Leapsome Appoints Two Executive Hires and Wins Notion as Customer in the US
Talent Management / Employee Experience | 5 min read
Leapsome, the platform for HRIS, performance, and growth, has announced the appointments of Jessica Zwaan as VP People Strategy and Operations and Rebecca Corliss as VP Marketing, as the company accelerates its North America expansion, deepens its AI leadership, and adds fast-growing US customers — including Notion, the AI productivity company. Leapsome already has more customers in the US than in any other market, and the dual executive hire signals a significant commitment to US growth at a moment when HR teams are consolidating fragmented point solutions onto unified platforms.
Notion Selects Leapsome for AI and Workflow Capabilities
Among Leapsome's growing North American customer base, Notion selected the platform for its AI and workflow capabilities to support employee engagement and performance across its organisation.
"At Notion, we're focused on helping people do their life's work by bringing context and action together. So we needed a platform that adapts to how we work, not one our team has to work around. With Leapsome, performance, engagement, and our workflows connect in one place, and that's changed how quickly we can act on what we're hearing from employees."
— Mariama Eghan, Talent Management Program Manager, Notion
Leapsome's Platform Vision: HRIS Built on Performance Data
Leapsome built its reputation in talent management over nearly a decade before expanding into a full platform for HRIS, performance, and growth in 2024. That sequence created what the company describes as a unique competitive advantage: core HR built on top of a rich foundation of performance, engagement, and growth data — all in one place. This gives Leapsome's AI the performance-minded context needed to surface insights and actions that drive better decisions and business outcomes.
"People deserve better than transactional HR platforms. These tools digitize processes but can't deliver the people strategy that builds high-performing, engaged teams. That gap is why Leapsome exists. Companies don't need another disconnected tool: they need one strong platform that brings HRIS, performance, and engagement together. And because all that data lives in one place, Leapsome becomes the natural home for AI that serves everyone: HR, managers, and employees."
— Jenny Podewils, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Leapsome
Jessica Zwaan: VP People Strategy and Operations
Zwaan joins effective 1 April 2026 from Talentful, where she served as Chief Operating Officer. She is the author of Built for People — which reimagines HR as a product discipline — and Purpose and Work: How Purpose Supports Motivation, Productivity and Performance at Work. Based in New York, Zwaan brings a practitioner's perspective on building strong, scalable organisations, well-matched to Leapsome's current US expansion phase.
"HR leaders are under more pressure than ever to do more with less. The answer isn't more processes, it's better systems: connected data, automated workflows, and AI that surfaces insights before problems escalate, so your people leaders can actually lead. That's what a modern HR platform should do, and that's why I joined Leapsome."
— Jessica Zwaan, VP People Strategy and Operations, Leapsome
Rebecca Corliss: VP Marketing
Rebecca Corliss was among HubSpot's first 50 employees, part of the original team that built and scaled the startup from its early stage to a global public company. She has since led marketing for workplace and employee experience technology companies — including Owl Labs and VergeSense — bringing multiple products to market across EMEA and the US. Her experience building markets from the ground up is closely aligned with Leapsome's North America growth ambition.
The Shift Driving Leapsome's US Momentum
HR and people teams in the US are moving away from fragmented point solutions toward platforms that connect core HR, performance, engagement, and AI in one system. Leapsome was built for exactly this shift — with its AI designed to serve HR leaders, managers, and employees equally, grounded in unified data that other platforms lack because they built HRIS first and performance capabilities second, or not at all.
Key Takeaways
- • Leapsome has appointed Jessica Zwaan (VP People Strategy and Operations, joining 1 April 2026, ex-Talentful COO and author of Built for People) and Rebecca Corliss (VP Marketing, ex-HubSpot founding team, Owl Labs, VergeSense).
- • Notion, the AI productivity company, has selected Leapsome for its AI and workflow capabilities — using the platform to connect performance, engagement, and HR workflows in one place.
- • Leapsome's competitive differentiation is core HR built on top of nearly a decade of performance, engagement, and growth data — giving its AI context that platforms built HRIS-first cannot replicate.
- • The US is already Leapsome's largest market by customer count, and both hires are positioned to accelerate market expansion and brand awareness at a critical stage of growth.
- • The appointments reflect Leapsome's broader thesis: HR teams need connected data, automated workflows, and AI that surfaces insights before problems escalate — not more disconnected tools.