The new AI-native platform helps enterprises enhance AI proficiency, aligning employee capabilities with the demands of an AI-driven economy and promoting business goal-oriented, outcome-based learning.
Leveraging Cognizant’s extensive, long-standing expertise in employee training, Skillspring assists enterprises in viewing skill-building as a critical AI infrastructure investment.
TEANECK, N.J.April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) today launched Cognizant Skillspring™, a multimodal, AI-native, conversational learning platform designed to redefine learning in the age of AI and help enterprises scale the development of AI-ready talent. Moving beyond traditional static courses and compliance-driven training, the platform enables businesses to rapidly respond to evolving job, technology, and skill demands, ensuring learning investments translate into tangible business outcomes.
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Cognizant’s “New Work, New World 2026” research finds that AI is reshaping work at a pace far exceeding expectations, currently capable of handling up to $4.5 trillion worth of U.S. work tasks and impacting up to 93% of jobs—evolving faster than traditional learning systems can respond. As enterprises reshape work around human and agent teams, skill-building is becoming a core component of AI infrastructure, a foundational capability every organization must possess—helping employees acquire the AI competencies needed to adapt to evolving work, create value in new ways, and grow into pivotal roles in emerging jobs.
Cognizant Skillspring delivers high-quality, personalized learning experiences at scale through AI agent-driven coaching and content generation, while also helping enterprises manage learning and development costs more efficiently. The platform directly links skills to jobs, projects, and performance outcomes, dynamically adjusting learning paths as job and skill requirements evolve. Its conversational, multimodal experience seamlessly integrates learning into clients’ daily workflows, enabling employees to upskill as they work.
Internally, Cognizant Skillspring is complemented by an AI proficiency dashboard, providing a personalized, real-time view that allows every employee to clearly understand their own AI readiness level, while also driving practical AI application and innovation across the enterprise. This dashboard, through scoring and gamification, gives Cognizant employees comprehensive insight into their AI skills, learning progress, usage, and innovation performance, thereby accelerating AI adoption and fostering its deep integration into daily work.
“In the age of AI, we need to build more dynamic learning systems that can continuously renew themselves as work, roles, and technology evolve,” said Kathy Diaz, Chief People Officer at Cognizant. “Cognizant Skillspring is purpose-built for the speed and complexity of today, enabling talent transformation to occur naturally and continuously within the flow of work. As builders of AI, Cognizant is focused on turning AI investments into tangible outcomes for our clients. Cognizant Skillspring shortens the time to competency and strengthens the alignment between skill investments and business priorities, ensuring workforces remain ready as jobs and technology continuously transform.”
Cognizant Skillspring is also available to universities, colleges, communities, and workforce development partners, further demonstrating Cognizant’s commitment to opening pathways for diverse talent to grow and thrive in the AI era. This builds upon the company’s ongoing investments in upskilling and workforce readiness, including its global upskilling initiative Synapse and its White House commitment to investing in American youth and AI education.
“Like all educational institutions, Marcy Lab School must also continuously innovate to keep pace with economic shifts and fully prepare our fellows for a rapidly changing workplace,” said Reuben Ogbonna II, Executive Director of Marcy Lab School. “In the age of AI, nearly every workflow is being reshaped, and we see this as a significant opportunity to further strengthen how we prepare young people for meaningful career paths. With Cognizant’s support and the Skillspring platform, fellows will more efficiently acquire job-ready skills through high-quality learning aligned with the roles and projects they take on at leading companies.”
Skillspring has been deployed first within Cognizant, a result of the company’s award-winning expertise and sustained investment in learning and development, which provides a structured upskilling framework for hundreds of thousands of employees annually.
“Our upskilling engine combines advanced technology, digital capabilities, and critical human skills, with learning programs recognized for future-focused curriculum design, innovation, and measurable impact,” said Thirumala Arohi, Chief Learning Officer at Cognizant. “Cognizant Skillspring brings an AI-native learning experience to enterprise, community, and academic ecosystems, supporting both the scaled transformation of enterprise workforces and helping partners develop learners equipped for the jobs and dynamic skill demands of the future.”
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Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for clients. With deep industry, process, and engineering expertise, we can deeply integrate an organization’s unique business context and technology systems, unleash human potential, create tangible returns, and help global enterprises stay ahead in a rapidly changing world. Visit www.cognizant.com or follow us on social media @cognizant for more information.
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