🦄 Sphere: Expert-led courses for career professionals

It’s often in the best interest of both companies and employees to find the best professional development opportunities available. These opportunities help employees make advances in their careers and bring back better informed and educated employees to the companies. Sphere is making those opportunities more accessible. Per its founders, Sphere sees itself as a content platform, not a provider; it has “the rails and formula to create and repurpose content in a way that appeals to professionals.” Sphere’s online class offerings are led by veterans in various industries, ranging from engineering, product, data science, and research. Its main appeal comes from two of its platform features: the live, intimate virtual class setting its courses are provided in, and the fact that its courses can be expensed at most major companies (with Sphere giving detailed instructions on how to get its courses expense-certified at your company if isn’t already). It makes the courses free for many participants, all while giving them the ability to directly interact with the experts leading the classes. Sphere’s course completion and satisfaction rates look promising, which, combined with its unique offering in the career development space, makes it a company to watch in the coming years.