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The leadership practice platform

Leadership development that doesn’t stop at the workshop.

Every manager gets an AI practice partner and a Skill Twin that maps how they lead, engage others and think. You see the change.

In private beta with leaders from Bosch, Amazon, Bain & Company, Accenture, EY and Rakuten

LEADERSHIP INTERPERSONAL COGNITIVE WEEK 36 Since baseline 9 of 9 skills up Self-awareness Drive Goals Communication Relationships Teamwork Critical thinking Creativity Planning
Week 0 Now This week’s focus
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From the private beta

As of October 2026

100+

leaders practising

1,000+

sessions completed

7 in 10

return within a week

12+

employers represented

Leaders are trained in workshops. They lead in conversations.

4 in 10

core skills at work will change by 2030.

WEF, Future of Jobs Report 2025

Skillstr · Practice

Twenty minutes of spoken practice a day, with AI feedback.

6 in 10

workers will need training by 2030, and leadership is the core skill rising fastest.

WEF, Future of Jobs Report 2025

Skillstr · For organisations

A practice partner for every manager, and progress by skill for L&D.

1 in 3

knowledge-work hours rely on social and emotional skills AI can’t yet do.

McKinsey Global Institute, November 2025

Skillstr · Skill Twin

A profile of how you lead, engage others and think, measured against your own baseline.

See how the app works ↓

The Skillstr app

Practise. See your Skill Twin. Learn what’s next.

Every session updates the Skill Twin, and the Twin decides what comes next.

Skillstr app: today’s practice session

01 · Practice

Speak through a real work scenario. About 20 minutes a day.

Skillstr app: feedback after a session

02 · Feedback

One strength, one fix and the moment to replay.

Skillstr app: Skill Twin wheel against baseline

03 · Skill Twin

See every skill move against your own baseline.

See the full journey →

Why Skillstr

Safe. Science-backed. Yours.

01

Judgement-free

Practise in private. No audience, no rankings.

How data is handled →

02

Science-backed

Nine skills grounded in WEF and McKinsey research, measured against your baseline.

The science →

03

Individual feedback

After every session: one strength, one fix, one moment to replay.

See the product →

The Skill Twin framework

Nine skills. Three groups. One profile per leader.

Grounded in McKinsey and WEF research, and measured against each leader’s own baseline, never against peers.

Read the science behind the Skill Twin

Leadership

How you lead

Self-awareness and management

Entrepreneurial drive

Goals achievement

Interpersonal

How you engage others

Communication

Developing relationships

Teamwork

Cognitive

How you think

Strategic and critical thinking

Creativity and flexibility

Planning and ways of working

From the private beta

“The Skill Twin feels less like an assessment and more like a mirror.”
Anjana Shriram
Program Manager at Accenture
“Skillstr is evolving into a highly cognitive leverage system for professional growth.”
Salil Mohan
Account Director at Cognizant
"In just one month, I could already see significant improvements both at work and beyond." 
Karthik Prabhu
Tech Specialist at Bosch
"I've seen real changes, not just in how I communicate, but in how I think and lead."
Anwesha Pati
Strategist at 22Feet Tribal

The team

Built by people who have led at scale.

Strategy, AI engineering and communications, learned leading teams at Bosch, Schneider Electric and MullenLowe.

“Leadership no longer rests on knowing the answer. It rests on how you lead, engage others and think.”

Manu Menon

Manu Menon

Founder and CEO

Former head of strategy for Bosch’s digital business; facilitates leadership programmes for enterprise teams.

Swetha Shankar

Swetha Shankar

Co-founder and CTO

AI architect with a decade building generative AI, speech and vision products, including Bosch’s in-car AI assistant.

Anoop Menon

Anoop Menon

Co-founder and CMO

Communications strategist grounded in behavioural psychology; led marketing at Bosch.

For L&D and HR leaders

Become a Founding Partner.

Reach every manager, reinforce the programmes you already run, and see change by skill. Founding Partners receive preferential terms.

Cohort
20 managers
Duration
12 weeks
Time per manager
20 minutes a day
Focus
Two or three of the nine skills, chosen with you
You receive
A cohort report by skill group and skill; individual sessions stay private
Investment
On request

Private by design

Trust and data privacy

Each leader’s practice sessions and recordings stay private to them.

Organisations see cohort results by skill group and skill, never transcripts.

Personal data handled under the GDPR (UK and EEA), US state privacy laws such as the CCPA, and India’s DPDP Act. Data stored primarily in the USA.

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For your organisation

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For yourself

Your leadership profile in 60 seconds.

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