Guild, a comprehensive education and skilling solution for building talent, has recently announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Nomadic Learning, a leading capability academy company. The company also introduced Guild Talent Advantage, which pairs education and skilling experiences across multiple learning modalities with actionable talent insights. Through Guild Talent Advantage, employees receive career resources and coaching to ensure they don’t just learn more but perform better and drive businesses forward.
With this acquisition, Guild will offer Guild Academy a distinct product within its product suite. Guild Academy will pair Guild’s Learning Marketplace of vetted, high-quality, and digital-first educational programmes with Nomadic’s expert-led and business-specific curriculum. It will be a collaborative learning platform that combines peer interaction, cohort-based learning, and practical application. The academy will be delivered through customized learning and organized according to functional area or strategic need so that employees can apply their skills directly in their company context and employers can build organizational capabilities for their teams at scale.
Nomadic’s strong, active customer base, including AB InBev, Accenture, The Josh Bersin Company, Microsoft, and many others, will now be able to access other high-quality solutions that address multiple skilling needs through Guild Talent Advantage, including its broad access education benefit and its targeted, skill-specific programme offerings.
Speaking on the deal, Bijal Shah, CEO of Guild, said:
In this new era of work, employers must move with urgency and identify partners who can efficiently transform how they build their talent across diverse workforce needs and business objectives. Guild is building on our strengths of employee engagement and proven outcomes by expanding our product offerings by acquiring Nomadic. This, in addition to the introduction of Guild Talent Advantage, further enhances our ability to tackle a wide array of talent needs, be a data-driven strategic partner, and deliver proven results that matter.
With the addition of Guild Academy, Guild is expanding its product suite. Already a partner to America’s largest employers—including Chipotle, Hilton, and Target—Guild offers purpose-built solutions that span the entire spectrum of business transformation needs. Within the suite, Guild is enhancing its core education benefits product by continuing to bring new, credentialed, high-quality learning experiences into its Learning Marketplace.
Each product available through Guild Talent Advantage offers a differentiated learning experience—with specific context, speed, and depth of skilling required—tailored to each business’s talent strategy and goals. From nurturing foundational knowledge to cultivating job-specific skills and preparing for licensed roles, Guild is doubling its ability to turn learning investments into tangible business growth and sustainable employer talent pipelines.
Matt Burr, Co-founder and CEO of Nomadic, added:
We are thrilled to become a part of the Guild team and about the ways Guild will help us bring Nomadic’s core offering to the next level by pairing our product with access to Guild’s vast Learning Marketplace. With Guild, our customers can build needed skills at scale more efficiently—both individual and collective capabilities—by leveraging content in Guild’s Learning Marketplace and tailoring it to fit their specific business functions and context.
In-depth talent insights capabilities are underpinning these education and learning experiences within Guild Talent Advantage. Guild can assess an organization’s current and future jobs, pinpoint the tasks employees do within those roles, and calculate their opportunity and risk for augmentation and automation. This empowers leaders to identify the skilling needs of their specific workforce and prioritize and swiftly adjust learning investments in the face of disruption based on critical business needs.
Guild continues to enhance its investment in its Talent Development Analytics reporting, which allows employers to track and support individuals’ learning progress and skills assessment to connect them with in-demand and hard-to-fill roles. Together, these talent insights enable employers to make data-driven decisions that champion their people and businesses.
Josh Bersin, an existing customer of Nomadic, partnered with the company to develop the Josh Bersin Academy. This academy provides expert-led, cohort-based courses designed to upskill HR leaders, unlock their full potential, and ensure they remain ahead of industry changes.
The acquisition of Nomadic is expected to close in the coming weeks, subject to customary closing conditions.
