Cornerstone Customization & Employee Experience
Cornerstone is where your people learn, grow and get work done. A successful implementation is only the beginning. It should feel like part of your organization and be intuitive to use every day.
We design and build branded Cornerstone experiences that improve adoption, simplify everyday tasks and help employees and managers get more from the platform. Beyond customization, we extend Cornerstone with custom pages, MicroApps, digital workplace integrations and products that solve challenges standard functionality can't.
Beyond standard Cornerstone
Your platform shouldn't stop where standard functionality ends.
Cornerstone is capable of much more than most organizations use on day one. During an implementation, optimization or migration, our goal is always to get the most out of the platform. We take the time to understand how your organization works and where standard functionality is no longer enough for the ideas and ambitions you have.
Instead of working around the platform, we build on it. New pages. New functionality. Better communication. Connected systems. MicroApps. AI. Sometimes it's a small customization. Sometimes it grows into something bigger.
Having consulting, customization, creative and our own products under one roof means we can help you shape a Cornerstone platform that fits your organization, not the other way around.
Employee Experience
Built around
your people.
Before & After
The impact of customization.
Have a look at what customization can look like. We've designed and built each of these projects around our clients' unique needs and challenges. Use the slider to compare the standard Cornerstone experience with the final result and discover how the platform can evolve far beyond its standard functionality.
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Try it yourself
Build your own Cornerstone experience.
Start with one of the most common Cornerstone pages and explore what's possible. Mix standard Cornerstone functionality with custom pages, MicroApps and additional functionality to see how quickly the platform can evolve. The builder shows just a small selection of what's possible. Every project starts with a conversation, not a template, and is designed around your organization, your brand and the way your people work.
If you like what you created, get in touch and share it with us. We'd love to help you turn it into a real Cornerstone experience.
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Every challenge has a different answer.
Have you heard "No, we can't do that." a few too many times?
Not anymore. Our combination of consulting, customization, creative services and products means we can usually answer, "Yes, we can." Every challenge starts with a conversation, not a predefined solution. Explore the different ways we build on Cornerstone and discover which approach fits your project best.
Create Cornerstone pages and interfaces that match your brand, workflows and people.
Welcome Pages
Give employees a clear starting point when they log in.
Learn moreLearner Home
Improve how employees find learning, tasks and recommendations.
Learn moreManager Hub
Bring team insights, approvals and actions together.
Learn moreAcademy Pages
Create dedicated spaces for departments, programs or initiatives.
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Support launches, change programs and internal initiatives.
Learn moreDashboards
Turn live information into clear views for employees, managers and HR.
Learn moreCustomize Cornerstone around your organization.
Create Cornerstone pages and interfaces that match your brand, workflows and people.
Welcome Pages
Give employees a clear starting point when they log in.
Learn moreLearner Home
Improve how employees find learning, tasks and recommendations.
Learn moreManager Hub
Bring team insights, approvals and actions together.
Learn moreAcademy Pages
Create dedicated spaces for departments, programs or initiatives.
Learn moreCampaign Pages
Support launches, change programs and internal initiatives.
Learn moreDashboards
Turn live information into clear views for employees, managers and HR.
Learn moreThe right time is now
Start wherever you are in your Cornerstone journey.
Experience & Customization can be part of your project from day one or introduced later as your platform evolves. Wherever you are in your Cornerstone journey, we can help you create an experience that better supports your people.
We regularly work alongside implementation, migration and optimization projects to make sure the platform launches with the right experience from the start. But if you're simply looking to improve an existing Cornerstone environment, we're just as happy to work with you on that.
New implementation
Launch with the best possible experience. Go live with a Cornerstone platform that's branded, intuitive and ready to support employees and managers from day one.
Workforce AI or Galaxy migration
Turn migration into an opportunity. Refresh the experience while moving to the latest Cornerstone platform, improving navigation, branding and the way people interact with it.
Optimization project
Bring recommendations to life. Transform ideas and improvement opportunities into pages, tools, workflows and experiences people will actually use.
Module rollout
Support every new rollout. Help employees understand new functionality with dedicated pages, communication, guidance and experiences built around the way they work.
Existing Cornerstone platform
Keep improving over time. Your platform doesn't stand still. Continue adding new experiences, functionality and products as your organization grows and priorities change.
Example projects
A few of the experiences we help organizations build.
Our approach
How we improve your Cornerstone experience.
Discover
We learn how people use your Cornerstone environment today and where they get stuck.
Review
We assess branding, navigation, communication and overall user experience.
Design
Together we design better journeys, pages and experiences around the platform.
Build
We configure, customize and develop the agreed improvements.
Improve
As your platform evolves, we continue refining the experience.
But don't take our word for it.
Let our clients tell you why.
“The collaboration was effortless and the end result exactly to our specifications. The attention to detail and their enthusiasm was refreshing.”
Belinda Hodgkinson
Head of Learning Infrastructure
Grant Thornton
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"The goal isn't to customize Cornerstone. The goal is to remove friction and create an intuitive experience for the people using it every day."
Simen-Ling La
Senior Project Manager & Cornerstone expert
FAQ
Cornerstone customization, adoption & experience questions.
Your Cornerstone journey
Supporting you throughout the full Cornerstone lifecycle.
Creating a better Cornerstone experience is one stage of a much bigger journey. We're also here to support you with implementation, optimization, migration and training & enablement — so your platform keeps improving as your organization evolves.
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Make Cornerstone feel like your platform.
Whether you're looking for a better learner experience, stronger branding, custom functionality or a completely new digital workplace, we'd love to explore what's possible together.
