Fuel50 launches Leader Coach agent to build organizational capability for the age of AI. Official News, Awards, and Media Partnerships from the Talent Intelligence Leader. LAGUNA NIGUEL, CA, UNITED STATES, October 8, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ - Fuel50, the award-winning Workforce Transformation Platform, today announced Leader Coach, a purpose-built AI agent for direct-line people leaders. The Leader Coach agent gives managers a manager-focused copilot for understanding team capability, strengthening career conversations, and taking practical action as work and skills evolve. AI continues to shape how people perform work. Roles evolve, required skills shift, and organizations face growing pressure to build capability internally while retaining the people they need for transformation. Yet managers often spend valuable preparation time gathering fragmented skills, feedback, career, and development information before a 1:1 or team discussion. That gap creates a strategic cost. When managers lack a clear view of team capability and individual aspirations, they miss development opportunities, delay internal moves, and leave valuable skills underused. Organizations then place greater pressure on external hiring and struggle to turn workforce strategy into everyday leadership action. "Leaders are critical to ensure workforce strategy reaches people in a way that builds capability, engagement and alignment. Managers powerfully shape the employee experience and directly influence growth, mobility, and reskilling. Its Fuel50 Leader Coach agent gives managers the tools they need to do this, with context and practical direction they can use in the moment. By keeping the individual at the center, this not only serves business performance but also individual and team success." Jo Mills, CEO of Fuel50 Leader Coach brings Fuel50's skills, career, and talent marketplace data into one natural-language experience. It interprets the available context around a team or individual, identifies where attention matters most, and connects insight to practical next steps. For organizations, that creates value across three strategic priorities: * Build critical capability faster: Managers see where strengths, gaps, and role expectations affect team performance, giving talent leaders a stronger path from skills strategy to day-to-day development. * Retain and mobilize internal talent: Managers connect individual aspirations, career interests, and development needs to mentors, gigs, and assessments, giving people clearer reasons to grow inside the organization. * Increase leadership follow-through: Prioritized guidance and recommendations give managers a clearer route from a skills signal to a focused conversation, a development decision, or a next step. Leader Coach keeps the manager in the decision loop. The agent supports direct-line leaders with evidence and guidance; it does not make people decisions or replace managers, HR professionals, coaches, or other expertise. Fuel50 grounds the Leader Coach agent's guidance in proven I/O psychology coaching frameworks for workplace contexts. The experience brings people-science expertise to development, feedback, strengths, performance, and sensitive conversations without presenting generic AI advice. Fuel50 differentiates their Leader Coach agent through the combination of skills intelligence, career context, contextual coaching guidance, and connected development action. The direct-team focus gives managers depth and precision for the people they lead rather than broad workforce analysis or organization-wide planning. "Managers don't need another source of information to interpret. They need a clear next step," said Sean Sampayo, Chief Product Officer of Fuel50. "Leader Coach combines current Fuel50 skills and career data with coaching guidance based on established I/O psychology frameworks and grounded in real world context. It gives managers a practical next step, strengthens the conversation around growth, and keeps human judgment at the center of decisions about development and opportunity." Leader Coach advances Fuel50's founding vision to understand talent, activate skills, and evolve capability from the inside out. By bringing trusted intelligence closer to the manager, Fuel50 gives leaders a stronger role in building the workforce the business needs next. Fuel50's broader agent strategy supports employees, managers, and talent teams from a shared skills and talent intelligence foundation. The Leader Coach is part of Fuel50's broader agent ecosystem, alongside the Career Advisor agent. Both experiences are connected through Fuel50's shared, real-time skills and talent intelligence foundation. Fuel50 will continue to evolve the Leader Coach agent around the recurring moments that shape workforce outcomes: team development, career growth, internal opportunity, and adaptation as work changes. To learn more about Fuel50's Leader Coach, register for the webinar on Oct 14. About Fuel50 Fuel50 is the Workforce Transformation Platform that helps enterprises understand, activate, and evolve their talent from the inside out. Purpose-built for workforce transformation, Fuel50 provides the intelligence to see workforce capability, gaps, aspirations, and internal potential - and the activation system to move employees into the roles, projects, learning, mentoring, and career pathways the business needs next. With Fuel50, organizations can reinvent, redeploy, retain, and reactivate talent at scale, reducing dependency on external hiring and disruptive restructuring while keeping the people who make transformation possible. Fuel50 partners with leading enterprises to build more agile, resilient, and future-ready workforces. Media ContactAshley Levesque, Fuel50 [email protected] Close your skill gaps, retain your talent.

Fuel50 enters its next chapter as acquisition by Phoenix Education Partners closes. Official News, Awards, and Media Partnerships from the Talent Intelligence Leader. LAGUNA NIGUEL, CA, UNITED STATES, September 24, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ - Fuel50, Inc. the award-winning Workforce Transformation Platform, today announced the completion of its acquisition by Phoenix Education Partners, Inc. (NYSE: PXED). The closing marks the beginning of a new chapter for the company and its mission to help organizations understand, develop and mobilize the capability of their people. With the closing of the transaction, Fuel50 Co-founder Anne Fulton has stepped down from her role as Chief Executive Officer, and Co-founder and President Jo Mills has assumed leadership of Fuel50 as CEO. Fuel50 will continue to operate under its own brand as a distinct business within Phoenix Education Partners, serving its global enterprise customers and advancing its workforce intelligence, skills, talent mobility and workforce transformation capabilities. "I am enormously proud of what our team has built and of the customers, partners, investors and industry leaders who believed in this mission alongside us. Phoenix Education Partners brings the scale, reach and commitment to workforce development that can take this vision much further. This is the right moment for Fuel50 to begin its next chapter - and for me to step away from executive leadership knowing the company, its people and its mission have an exciting future ahead." Anne Fulton, co-founder of Fuel50 Fuel50 Executive Chairman and veteran technology entrepreneur Andrew "Flip" Filipowski reflected on Fulton's contribution to the company and the wider technology industry. "Great founders don't simply build products - they see shifts in the world before they become obvious and build companies around those convictions," said Filipowski. "Anne has done that repeatedly. She saw early that careers needed to become more employee-driven, that skills would become the currency of workforce decisions, and now that AI requires us to understand work at the level of tasks and human contribution. She has built a company with a genuine point of view about the future of people and work. Joining Phoenix Education Partners provides Fuel50 with an extraordinary platform from which to take that thinking forward. Anne leaves an enduring legacy in Fuel50, but I suspect her contribution to this industry is far from finished." The acquisition brings together Fuel50's workforce intelligence and transformation capabilities with Phoenix Education Partners' focus on education, skills and workforce development. The organizations see an opportunity to more deeply connect intelligence about how work is changing with the skills, development and career pathways people need to remain relevant and thrive in an AI-enabled economy. Jo Mills, co-founder and CEO of Fuel50, said Fuel50's next phase will build on the principles that have guided the company from its beginnings. "Anne and I built Fuel50 around a deeply shared belief in human potential and the importance of giving people greater agency over their working lives," said Mills. "The best way we can honor that founding vision is to keep evolving it. As we begin this next chapter with Phoenix Education Partners, I'm excited to lead Fuel50 forward with our team, customers and partners. Together, we can help organizations make better choices about people, capability and work as AI reshapes the workforce." About Fuel50 Fuel50 is the Workforce Transformation Platform that helps enterprises understand, activate and evolve their talent from the inside out. Purpose-built for workforce transformation, Fuel50 provides the intelligence to see workforce capability, gaps, aspirations and internal potential - and the activation system to move employees into the roles, projects, learning, mentoring and career pathways the business needs next. With Fuel50, organizations can reinvent, redeploy, retain and reactivate talent at scale, reducing dependency on external hiring and disruptive restructuring while keeping the people who make transformation possible. Fuel50 partners with leading enterprises to build more agile, resilient and future-ready workforces. For more information, visit fuel50.com. About Phoenix Education Partners Phoenix Education Partners, Inc. is the parent company of The University of Phoenix, Inc., a pioneer in online education for working adults. Founded in 1976, University of Phoenix provides access to higher education opportunities that enable students to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to achieve their professional goals, improve the performance of their organizations and provide leadership and service to their communities. For more information, visit phoenixeducationpartners.com. Forward-Looking StatementsThis press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which involve risks and uncertainties. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this press release are forward-looking statements. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause its actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause its results to vary from expectations include, but are not limited to: its ability to successfully integrate Fuel50 and realize the anticipated benefits of the acquisition; unexpected costs, charges or expenses resulting from the acquisition; the potential impact of the announcement or consummation of the acquisition on relationships with third parties, including customers, employees, and business partners; and other risk factors identified in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K. These forward-looking statements are based on assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties. Given these uncertainties, undue reliance should not be placed on these forward-looking statements. 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Fuel50 stakes its claim on Task Intelligence as AI reshapes work. Official News, Awards, and Media Partnerships from the Talent Intelligence Leader. LAGUNA NIGUEL, CA, UNITED STATES, June 23, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ - Fuel50, the award winning workforce transformation platform, today outlined its vision for Task Intelligence: a new layer of workforce intelligence designed to help organizations understand how AI is changing work at the task level, not just at the role or skill level. As AI changes the task mix inside roles before it eliminates or creates whole roles, role-level and headcount-level planning on its own is no longer precise enough. The more useful questions now sit below the role: which tasks are being automated, which are being augmented, which should remain human-led, and where changing work creates the opportunity for people to move into higher-value work. Fuel50's view is simple: skills and tasks together are required to understand how work is changing in the AI era. Skills tell leaders what people can do. Tasks show what work is actually being done - and where automation, augmentation, judgment, creativity, accountability, and human development still matter most. Skills without task context can stay too abstract. Tasks without skills can collapse into a narrow efficiency exercise. What organizations need instead is a model that links enduring capability to changing work, then connects that insight to action across mobility, learning, workforce planning, and work redesign. "Most organizations are still trying to understand AI's impact through job titles, headcount plans, or generic automation narratives. We think that misses the point. Work changes at the task level first. If you cannot see that clearly, you cannot redesign roles well, build credible reskilling pathways, or make confident workforce decisions." Anne Fulton, CEO of Fuel50 Fuel50 sees Task Intelligence as the missing atomic unit in workforce intelligence. Once organizations can see work at that level of resolution, they can redesign roles based on evidence, identify the highest-leverage augmentation opportunities, and build reskilling and redeployment pathways around where work is genuinely shifting. The company is deliberately avoiding a reductive approach to the category. Fuel50 does not believe Task Intelligence should collapse into a single "AI potential" score or a shallow automation percentage. Instead, its point of view is that organizations need a more useful posture on work change - one that asks not only whether AI can do a task, but whether it should, whether it already has, and what leaders should do next. That philosophy reflects a broader principle inside Fuel50's product direction: automate tasks, not people. In practice, this means Fuel50 is expanding its Skills Intelligence platform into a broader work intelligence layer that connects skills, tasks, roles, adjacencies, and workforce signals. Within that model, Task Intelligence becomes the mechanism for understanding how AI is reshaping work, how task mixes inside roles are changing, and what that means for role redesign, workforce planning, reskilling, and internal mobility. Over time, Fuel50 expects that intelligence layer to work in tandem with Fuel50 Agents as the activation surface for change - helping organizations turn insight into practical next steps, pathways, guidance, and support for employees, managers, and HR teams as work evolves. "Most organizations know work is changing, but they still lack a practical way to see what is happening inside roles and what to do next," Fulton said. "They need a clearer model that links skills to tasks so they can make better decisions about role design, workforce planning, reskilling, and internal mobility. That is the direction we believe the market needs now." Fuel50 is beginning to release Task Intelligence capabilities into its platform in early September, with further releases planned through the end of 2026 and early 2027, to help organizations understand changing work at the task level and respond through skills, mobility, and workforce transformation. Use cases include helping organizations: * understand how AI is changing work at the task level, not just at the role or skill level * gain a clearer view of which work is best automated, augmented, or kept human-led * inform role redesign, workforce planning, reskilling, and internal mobility decisions * identify emerging capability needs as task mixes shift * connect task-level change to practical talent actions over time * support more transparent, longer-term reskilling and redeployment planning About Fuel50 Fuel50 is the Workforce Transformation Platform powering how enterprises understand, activate, and evolve their talent. Built for enterprises transforming with people, not around them, Fuel50 provides the intelligence to see workforce capability, gaps, aspirations, and internal potential - and the activation system to move employees into the roles, projects, learning, mentoring, and career pathways the business needs next. With Fuel50, organizations can reinvent, redeploy, retain, and reactivate talent at scale, reducing dependency on external hiring and disruptive restructuring while keeping the people who make transformation possible. Fuel50 partners with leading enterprises to build more agile, resilient, and future-ready workforces. For more information, visit https://fuel50.com/agentic-hub/mcp-server Ashley Levesque, Fuel50 Mail Fuel50 at: [email protected] Visit Fuel50 on social media: LinkedIn Close your skill gaps, retain your talent.