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Feature Update: 25Aug25
Since launching Hello Able in July 2025 we’ve been working hard to release a range of new features, plans and pricing to make it easy for leadership development providers of any type - from solo coaches, consultants & facilitators to trainers & teams - from anywhere to get the best from Able.
Since launching Hello Able in July 2025 we’ve been working hard to release a range of new features to make it easy for leadership development providers of any type - from solo coaches, consultants & facilitators to trainers & teams - from anywhere to get the best from Able.
New features include:
Easy onboarding for solo-practitioners and teams.
Quick setup of 1-on-1 coaching programs in under 2 mins.
Simple setup and adding of participants, programs and projects with or without costing & quotes.
Organisation Survey reports are now viewable in Able.
Embedded Sales Material in Quotes.
New Help section and extended our channels for customer support.
New Onboarding for Practitioners
Leadership development practitioners from solo coaches, consultants & facilitators to trainers & teams can now easily create an account with Able, setup a company and invite their team members to Able. Users with a Practitioner account now have a smoother onboarding with:
Clearer next steps at signup and onboarding.
Clearer actions in empty states.
Reminders to complete key actions.
Improved the ability for Practitioners to setup accounts without requiring technical support.
Quick Set up of 1-on-1 Coaching Programs
Leadership development practitioners, specifically executive coaches and leadership coaches can now create a 1-on-1 coaching program in 2 to 5 mins with Able. The new workflow includes the ability for coaches to:
Add a new participant and at the same time create a simple coaching program for 1 person/coachee.
Add coachee, company and program details in a simple interface.
Select a Learner Plan for their coachee.
Select the type and duration of coaching.
Select the digital learning features you want for your coachee ie. AI-Nudges, AI-Coaching and Pulse.
Set the launch and welcome dates.
Organisation Survey reports are now viewable in Able.
Users with any account type (ie. Clients, Learners and Practitioners) can now view Organisation Survey reports within Able. After complete and published Organisation Survey reports can be found within the Organisation side navigation for users with a Client account and within the Survey sections for user logged in as Leaders.
Embedded Sales Material in Quotes.
Users with a Practitioner account can now add sales material from external sources to their quotes, including Qwilr pages, PDFs and any web page url. You can share the quote with your client and your external sales page will display as a page embedded within your quote, giving you greater flexability to change the look and feel of your quotes.
Projects without Prices & Costs.
All projects, programs and components in Able have historically been priced (eg. every component in a project has a price and associated costs) with and have an associated quote. We’ve now seperated the quote feature so Practitioners can create participants, programs and projects with or without prices and costs associated. This makes setting up un-priced project simpler and quicker.
Help Section and Better Support.
We’ve released an updated Help centre for Able with more articles on Able’s features and guides on how to setup and use the different aspects of Able. We’ve also launched better support via messenger, email and Microsoft Teams:
Help centre: visit our updated Help centre for articles, how tos and guides on Able at → help.helloable.co
Messenger: on our website and within the Help section you can click on the purple message icon in the bottom right of teh browser. Depend on our team’s availability you’ll be supported by one of our team or our AI Help bot “Fin” who is trained on all our knowledge base.
Email: users can email “support@helloable.co” for support via email.
Microsoft Teams: our enterprise customers can have a dedicated chat on Teams for real-time support during business hours.
New Plans & Pricing
We’re launching new plans and pricing for Practitioners (ie. coaches, consultants, facilitators and trainers), Learners (ie. leaders and managers participating on programs and coachees), and free Plans for client Organisations. All Plans are in US dollars and available on monthly or annual subscriptions.
We’re launching new Able subscription Plans, updated Pricing for all Plans in USD and the ability for providers to buy Learner Plans and allocate them to a program participant or coachee.
New Pricing for Learner Plans
We’ve updated our pricing for Learner Plans. These Plans are for Leader accounts ie. leaders, managers and staff participating on learning & development programs. Learner Plans are in US dollars and come in four types:
Free: $0 USD per learner per month.
Embed: $5 USD per learner per month.
AI-Coaching: $10 USD per learner per month.
Pro: $30 USD per learner per month.
Learner Plans give users access to Able’s digital learning features including:
AI-generated Coaching
AI-generated Nudges
Development Plans
Micro-learning
Pulses
Leadership & Management Profiles
Program intakes and evaluations.
Practitioners can now buy Learner Plans for their clients
Practitioners now have the ability to add Learner Plans to their programs and participants directly through Able. Practitioners can purchase Learner Subscription Plans for their clients (ie. program participants and coachees) via Able directly using credit card and Stripe. Practitioners get a discount on the Recommended Retail Price (RRP) and can then resell the Plans at the RRP earning ongoing revenue for themselves, and providing their clients access to Able’s digital learning features including:
AI-generated Coaching
AI-generated Nudges
Development Plans
Micro-learning
Pulses
Leadership & Management Profiles
Program intakes and evaluations.
Our Plan
We’re building Able, a unified AI-driven platform for the leadership development industry. An operating system and infrastructure to help organisations and providers develop millions of leaders.
We’re building Able, a unified AI-driven platform for the leadership development industry. An operating system and infrastructure to help organisations and providers develop millions of leaders.
The corporate leadership development industry is one of the most vital yet fragmented sectors in the world. Leaders and managers hold highly leveraged roles within society - they may be responsible for anywhere from 10 to a million staff, they manage projects that impact the culture and community around them, and can increasingly lead teams and systems that impact anything from hundreds to billions of humans across the planet.
Good leaders and managers across all levels and in all aspects of society are critical to a safe, healthy, happy and productive community.
Our vision
Our vision is to build a unified AI-driven operating system for the leadership development industry (Able). Able is a behaviour change platform for all participants in leadership & team development ie. leaders, organisations and providers:
Leaders: leaders and managers at all levels, from executives to individual contributors, participating in leadership & team development programs.
Organisations: leadership and L&D managers within organisation responsible for developing the leadership and management capabilities of their colleagues, and managing initiatives.
Providers: executive coaches, facilitators, trainers, learning experience design and Learning & Development (L&D) providers who are delivering leadership & team development programs for their client organisations.
The leadership development industry is highly fragmented and filled with inefficiencies and challenges. We’re building a single place to bring organisations, learners and providers together with the core tools and infrastructure needed to facilitate sustainable behaviour change and organisational outcomes.
Our mission is to develop leaders for the benefit of all.
There are approximately 130 million formal leaders and managers globally, and roughly half of these (50-80M people) will go through some formal leadership training each year. Each year about 5-10 million organisations collaborate with the 200 to 350,000 providers (these are facilitators, trainers, coaches and instructional designers) to design and deliver structured leadership & team development initiatives.
But ‘Leaders’ don’t just sit within formal roles, with titles such as Chief executive, president, director or manager. Leaders and ‘leadership’ exists at all levels of an organisation, from the board to middle managers, emerging leaders and individual contributors. Often the best organisations recognise this and engage all roles in leadership development, but often price and time is a challenge to greater adoption.
We’re building tools to democratise leadership development such as AI-driven coaching and bringing down the cost of one of the industries most powerful interventions - 1-on-1 leadership coaching, so it’s accessible for anyone in an organisation, not just executives.
Our aim is to to build tools and infrastructure for providers, organisations and leaders (at all levels), and develop over a million leaders by 2030.
Our Plan: practitioners > enterprise + AI.
We’re building the first end-to-end AI-driven platform and network for the leadership development industry.
Our plan is to start with Solo Practitioners & Small L&D Providers, this is the executive coaches, facilitators, trainers, instructional designers, consultants and other experts involved in designing and delivering leadership development initiatives. This is where we began and are strong.
We’re providing a program and practice management tool to help them; design, deliver and measure impactful programs for leaders and their client organisations; grow their practice by helping extend capabilities; and easily collaborate with their project team.
We are providing the platform free to practitioners to encourage wide adoption and create a large network of coaches, facilitators and trainers. We’re also aligning our financial incentives with practitioners - practitioners can bundle our Learner Plans with their programs and resell subscriptions to their client organisations. This helps practitioners grow their own ongoing revenue streams beyond the project based revenue that is common in the industry.
With a large practitioner network on-platform we will focus on building features for large Enterprise Organisations. We’ll build features such as compliance, security, payments and HR, integrations with LMS & HCM. With enterprise features and a large practitioner network Able will be in a better position to serve the client side of the industry - medium to large organisations - which manage about 70% of the spend in the industry.
Enterprise features and a large network will also allow us to serve large L&D providers such as universities, business schools and large consulting firms.
End-to-end AI
AI is transforming society, organisations, leaders and learning.
We’re building Artificial Intelligence into the core of our platform. We’ve currently deployed a message-based AI-generated coach that is aware of a leaders strengths & weaknesses, AI-generated nudges and AI-generated summaries across the platform. We plan to extend our existing AI services to voice-based leadership coaching, AI-content generation and AI-generated intervention design at both a cohort and individual level.
Our end goal is to use increasingly larger volumes of intervention data to build a fully autonomous, self-learning system that can design, deliver, manage and measure interventions. A system that understands both the cost and impact of intervention options and can orchestrate all components of leadership development - human coaches, learning content, behavioural measures and catering - to deliver the best return on investment for a client organisation and it’s leaders.
We’re building an AI-first company.
AI tools can help humans be more creative, do more with less and automate workflows and processes. Increasingly humans will manage both human teams and large swarms of AI-agents. We’re creating a lean organisation that has high-agency, deep domain experience, a passion for the creative potential AI and an ambition to help humanity.
If you’re passionate about how AI and people can play well together to create large scale human development reach out: support@helloable.co
Summary
In summary our plan is:
Create a small team of people with a passion for AI and large scale behavior change.
Build a free practice management tool for practitioners to deliver rich blended programs.
Use this to attract a large high-quality practitioner network of coaches, facilitators and trainers.
Create a best in-class ai-generated leadership coach that plays well with in-person learning & development experiences.
Build enterprise features and use the large network to provide compelling value to large enterprise orgs.
Use larger volumes of data to build an autonomous, self-learning system to orchestrate rich blended interventions.
With more people and programs on platform we’ll embed payment infrastructure for human services.
Use the large human network, intervention & financial data, and AI to drive better ROI outcomes.
Better outcomes for organisations and leaders, means more organisations will invest in developing better humans.
And more and better humans = a better world.
Introducing: Hello Able Pty Ltd.
We’re excited to share that as of 1 July 2025, we have officially launched Hello Able Pty Ltd — a new company dedicated to transforming leadership and team development worldwide.
Hello Able - a new company dedicated to transforming leadership development.
Introducing Hello Able Pty Ltd
We’re excited to share that on 1st July 2025, we officially started Hello Able Pty Ltd — a new company dedicated to transforming leadership and team development worldwide. You can find us at www.helloable.co.
Our vision
The leadership development industry is one of the most vital yet fragmented sectors in the world. Every year, billions are spent developing millions of leaders — but the experience for leaders, organisations, and providers remains inconsistent, inefficient, and disconnected.
At Hello Able, our goal is simple: to build a unified AI-driven platform and community (Able) that connects leaders, organisations and providers - enabling sustainable behaviour change and measurable outcomes for leaders and organisations.
Able is a single place for everyone involved in leadership development
Our platform — Able — is a single AI-driven platform and community for everyone involved in leadership and team development:
Leaders: executives, managers, and individual contributors building their leadership and collaboration skills.
Organisations: leadership and L&D managers designing, delivering, and tracking leadership & organisation development initiatives for their colleagues.
Providers: executive coaches, facilitators, trainers, and L&D providers delivering impactful programs for clients.
Why leaders
Good leaders and managers across all levels and in all aspects of the society are critical to a safe, healthy, happy and productive community. Leaders and managers hold highly leveraged roles within society - they are often directly responsible for 5 to 10 people, manage teams and projects that have a large impact on the community around them, and can increasingly lead systems that impact anything from ten people to billions of humans across the planet.
Leadership and management skills also don’t just sit within formal roles, leaders, and ‘leadership’ exists at all levels, from the CEO to middle managers, emerging leaders and individual contributors that are influencing their colleagues have a large. We’re building tools to democratise leadership development such as AI-driven coaching and bringing down the cost of one of the industries most powerful interventions - 1-on-1 leadership coaching, so it’s accessible for anyone in an organisation, not just executives.
By helping build better ‘leaders’, that are a force for good, we can create a better world for everyone.
Why now
Leadership development today is fragmented, with programs spread across disconnected tools, manual processes, and siloed providers. Able will change this by offering the infrastructure, analytics, and AI-powered tools to bring the industry together in one place.
We believe the future of leadership development lies in collaboration, data-driven insights, and technology-enabled behaviour change — and Hello Able has been created to lead this transformation.
Our history
Able was built by a team of leadership development practitioners, designers and engineers for ourselves.
We originally created Able for Integral, one of Australia's largest boutique leadership development companies. Able helped Integral grow it’s practice and collaborate with client organisations to deliver over 400 programs each year for 3 to 4,000 leaders a year around the world. Able helped Integral grow revenue, capabilities as an L&D firm and most importantly the impact and outcomes for leaders and client organisations.
Able helped easily blend best practice methodologies like coaching, AI-nudges, online learning, leadership profiles and measure behaviour change for participants and clients. This flow of design > deliver > measure, all in one platform, helped create a continuous feedback loop that led to better and better Net Promoter Scores and iterative improvements in behaviour change scores as measured through 180º and 360º feedback tools.
After using Able to help grow the impact of Integral for the past few years, we set up and launched a new standalone company (Hello Able), so Able can better serve leadership development providers of any type, anywhere. It took us some time to come to this decision but we think Able is better placed to serve many more people as a separate company.
What’s next
Our platform Able is not live just yet — but we’re getting close.
On 1 September 2025, we’ll be launching our platform - Able - in Open Beta. This initial launch is for leadership development practitioners, L&D providers, coaches, facilitators and trainers. This is just the start of our journey to connect and empower leaders, organisations, and providers at scale. For more information, visit www.helloable.co and stay tuned for updates.