Managers today are expected to lift performance and plan internal mobility & succession across diverse, fast-changing teams. Doing this well requires reliable structure and insight - not more manual effort.
As teams evolve, it becomes harder to maintain a clear view of collective skills, experience, and potential. Current, structured insight is essential for building high-performing teams and employee career development.
Evaluation Tools: Values, Personality, Skills, Work Experience, Learning Needs (and more).
Proven process for diagnosing people’s Intrinsic Capabilities
Revealing new Data & Insights
AI-authored unique Value Statements for each Team Member
Ideal for Team Building and Onboarding new Staff
Supporting people to meet performance goals through on-the-job learning is essential for skills relevance and engagement. This becomes harder across remote, hybrid, and diverse teams.
Identify the Challenges holding them back
Enable multiple Personal Learning Pathways
Approve Learning Resources chosen and suited to them
Automated Activities Calendered for time-planning
Follow-up ‘nudges’ for Completion & Accountability
Shareable Plans for Manager Approval
Democratized Learning to enable Performance Gains
Most people expect their role to evolve over time, many within 2-3 years. Most managers lack clear structure for progression planning — particularly when succession and retention risks are unclear. We take the risk out of how to retain and grow your talent.
Insight into teams Personal Goals & Needs
Clarity on Cultural Preferences
Future Career Pathways mapped to Individuals
Transparency of Team Skills & Experience for Succession Planning
Identify or Map Future Roles/Projects Team ideally suited to
Increase Mobility of existing latent Talent to reduce Hiring Costs
Improve Retention rates by Actively supporting Career Growth
Enable internal mobility with confidence, by matching team members’ needs, strengths, skills, and experience to current or future roles — while clearly identifying learning gaps to manage expectations and reduce risk.
Auto Matching team members to relevant Jobs & Projects
Identify Latent Skills & Experience for new Productivity
Identify Learning Needs & Resources to close skill gaps
Match 3rd Party Learning Resources to learning styles
Only pay for the Training Resources your team use
Reporting on Team Completion Rates & ‘Nudge’ Accountability
Managers can’t be available to support everyone every day — particularly in remote or distributed teams. ACE® provides consistent, private employee coaching and development that complements managerial leadership.
Trained in 10 years of behavioural science & data
Built on the Microsoft Open-Azure GTP
Available 24/7 on desktop or mobile
Easily deployed without any integration to HR or productivity systems.
Employee coaching software designed in an 'Eclectic Directive' style by a world-leading career strategist
All data held privately and securely stored.
Traditional HR systems reveal only part of what people are capable of or need. Actvo provides aggregated, anonymised insight to support better planning and earlier awareness
Aggregated insights into growth values, learning preferences, strengths, and pathways
Real-time dashboards for leadership and planning
Individual confidence protected through anonymisation
Early indicators of engagement or capability gaps
New Insight to inform leadership & cutural focus areas
We work with small-medium businesses who may not have access to enterprise HR systems or people. Our platform sits alongside your existing tools & processes - giving you a ‘light’ alternative to new critical tools, typically only available inside HRIT Enterprise systems.
What you probably already have, that we complement:
Recruitment & role Templates
Payroll
Onboarding & Contract Templates
Leave Management
Onboarding and Induction
Basic Performance Review Templates
Compliance Reporting
What you need but can’t access easily:
Skills Frameworks & Competency Modelling
Progression & Career Pathing Recommendations
Workforce Planning & Insights for Scenario Modelliing
Role Matching & AI Recommendations
Cross-Functional Mobility Opportunities
Culture & Values Evaluation & Insight
Employee Coaching Services
If you are looking for a enterprise wide solution, partnering, HRIT Integration or White-Label - lets talk.
Users benefit from having available to them 24/7 an online, personal, career guide to support them with both solving everyday challenges, as well as helping them grow new skills and craft career pathways. This type of technology is ideally suited for introverts, neuro-divergent people or those that prefer to interact with technology vs humans on solving complex personal problems in a private and process-driven way
We keep all private & personal data secure and meet global data protection standards of the highest order. No personal data shared on the platform is shared with any other organisation. All reporting is anonymised and permissioned through our T&C's.
Actvo comprises a mobile-optimised web-app and cloud-hosted server components, which together utilise state-of-the-art frameworks and services to deliver a powerful, intelligent virtual career management agent experience. Our databases and AI models are hosted in Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure data centres which are built with the latest in security and safety features (complying with the highest industry security and safety standards), guaranteeing availability and privacy of your data. The Actvo system architecture utilises dynamic, modern cloud provisioning and scaling technologies, designed for scalability and resilience, to ensure uninterrupted service even under challenging conditions.
Actvo is an extension of Start Nows proprietary career planning system, pioneered in 2018 by Melissa Jenner. Trained in Human Centred Design & Design your Life at Stanford D-School Melissa designed a methodology for enabling people to self-direct their careers and learn new skills based on the method of “Disover, Design, Act”. This method has since been producticsed through her world-leading masterclass detailing 18 steps to growth, used by 1000s of people world-wide. The methodology has also been taught at AUT and AcademyEX to a range of students, and as an outplacement & career pivoting methodology for large corporations in NZ and offshore.
Actvo® helps managers save time, improve decision quality, reduce hidden risk, and retain valuable talent — without changing how they lead.
"Before Actvo, development felt like guesswork. Now I know that every employee can create their own path, and every manager has visibility. It's a game-changer for me as an owner"
"As CEO, I want to make sure my teams are empowered to grow and make decisions independently. Actvo gives me that assurance. This solves many business challenges at once"
