WorkFuture Academy for Employers
Structured employer training in AI fluency, leadership, and workplace effectiveness — designed around your people, your work, and the outcomes you need.
Why WorkFuture Academy
New technology, changing workflows, and evolving expectations are reshaping how work gets done. But introducing a new tool, process, or way of working does not automatically give employees the capability to use it effectively.
WorkFuture Academy helps close that gap.
63%
of employers say skills gaps are a major barrier to business transformation.
The Academy
WorkFuture Academy designs and delivers employer training programs around the capabilities teams need to perform, adapt, and grow.
Workforce Need
Program Design
Learning Experience
Measurement
Programs
WorkFuture Academy focuses on three capability areas that increasingly shape how teams perform: how people use new technology, how managers lead, and how employees communicate, execute, and serve customers.
Each pathway starts with a defined curriculum and can be tailored to the employer's workforce, business context, and desired outcomes.
Build practical AI fluency and help employees use AI effectively, responsibly, and productively in their work.
Core Modules
Build practical leadership capability for employees responsible for people, teams, and performance.
Core Modules
Strengthen communication, execution, problem-solving, and customer-facing performance across teams.
Core Modules
Program Design
Every WorkFuture Academy program is built on a consistent training standard, while the audience, context, delivery, and outcomes are tailored to the employer.
Every Program Includes
Customized for Each Employer
Audience
Who the program is for and how content should be calibrated.
Context
Examples, scenarios, and tools aligned to the actual work.
Delivery
Session length, pacing, depth, and delivery structure.
Outcomes
Priority capabilities, focus areas, and intended results.
How a Program Comes Together
Every engagement follows a clear path from identifying the workforce need through program design, delivery, measurement, and reporting.
Define the workforce need, audience, and desired outcomes.
Build the curriculum, learning objectives, and delivery plan.
Facilitate practical, instructor-led learning tied to the work.
Capture participation, progress, and evidence of learning.
Summarize outcomes, feedback, and recommended next steps.
Delivery Formats
From a focused team session to a multi-cohort workforce initiative, WorkFuture Academy can scale the learning experience to the need.
Focused
60-90 minutes
Target one capability, team need, or focused learning objective.
Best For
Focused skill development
Intensive
2-4 hours
Go deeper through instruction, discussion, practice, and application.
Best For
Deeper team development
Cohort
4-6 weeks
Build capability over time through multiple sessions, applied practice, assessment, and tracking.
Best For
Sustained team development
Custom
Multi-cohort / multi-team
Build a larger workforce initiative around a business priority, population, or organizational change.
Best For
Larger workforce initiatives
What Employers Receive
WorkFuture manages the structure around the learning experience so employers can focus on outcomes, not program coordination.
Larger Engagements
For multi-session or larger workforce programs, WorkFuture can also support cohort coordination, customized scenarios, program documentation, and WorkFuture Workspace access.
WorkFuture Workspace
Manage participants, schedules, attendance, documents, outcomes, and next steps in one organized place.
Instead of coordinating the engagement across spreadsheets and email threads, employers get one clear view from setup through closeout.
Available for qualifying multi-session and larger employer engagements.
WorkFuture
Fall 2026 – AI Fluency & Workplace Productivity
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Attendance
By session92%
177 of 192 session slots attended
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Employers can purchase WorkFuture Academy programs directly. Eligible Chicago employers may also be able to use Workforce Solutions funding to support qualifying training.
Purchase WorkFuture Academy programs directly based on your workforce need, audience, and outcomes.
Eligible Chicago employers may be able to use the Workforce Solutions Program to support qualifying employee training.
Explore Chicago Workforce SolutionsOutside Chicago? Other workforce training funding opportunities may be available through state or local workforce programs. WorkFuture can help identify potential funding pathways based on your location and training need.
READY TO GET STARTED
Start with a Workforce Needs Assessment to identify the right program, audience, and outcomes for your team.
