Cloverleaf vs. BetterUp
See how Cloverleaf and BetterUp Grow™ are different, the same, and when and why you should choose us or them.
Why teams like Google, Duracell, and Reddit choose Cloverleaf
What is Cloverleaf?
Cloverleaf is a team performance platform that coaches managers and direct reports on how to work with each other, before their 1:1s and meetings, in the tools they already use. It is built on 13+ market-leading assessments, which a patented engine combines into one view of each person and maps how any two people can work best together.
The goal? Every manager and every direct report coached on how to work with each other, across the whole organization.
What is BetterUp Grow™?
BetterUp Grow™ is an AI coach built on human-coaching experiences and a proprietary assessment. It helps employees practice conversations, work through challenges, and pursue development goals, with guidance concerning their role within the organization.
The goal? Give every employee personalized AI coaching, with access to human coaching when deeper support is needed.
Why Cloverleaf and BetterUp get compared
We might sound a lot alike. We both can:
Coach every employee
Both employees access to coaching for the challenges they face at work.
Integrate with workflows
Both send coaching through Slack and Microsoft Teams and other tools.
Practice conversations
Both can offer role play for feedback and performance conversations.
We both can scale coaching. We just don't start from the same data.
BetterUp Grow™ draws on millions of coaching sessions; Cloverleaf combines your people’s results from 13+ market-leading assessments with 1M+ behavioral signals to coach how specific teammates work together.
BetterUp Grow™ offers its own assessment. Cloverleaf synthesizes 13+.
BetterUp offers its proprietary Whole Person Assessment. Cloverleaf synthesizes 13+ market-leading assessments, including DISC, CliftonStrengths®, Enneagram, and Insights Discovery, through a patented engine. These different perspectives help explain how each person communicates, what motivates them, and where their strengths lie.
Grow coaches each person. Cloverleaf coaches the relationships between them.
Grow draws on principles informed by coaching sessions across BetterUp’s users. Cloverleaf uses both teammates’ assessment results to account for differences in communication styles, motivations, and feedback preferences, giving each person guidance on how to adapt their approach to each unique person they work with.
Grow escalates employees to coaches. Cloverleaf connects people to each other.
BetterUp escalates to a human coach. Cloverleaf makes a different choice. Cloverleaf emphasizes helping employees apply guidance with the people around them: asking a manager for support, addressing tension with a teammate, or giving feedback someone can use. Coaches and HRBPs can support that development, while Cloverleaf develops the relationships between coworkers.
It helps connect with people and I love that it shows me how to tailor my message to each teammate based on what they need.”
- Quan Campbell,
Senior Director of Experiences and Programming, Blanchard
How do Cloverleaf and BetterUp compare side by side?
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See where coaching is helping. Know where your people need more support.
Cloverleaf reports growth, across teams and development goals. Ask where managers are struggling or what support teams need. Use the analytics to focus training and development where people need it most.
Self-Reported Practice
of members practicing a chosen goal say they're growing on it.
INTEGRATIONS
Native integrations with the platforms your employees use every day
Coaching shows up where work already happens, and inside tools like Slack, Teams, Workday, LLMs, or email.
Get personalized coaching directly in Workday, with ongoing support for development goals.
Goals set in Workday automatically populate coaching plans, with daily reinforcement in Slack or Microsoft Teams.
Guidance on delivering feedback appears as employees write it.
It’s the first tool I’ve seen that people adopted without prompting; even resistant team members became internal advocates.”
- Christy Cole,
Operations and Strategic Integrator, McKinney
Why teams love Cloverleaf
Increase in
team performance
Coaching questions
about another person
People change behavior from Cloverleaf coaching
I am a team of one, for over 2,000 employees. This allows people to create their own development opportunities and get to know their teams better.”
- Dr. Erin Mires,
Director of Leadership & Organizational Development, Galen College of Nursing
Get started with Cloverleaf
Coaching that knows your people on day one.