As an employee experience platform, Cooleaf empowers companies to engage and motivate their staff by capturing employee sentiment using pulse surveys, performance incentives, and bringing employees together with recognition and virtual activities.
Cooleaf is an employee experience platform that helps companies build an engaging and fulfilling workplace culture for employees. This is achieved via virtual experiences and challenges, meaningful recognition, performance incentives, rewards, and strategic listening.
Their selection of activities for ensuring employee recognition and rewards are built by experts who work with different industries and teams. The programs are focused on learning and development, DEI, and health and wellness.
Cooleaf also offers a Zapier integration that enables the platform to incentivize and reward employee actions like hitting milestones, sending newsletters, closing sales, etc.
The service reviews and renews their engagement programming with partner companies every quarter. This approach has gotten them multiple awards in recent years.
Cooleaf is definitely worth considering as a full employee engagement suite of modules. Those looking for a simple rewards and recognition or performance management tool might find it to be too broad for their current needs.
Shipt, Orangetheory Fitness, SalesLoft, Toyota, Synovus Bank, Yokohama Tire, Kids2
Cooleaf also has capabilities for:
Cooleaf can integrate with Zapier, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Salesloft, Zendesk, Workday, Lattice, Namely, Okta, and Front.
Cooleaf offers custom pricing via a monthly subscription model based on the number of employees included in the program. Companies using the solution have to allocate a rewards budget for employees. Of course, this budget is flexible.
Cooleaf is frequently picked by businesses in the mid-market and enterprise range. They’re a good bet for companies that want a single hub to manage all things employee engagement. Notably, they’ve also done good with newly remote teams, or companies dealing with the transition or on a hybrid model.
Cooleaf's implementation process utilizes webinars, workforce training, and various resources to get employees familiar with the platform. The training incentivizes managers to lead Cooleaf adoption using targeted training.
The company's goals and objectives are taken into account in the implementation process as Cooleaf's Employee Engagement Experts create personalized road maps on how to get the most from the tool.
Implementation also includes a 30, 60, and 90-day check-in where Cooleaf's Engagement Experts review usage and adoption metrics to aid progress.
Cooleaf was founded in 2016 by John Duisberg, Prem Bhatia, and Sarwar Bhuiyan. The three have a very interesting combined background in business administration and tech. Interestingly, one of the founders mentors at Techstars.
This leadership triumvirate aims for their multi-disciplinary team (marketers, sales professionals, developers, designers & more) to always be mindful of improving the employee experience at every workplace they service. That’s the end goal of the company.
In the words of one of their founders, John Duisberg, “life is short, so why not love the place you work? We have a passion for helping to connect individuals and teams inside an organization by creating a stronger workplace community.”