Yoodli Hires Former KPMG Learning Chief Mike Mather as Chief Learning Advisor
Yoodli, which calls itself the AI Platform for Human Skills, has brought on Mike Mather, former Chief Learning Officer at KPMG US, as Chief Learning Advisor. According to the company, he will work directly with customers and the product team on how organizations prepare their workforce for the AI future.
- Yoodli has named Mike Mather, former KPMG US Chief Learning Officer, as Chief Learning Advisor.
- Mather led learning at KPMG US from 2023 to September 2026 and earlier worked as a partner at EY, IBM and PwC.
- He will advise customers on readiness programs focused on measurable behavior change and feed a CLO perspective into the product roadmap.
- Yoodli says its customers include Google, Databricks, FranklinCovey, Korn Ferry and Snowflake.
Who Mike Mather is
Mather served as Chief Learning Officer of KPMG US from 2023 to September 2026. According to Yoodli, he led the firm's work to prepare its workforce for the AI and digital age. In 2023, KPMG was named Chief Learning Officer magazine's LearningElite Organization of the Year.
Before that, he led KPMG's Workforce Transformation and Development practice. He also spent more than two decades as a partner at EY, IBM and PwC, where he advised Fortune 100 organizations on HR and learning transformation. He is a Chartered Accountant (Canada) and holds an MBA.
What he will do at Yoodli
In his new role, Mather will advise customers on building readiness programs that move beyond course completions to measurable behavior change. He will also bring what the company calls the CLO's perspective into Yoodli's product roadmap.
Yoodli is building out its AI Platform for Human Skills, which pairs realistic AI-powered practice with coaching and measurement. The stated aim is that new skills get applied on the job, not just learned. The company describes its platform as covering AI coaching, learning journey creation, roleplays, personas and measurement.
According to Yoodli, its customers already include some of the largest sales enablement and learning teams, among them Google, Databricks, FranklinCovey, Korn Ferry and Snowflake. They use it for AI tool training, manager coaching and go-to-market enablement.
What the company says
Varun Puri, co-founder and CEO of Yoodli, said: "Learning leaders don't need another place to send people. They need proof that their people are ready." He added that Mather "has run learning at a scale few people ever see, and he knows exactly what CLOs are measured on."
Mather described the problem he wants to address: "For most of my career, the hardest part of L&D was the gap between training and the moment someone actually has to perform." He said Yoodli "closes that gap" and that he wants to help learning teams "show the business what readiness really looks like."
What it means for learning teams
The hire reflects a focus on proving outcomes rather than tracking course completion, a measure of success that both executives emphasized. For Yoodli customers, the appointment means direct access to an advisor who has worked on learning programs at a large professional services firm. The source does not give details on specific product changes that will result from his input, or on when they might arrive.
PR Newswire: Former KPMG CLO Mike Mather Joins Yoodli as Chief Learning Advisor
