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Perceptyx named to Fast Company's annual list of the World's Most Innovative Companies of 2026. March 24, 2026 Perceptyx joins the ranks of Google, Nvidia, Adidas, Walmart, and more TEMECULA, CA - March 24, 2026 - Perceptyx is proud to have been named to Fast Company's prestigious list of the World's Most Innovative Companies of 2026. This year's list shines a spotlight on businesses that are shaping industry and culture through their innovations. Alongside the World's 50 Most Innovative Companies, Fast Company recognizes 720 honorees across 59 sectors and regions. "We're honored to be recognized by Fast Company," said Ross Wainwright, CEO of Perceptyx. "For decades, organizations have invested in employee listening and learning, but those efforts have remained disconnected - and that's limited their impact. We saw an opportunity to fundamentally rethink this model by connecting insight, skill development, and behavior change into a single, continuous system. When you can actually verify that employees are learning, applying new skills, and changing behavior - not just completing courses - you shift HR from measuring activity to proving capability. That's a fundamentally different value proposition in the HR category." Perceptyx has built a new model for people activation - one that closes the long-standing gap between employee insight and action. Rather than treating employee listening and learning as separate functions, the company enables organizations to continuously identify what needs to change, build the capabilities to support that change, and reinforce it directly in the flow of work. This approach is powered by Perceptyx's AI-driven platform, which includes its flagship listening product Discover, and deploys purpose-built AI agents across the workforce lifecycle. Its award-winning coaching agent, Activate, delivers targeted guidance to managers based on team-specific feedback and learning agents engage employees in real-time conversational practice and validate whether concepts were actually understood - not just consumed. Together, these agents surface capability gaps and activate interventions in the flow of work, creating a continuous cycle of diagnosis, development, reinforcement, and proof. A defining innovation is Perceptyx's ability to verify skill development and real-world application. The ability to prove learning - not just deliver it - was accelerated by Perceptyx's recent acquisition of Lyceum, an AI-native learning platform whose conversational learning and comprehension validation technology are core to the platform. By shifting from measuring activity to proving capability and behavior change, Perceptyx gives HR leaders a direct line of sight into how workforce investments translate into performance. This transforms employee experience from a measurement function into a system for driving measurable business outcomes. The World's Most Innovative Companies is Fast Company's hallmark franchise and one of its most anticipated editorial efforts of the year. To determine honorees, Fast Company's editors and writers review companies driving progress around the world and across industries, evaluating thousands of submissions through a competitive application process. The result is a globe-spanning guide to innovation today, from early-stage startups to some of the most valuable companies in the world. "Our list of the Most Innovative Companies is about spotlighting organizations that don't just adapt to change - they drive it," said Brendan Vaughan, editor-in-chief of Fast Company. "The companies we honor this year are redefining what leadership looks like in 2026, pairing bold ideas with measurable impact and turning breakthrough innovation into real-world value. They are setting the pace for their industries and offering a blueprint for what sustained innovation can achieve." The full list of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies honorees can now be found at fastcompany.com. It will also be available on newsstands beginning March 31, 2026. Fast Company will host the Most Innovative Companies Summit and Gala for honorees on May 19 in New York City. The summit features a day of inspiring content, followed by a creative black-tie gala including networking, a seated dinner, and an honoree presentation.

Perceptyx acquires Lyceum AI to close the gap between Employee Experience and learning and development. Acquisition helps organizations translate employee insight into verified skill development, sustained behavior change, and measurable business performance. March 03, 2026 08:00 ET | Source: Perceptyx TEMECULA, Calif., March 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Perceptyx, the AI company for employee experience, today announced its acquisition of Lyceum AI, an AI-native learning platform that transforms static training content into personalized, dynamic learning experiences and automatically assesses understanding to verify skill development and knowledge retention. "By pairing Perceptyx's industry-leading employee listening and activation engine with Lyceum's AI-driven learning and assessment, organizations can finally..." "Employee experience and learning and development have long been organized in silos," "With the addition of Lyceum, we are expanding our ability to close the long-standing gap between employee insight and the critical development of skills to..." "The combination of Perceptyx and Lyceum creates something the HR technology market hasn't had: a single people platform that can identify what needs to..." "By pairing Perceptyx's industry-leading employee listening and activation engine with Lyceum's AI-driven learning and assessment, organizations can finally..." "Employee experience and learning and development have long been organized in silos," "With the addition of Lyceum, we are expanding our ability to close the long-standing gap between employee insight and the critical development of skills to..." "The combination of Perceptyx and Lyceum creates something the HR technology market hasn't had: a single people platform that can identify what needs to..." "By pairing Perceptyx's industry-leading employee listening and activation engine with Lyceum's AI-driven learning and assessment, organizations can finally..." At a time when organizations have optimized for collecting workforce insight and delivering learning content, many still operate in silos as they work to operationalize skill development and behavior change at the speed of business. Perceptyx's acquisition addresses this challenge by unifying workforce insights across HR - connecting what employees are experiencing directly to hyper-personalized learning and development, unlocking behavior change in the flow of work, and delivering measurable impact across the entire workforce. "Employee experience and learning and development have long been organized in silos," said Ross Wainwright, CEO of Perceptyx. "With the addition of Lyceum, we are expanding our ability to close the long-standing gap between employee insight and the critical development of skills to support business execution. This is an important step in helping HR leaders move beyond managing programs to driving meaningful workforce impact." Powered by purpose-built AI agents operating across the full workforce lifecycle, organizations can now more directly translate employee signals into targeted capability-building and coordinated action in the flow of work. Lyceum strengthens this approach by bringing verified skill development and real-world knowledge application into the broader workforce experience. Its AI-native learning agent, Ellie, leverages conversational learning to transform traditional corporate training into personalized and cognitively grounded learning experiences. Unlike conventional platforms that can only measure participation or course completion, Lyceum verifies comprehension, skill development, and real-world application - helping ensure employees can translate learning into performance when it matters most. "The combination of Perceptyx and Lyceum creates something the HR technology market hasn't had: a single people platform that can identify what needs to change, develop the skills to drive that change, and prove it actually happened," said Glenn Platt, CEO of Lyceum AI. "By pairing Perceptyx's industry-leading employee listening and activation engine with Lyceum's AI-driven learning and assessment, organizations can finally close the gap between insight and impact - all in one continuous and accountable loop. For CHROs, L&D, and EX leaders, this is now the platform that makes the entire HR tech stack deliver on its promise." The acquisition comes at a critical moment as organizations navigate accelerating skill disruption, rapid AI adoption, and rising expectations for measurable workforce impact. Increasingly, leaders are prioritizing integrated approaches that connect employee experience, learning, and performance, ensuring workforce investments translate more directly into organizational outcomes. Perceptyx continues to invest in helping organizations move toward a more continuous, adaptive approach to workforce transformation where workforce insight, capability building, and behavior change are more closely connected to how organizations compete and grow. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. About Perceptyx Perceptyx is the AI company for Employee Experience (EX), trusted by more than 30% of the Fortune 100 to deliver people-powered growth. Built on two decades of behavioral science and the industry's richest EX dataset, our platform helps organizations discover what matters, activate change, and grow their people - now supercharged by a new generation of AI agents. With Conversational Listening, Narrative Analysis, and Employee Activation agents, Perceptyx delivers what no point solution can: a complete digital workforce for EX. Our Agentic AI framework moves beyond systems of insight to systems of outcomes - turning every employee signal into measurable impact for people and business alike. For more info, or to speak with a member of our team, visit www.perceptyx.com. Media Contact: Laura Lombardi Head, PR & Communications, Perceptyx [email protected]