Company Research Report: WithYouWithMe

Company Overview

Name

WithYouWithMe (WYWM)

Mission

To solve underemployment for underrepresented groups and fully utilize workforces by evolving their skills to meet organisational needs through proprietary software and talent creation services.

Founding

Founded: 2015
Founders: Tom Moore, Luke Rix, Sam Baynes, and Alby Greig

Key People

• Tom Larter: CEO

• Cia Kouparitsas: Chief Customer Officer

• Paul Wahltuch: Chief Product Officer

• Jessica Dwyer: People & Culture Director

• Rebekah Nugent: Vice President of Operations

• James McLaughlin: Vice President UK and North America

• Ian Handley: Vice President Oceania

Headquarters

Sydney, Australia
109 Regent Street, Chippendale, NSW 2008

Number of Employees

300+ globally

Revenue

No information is available

Known For

WYWM is known for its employee activation platform, Potential, which identifies, grows, and mobilises an individual's skills to align with organisational needs. They provide career pathways for underrepresented groups including veterans, neurodivergent individuals, and military families.

Products

Potential Platform

High-level Description

Potential is an employee activation platform that identifies, grows, and mobilises an individual’s skills to align them with organisational needs. This platform captures, verifies, and maps workforce capabilities against a world-leading skills framework, providing holistic talent assessment and actionable workforce insights.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Skills Mapping: Provides unprecedented visibility over workforce skills.

• Holistic Talent Assessment: Combines data on technical skills, cognitive aptitude, personality traits, learning preferences, and working styles.

• Employee Activation: Offers personalised development pathways that align with organisational goals.

• Actionable Workforce Insights: Facilitates skills-based workforce planning.

• High Training Completion Rate: Achieves training completion rates more than 2.5x the industry average.

Recent Developments

New Products and Features

• AI Bootcamp: Sponsorship by Microsoft and WYWM to train 60 Australian women in AI and to upskill them for high-demand tech roles.

• Digital Drive: Initiative with the Queensland Government to upskill diverse Queenslanders for participation in the state's digital economy.

• Skills Mapping: Enhancements to user profiles on Potential platform including skills self-assessment.

New Partnerships

• GED Tech Apprenticeship Program: Partnership that provides free access to aptitude assessments, training programs, and job matchmaking for GED learners in the U.S.

• Leonardo UK and Atkins Réalis: Collaboration to employ veterans in digital roles.

Awards and Recognitions

• 2024 Winner: Champion of Change

• 2023 Winner: Out of the Garage (Growth)

• 2023 Finalist: DE&I Champion of the Year

• 2022 Winner: Best Industry Initiative that Supports DE&I

Conclusion

This report provides an in-depth look into WithYouWithMe’s mission, leadership, products, and recent advancements. WYWM uses its Potential platform and talent creation services to address underemployment by identifying and developing skills within underrepresented communities, aligning them with organisational needs for mutual growth and success.