# How VML uses Yoodli

**20 percent** improvement in leader confidence

As published on [yoodli.ai](https://yoodli.ai/case-studies/how-vml-won-four-brandon-hall-awards-using-ai-roleplays-for-leadership-development), August 2026. Captured by usedby on 2026-10-07.

- Company: [VML](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/vml.md)
- Tool: [Yoodli](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/yoodli.md)
- Industry: [Agency & Studio](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/agency-studio.md)
- Teams: Learning and Development

## The use case: how VML deploys Yoodli

VML uses Yoodli's AI roleplays in its Hi leadership development series so employees can practice difficult conversations in realistic scenarios and receive real-time feedback, at global scale.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Yoodli and VML, not ours.

> Through Yoodli’s AI roleplays, VML employees practice difficult conversations in realistic, low-stakes scenarios, receive feedback in real time, and build measurable competence in minutes rather than months.

- **81 percent**: “81 percent of participants reported feeling prepared for their toughest conversations”

> Yoodli made possible a scale of practice I could only have dreamed of earlier in my career. Thousands of people getting real feedback on hard conversations, at the moment they needed it, with no facilitator required.
>
> Kelly Stuart-Johnson, VP, Global Head of Learning, VML

Source: [yoodli.ai](https://yoodli.ai/case-studies/how-vml-won-four-brandon-hall-awards-using-ai-roleplays-for-leadership-development), captured 2026-10-07.

## Other AI tools used by VML

- [Valence](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/valence.md) — Confirmed
- [Krea](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/krea.md) — Observed

## Other companies using Yoodli

- [Bank of Colorado](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/bank-of-colorado.md) — Confirmed
- [Clari](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/clari.md) — Confirmed
- [Google](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/google.md) — Confirmed
- [Harness](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/harness.md) — Confirmed
- [Intuit](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/intuit.md) — Confirmed
- [KindWork](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/kindwork.md) — Confirmed

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-07.

- Checked: the figure 20 percent is on the page; its label is our wording.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of VML.
- Checked: the publication date is read from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
- Checked: VML uses Yoodli. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-19.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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