About Cornerstone
On-the-job training for Alberta employees.
We train employees to do more for the company they work for: to capture know-how in systems the whole team can run, and to use today's technology well and safely, in the tools they already use.
What we do
Cornerstone Future Solutions Inc. is a Calgary training company. Our courses teach employees the systems, processes, and applied technology that make a company less dependent on any one person. What they learn is applied to real work, on the job or in the office, and employees receive a Cornerstone course certificate when they meet the attendance, applied work, and assessment requirements.
Our training is private, live, and instructor-led for a company and its employees. We agree the learning goals, delivery format, location, dates, and support with the employer before training begins.
We also help teams use AI well. Our AI Competency Assessment shows where a team's AI skills break down, and our Applied AI Competency course closes those gaps, on the tools your company already has, and awards a Cornerstone course certificate to employees who meet the course requirements.
Our courses are built for the industries we know best: construction and the trades, oilfield services, trucking, retail and wholesale, and the offices that keep them running.
How we teach
- Plain language. Built for crews and office staff, not consultants.
- The job is the classroom. Every step is applied to real work, on the job or in the office, between classes.
- A test, not paperwork. A course ends when something runs, not when a binder is handed over.
- Applied technology that fits the person. Employees learn on the work devices your company already gives them, in the software and documents they already use. We fit the tools to the person, not the person to a box of systems.
- It stays with you. Your employee leaves able to repeat it without us.
- Your work stays in your accounts. Employees build in your company's own in-house tools. You do not send company files to Cornerstone. Work remains in your company's accounts; your approved software providers process data under your own settings and agreements.
Who teaches
The initial courses are taught by the course developer. Delivery uses plain language and real company tasks. Participants practise on an agreed workplace task, check the work, and meet a clear standard before receiving a Cornerstone certificate.
Instructor qualifications and the exact delivery plan are provided with your training quote. As the program expands, Cornerstone will train additional facilitators to the same written curriculum and assessment standards.
A Cornerstone certificate records completion of our course requirements. It is not a government accreditation or a professional licence.
The experience behind The Step-Back
When the person who holds the office together needs to step away.
In an earlier engagement, an oilfield services company needed to prepare for the maternity leave of the employee who kept its office running. Her knowledge included more than tasks: it included the reasoning, judgment calls, and responses to unexpected problems that made the work flow.
That work happened before these courses were developed. It helped identify the need for a structured way to share what a key employee knows, so someone else can carry out the work.
This is the earlier experience behind the course, not a participant story from the current training courses. Names and identifying details are kept private.
See The Step-BackCompany details
Cornerstone Future Solutions Inc.
Mailing address: 1122 3 St SE, Suite 1906 #382, Calgary, Alberta T2G 0E7
inbox@cornerstonefuture.com · +1 (587) 316-9353
Cornerstone also operates Exit Queen, for owners preparing to sell.