2x Training Magazine Award Winners!

Hello! Scott & Jordan here.

We're brimming with gratitude and still pinching ourselves from a recent, big milestone for understories.

'Walk With Me', our AI-powered framework to develop and measure skills like empathy and other relational competencies won two awards at Training Magazine’s 2023 GamiCon/TechLearn conferences:  One for Best Use of Surprise and Delight, and another for Best Use of Gamification Theory.

This double win was a GamiCon/TechLearn first, and was a complete surprise - and delight - to us!

Video of the AI powered relational skill building game, Walk With Me.

If you’re not familiar with Walk With Me, it’s an AI supported program designed to foster and measure skills related to Competence in Organizational and Relational Effectiveness (CORE). And this year, we’ve been focused on using the framework to help organizations develop empathy in their leadership and service teams.

Our goal for Walk With Me was to increase team effectiveness by measuring hard to quantify skills and mindsets using the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) coupled with peer-to-peer learning to bring about behavior, mindset, and ultimately, organizational change.

In the program, participants engage in conversation with a character using the power of ChatGPT and a proprietary empathy algorithm to measure and support participants’ empathetic behaviors. After playing the game, they participate in a live learning experience with their peers, trying their newly developed skills in small group exercises before playing the game one more time to see how far they’ve come. 

Building 'Walk With Me' has been one of the highlights of 2023 for us. To everyone supporting, believing, and traveling on this journey with us, our deepest and most sincere thanks goes out to you.

understories is about the connections we create, share, and amplify when we’re on mission together, and we’re honored to be able to sit in celebration because of that today.

With gratitude,
Jordan & Scott