Expanding our North American footprint, with new leadership and Notion joining as a customer

We’ve appointed HR author Jessica Zwaan and HubSpot veteran Rebecca Corliss to our senior leadership team, as Notion becomes a Leapsome customer.

We have some news, and it’s the kind that reflects where we are as a company and where we’re headed.

We’re announcing the appointments of Jessica Zwaan as the new VP of People Strategy and Operations, and Rebecca Corliss as our VP of Marketing. At the same time, we’re welcoming Notion, the AI productivity company, as a customer. For us, these three things aren’t separate announcements. They’re part of the same story: a deliberate push to deepen our presence in North America, with the right people and the right product to back it up.

HR and people teams in the US are moving away from fragmented point solutions toward platforms that connect core HR, performance, engagement, and AI in one system. Leapsome was designed for exactly this shift, and we’re accelerating our US investment to meet that demand.

Notion is the latest to join our growing North American customer base, selecting Leapsome for its AI and workflow capabilities to support employee engagement and performance across its organization.

“At Notion, we’re focused on helping people do their life’s work by bringing context and action together. So we needed a platform that adapts to how we work, not one our team has to work around. With Leapsome, performance, engagement, and our workflows connect in one place, and that’s changed how quickly we can act on what we’re hearing from employees.”
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— Mariama Eghan, Talent Management Program Manager at Notion.

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Our platform vision

We spent nearly a decade establishing our reputation in talent management before expanding into a platform for HRIS, performance, and growth in 2024. That sequence matters, and it's what sets us apart: our core HR sits on top of a rich foundation of performance, engagement, and growth data — all in one place. It’s what gives our AI the performance-minded context it needs to surface insights and actions that lead to better decisions.

“People deserve better than transactional HR platforms. These tools digitize processes but can’t deliver the people strategy that builds high-performing, engaged teams. That gap is why Leapsome exists. Companies don't need another disconnected tool: they need one strong platform that brings HRIS, performance, and engagement together. And because all that data lives in one place, Leapsome becomes the natural home for AI that serves everyone: HR, managers, and employees. We're building what the market needs, and we’re doing it for the long term.”

— Jenny Podewils, our Co-founder and Co-CEO at Leapsome.

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Two hires who know how to scale

Jessica Zwaan joins us on April 1, 2026, from Talentful, where she served as Chief Operating Officer. She’s the author of Built for People, which reimagines HR as a product discipline, and Purpose and Work: How Purpose Supports Motivation, Productivity, and Performance at Work, a practical guide to building purpose-driven organizations. Based in New York, she brings a practitioner’s perspective on developing strong, scalable organizations — exactly what our US expansion calls for.

“HR leaders are under more pressure than ever to do more with less. The answer isn’t more processes; it’s better systems: connected data, automated workflows, and AI that surface insights before problems escalate, so your people leaders can actually lead. That’s what a modern HR platform should do, and that’s why I joined Leapsome.”
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— Jessica Zwaan, VP People Strategy and Operations.

Rebecca Corliss was among HubSpot’s first 50 employees — part of the original team that grew and scaled the early-stage startup into a global leader through IPO. She brings that same expertise in growing markets from the ground up to Leapsome. Since then, she has led marketing for workplace and employee experience technology companies, including Owl Labs and VergeSense, taking multiple products to market across EMEA and the US.

Designed for the realities of modern HR

Over the past year, we’ve expanded our North American platform capabilities significantly. We added a native ADP Workforce Now integration and extended our Justworks partnership for outsourced HR and payroll environments. With employee data, HR processes, and talent workflows unified in one platform, our AI is positioned to drive the outcomes modern HR leaders are expected to deliver. Our built-in AI agents help HR teams, managers, and employees cut admin time, surface performance and engagement insights, and accelerate the decisions that follow.
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