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Cognician Overview

What is Cognician?

Cognician activates employee behavior change through scalable, personalized, data-driven digital experiences that achieve measurable change in 30 days or less. This neuroscience-based approach is grounded in action, follow-through, reflection, and social engagement. Cognician's user-friendly interface is chat-based and interactive and guides employees to adopt new ways of thinking and take action for personal development, team collaboration, innovation, and productivity.

Cognician Details
Languages Supported
Afrikaans, Arabic, German, English, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified)
Services Offered
Onboarding Quests, Software Adoption Quests, Leader Activation Quests, Transformation Quests, Customized L&D Solutions
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Provider Description

Cognician provides digital coaching that drives performance in the moment of need


Seller Details
Seller
Cognician
Year Founded
2010
HQ Location
San Francisco, US
Twitter
@cognician
688 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
68 employees on LinkedIn®

Barry K.
BK
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Founder and CEO of Cognician • We deliver digital coaching solutions to activate behavior change at scale

Recent Cognician Reviews

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Rudy M.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Excellence & Innovation"
Carolynne and team went above and beyond to meet (and exceed) our needs. They were true professionals every step of the way and kept us on track to...
Ben T.
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Ben T.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great experience with Cognician!"
Weekly structure that builds upon lessons.
Holly G.
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Holly G.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Delightful Experience with Cognician"
The Cognician team are experts in gamified learning. Their incredible talent designs and develops engaging, fun, and valuable gamified learning exp...

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Cognician Demo - Activate employees to achieve measureable transformation at scale
Cognician's employee activation platform uses evidence-based methods and technology to drive measurable behavior change in businesses, tackling challenges previously deemed too complex or slow. It combines behavioral science and analytics to deliver outcomes in as little as 20 days, supporting la...
Cognician Demo - Multi-day challenges
Employee activation challenges can be scheduled daily, weekly or at any interval, and involve experiences as short as a couple of minutes, or as long as half an hour at a time.
Cognician Demo - Sustainability Quest
Move toward the future of sustainable business by activating new behaviors, practices and process across your workforce.
Cognician Demo - Security Maturity
The Security Maturity Quest activates employees to eliminate or reduce security vulnerabilities.
Cognician Demo - Innovation
The Innovation Quest activates managers to enable, nurture, and reward innovative thinking.
Cognician Demo - Sales Success Quest
The Sales Success Quest activates employees to be action-oriented and empowers them to become resilient, persistent, and responsive.
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Catherine B.
CB
Program Supervisor, Jobs
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Describe the project or task Cognician helped with:

The Cognician team worked with Best Buddies to create a 6 day Development Quest for our participants with developmental and intellectual disabilities. The quest focused on professional development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Cognician?

So much to love about the development quest they worked with us to create but my favorite part is how unique and specialized the quest they created was! It really focused on the current needs of the individuals we work with. It was a wonderful collaborative effort and I felt the team really understood our mission. It also helps how easy and fun it was to use! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cognician?

Nothing comes to mind. I cannot think of anything to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cognician solving and how is that benefiting you?

It created an easy platform for our clients to continue to work on professional development. We created the development quest during the pandemic and this allowed for creative engagement that could be done practicing social distancing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chanel B.
CB
Jobs Program Supervisor
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Describe the project or task Cognician helped with:

The Cognician team helped Best Buddies create a specialized learning experience for our clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This program consisted of 6 challenges over the course of 6 days that focused on providing professional and personal development opportunities virtually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Cognician?

Definitely hard to pick just one!

To start, the program was spectacular. Everything was individualized to our organization and adapted to be inclusive of everyone we work with. The creating and modifying process of the program was easy from our end! The Cognician team did so much work on their end to ensure everything was accessible. Once created, they were receptive to feedback and quickly adjusted the program to meet the needs of our clients. Prior to roll out, their managing guides for staff were informative. During rolling out and with follow up, their team was quick to answer any questions that came up.

The team was equally as wonderful to work with. Every member of the Cognician team was so helpful in making this program a success through out the entire process (from creating, modifying, rolling it out, and foll up). They were quick communicators and had great turn around time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cognician?

Honestly, can't think of anything! Such a wonderful experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cognician solving and how is that benefiting you?

During the pandemic, many of our clients (individuals with IDD) are at home and lacking opportunities they would normally receive for professional and personal development. This program helped create at home opportunities to explore career growth and engage with others all from the comfort of their homes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Describe the project or task Cognician helped with:

Cognician helped my organization set up an amazing 6 day course to engage with participants in our program. The Cognician Team provided excellent resources for the managers and for the users as well. The program addressed ways for our participants to professionally and personally develop their skills that match with our mission. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Cognician?

The Cognician was so thoughtful in catering the program to our program and participants, which ultimately resulted in a higher level of involvement and understanding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cognician?

Absolutely nothing! It was an amazing experience for staff and participants alike, and we have taken the lessons learned during this program into our day to day sessions now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cognician:

Definitely do it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cognician solving and how is that benefiting you?

Participants have expressed that this program supported them with thinking about their short term and long term goals, and creative ways to keep them on track. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Many organizations talk about behavior change but few actually make it happen. Cognician's platform and interface activate employee behaviors at scale through multi-day challenges. I have worked with the team multiple times and consistently see impactful results in our behavior change programs. The programs make change stick in an organization, at scale, by giving employees a chance to learn about, practice, and reflect on new behaviors and ways of working.

What's more is that the team is easy to work with and provides consultative value to design the best programs, much more than a platform provider. Five stars, highly recommend! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Cognician?

Easy to work with, value-add, see results, analytics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cognician?

Wish I could edit content myself without relying on turnaround from them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cognician:

N/A Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cognician solving and how is that benefiting you?

Behavior change at scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amber S.
AS
Accenture Collaboration Services Project Lead
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Describe the project or task Cognician helped with:

I have recently both interacted with Cognician as 1. an end-user of a Leadership Training Program in which Cognician was leveraged for a highly engaging and thought-provoking client simulation, and 2. as an administrator of a training program to upskill, engage and unite 700 people across the globe, with varying levels of experience and industry focuses (High Tech, Health, Energy, etc.) on the broad ecosystem of internal partners and external collaborators relevant to a specific functional area. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Cognician?

As an end-user, the Cognician platform is the most dynamic and engaging platform I have ever used for training/behavior change purposes. Its high level of interactivity made the learning process feel relevant and enjoyable every step of the way; I even got my hand slapped for advancing too quickly in the program, but I couldn't get enough of the platform! Due to the aforementioned factors, all that I learned in that course has really stuck with me, much more so than what I have learned in traditional training courses, and I apply what I learned regularly to positively change both my behavior and that of the team I lead. As an administrator, my experience was even better, if that is possible. Working with the Cognician team has been a dream. Their project management (both in planning and execution phases) is phenomenal and greatly reduced the bandwidth I typically need to run similar trainings outside of this platform. The team was happy to take the key asks I had for the training and build out the full conversation in the tool, then they allowed me to tweak as desired, which was a huge help. The team also edited video I wanted to use, provided me with whatever metrics I wanted to see during and after the challenge, and they were incredibly responsive, agile and positive. The CEO spoke with me at least 5 times during the planning and running of the campaign to ensure success, and I am sure he would have met with me even more had I asked. There was no need though, as his team does amazing work! The CEO and his team also regularly shared ideas for optimal participation and engagement (a map of participants across the globe, multiple infographics, and many other images/tools), which they executed without any additional cost. I received hundreds of positive comments from general end-users and Business Leader on the training and the Cognician platform, particularly around its high level of interactivity. In total, we received 3000+ comments in Cognician, including over 185 ideas for ways to use our ecosystem to better solve client challenges - an incredible amount of innovative, diverse data for us to use to inform our ecosystem and ventures & acquisition efforts! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cognician?

Honestly, nothing. It is a phenomenal platform, that I understand the team to be evolving constantly to provide even more helpful features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cognician solving and how is that benefiting you?

Please see my other responses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Legal Services
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Describe the project or task Cognician helped with:

Cognician helped us digitize an ongoing internal training program based on case studies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Cognician?

Cognician's approachable, collaborative work style Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cognician?

Sometimes we have to re-check things we already checked. The facility for monitoring/data reporting from the platform has not been effective for a global program of the kind we are running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cognician solving and how is that benefiting you?

Digitizing an existing, high profile, internal training program. It has been a great experience working with Cognician to achieve this - retaining all the positive features of the original paper-based version and taking it to a new level. The training modules look superb and the platform has enhanced the user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Management Consulting
MM
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Describe the project or task Cognician helped with:

To support us with a 30 day challenge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Cognician?

The flexibilty of the solution to meet our needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cognician?

I have not identified any issues to date Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cognician solving and how is that benefiting you?

Embedding Inclusive leadership behaviors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Senior Principal
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Describe the project or task Cognician helped with:

Hired Cognician to enable behavior change and new ways of working for agile enterprise transformation. The learning was delivered over a period of 6 months in highly-engaging "micro-bites" that kept employees returning for more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Cognician?

The ability to curate content and customize the experience to make it highly interactive and personal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cognician?

Would love to be able to change the narrator/avatar more frequently - within the same learning journey Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cognician:

This team is a wonderful mix of UX designers, highly experienced learning designers, and agile practitioners. They are delivering the very latest in learning theory and cognitive behavior change. Such a positive experience for us as partners - and the best part: learners are hooked! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cognician solving and how is that benefiting you?

BIG ones! Culture change, behavior change, habits, assumptions...ingrained ways of working that are reinforced by bosses and fear of changing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Management Consulting
MM
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Describe the project or task Cognician helped with:

I partnered with Cognician to create digital and personalized learning experiences for my Retail client that was going through strategic process and behavior changes. They needed to deliver learning in an innovative, light, and engaging way to capture the attention of their high-performing and creative workforce as well as relay critical new concepts. Cognician helped implement their platform for the first time with my client within weeks and create visually appealing, engaging, and effective learning content and multimedia. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Cognician?

1. Cognician is relentlessly focused on outcomes. They know the value of digital learning is tied to learner outcomes and enabled by good data. They strategize about how data will be gathered and tracked in their learning content early and equip learning & change management practitioners to use data to improve the outcomes of our work as programs are delivered.

2. Cognician works in an agile and collaborative way to create and deploy learning content quickly while still incorporating time for reviewers to validate or change content.

3. Cognician's platform is extremely intuitive and simple, yet robust in terms of the flexibility with which it can be used. The user experience is easy to use on both computers and mobile devices. It saves progress for you to pick up where you leave off. The ability to embed or link to multimedia and share/communicate with peers is very valuable. Most importantly, once you understand how the platform works, it's extremely flexible to use it in many ways depending on your needs (e.g. surveys, custom learning paths, branching content, etc.)

4. Cognician's capabilities don't stop at technology, but they continue to the philosophy and talent of their instructional design team. They use a Socratic approach to learning that is human and engaging. They advise their clients using these concepts to ensure that each learning experience drives good learner outcomes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cognician?

1. To get the most out of Cognician, you should have dedicated people thinking about the learning experience of business users as opposed to thinking about learning technology in a box.

2. I recommend working with Cognician to implement a Single Sign On solution so that it eases the provisioning and log-in experience of your users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cognician solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are bringing about organizational process and culture changes as well as introducing digital learning to businesses that use more traditional learning approaches. We have seen positive employee sentiment about the experience and satisfaction about the innovative ways their employers are helping their professional development. Most importantly, we are seeing the value of having extensive and reliable data to measure the impact of change management initiatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
TI
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Describe the project or task Cognician helped with:

Cognician was large of a large digital learning transformation project. While my team and I were on-site, we worked alongside Cognician to develop several digital learning programs to help employees adapt to new ways of working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Cognician?

I liked the variety of features in the program - we were able to add different channels of multi-media which made the program more engaging and interactive. The program itself was seamless and fun which I think are the most important things when rolling out a learning program to people. In addition, behind the program, I enjoyed the people that I worked with. They were able to ramp up quickly and take our visions and bring it to life. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cognician?

If I had to choose a downside, I think it would be the data analytics part. I think although it is mature, there are some aspects that make it less versatile than it can be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cognician:

Find different channels to communicate outside of emails - slack, teams, etc. Emails are great for important messages but I think it's important to see what else is available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cognician solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were trying to roll out new ways of working to our client and we were able to develop learning journeys for the client by using Cognician. People are used to traditional ways of learning (classroom settings, e-modules) but Cognician brings a different twist, it's bite-sized and engaging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.