The story of Howspace
Howspace is a Collaborative Learning & Enablement Platform that helps organizations move from content delivery to active participation and collaboration, driving real change.
What is Howspace
Howspace is a Collaborative Learning and Enablement Platform that helps organizations turn strategy into action.
We believe that meaningful change only happens when people are truly involved in the process. Not just informed or trained, but invited to solve problems and build the future together.
Most organizations don’t fail because their plans are bad. They struggle because their people are not truly part of making those plans happen. This is where collaborative learning builds collective capability. It turns shared goals into consistent action and ensures that strategy becomes the way everyone works and succeeds together.
How it all started
Our Finnish founders, Ilkka Mäkitalo and Olli-Pekka Juoperi, spent years helping organizations navigate change, as teachers, as consultants, as people who cared deeply about getting it right.
And they kept seeing the same thing: people being left out. Not because anyone intended it, but because the tools and mindsets around them weren’t built for real participation.
Traditional tools tracked attendance. They didn’t spark dialogue. Great workshops ended, and the energy faded. There was no way to keep people thinking and building together after the session closed.
So Ilkka and Olli-Pekka came up with Howspace, a digital space where learning doesn’t stop when the meeting ends, and where it is woven into everyday work, not bolted on top of it.
Howspace facts
55
employees
in 12
countries across the globe
Hybrid
We have a hybrid work setup
3 offices
Our offices are based in Jyväskylä & Helsinki in Finland and Stockholm in Sweden.
2008
Founding year
Founders
Ilkka Mäkitalo & Olli-Pekka Juoperi
30,000+
active daily Howspace users
from 700+
organizations in 50 countries
190+
partner organizations in 30+ countries
Why we exist
We support what we help build. That’s a human truth, and it’s the heart of everything we do.
Research shows that only 10% of real learning happens through formal training. The rest happens through doing, reflecting, and learning from the people around you. Yet most organizations still treat learning as a one-time event and pour nearly 100% of their learning budget into that 10%, while real growth happens elsewhere.
We exist to help organizations unlock the other 90%. To make learning continuous, social, and woven into everyday work. Because when people truly learn together, they build something no training module can create: real ownership of change.
