We transform learning and development through collective engagement.

Presenting Honor Education, an integrated teaching and learning platform for companies of all sizes. We draw on learning research and cutting edge design to elevate and enhance collective engagement in training outside of live sessions.

  • Affords managers with lightweight, easy-to-use tools for guiding their employees through course materials

  • Provides employees with a rich mobile-first experience for collectively engaging with those materials — sharing questions, comments, and insights

  • Incorporates your brand in design elements to ensure the company culture and brand is consistent throughout the experience

  • Leverages rich information on employee engagement to drive learning analytics in support of meeting corporate and employee goals

Our team

Our team combines deep experience in enterprise learning uniquely complemented with wide expertise in building community through collaboration and technology.

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Joel Podolny

CEO and Co-Founder

Prior to starting Honor Education, Joel was a Vice President at Apple and the founding Dean of Apple University, where he oversaw learning in areas such as leadership, management, and company culture. Before that, Joel served as Dean and Professor of Management at the Yale School of Management. He previously held professorships at Harvard Business School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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    Shadee Barkan

    Chief Partnership Officer

    Chief Partnership Officer at Trilogy from startup to acquisition, SVP at 2U

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    Pooja Brown

    Chief Technology Officer

    SVP at StitchFix and VP at DocuSign from startup to IPO

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    Steve Guttman

    Chief Customer Officer

    25+ years at Apple, including founding member of Apple University

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    Steve LaBella

    Chief Strategy Officer

    VP and first marketing executive at Snap, from pre to post IPO

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    Kelly Crabb

    SVP Partnerships

    SVP Sales Mainstay, VP Global Sales ExamSoft (purchased by Turnitin)

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    Jihan Quail

    SVP, Business Development

    VP of University Partnerships at 2U, 15+ years in enterprise and education sales

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    Katie Barcelona

    VP Brand and Design

    Associate partner at Pentagram and head of brand at Pinterest

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    Jeremy Dean

    VP Learning Design

    15+ years classroom teaching experience, head of education verticals at Hypothesis and Genius

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    Amit Karan

    VP Engineering

    Head of engineering for customer facing experiences at DocuSign

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    Brian Kelley

    VP Product

    VP of Product Development at Noodle specializing in Data Integrations and Learning Tools

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    Sharon Roth

    VP of Product

    Head of Product developing enterprise machine learning platform at Tamr

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    Glen Spencer

    VP Partnerships

    Higher education sales at Apple for 10 years and Pearson Education

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Our suite of tools empowers employers with easy, versatile, flexible technology that fits any style.

1. Great storytelling

Start simple and enhance quickly

Whether starting from scratch or transferring existing courses over from an LMS, Honor tools ensure material isn’t just delivered, it’s activated.

Easily stitch together narratives

Customized learning material, manager notes, and audio commentaries are stitched together into one seamless experience that inspires learning.

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Activated content means activated learning. By bringing the company’s voice to life, engagement is deepened and learning grows.

2. Activated content

Customize learning material seamlessly

Customization tools for trimming videos, images, and documents prime material for focused learning.

Check knowledge along the way

Collective Prompts give trainers insight into comprehension at any point while giving employees added exploration into their team’s responses.

Contextualize content in exact places

Commentary frames content by infusing the company’s voice at exact moments in the learning material.

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3. Belonging and equal voice

True equity goes beyond access; it’s about moving everyone forward together.

Take action with better visibility

Our powerful pinpoint analytics are easy-to-reach in real time, offering equitable, timely, actionable insights for companies.

Access better learning anytime

Workforces today require access to material in a way that fits their lives, whether they are commuting, managing childcare, or on work breaks. A mobile-first design means more learning opportunities.

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Much of the time employees devote to a course learning is not co-present with other team members. We turn this time into active learning by giving learners opportunities to react and share with their colleagues asynchronously.

4. Connected engagement

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Highlight intentionally with purpose

The Reaction Button goes beyond simple, static highlighting by capturing the why, not just the what.

Share Reactions to drive discourse

Teams are invited to learn more together even when they aren’t together. Seeing how colleagues are reacting to learning material drives critical thinking, community, and insight.

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5. Skills for life

Employees need more than just job training. Managers need to develop a team that can be just as successful communicating internally as they are externally. Critical skills include: critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and time management.

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Stay on track

Scheduling helps keep learners on track and understand their study schedule in manageable ways.

Expand perspectives

All learning sessions are opportunities for shared insights that enhance communication and collaborative skills.

We are 3 times more engaged when we learn collectively.

We tracked engagement during two types of asynchronous learning sessions: in the first, learners were able to observe how their colleagues were reacting to the material, and in the second, employees had no visibility of their colleagues. We found that individuals were 3x more engaged when they were able to learn collectively alongside their colleagues in virtual sessions.