Sharpist

Sharpist is a digital coaching platform that companies buy for their employees. HR and L&D teams use it to run leadership development, support transformation programs and hold on to key people, while the employees themselves book sessions with certified coaches, work through short tasks between sessions and talk to an AI Coach. The company behind it is Sharpist GmbH, with its address in Berlin. The home page describes coaching delivered "through 1:1, group, peer and AI coaching", and the FAQ is explicit that it is not only for leaders: the platform is "designed for all employees", from high-potential talent and first-time managers to senior executives and the C-level.

This is not a tool for an independent coach selling sessions. Sharpist supplies the coaches, the matching, the platform and the reporting, and the customer is the organization paying for the program.

What employees and HR teams get

Coaching formats. The core is 1:1 video coaching with a certified coach. The German platform page says sessions run anywhere from 15 to 120 minutes, so they fit around real working hours, and that leaders book their own sessions on the platform. Group coaching brings 4 to 8 learners with similar development goals together under a certified business coach, who moderates a session where participants share experience and insight; the company says these sessions can be adapted to the customer's culture and business challenges. Peer coaching is named as an option alongside group coaching.

Coach matching. According to the platform page, a team of psychologists uses an algorithm to pick a coach for each employee from a pool of more than 1,500 ICF- and DBVC-certified coaches. The match weighs language, seniority level and specific goals such as career acceleration or leadership skills, and typically happens within an hour. Sharpist puts its matching success rate at 97%.

Micro-tasks. Between sessions, learners work through short micro-tasks chosen by their coach. The company says it has more than 2,000 personalized tasks, each taking no more than 5 to 10 minutes, and claims they speed up development by over 20%. The point is to keep the learning in the working week rather than only in the session.

AI Coach. The newest piece, flagged on the home page as new, is an AI Coach that the German page describes as an always-available career companion that challenges learners between coaching sessions and in the middle of the working day. The FAQ lists the AI Coach as part of a standard coaching license.

What a license covers. Per the FAQ, a Sharpist coaching license gives each learner 1:1 coaching with certified coaches, the AI Coach, optional group or peer coaching, coach matching aligned to the company's goals and values, and micro-tasks between sessions, with scheduling, coach chat and support on the platform. Learners track their progress with built-in goal and activity tracking. The platform works in a mobile app and on desktop, with full functionality on both.

The L&D Dashboard. For HR, the dashboard gives real-time views of program uptake, coaching progress, usage and skill improvements, with benchmarking against industry figures across 32 measurable focus areas. The FAQ says HR can follow individual and organizational development while keeping coaching conversations private. A dedicated Relationship Manager meets the customer regularly to review impact and suggest improvements.

Customization. The company calls coaching customization the core of Sharpist. Programs are built around 32 focus areas, and the platform can create company-specific learning paths tied to a customer's culture and business goals. The home page splits the offer into a ready-to-use solution, a customized solution, digital group coaching and the AI Coach.

Rollout, admin and adoption

The FAQ says that at kickoff Sharpist needs only a list of employees' names and email addresses, and handles setup and onboarding from there; learners can schedule a first session right after signing up. The home page promises automated onboarding, scheduling, nudging and reporting. The German page sets out a five-step timeline: book a demo, a workshop to capture goals, a coach pool and briefing plus system integration, company-specific live onboarding with the first sessions, then full rollout with an impact review against the customer's goals.

To drive uptake, Sharpist describes a change-management package: a digital kickoff, marketing materials in the customer's corporate design, a champion program with early adopters, and ongoing adoption tracking. The German FAQ backs this with a guarantee of at least 80% adoption. The company also says the all-in-one setup saves more than 200 hours of administration a year.

Pricing, results and security

The pages publish no prices. The German page invites buyers to get pricing information in a demo tailored to their goals. Budgets run on a credit model rather than fixed seats: the FAQ says credits can be moved between learners and spent on different formats, such as 1:1 or group coaching, and on different session lengths, giving 30, 45 and 60 minutes as examples. Sharpist also offers trial coaching sessions so an organization can test fit before committing.

The company publishes plenty of outcome figures, all its own. The German platform page claims an 18% improvement in leadership skills, more than 80% active usage, 99% satisfaction, and that 83% of learners apply what they learn to their daily work. Its FAQ cites a 92% usage rate and a 22% increase in openness to change, measured through pre- and post-assessments and 360-degree feedback. The home page attributes specific results to named customers: a 90% activation rate at PALFINGER, a 4.95 out of 5 average satisfaction rating at LVMH, 100% retention of key people during a transformation at Miro, and 67% of participants at Airbus Defense and Space advancing to senior management roles.

On security, the site states that Sharpist is ISO 27001 certified, hosts its servers in Germany, encrypts sessions end to end and complies with GDPR. Single sign-on is supported for IT integration.

Coaching is offered in more than 55 languages with 24/7 time zone coverage, while the platform itself runs in German, English and French.

Who it suits

Sharpist fits an organization that wants coaching as a managed program rather than a booking tool. The FAQ says clients benefit most when they are launching a new leadership program or principles, or planning a transformation, and the three challenges the site names are driving transformation, lifting leadership skills and retaining people. Because the license covers every career stage, it also suits a company that wants to give coaching to individual contributors and new managers, not only executives. HR teams with little time to run a program benefit from the setup work Sharpist takes on.

The trade-off is that pricing only arrives through a sales conversation, so a team comparing costs has to book a demo first. An independent coach or a small practice looking to sell its own sessions needs a different kind of tool: Sharpist is a service bought by employers, with the coaches supplied from its own network.