About Yzly
Yzly, pronounced “wisely,” was created to make workplace learning easier, more practical, and more human. Most organisations know their people want to grow. Engagement surveys say it year after year: teams want more development, better support, and learning that actually helps them in their day-to-day work.
But too often, not much changes.
A consultant is brought in. A few generic programs are rolled out. HR is asked to “do something.” Learning and Development teams do their best, often producing thoughtful programs, but they are stretched thin and can only move so fast.
Meanwhile, leaders and teams are left waiting.
At Yzly, we believe learning should not sit on the shelf, trapped in formal programs or dependent on outside experts. It should live where the work happens: in conversations, team meetings, shared challenges, and everyday moments of growth.
Yzly began with one simple question:
What if learning sat in the hands of leaders and teams, not just HR or external providers?
That question shaped everything we do.
Yzly workshops are designed as small, practical learning experiences that leaders can run with their own teams. Each workshop includes expert-designed guides, resources, and activities that make it easy to spark useful conversations, build trust, and grow capability without turning learning into a big, complicated event.
Our founder, Doug Hawkins, is an award-winning learning and development innovator, digital transformation specialist, and creative technologist with more than 30 years’ experience across globally recognised organisations.
Doug’s background spans leadership, operations, and transformation across industries including oil and gas, surveying, film and television production, hospitality, telecommunications, civil engineering, retail, utilities, government, real estate, and more.
That breadth matters.
Yzly was not built from theory alone. It was shaped by real workplaces, real leaders, and the everyday pressures teams face on the front line.
Through a global network of learning, development, and business leaders, Doug works with subject matter experts to identify the topics that matter most in today’s workplaces. Every Yzly workshop is grounded in current best practice, evidence-informed design, AI-assisted deep research, and practical application.
But research is only useful if people can use it.
That is why Yzly focuses on learning that feels natural, relevant, and immediately useful. No jargon. No tick-box training. No bloated programs that disappear after launch.
Just clear, practical tools that help leaders build stronger teams, better conversations, and healthier ways of working.
Our goal is simple:
To make professional development easy, real, and part of everyday work, so people do not just complete training, they grow, connect, and thrive.