assistant trained in over 25 years of The Josh Bersin Company expertise and content, Galileo has now been deployed to over 60 large enterprise clients. That means it is already saving HR and management teams days per week on their HR design, implementation, and daily work.
More than 10,000 HR professionals are already using Galileo to improve their hiring, talent management, leadership, and management practices.
Via its easy-to-use interface, HR teams also benefit from receiving natural language answers to any HR or management question via instant interrogation of the entire corpus of Josh Bersin Company’s accumulated intellectual property.
This includes research, in-depth maturity models, frameworks, benchmarks, videos, podcasts, case studies, and more—all forming the basis for informed guidance to today’s most pressing workplace problems. Galileo is an HR “consultant,” able to help managers find information, research vendors, evaluate designs, create RFPs, and stay current on labor market and HR trends.
And in a separate announcement, the company also introduced the Galileo Trusted Content Partner Program, with availability of industry turnover and span of control benchmarks from Visier, global employment practices from Oyster, critical skills by job role from Lightcast, and leadership frameworks from Heidrick & Struggles.
Galileo’s deep functionality is built on Sana AI, the highly configurable AI assistant platform from co-developer and European AI leader, Sana.
Galileo can also import any form of corporate HR documentation, leadership models, compliance practices, and even corporate training content. This lets companies like Rolls Royce and others turn Galileo into its internal HR assistant, providing relevant information and advice to any HR professional, line manager, or senior leader.
Users, teams, and organizations can also add their own company content, create private workspaces where data and privacy are protected, and build multiple AI assistants customized to specific HR disciplines, like Talent Acquisition, L&D, and DEI.
Built on the trusted corpus of JBC research and information, Galileo is generally available to any organization around the world. The system provides HR and leadership support in 60 languages and can quickly be integrated into any IT environment.
And unlike open-sourced AI platforms, Galileo provides inline attribution and direct linking to all its sources and includes no “non-trusted” information from the open internet.
An organization already benefiting from its use is multinational civil aerospace and defense engineering company Rolls-Royce plc.
Mary Glowacka, Head of Learning & Leadership Development at Rolls-Royce and a Galileo early adopter, says:
“As a truly people-first organization, where capability development agility is at the core of enabling and empowering colleagues to be at their best, Rolls-Royce recognizes just how critical it is to equip teams with the right skills and tools to help them meet those daily demands.
“Dynamic, user-friendly, and highly adaptable, Galileo really makes the HR professional’s day-to-day life so much easier. I particularly appreciate the advanced prompts that help you discover even more insights and ask better questions that I may have not thought of myself, thus really enhancing my capabilities. Plus, the time saved through finding these answers so quickly means time freed up for more and better quality strategic conversations.
“The Galileo intelligent HR assistant also acts as an initial ‘thought partner’ that’s accessible on-demand while other trusted partners of mine may not be immediately available to interact.”
Attendees at Irresistible 2024 will have the opportunity to engage with the development partner team from Sana, while Glowacka is set to share insights into the company's pioneering use of the tool in its AI-empowered HR plans.
Josh Bersin, global HR industry analyst and CEO of The Josh Bersin Company, says:
“Right from the start, we architected Galileo to be the HR team’s new tireless expert and virtual HR assistant—always up to date on the very latest HR trends, benchmarks, thought leadership, best practice, Josh Bersin Company insights, and vendor market intelligence.
“I’m delighted at how extensively it’s already accomplished that mission at these tier-one brands, and to surface some of these early Galileo wins here on-stage at Irresistible 2024.”
At Irresistible 2024, The Josh Bersin Company Introduces New Galileo™ Trusted Content Partners Program
● Initial content partners for The Josh Bersin Company’s AI assistant include Lightcast, Heidrick & Struggles, Oyster, and Visier
● Trusted and authoritative industry benchmarks, skills models, global employment practices, and leadership models now available to Galileo users
OAKLAND, Calif., May 20, 2024—At the Irresistible 2024: The Global Conference for HR Leaders and Their Teams event today, the world’s most trusted human capital advisory firm, The Josh Bersin Company, released details of a wide range of new benchmarks, skills models, global employment practices, and leadership models available to users of its Galileo™ AI Assistant through the new The Josh Bersin Company Galileo Trusted Content Partners Program.
Trusted Content Partners Program debut members include:
● Lightcast for comprehensive global jobs, occupations, and skills models
● Visier for detailed benchmarks on turnover and span of control by industry, tenure, and role
● Oyster for global employment practices and legal guidance
● and Heidrick & Struggles for leadership insights, frameworks, and assessment methodologies to identify and develop leaders who drive business outcomes
Carefully selected by The Josh Bersin Company analysts for their validity, utility, and global importance, this content is now deeply integrated into the Galileo corpus (the vast body of knowledge integrated into Galileo) so will be available for any question, report, or other HR information users’ request.
Galileo corpus has been trained on 25+ years of HR and management research, case studies, maturity models, vendor profiles, and podcasts, articles, and speeches by The Josh Bersin Company.
These additional sources of information from our content partners will help managers and HR professionals go even deeper in their use of Galileo to deploy queries such as the following:
Using Lightcast A hiring manager or recruiter could ask Galileo, “We sell
high-end products to quality-seeking customers, and I am hiring a team of people for my retail store: What skills and backgrounds should I look for in my candidates, and what are the best practices to source and recruit these people?”
Galileo will not only deliver recruiting best practices and case studies, but also detail the “definitive skills” needed in these roles as well as generate behavioral interview questions for each job role and skill.
Using Visier A nursing supervisor or healthcare leader could ask Galileo, “I have been seeing high levels of turnover in our group. Can you tell me if my turnover is too high and if so, what should I do about it?”
Galileo will ask the user for more information, and then compare their turnover rate to industry benchmarks by tenure and guide the manager to understand the nature of their challenge. It will then directly advise the manager on benefits, flexibility, or other management tips to help, and even give the user case studies and examples and help them develop a plan.
Using Oyster A software engineering manager hiring in Prague and Melbourne is negotiating with a candidate, and needs to know what vacation policies, family leave, and other benefits are regionally appropriate for a potential offer. The user can ask, “What are the competitive benefits and family leave policies for these geographies, and what local regulations should I consider to make a good offer?”
Galileo will supply an accurate, data-informed answer and guide the manager to make a competitive offer.
Using Heidrick & Struggles A senior leader of Head of Talent needs a senior Director or VP to lead a critical business initiative; they can now ask Galileo, “How do I identify and assess the right leader for this role? What competencies or experiences should I prioritize?”
Galileo will answer with a series of best practices and assessment approaches, validated through Heidrick & Struggles’ experience with thousands of senior executives.
The Josh Bersin Company selected these partners carefully, validating their data and testing the utility of the information in Galileo.
Over time, The Josh Bersin Company will expand the Galileo Trusted Content Program into more areas of leadership, management, and HR.
Amy Farner, The Josh Bersin Company EVP and Galileo Product Leader, says:
“The Josh Bersin Company Galileo AI HR knowledge base will soon be the most trusted and useful in the market.
“We are thrilled to welcome this first wave of Galileo Trusted Content Program partners, and also look forward, over time, to expanding the Galileo corpus in a measured, trusted, and valuable way.”
Josh Bersin, global HR research analyst and CEO of The Josh Bersin Company, says:
“It’s such a pleasure to announce this on this great first day at Irresistible.
“Integrating their great content means Galileo will help business leaders and HR professionals at all levels get even more spectacular information at their fingertips.”
