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Benefits for skill-building, productivity, and growth
Support professional development at scale, offering employees choice and flexibility as they expand their skills and productivity.
Professional development LSAs designed for the AI era
Scale at the speed of business
Support upskilling and growth with purposeful, globally scalable programs tailored to your business priorities and employee needs.
Simplify benefits administration
Provide flexible professional development opportunities through one unified platform to ease administrative pressure.
Optimize budgets & utilization
Achieve high engagement and predictable utilization while making the most of your investment in professional development.
“True AI fluency requires removing the hurdles to both access and education. By offering an AI-focused LSA and curating tools into clear categories with detailed descriptions, this growth-focused benefit empowers employees to explore AI platforms that optimize their personal and professional routines.”
How Forma supports your professional development strategy
Explore some examples of how to design growth and productivity LSAs with Forma, including what can be covered.
AI fluency & tools
AI is moving fast, and employers are under real pressure to ensure your workforce can keep pace. Giving employees access to the tools and training they need to build genuine AI fluency and boost productivity isn't something traditional benefits were designed to support — and the demand is only growing.
Use Forma to design an LSA configured to cover AI tools, subscriptions, and resources, enabling employees to explore and adopt company-approved AI that's most relevant to their work and supportive of their goals. It's one of the fastest-growing use cases on the Forma platform because we make it simple for employers to respond to new trends and priorities without adding administrative complexity.
Industry memberships & events
Professional growth doesn't happen only on the job. Industry associations, certifications, and conferences are where employees build networks, deepen expertise, and stay current in their fields. Costs can add up quickly, and without employer support, many employees absorb them personally or skip out entirely.
A professional development LSA with Forma can cover industry group membership fees, association dues, certification programs, conference attendance, and more, giving employees the flexibility to invest in the communities and events that matter most to their careers. Employers set the parameters; Forma handles the rest.
Subscriptions & books
The employees who stay sharpest are often the ones seeking knowledge and reading widely, following industry publications, and exploring new perspectives on their own time. These habits are worth supporting — but the costs are small enough that they fall through the cracks of traditional benefits and large enough to feel like a burden when they're entirely out of pocket.
With Forma, you can offer a professional development LSA that covers magazine and newsletter subscriptions, books, and e-readers, giving employees a simple, frictionless way to fund the content that keeps them growing.
Skill-building & coaching
Employees looking to build leadership skills, navigate a career transition, or develop specific competencies often have to fund that investment entirely on their own. But access to programs or a great coach or mentor can be expensive. Consequently, many believe this type of professional development opportunity is simply out of reach.
A professional development LSA through Forma can cover professional coaching, mentorship programs, skill-building workshops, and growth-oriented platforms like MasterClass or Udemy, giving employees a benefit that offers a personalized approach to development.
Frequently Asked Questions: FAQs
Forma is highly scalable and ideal for global workforces; half of Forma customers have accounts covering employees in two or more countries. Many employers use Forma to provide professional development benefits on a global scale, with options for country-specific accounts tailored to your unique workforce needs.
In the last year, employers funded a median of $1,090 per year in Professional Development LSAs. Check out our 2026 global lifestyle benefits benchmark report for a deeper dive into how employers are funding Professional Development accounts and a range of other lifestyle benefit use cases.
Absolutely! Forma has 40+ HRIS integrations, along with support for single sign-on (SSO), and thousands of financial partners. Check out our Integrations page to learn more. Still have questions? Set up time with our team to get the answers you need.