Coursera for Business

Our 10th annual Coursera Conference recently offered a unique opportunity for Coursera’s leadership team, representatives from our partner organizations, and more than 3,000 participants from all over the world to come together through a shared commitment to transforming lives through learning. The event featured over 40 sessions that explored new opportunities for the future of…

By Shareka Nelson In my role as Coursera’s Culture and Development Leader, I’ve recently had the pleasure to welcome author, visionary, and thought leader Simon Sinek to the 10th annual Coursera Conference. In an exclusive 1:1 fireside chat, we discussed driving workplace change, learning as a vehicle for progress, and the role that diversity and…

By Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of Coursera  Since 2020, our world has seen extraordinary change. Technology has created new skills requirements in the workforce, with 149 million new digital jobs expected globally by 2025. However, students and workers need access to flexible, affordable, and fast-tracked learning and career pathways to take advantage of these unprecedented career…

By Zac Rule, Vice President Enterprise, Americas at Coursera The pace of innovation is accelerating and business leaders are more focused on building a workforce with the high-demand digital skills needed to thrive in the future. Today, Coursera is excited to announce that it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN), a…

Anthony Tattersall, Vice President of EMEA at Coursera With the pace of technology adoption accelerating, nearly 80% of business leaders believe building the right capabilities will be important to an organization’s long-term growth. We are seeing strong evidence of this among enterprises in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), as enterprises rapidly double down on…

By Leah Belsky, Chief Enterprise OfficerSkills limitations around high-demand technologies such as machine learning, AI and cloud computing are causing the deceleration of business transformation in many companies. Recent McKinsey data shows that 42% of companies have stuck with the status quo for their tech strategy because it is too difficult to source the talent…

Anthony Tattersall is vice president of the EMEA sales team at Coursera. His role gives him unique insights on how businesses, governments, and higher education can work together to build our future workforce and how data can be used to support this effort. The Emerge Education team interviewed Tattersall for a joint report with Coursera…

Nearly three-fourths of CEOs identified a labor or skills shortage as the most likely external issue to disrupt their business in the next 12 months, according to a 2021 Deloitte and Fortune survey. This shortage is tied to accelerated digitization — by 2025, Microsoft predicts that there will be 149 million new digital jobs focused…

Announces new enterprise and campus customers to drive nation-wide upskilling By Coursera Today, we’re announcing a number of initiatives to accelerate growth in the Philippines. As demand for Coursera rises in the country, we are announcing new enterprise and campus customers and several platform innovations to better serve Filipino learners. With over 1.3 million registered…

By Leah Belsky, Coursera Chief Enterprise Officer I am excited to introduce Coursera’s Industry Skills Report 2021, which examines the pandemic’s impact on digital transformation and skills development across major industries. The report analyzes data on skills proficiency from millions of Coursera learners across 10 different industries between June 2020 and May 2021. The pandemic…