The brainchild of global analyst and thought-leader Josh Bersin, The Josh Bersin Company was designed to help HR leaders and professionals thrive in an ever-evolving industry.

Thanks to our understanding of workplace issues, informed by the largest and most up-to-date data sets on workers and employees, we give leaders the confidence to make decisions in line with latest thinking, and practitioners the skills they need to succeed.

Providing insights and research, advisory services, and professional development for the HR industry, we’ve helped over a million HR and business leaders overcome their greatest people challenges – we are proud to be known as the Most Trusted Human Capital Advisors in the World.

Galileo references more than 50,000 pages of Josh Bersin Company research, including podcasts, articles, and comprehensive data and analysis on a wide variety of topics. These include talent acquisition, talent management, corporate training, diversity and inclusion, organization design, rewards and compensation, pay and equity, performance management, leadership development, global HR operations, hybrid work, culture, change management, and every major area of HR technology. Galileo covers more than 500 vendors, and the database is growing and updated weekly.

Galileo also includes carefully curated, high-value content from our Trusted Content Partners, including industry skills for more than 1000 job titles, critical benchmarks by industry, role, tenure, and managerial level, global employment practices in over 100 countries, and global leadership models.

Galileo for Managers is a specialized agent within the Galileo platform designed specifically for non-HR professionals who manage people and is available at no extra cost with no additional opt-in required.

To access this dedicated the agent, users simply need to select the Galileo for Managers agent on the top navigation bar.

While standard Galileo serves HR practitioners with professional-level insights, Galileo for Managers communicates without HR jargon, provides more detailed explanations, and focuses on common management scenarios like conducting interviews, having difficult conversations, managing hybrid teams, and providing performance feedback.

Galileo and Galileo Learn are two separate offerings, creating a powerful toolkit for HR Excellence. Galileo helps HR professionals boost their productivity, and Galileo Learn helps them build deep expertise in their field through hyperpersonalized professional development.

While the products are separate, they are deeply integrated for a seamless user experience. Users can access both knowledge and learning content through a single entry point.

When a user asks Galileo a prompt (such as about career pathways), the system now surfaces not only research, case studies, and best practices from the Josh Bersin Company corpus, but also relevant learning courses from Galileo Learn.

With one click, users can transition from consuming information to engaging in structured learning experiences.

Consultant Mode represents a significant evolution in Galileo's capabilities. Unlike a typical assistant that primarily answers direct questions, Consultant Mode allows Galileo to act more like an experienced organizational consultant. When activated (e.g., by asking to "solve a problem"), Galileo will proactively ask clarifying questions about the user's company, challenges, and environment. Based on these inputs and its vast knowledge, it can then provide tailored diagnostics, advice, and detailed action plans, mirroring the iterative process of a human consultant.

The Meeting Assistant is a new feature that allows users to invite Galileo to virtual or in-person meetings. Galileo can record the meeting, generate accurate summaries, and identify key follow-up items. Importantly, the meeting transcripts are stored within Galileo's knowledge base, enabling users to later ask questions about past discussions, track project decisions, and analyze interview content for candidate evaluation based on skills, empathy, and experience as defined by the UCF, Lightcast, and corporate job descriptions and capability models.

Our Trusted Content Partners include:

Lightcast: Working with Lightcast Skills data, Galileo maintains a constantly updated list of 20,000+ skills aligned to 1000+ job titles, enabling you to build skills-based recruiting tools, development tools, career management tools, and job analysis tools. This data set is unparalleled in the world and Galileo makes it easy for you to learn about skills and use skills-based approaches in all your HR work.

Oyster: Through Oyster's contribution, Galileo understands thousands of global employment practices in more than 100 countries, enabling you to specify job offers, benefits, and plan local HR practices which vary around the world. Galileo users have access to a wealth of data around global employment practices in hiring, pay, benefits, and labor relations.

Reejig: Galileo now features a proprietary Work Ontology® dataset from Reejig that delivers advanced insights on HR roles, tasks, and skills, empowering managers to understand and redesign HR team structures for the AI era, helping users answer how AI will impact work and resourcing, enabling evidence-based HR workforce transformation and skills-based team design.

SHL: Integration of SHL’s industry-leading skills model, built on the renowned SHL Universal Competency Framework. Backed by millions of hiring decisions, SHL provides validated soft skills insights, enabling Galileo users to assess candidates, develop succession plans, identify leaders, and create targeted coaching and development strategies.

Visier: Working with Visier, Galileo understands turnover rates and promotion rates for tens of thousands of jobs, enabling you as an HR professional or business leader to benchmark your company’s performance and then diagnose and build new tools to improve retention, engagement, productivity, and long-term growth. The Josh Bersin Company’s in-depth employee experience models and case studies are connected to this data so you can not only benchmark but also immediately improve your performance in all areas of employee engagement.

Yes, Galileo uses advanced Generative AI to allow you to ask questions and prompt it to compare vendors, list best practices, and even create implementation plans, historical perspectives, and in-depth analysis. This means you can ask a question and it will not only provide an answer but give you follow-on prompts to help you learn more, find examples, or download detailed reports, articles, podcasts, or tools. 

It’s easy! Simply sign up for an annual or monthly subscription and you can start using Galileo straight away.

Yes – there are two options. You can sign up for Galileo Professional via this page and buy as many licenses as you like. Alternatively, contact us to discuss our Galileo Enterprise option, which is offered through The Josh Bersin Company corporate membership, and includes full access to our research, advisory services, and professional development through The Josh Bersin Academy.

If you are interested in Galileo Enterprise, please use the Contact Us button on this page and we’ll get in touch.

Galileo does not train its underlying language models on user input, decreasing the risk for data leakage. Data in the platform is encrypted at rest and in transit. The platform follows data privacy regulations and guidelines to protect each individual user. Enterprise instances of Galileo are also available.