Meet Tenor

making every manager more effective, at the world’s best companies

With decades of experience building enterprise learning and talent technologies, the Tenor team is on a mission to bring the power of AI to every manager.

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“being a people leader is hard - and we’re building a future where every manager is enabled by AI"
James Cross
Co-Founder, Tenor

James Cross and Charlie Stigler, Tenor Co-Founders, San Francisco

Our founders

Tenor’s co-founders have dedicated their careers to unlocking human potential with technology. Combined, they have decades of experience building talent experiences for large enterprises.

James was formerly Vice President of Product Strategy at Workday, and Charlie led engineering teams at Workday, building innovative learning experiences for the world's largest companies. Their friendship and working relationship spans 10+ years.

Our investors

Tenor has raised $5.4M from Base10 Partners, Reach Capital, and notable angels in the HR and learning spaces, to build the future of leadership development.

our values

Customers

We exist to bring value to our customers and their people.

Excellence

We build technology and experiences that are exceptionally high quality.

Employees

We care about each other, and enjoy working together.

Kindness

We care about our customers, employees, and having a positive impact on the world.

Honesty

We don’t shy away from difficult conversations.

Play

We find joy in lightness. We do things for fun. Our curiosity drives us.