- Online trade school SkillCat launched HVAC training and job placement program JobReady in partnership with the EGIA Foundation, a nationwide 501(c)(3) organization focused on promoting HVAC as a first-choice career option through a coalition of industry stakeholders devoted to building the home service trades workforce through initiatives including public outreach, mentorship programs, and scholarships. The first cohort includes 76 students from across the United States, each selected to participate in a 13-week experience designed to take them from zero experience to job-ready and real HVAC job opportunities. The program includes free training and tools, hands-on experience, and guaranteed job interviews.
- Fitch Learning, a global leader in financial services education, and Founderz, a European artificial intelligence (AI) business school, formed a strategic partnership that will provide learners worldwide with personalized training that combines Fitch’s expertise in financial services education with Founderz’s multilingual AI learning platform and global community reach. The partnership is underpinned by a strategic investment in Founderz by HearstLab, a Hearst investment arm. HearstLab invests globally in women-led companies building high-potential, category-defining businesses. Fitch Learning is part of Fitch Group, which is owned by Hearst.
- Independent public relations firm MikeWorldWide (MWW) acquired HudsonLake, a strategic communications firm specializing in organizational change, employee experience, and workforce communications. HudsonLake brings proficiency in organizational transformation, employee and leadership communications, talent strategy and employee experience, employer branding and recruitment marketing, and labor and workforce relations. It will continue to operate as HudsonLake, a MikeWorldWide company.
- Tricoci University of Beauty Culture partnered with Amika, bringing the professional haircare brand into classrooms and student salons across all 15 campuses. Through the partnership, students are training with salon-quality products while learning the technical skills and product knowledge they’ll need in today’s beauty industry.
- Pearson and Salesforce expanded their strategic partnership aimed at accelerating AI readiness and skills development across Salesforce’s global workforce. The multi-year collaboration creates an AI-powered approach to workforce development by connecting Salesforce’s customer relationship management (CRM) technologies with Pearson’s expertise in skills intelligence, assessment, and learning design. Employees across Pearson use Salesforce each day to work more efficiently, supported by integrated capabilities across Agentforce Sales, Agentforce Service, Agentforce Marketing, and Agentforce Data. Pearson now will provide role insights, identify skills gaps, and deliver targeted learning for Salesforce employees.
- BSI, a global leader in standards and certification, and Coursera, a global platform for online learning and career development, formed a new global training partnership designed to enable professionals from all industries to engage with on-demand, modular courses in areas such as AI, health and safety, and other areas of professional development to acquire practical business skills.
- Crucial Learning, a provider of learning solutions that help organizations improve execution and performance, formed a strategic partnership with Replay, a provider of interactive AI training technology, to expand and enhance practice-based learning across the Crucial Learning Platform. Crucial Learning will integrate Replay’s AI-powered role-play and coaching capabilities into its proprietary learning platform with the goal of helping organizations build capability at scale and turn learning into consistent on-the-job behavior.
- Bites, a frontline enablement platform, and EZShift, a workforce scheduling and attendance platform built for shift-based organizations, formed a strategic partnership. The integration surfaces Bites’ microlearning content directly within EZShift’s scheduling environment, allowing frontline employees to access training without leaving the tools they use each shift. Joint customers will see Bites content appear natively inside EZShift’s employee-facing interface without any new apps or logins. Training is delivered where work already happens, in the context of daily operations, at shift start, during schedule reviews, or alongside attendance check-ins. This turns everyday shift management into a continuous learning environment.
- Online compliance training and solutions company Traliant announced a new strategic partnership with Case IQ, a global leader in investigative case management and integrated compliance solutions. The collaboration brings together Traliant’s compliance training solutions with Case IQ’s intake, investigation, and compliance management products to support a more comprehensive risk management approach for employers across industries. Through this partnership, Traliant customers will be eligible for preferred rates on Case IQ’s suite of solutions.
- Global AI and technology transformation solutions firm UST acquired Intecrowd LLC, a private boutique Workday Services partner. The move will help UST meet the needs of its global client base while also expanding its portfolio in the Workday ecosystem and enhancing its ability to deliver AI-powered solutions at scale.
New Training Partnerships and Alliances (June 2026)
The latest training industry mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and more.
