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Media Release

Company separation and new SaaS launch

WithYouWithMe has separated into two independent companies: Greenbeam, a global SaaS workforce intelligence platform, and WithYouWithMe (WYWM), its talent creation services business. Greenbeam will operate as a standalone SaaS company, while WYWM continues its social impact mission, with both organisations maintaining close collaboration during the transition.

Education Today

800 Students Deep Dive into Defence Industry

Around 800 Charles Campbell College students explored Australia’s defence industry through hands-on activities and AI-driven career assessments. The Forge Your Future program, run by Greenbeam, WithYouWithMe and Year13, gave students insight into diverse defence careers, helping them align their skills with real-world roles and inspiring future study and career choices.

HRM Online

4 key considerations when introducing technology into your workforce

In the shift to Industry 5.0, technology should empower people, not just processes. HR leaders should focus on ethical data use, human-centered design, and leveraging skills insights. Greenbeam and WithYouWithMe’s success in mapping veterans’ transferable skills into cybersecurity roles shows how AI can create meaningful career pathways while fostering trust.

Find your place SA

Paving the way for high school students in defence STEM careers

Forge Your Future is helping high school students discover real defence industry pathways, offering hands-on insights, mentorship, and direct links to industry opportunities while building the skills and confidence needed for Australia’s future STEM workforce.

Business News

Non-traditional learning key for STEM

The Forge Your Future initiative is helping fast-track high school students into defence industry careers by showcasing diverse STEM opportunities beyond traditional classrooms. By engaging students with practical experiences and industry connections, it prepares them for future workforce demands and broadens their career horizons.

Education HQ

The exciting new STEM initiative that’s flipping the traditional workforce model

Forge Your Future is flipping the traditional workforce model by connecting Year 10–12 students with STEM careers in defence industry through skills testing, mentoring, and real opportunities. Read how the program is making national impact.

Defence Connect

Government struggling to reach young people with ADF, defence industry messaging

The government is failing to engage young Australians with messaging about careers in the ADF and defence industry. A new report reveals that, despite significant investment in outreach, current strategies are missing the mark.

Education Today

Path to Defence STEM Jobs for High schoolers

Developed by Greenbeam, WithYouWithMe and Year13, the Forge Your Future program equips students with tools, education, and industry experience to fast-track careers in leading SA defence companies, helping them secure high-paying roles in the future.

Asia-Pacific Defence Reporter

Forge Your Future offers students government-backed training

Forge Your Future connects high schoolers to high-demand STEM careers in South Australia’s defence industry, including shipbuilding and nuclear subs. Supported by top employers BAE Systems & Babcock, it offers training and job opportunities.

Defence Connect

New program gives SA teens a taste of AUKUS shipbuilding

In an Australian first, high school students nationwide will soon have access to a groundbreaking government-backed program, Forge Your Future, designed to unlock career pathways into high-demand STEM roles within South Australia’s defence industry.

The Australian

No guesswork as teens 'nuclear-powered' to take up AUKUS careers

The Australian showcases how Forge Your Future is preparing teens for AUKUS careers, connecting students with training and pathways into SA’s growing defence industry, including shipbuilding and nuclear submarine projects.

Media release

Teens to keep submarine and shipbuilding ambitions afloat

Greenbeam, WithYouWithMe and Year13 launch Forge Your Future, a groundbreaking program helping high schoolers access STEM career pathways in South Australia’s growing defence industry, backed by major employers like Babcock and BAE Systems.

Media release

New AI capabilities to simplify workforce skills mapping

Greenbeam has announced two cutting-edge AI capabilities that simplify workforce skills mapping, providing organisations with smarter, more efficient ways to manage workforce transformation and align skills strategies with business goals.

Dynamic Business

Are talent assessments dead? Not yet

As organisations explore augmenting tasks and roles with AI, having a holistic understanding of employees has never been more important. This is where talent assessments are proving most valuable.

Talk Business

The UK Government needs to deliver on digital skills

Cultivating a digitally skilled workforce is critical for the UK’s economic future and social fabric. Yet, with an election looming, very little consideration has been given to how the Government will contribute to building the digital skills the nation needs, at scale.

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GOVTECH REVIEW

Why the public sector needs to adopt workforce skills mapping

Ahead of the Public Sector Network's Innovate Australia showcase, Tom Larter shares his thoughts on why the APS needs organisation-wide skills mapping to realise the 'One APS' ethos.

Business Cloud

Former key figure at GCHQ joins Greenbeam board

Former Director Cyber for GCHQ, Sally Walker has been appointed to the board of Greenbeam (formerly WithYouWithMe) as non-executive director. The role will see Ms Walker provide strategic advice and support to the firm’s continued global expansion.

The Mandarin

Laying the foundation for a skills-based 'One APS' strategy

Ian Handley unpacks the release of the new APS Strategic Commissioning Framework and how its mandate could create a significant opportunity to shift Australia’s public service employment model to a skills-based approach.

HR Leader

The ‘military model’ and the benefits for business development

Cia Kouparitsas shares why businesses should adopt the military’s approach to building expertise which sees talent upskilled and reskilled internally rather than hired externally.

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HRM Online

Is Australia's National Skills Passport the key to a true skills-led workforce

The Australian Government has announced it is commencing work on establishing a National Skills Passport - an initiative Cia Kouparitsas says represents an important paradigm shift in the nation's employment landscape.

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Redefining talent acquisition in tech with a skills-focused strategy

Traditional experience-based hiring techniques have become barriers rather than enablers in recruiting the right talent. Kady Marriott advocates for a shift to a skills-based approach, emphasising demonstrable abilities and potential.

The Age

With the rise of AI, getting a job shouldn't rely on a uni degree

The likes of ChatGPT and other generative AI is changing the workplace more rapidly than anyone could have imagined. Paul Wahltuch lends his expertise to The Age to explore the necessity for a degree in the new digital era.

The CMO Show

How to amplify diversity in tech talent

Cia Kouparitsas chats with The CMO Show host Mark Jones about how technology is pioneering the skills-based employment sector to create a more equitable world.

Education Today

Starting on a tech career pathway in high school

The shortfall in tech workers is a cause for concern and part of a solution might be to start identifying students with particular aptitudes in the very wide and varied tech field during high school using Greenbeam's assessment suite.

Media release

New partnership with GED set to provide learning insights to boost students’ success

More than 700,000 US students who take the GED® each year will soon have access to powerful learning insights, thanks to a new initiative aimed at improving student outcomes.

HRM Online

A business case and framework for skills mapping

In order to effectively address the skills shortage, you first need to understand exactly where your gaps exist. That’s where skills mapping comes in.

The Mandarin

Former GCHQ cyber ops chief launches offensive on tech recruitment bias

The Mandarin unpacks Sally Walker's rallying cry to organisations to exploit the benefits of hiring diverse talent into IT roles during her keynote address at the Australian Cyber Conference.

ABC Radio

We need a new cyber army says former British Intelligence Director

Prior to her keynote address at the Australian Cyber Conference, Sally Walker, former Director of Cyber Ops at GCHQ joined ABC local radio to discuss the need for countries to build a diverse cyber workforce spanning defence, intelligence, industry and academia.

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The Australian

Cyber defence force needed beyond army and navy

Australia must establish a national cyber force, beyond the army, navy and air force, and mobilise new civilian workforces to combat rising global threats and strengthen cyber defences.

Yahoo Finance

Trailblazer Sally Walker reveals her unique journey from GCHQ to WYWM

Former British intelligence director Sally Walker shares the story behind her rapid rise in GCHQ, the difficult decision to leave, and what she's learnt about creating a meaningful career.

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