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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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Form 10-K

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Franklin Covey Co.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

13907 South Minuteman Drive, Suite 500

Draper, Utah84020

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (801) 817-1776

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of Each Class TradingSymbol Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered

Common Stock, $.05 Par Value FC New York Stock Exchange

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes No 

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As of February 28, 2025, the aggregate market value of the Registrant's Common Stock held by non-affiliates of the Registrant was approximately $349.5 million, which was based upon the closing price of $31.98 per share as reported by the New York Stock Exchange.

As of October 31, 2025, the Registrant had 12,155,832 shares of Common Stock outstanding.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Parts of the Registrant's Definitive Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which is scheduled to be held on January 23, 2026, are incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K.

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Franklin Covey Co.

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PART I 4

Item 1 Business 4

Item 1A Risk Factors 13

Item 1B Unresolved Staff Comments 23

Item 1C Cybersecurity 23

Item 2 Properties 24

Item 3 Legal Proceedings 24

Item 4 Mine Safety Disclosures 26

Item 6 Reserved 27

Item 7A Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk 44

Item 8 Financial Statements and Supplementary Data 45

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm PCAOB ID No. 34 45

Item 9A Controls and Procedures 83

Item 9B Other Information 84

Item 9C Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections 84

PART III 84

Item 10 Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance 84

Item 11 Executive Compensation 85

Item 14 Principal Accountant Fees and Services 86

Item 15 Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules 86

Signatures 89

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PART I

Disclosure Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), and such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Statements about future revenues, costs, margins, cost savings, foreign currency exchange rates, earnings, cash flows, initiatives, strategy, objectives, targets, expectations, growth, or profitability are forward-looking statements based on management’s estimates, assumptions, and projections. Words such as “could,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “likely,” “anticipates,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “projects,” “believes,” “estimates,” and variations on such words, including similar expressions, are used to identify these forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are only predictions, subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results could differ materially from those discussed in this, and other reports, filed by us with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and elsewhere. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Risks, uncertainties, and other factors that might cause such differences, some of which could be material, include, but are not limited to, the factors discussed under the section of this report entitled “Risk Factors.”

Forward-looking statements in this report are based on management’s current views and assumptions regarding future events and speak only as of the date when made. Franklin Covey Co. undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by federal securities laws.

In this Annual Report on Form 10-K, unless the context requires otherwise, the terms “the Company,” “Franklin Covey,” “FranklinCovey,” “us,” “we,” and “our” refer to Franklin Covey Co. and its subsidiaries.

ITEM 1. BUSINESS

General Information

Franklin Covey is a global company focused on organizational performance improvement. Our mission is to “enable greatness in people and organizations everywhere,” and our global structure is designed to help individuals and organizations achieve results that require collective behavior change. From the foundational work of Dr. Stephen R. Covey in leadership and personal effectiveness, and Hyrum W. Smith in productivity and time management, we have developed deep expertise that extends to helping organizations and individuals achieve desired results through lasting behavioral change. We believe that our clients are able to utilize our content and offerings to create cultures which include high-performing, collaborative individuals, led by effective, trust-building leaders who execute with excellence and deliver measurably improved results for all of their key stakeholders.

The Company was incorporated in 1983 under the laws of the state of Utah, and we merged with the Covey Leadership Center in 1997 to form Franklin Covey Co. Our consolidated net revenue for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025 totaled $267.1 million and our shares of common stock are traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol “FC.”

Our fiscal year ends on August 31 of each year. Unless otherwise noted, references to fiscal years apply to the 12 months ended August 31 of the specified year.

The Company’s principal executive offices are located at 13907 South Minuteman Dr., Suite 500, Draper, Utah 84020, and our telephone number is (801) 817-1776. Our website, where you can find information about us, is www.franklincovey.com.

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Franklin Covey Services and Offerings

Our mission is to “enable greatness in people and organizations everywhere.” To accomplish this mission, we partner with senior executives and talent leaders to achieve breakthrough performance by engaging leaders and teams throughout an organization in focused, highly effective ways that drive their strategies forward. Our solutions are designed to transform our clients’ results and bring a unique blend of technology, content, and consulting expertise to the most critical challenges they face. Our solutions are researched-backed, grounded in time-proven principles, and have been tested in thousands of implementations in business, government, and educational organizations throughout the world.

FranklinCovey solutions are delivered as a combination of subscription-based access to proprietary content, implementation tools, assessments, and expert consulting and advisory services to help clients engage and align their people around their desired outcomes. Our subscription offerings include the All Access Pass (AAP), which is primarily sold through our Enterprise Division, and the Leader in Me membership, which is designed specifically for our Education Division. These subscriptions enable clients to scale our solutions throughout their organizations and maximize the impact on their results.

We believe that our Enterprise Division’s AAP is a powerful way to deliver our solutions to clients of various sizes, including large, multinational organizations. As part of their engagement, clients can deploy complete content offerings such as The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Four Disciplines of Execution, The Speed of Trust, and Multipliers, or use individual concepts from any of these well-known offerings to create a custom solution to fit their organization’s goals. Strategic deployments are supported by expert consultants and coaches, who work with clients to align our solutions and implementation processes in ways that maximize their impact on client results. The AAP also includes access to Franklin Covey’s AI Coach, which helps individuals deepen their learning and application of our content. Our AAP-based solutions can be deployed in numerous languages, enabling multinational clients to achieve impact throughout their operations. This global capability also provides us with substantial international sales opportunities.

In our Education Division, we offer the Leader in Me membership, which provides access to the Leader in Me online service, and authorizes Education clients to use Franklin Covey’s proprietary intellectual property. The Leader in Me online service provides access to digital curriculum, leadership lessons, illustrated leadership stories, and a variety of other resources to enable an educational institution to effectively implement and utilize the Leader in Me program. In addition to the content and materials, we provide experienced coaches and consultants to assist schools with the implementation of the Leader in Me program. The coaches and consultants who serve in the Education Division are primarily former educators, including teachers, principals, and administrators, who have a deep understanding of the current challenges facing educators and students and understand how the Leader in Me program can effectively address these challenges. We believe that the Leader in Me solution provides measurable results in the areas of student leadership, improved school culture, and increased academic proficiency.

Each division operates globally with a common brand and a business model designed to provide clients around the world with the same high level of service. We have sales and support associates throughout the United States and Canada, and operate wholly owned subsidiaries that serve clients in Austria, Australia, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. In foreign locations where we do not have a directly owned office, we may contract with independent licensee partners who deliver our content and provide services in approximately 150 other countries and territories around the world.

Further information about our content and services can be found on our website at www.franklincovey.com. However, the information contained in, or that can be accessed through, our website does not constitute any part of this Annual Report.

Business Development

Our business is currently structured around two divisions, the Enterprise Division and the Education Division. The Enterprise Division consists of our North America, International Direct Office, and International Licensee segments and is focused on selling our solutions to corporations, governments, not-for-profits, and other related organizations. Franklin Covey solutions delivered through the Enterprise Division are designed to help organizational leaders achieve breakthrough

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results on mission critical objectives. Our Education Division is centered around the principles found in the Leader in Me and is dedicated to helping educational institutions build cultures that will produce great results, including increased student performance, improved school culture, and increased parental and teacher involvement.

Following the launch of our AAP subscription service and Leader in Me membership, we have consistently sought to improve our content, technology, services, and overall client experience with these subscription-based offerings. We believe that continued investments in content, technology, and personnel who can provide highly credible consulting, coaching, and related delivery services are key to our ongoing client growth and our growth in subscription and subscription services revenue.

In addition to the internal development of our solutions, we have on occasion sought to grow our capability and sales through acquisitions of businesses and content licenses, and opening new international offices. Over the past few years, our growth investment efforts have included the following:

Increased Investment in Content and Delivery Platforms – Over the past several years, we have significantly increased our investments in content and delivery platforms. In prior years we invested in significant revisions to our flagship The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People offering, which launched in early fiscal 2025, on new Leader in Me content, and for enhancements to our Impact Platform. During fiscal 2024 we also acquired a license for The Teacher Believed in Me content, which is expected to provide new opportunities for growth in our Leader in Me membership and related offerings. We believe continuing investments in our content and offerings are critical to our growth and ability to attract and retain clients.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) – With the rapid rise of AI, we believe there will be an increasing premium on human leadership and interaction to leverage AI in the workplace as organizations pursue their strategic agendas. We believe these skills will include the ability to set vision, focus teams, serve customers, and communicate effectively with human co-workers in partnership with agentic AI interfaces. We are strengthening our platforms and offerings to leverage the quickly changing capabilities and opportunities related to AI to improve our solutions and help clients develop and engage their people to achieve their strategic goals. We believe that AI provides an opportunity for increased scale, improved impact, and deeper client engagement with our solutions.

New Direct Office in France – In early fiscal 2025, we opened a new direct office operation in France, which was previously served by a licensee partner. We believe converting our operations in France from a licensee partnership to direct ownership will provide additional growth in revenue and operating income in future periods.

We seek to consistently add new capabilities that will help us deliver value to clients and increase the impact of our solutions. As a result, we expect to make additional investments in technology, content, and consulting expertise in fiscal 2026 and in future periods as market conditions allow. These investments may include hiring additional personnel, the acquisition of license rights, and business acquisitions. For further information regarding our business development, refer to the section entitled, “Key Strategic Objectives” in Item 7 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Our Associates

We have approximately 1,120 associates worldwide, who are mostly full-time employees. We also utilize independent contractors and temporary personnel to supplement our workforce. None of our associates are represented by a union or collective bargaining agreement, and we have never experienced a material labor interruption due to labor disagreements. For more information regarding our associates refer to the Human Capital Resources disclosures found later in this section.

Our Industry and Competitors

FranklinCovey is a focused solutions provider in the People and Organizational Performance industry. Companies in this industry offer clients a range of services, including advisory and consulting expertise, leadership development programs,

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HR technologies, learning platforms, and training content libraries. FranklinCovey partners with senior executives and talent leaders in both the Enterprise and Education markets to help organizations achieve performance improvement by engaging leaders and teams in focused and effective ways that support strategic execution.

The addressable market for these offerings is large and diversified. According to Training Industry’s 2025 State of the Industry Report, U.S. corporate training expenditures are estimated at approximately $188 billion (about $400 billion globally). IBIS World estimates U.S. spending on Human Resource Consulting at approximately $39 billion. In addition, our offerings address operating budgets allocated by leaders to achieve mission-critical objectives and business transformations. The addressable market for our Education solutions is also significant, including external curriculum budgets (estimated at around $2 billion in the U.S.) as well as funding from state, federal, and local governments, foundations, and other community sources.

Competitors for FranklinCovey's Enterprise Division include consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company, Deloitte, and Accenture; recruitment and advisory firms such as Korn Ferry and Heidrick & Struggles; leadership development organizations such as Development Dimensions International (DDI), LHH, and Blanchard; coaching providers such as BetterUp, CoachHub, and Ezra; sales-training organizations such as RAIN Group, Sandler, and Challenger; HR-technology providers such as Workboard, Amplify, and Cornerstone; and learning-library providers such as Udemy Business and LinkedIn Learning.

Competitors for the Education Division include solutions providers such as 7 Mindsets, Capturing Kids’ Hearts, Second Step, Responsive Classroom, and CharacterStrong.

We believe that the principal competitive factors in our industry include:

Quality and relevance of learning content.

Credible advisory and consulting expertise.

Effectiveness of implementation methodologies.

Strength of go-to-market operations and client support.

Skills and experience of professionals who develop and deliver solutions.

Ability to create measurable value for clients.

Reputation and client references.

Competitive pricing.

Global reach and delivery capability.

Brand recognition and market presence

Given the size and attractiveness of our target markets, competition continues to evolve as new and existing competitors continue to innovate, novel technologies—particularly artificial intelligence (AI)—reshape delivery models, and emerging solution approaches raise client expectations.

We believe FranklinCovey is well positioned within this environment due to:

The quality and depth of our content;

The breadth and flexibility of our delivery options, including the All Access Pass and Leader in Me membership offerings;

Our global reach and delivery capability, which allow multinational clients to deploy solutions consistently across geographies; and

The measurable impact our offerings are designed to achieve on client organizations and results.

We have a relatively broad base of clients, which includes thousands of organizational, governmental, educational, and individual clients in both the United States and in other countries that are served through our directly owned operations. We have thousands of additional organizational clients throughout the world which are served through our global licensee partner network, and we believe that our content, in all its forms, delivers results that encourage strong client loyalty. Our

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clients are in a broad array of industries, and we are not dependent on a single client or industry group. During the periods presented in this report, none of our clients were responsible for more than 10% of our consolidated revenues.

Our Intellectual Property

Our success has resulted in part from our proprietary content, methodologies, and other intellectual property rights. We seek to protect our intellectual property both globally and domestically through a combination of trademarks, copyrights, and confidentiality agreements. We claim rights for 706 trademarks in the United States and foreign countries, and we have obtained registration in the United States and numerous foreign countries for many of our trademarks including FranklinCovey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The 4 Disciplines of Execution, and The 7 Habits. We consider our trademarks and other proprietary rights to be important and material to our business and we regularly review the status of our trademarks and renew them to prevent the trademark protection from lapsing.

We claim 265 registered copyrights, and own sole or joint copyrights on our books, manuals, text and other printed information provided in our training programs, and other electronic media products, including audio and video media. We may license, rather than sell, facilitator workbooks and other seminar and training materials in order to protect our intellectual property rights therein. We place trademark and copyright notices on our instructional, marketing, and advertising materials. In order to maintain the proprietary nature of our product information, we enter into written confidentiality agreements with certain executives, product developers, sales professionals, training consultants, other employees, and licensees. Additionally, we actively monitor and seek to eliminate unauthorized use of our intellectual property.

Our Products and Sustainability

We offer nearly all of our training materials and related accessories in digital format. If a client chooses to use paper-based materials in their training programs, we also offer printed materials. Our printed training materials are primarily comprised of paper, which we believe is a renewable and sustainable resource and all of our primary printer’s paper suppliers are Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified. We purchase our training materials and related products from vendors and suppliers located both domestically and internationally, and we are not dependent upon any one vendor for the production of our training and related materials as the raw materials for these products are readily available. Our training materials are primarily warehoused and distributed from an independent warehouse facility located in Des Moines, Iowa.

Seasonality

Our fourth quarter of each fiscal year may have higher sales and operating income than other fiscal quarters primarily due to increased revenues in our Education Division (when school administrators and faculty have professional development days) and to increased sales that typically occur during that quarter from year-end incentive programs. Overall, training sales are moderately seasonal because of the timing of corporate training, which is not typically scheduled as heavily during holiday and certain vacation periods.

Human Capital Resources

Our mission is to “enable greatness in people and organizations everywhere.” We believe this mission statement is both a guiding purpose and the foundation of our culture. When associates thrive, clients achieve lasting results, and shareholders realize sustained value. To fulfill our mission, we execute two interconnected strategies. First, we advance our culture by positioning Franklin Covey as an employer of choice for achievers with heart—supported by measurable plans that foster engagement across today’s shifting workplace. Second, we strengthen our talent ecosystem by recruiting and developing capabilities for both today and tomorrow, refining leadership pipelines, and equipping our people to deliver enduring value for clients, communities, and investors. We strive to live our mission by applying the same principles we teach. The following two core truths anchor our approach:

Greatness exists in everyone.

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That greatness can be consistently activated through principles and practices that strengthen collaboration, leadership, and performance.

A Culture Built by Achievers With Heart

Achieverswith Heart are the culture carriers and business accelerators at Franklin Covey, making us a differentiator in the marketplace. They drive engagement, inspire innovation, and deliver measurable results for associates, clients, and shareholders. An “Achiever with Heart” is every individual who consistently delivers meaningful results while embodying the principles of character, collaboration, and service. Our associates are equally defined by what we accomplish and how we accomplish it.

The Franklin Covey associate value proposition is anchored in our four core values — valuing the whole person, living the principles we teach, creating lasting client impact, and pursuing individual and collective growth. These values serve as the foundation of the employee life cycle, guiding how we attract, engage, develop, and retain talent. They are reinforced by four cultural pillars that define what it means to work at FranklinCovey:

Connection: Ensuring every associate feels respected, included, and able to contribute at their highest level.

Learning: Providing continuous access to FranklinCovey's world-class content, mentorship, and leadership development opportunities.

Differences: Leveraging diverse perspectives, skills, and experiences to build stronger teams, culture, and outcomes.

Respect: Ensuring every associate feels respected, valued, and supported through fair pay practices, comprehensive benefits, and a culture of trust and collaboration.

The Council is a body of leaders serving as stewards of FranklinCovey’s culture, accelerating business priorities through a high-engagement, high-performance posture. As a catalyst for innovation and inclusion, the Council is committed to shaping a workplace in which every associate is empowered to deliver meaningful outcomes—for clients, for communities, and for shareholders.

Culture & Employee Engagement. In fiscal 2025, through the Winning Culture Survey—FranklinCovey’s assessment of engagement and cultural wellness—led and validated by Culture Amp, associates reaffirmed that our culture remains one of our most significant competitive advantages.

FranklinCovey’s commitment to the employee experience is reflected in strong engagement outcomes. In fiscal 2025, associates reported a 77% favorable engagement score, affirming that our culture continues to be a source of strength and differentiation. Notably, 90% of associates expressed pride in working at Franklin Covey, and 84% said they would recommend the Company as a great place to work. These results underline the impact of aligning learning, development, and engagement to create a workplace where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to deliver their best.

Executive Rewards. We have engaged ClearBridge, LLC (ClearBridge) as an advisor to the Organization and Compensation Committee to assist us with our executive compensation and benefits arrangements. During fiscal 2025, ClearBridge initiated a comprehensive competitive compensation review for all current executives to ensure alignment with market benchmarks and shareholder expectations.

Compensation. In fiscal 2025 we designed and implemented the following structural components designed to support effective Compensation Administration at FranklinCovey.

Established a formal Total Rewards Philosophy, providing a clear framework for compensation decisions and transparency across the organization.

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Developed and implemented a Global Job Framework and market-based pay ranges for all roles, tailored by country to reflect local market conditions.

Completed a Company-wide market assessment for all positions, ensuring internal equity and external competitiveness.

Introduced international compensation practices to support global consistency while respecting regional nuances.

Benefits. Fiscal 2025 was routine in the area of benefits, in which management conducted a market competitiveness assessment of employee benefits offerings in partnership with our health and welfare advisor. This year, management elected to make minimal targeted plan changes to preserve overall value for employees while effectively managing cost for the organization.

At Franklin Covey, our “Total Rewards” approach reflects a sustained commitment to treating associates as the central driver of organizational performance. By investing in the whole person through competitive compensation, benefits, and development opportunities, we strengthen engagement, retention, and long-term capability. We believe this foundation supports a culture that enhances productivity and differentiates us in the marketplace.

Talent Management, Development, and Growth

Our Senior Vice President of People Services ensures alignment between our global business strategy and the systems that strengthen talent, leadership, and organizational effectiveness. This function oversees human resource operations, Total Rewards, talent acquisition, learning and development, and payroll.

We recruit top talent by leveraging advanced sourcing techniques, including data-driven talent analytics, targeted digital outreach, and proactive pipeline development to identify and engage high-performing candidates. Our onboarding experience fully immerses associates into Franklin Covey’s culture within their first 90 days, with a focus on connection, inclusion, and development. This experience includes certification in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®, which serves as the cultural operating system of our Company.

Organizational Performance & Culture. In high-performing organizations, success is never accidental. We believe it emerges from disciplined alignment among people, strategy, and the outcomes they are working to achieve. At FranklinCovey, we view organizational performance as the measure of how well a company translates goals into results while sustaining momentum, culture, and capability. In fiscal 2025, our senior leaders engaged in an intensive Executive Design Session (EDS) process to clarify the organization’s most critical performance needs. These sessions created a forum to align on strategic intent, identify barriers to high performance, and chart a course toward sustainable improvement.

The EDS process produced strategic recommendations, which we have started to implement into our highest level of strategic planning. Combined with insights from the Winning Culture Survey, these recommendations have served as the roadmap for advancing our people, performance, and culture work throughout fiscal 2025. These recommendations now form the basis of our strategic direction for fiscal 2026 and beyond. These Company level EDS recommendations include:

Strengthen Our Cultural Foundation: Ensure that every associate experiences The 7 Habits5.0, reinforcing the universal operating system of our culture and strengthening shared language, principles, and behaviors.

Launch the FC Leadership Academy: Establish a dedicated Leadership Academy to drive consistent development of both individual contributors and leaders, ensuring long-term organizational capability and succession strength.

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Implement The 4 Disciplines of Execution®(4DX): Deploy the 4DX framework across the organization to drive clarity, focus, accountability, and disciplined execution of Wildly Important Goals.

Engage in Ongoing Strategic Dialogue: Implement an ongoing strategic dialogue campaign to enhance transparency, clarity, and alignment across Franklin Covey. This multi-channel approach ensures consistent communication, reinforces cultural priorities, and empowers associates to actively participate in our strategic journey.

Enduring performance and culture depend on more than vision; they require a workforce that continuously learns, practices, and applies proven principles. We support these concepts by providing associates with personalized access to development resources that connect strategic priorities to daily work, reinforce desired behaviors, and build organizational capability over time.

Learning in Action. At FranklinCovey, learning is embedded in the way we work. Associates are encouraged to take co-ownership of their development journeys, with unlimited access to the All Access Pass, our digital platform for transformative learning. Through a blend ofmicrocourses, application challenges, modules, and exercises, associates engage in just-in-time learning experiences that deepen skills, reinforce cultural principles, and equip them to lead at every level. This approach ensures that growth is not only possible but intentional, aligning personal development with organizational performance.

Our Commitment to Our People

At FranklinCovey, we recognize that our people are our most important asset and that culture is a critical driver of performance. We believe that our culture—built on the principles of valuing the whole person, fostering trust, and creating a culture of winning together—ensures associates are part of high-performing teams, engaged in meaningful work, and supported in an environment of respect. Sustaining this culture enables associates to thrive, strengthens client relationships and impact, and delivers enduring value for shareholders, reinforcing human capital as a cornerstone of our long-term success.

Government Contracts

Our U.S. government contracts are subject to the approval of appropriations by the U.S. Congress to fund the agencies contracting for our offerings and products. Additionally, our contracts at the state and local levels, including contracts with school districts and other public educational institutions, are subject to various governmental authorizations and funding approvals and mechanisms. Governmental contracts may be terminated at any time by the government entity without cause or penalty. Our operations in fiscal 2025 were adversely impacted by governmental contracting actions, including the postponement or cancellation contracts during the fiscal year.

Information About Our Executive Officers

After 24 years of service, effective May 1, 2025, Stephen D. Young stepped down from his role as Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Jessica G. Betjemann was appointed as Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer and began her service on May 1, 2025. Effective August 31, 2025, Jennifer C. Colosimo stepped down from her role as President of the Enterprise Division. Holly Procter, the Company’s Chief Revenue Officer, was appointed as the new President of the Enterprise Division, effective September 1, 2025. Effective August 31, 2025, Meisha R. Sherman stepped down from her role as Chief People Officer. Stephanie Talbot, Senior Vice-President of People Services, assumed the leadership role for our Human Resources. Unless noted in the following biographical information, the remaining executives served in their described roles throughout the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025.

Jessica G. Betjemann, 54, joined Frankin Covey on May 1, 2025 and currently serves as Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Betjemann brings more than 30 years of experience building financial value and managing

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investment decisions for a variety of companies. Most recently, Ms. Betjemann served as Executive Vice President and CFO of Gogo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOGO), a leading provider of inflight connectivity services for the business aviation market. Ms. Betjemann previously served as Gogo’s Senior Vice President of Finance, Chief Accounting Officer, and Treasurer, expanding her role after joining Gogo as Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis in 2016.

Prior to joining Gogo in 2016, Ms. Betjemann served as Vice President of Strategic Business Planning at Nokia and held several senior leadership roles in strategy and business operations at Alcatel-Lucent from 2007 to 2015. Prior to 2007, Ms. Betjemann held various strategy and finance roles at Lucent Technologies and AT&T. Ms. Betjemann earned a Master of Business Administration degree in finance, marketing, and international business from the Stern School of Business at New York University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and economics from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.

M. Sean Covey, 61, currently serves as President of the Franklin Covey Education Division, and has led the growth of this division from its infancy to its status today. The Education Division works with thousands of education entities throughout the world in the K-12 and Higher Education markets. Mr. Covey previously ran the Franklin Covey international licensee network and has been an executive officer since September 2008. Sean also served as the Executive Vice-President of Innovations from 2003 to 2018, where he led the development of many of our offerings, including the The 4 Disciplines of Execution and The Leader in Me. Prior to 2006, Sean ran the Franklin Covey retail chain of stores. Previous to Franklin Covey, Mr. Covey worked for the Walt Disney Company, Trammel Crow Ventures, and Deloitte & Touche Consulting. Mr. Covey is also a New York Times best-selling author and has authored or coauthored several books, including The 4 Disciplines of Execution, The Leader in Me, and the international bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens. Mr. Covey graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) with a Bachelor’s degree in English and later earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. While at BYU, Sean was the quarterback for the football team where he earned several honors and led his team to two bowl games. Sean is also the founder and chairman of “Bridle Up Hope,” a global non-profit organization with a mission to inspire hope, confidence, and resilience in young women through equestrian training, life skills development, and service.

Colleen Dom, 63, was appointed the Executive Vice-President of Operations in September 2013. Ms. Dom began her career with the Company in 1985 and served as the first Client Service Coordinator, providing service and seminar support for some of the Company’s very first clients. Prior to her appointment as an Executive Vice-President, Ms. Dom served as Vice-President of Domestic Operations since 1997 where she had responsibility for the Company’s North American operations, including client support, supply chain, and feedback operations. During her time at Franklin Covey Co., Colleen has been instrumental in creating and implementing systems and processes that have supported the Company’s strategic objectives and has more than 35 years of experience in client services, sales support, operations, management, and supply chain. Due to her valuable understanding of the Company’s global operations, Ms. Dom has been responsible for numerous key assignments that have enhanced client support, optimized operations, and built capabilities for future growth. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Dom worked in retail management and in the financial investment industry.

Holly Procter, 39, currently serves as President of the Enterprise Division at Franklin Covey. Ms. Procter joined the Company in June 2024 and was appointed Chief Revenue Officer and a member of the executive leadership team in November 2024. Ms. Procter’s career spans enterprise software, technology, consulting, and healthcare. She has held leadership positions at Fortune 500 companies such as LinkedIn, as well as at high-growth startups WeWork, Clari, and Incredible Health. With more than 18 years of experience, Holly has led initiatives in go-to-market strategy and revenue cadence design, global sales enablement, deployment of advanced sales technologies, international expansion, product launches, and the recruitment and development of high-performing revenue organizations. Prior to joining Franklin Covey, Ms. Procter served as Chief Revenue Officer at Incredible Health from May 2023 to June 2024. From February 2020 to April 2023, she was Senior Vice President and Global Head of Sales at Clari. Ms. Procter holds both a Master of Business Administration and a bachelor’s degree in business administration, management, and marketing from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is also certified as a Six Sigma Green Belt.

Paul S. Walker, 50, currently serves as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, and was appointed to our Board of Directors effective July 1, 2023. Mr. Walker began his career with the Company in 2000 in the role of business developer, and quickly moved to become a Client Partner and then an Area Director. In 2007, Mr. Walker became General

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Manager of the North America Central Region. In 2014, Paul assumed responsibility for the Company’s United Kingdom operations in addition to his role as General Manager of the Central Region. In 2016, Mr. Walker relocated to the Company’s Salt Lake City, Utah headquarters where he served as Executive Vice-President of Global Sales and Delivery and as President of the Company’s Enterprise Division until November 2019 when Paul was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer. During his time at Franklin Covey, Mr. Walker has led many digital transformation projects, including the transition to the All Access Pass. Mr. Walker graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications.

Available Information

We regularly file reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These reports include, but are not limited to, Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and security transaction reports on Forms 3, 4, or 5. The SEC also maintains electronic versions of the Company’s reports, proxy and information statements, and other information that the Company files with the SEC on its website at www.sec.gov.

The Company makes our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other reports filed or furnished with the SEC available to the public, free of charge, through our website at www.franklincovey.com. These reports are provided through our website as soon as is reasonably practicable after we file or furnish these reports with the SEC. Unless expressly noted, the information on our website or any other website is not incorporated by reference in this Annual Report on Form 10-K or any other filing we make with the SEC.

ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS

Our industry and business environment, domestic and international economic conditions, governmental actions, geopolitical circumstances, international relationships, cybersecurity threats, and other specific risks may affect our future business decisions and financial performance. The matters discussed below may cause our future results to differ from past results or those described in forward-looking statements and could have a material effect on our business, financial condition, liquidity, results of operations, and stock price, and should be considered in evaluating Franklin Covey Co.

The risks included here are not exhaustive. Other sections of this report may include additional risk factors which could adversely affect our business and financial performance. Moreover, we operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing industry and global environment. New risk factors emerge from time to time and it is not possible for management to predict all such risk factors, nor can we assess the impact of all such risk factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. Given these risks and uncertainties, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. Further, the disclosure of risks identified below does not imply that the risk has already materialized.

Training Industry and Strategic Risks

We operate in an intensely competitive industry and our competitors may develop programs, services, or courses that adversely affect our ability to sell our offerings.

The training and consulting services industry is intensely competitive with relatively easy entry. Competitors continually introduce new programs, services, and delivery methods that may compete directly with our offerings, or that may make our offerings uncompetitive or obsolete. Larger competitors may have superior abilities to compete for clients and skilled professionals, reducing our ability to deliver quality work to our clients. Some of our competitors may have greater financial and other resources than we do. In addition, one or more of our competitors may develop and implement training courses or methodologies that may adversely affect our ability to sell our offerings and products to new clients. Any one of these circumstances could have an adverse effect on our ability to obtain new business, keep existing clients, and successfully deliver our services.

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Our business depends on renewals of subscription-based offerings and sales of new subscription-based services for a significant portion of our revenue, and our failure to renew at historical rates or generate new sales of such offerings will lead to a decrease in our revenues.

A large portion of our success depends on our ability to generate renewals of our subscription-based offerings, which primarily consist of the AAP and the Leader in Me membership, and produce new sales of our offerings and products to both new and existing clients. Currently, the majority of our revenue is generated from subscription-based offerings and related materials sales. Generating new sales of our subscription-based offerings and products, both to new and existing clients, is a challenging, costly, and often time-consuming process. If we are unable to generate new sales, due to competition, economic uncertainty, or other factors, our revenues will be adversely affected.

Our subscription contracts are typically for periods of 12 months or longer. Our ability to maintain contract renewals is subject to numerous factors, including:

delivering high-quality content, solutions, and coaching to our clients;

understanding and anticipating market and technology trends and the changing needs of our clients; and

providing offerings and products of the quality and timeliness necessary to withstand competition.

Additionally, as we continue to adjust our offerings and products to meet our clients’ needs, we may shift the type and pricing of our offerings, which may adversely impact client renewal rates. There can be no guarantee that we will be able to maintain consistent customer renewals in future periods. If we are not able to generate new sales and maintain contract renewals, our business and results of operations may be adversely affected.

Failure to maintain our reputation, brand image, and culture could negatively impact our business.

Our success depends on our ability to maintain and enhance our brand image and reputation. Maintaining, promoting, and growing our brands will depend on our design and marketing efforts, including advertising and consumer campaigns, content and platform innovation and quality, and our efforts in these respects may not have the desired impact on our brand image and reputation. In addition, our success in maintaining, extending, and expanding our brand image depends on our ability to adapt to a rapidly changing media environment, including our increasing reliance on social media and digital dissemination of advertising campaigns on our digital platforms and through our digital experiences. We could be adversely impacted if we fail to achieve any of these objectives.

Our brand value also depends on our ability to maintain a positive consumer perception of our corporate integrity, purpose, and brand culture. Negative claims or publicity involving us, our culture and values, our products, services and experiences, consumer data, or any of our affiliates could seriously damage our reputation and brand image, regardless of whether such claims are accurate. Further, our reputation and brand image could be damaged as a result of our support of, association with or lack of support or disapproval of certain social causes, as well as any decisions we make to continue to conduct, or change, certain of our activities in response to such considerations. Social media, which accelerates and potentially amplifies the scope of negative publicity, can increase the challenges of responding to negative claims. Adverse publicity about regulatory or legal action against us, or by us, could also damage our reputation and brand image, undermine consumer confidence in us, and reduce long-term demand for our products, even if the regulatory or legal action is unfounded or not material to our operations. If the reputation, perception, or image of any of our brands is tarnished or if we receive negative publicity, our financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.

We have only a limited ability to protect our intellectual property rights, which are important to our success.

Our financial success is partially dependent on our ability to protect our proprietary offerings and other intellectual property. The existing laws of some countries in which we provide services might offer only limited protection of our intellectual property rights. To protect our intellectual property, we rely upon a combination of confidentiality policies, nondisclosure and other contractual arrangements, as well as copyright and trademark laws. In addition, the rapid growth

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and utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) may infringe on our trademarked and copyrighted materials. The steps we take to protect our intellectual property may not be adequate to prevent or deter infringement or other misappropriation of our intellectual property, and we might not be able to detect unauthorized use of, or take appropriate and timely steps to enforce, our intellectual property rights.

The loss of proprietary content or the unauthorized use of our intellectual property may create greater competition, loss of revenue, and adverse publicity, and may also limit our ability to reuse that intellectual property with other clients. Any limitation on our ability to provide a service or solution could cause us to lose revenue-generating opportunities and require us to incur additional expenses to develop new or modified solutions for future engagements.

The loss of governmental funding and contributions from charitable organizations could harm our Education Division’s ability to grow and expand into new schools in the future.

Schools in the United States benefit from governmental funding initiatives, such as the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) program, which provide additional funding for schools to pursue improvement programs such as our Leader in Me offering. In addition, we partner with charitable organizations to fund the Leader in Me programs in many schools across the country. Supported by numerous studies and endorsements, we believe the Leader in Me program provides meaningful and measurable improvement to the academic environment of schools, which enable the educational institutions to utilize governmental funding and attract additional support from charitable organizations to implement our Leader in Me offering. If governmental funding for school improvement expires or is reduced, or charitable organizations decide not to continue to support the Leader in Me programs in schools, our results of operations, cash flows, and financial position may be adversely impacted.

We depend on key personnel, the loss of whom could harm our business.

Our future success will depend, in part, on the continued service of key executive officers and personnel. The loss of the services of key individuals could harm our business. Our future success also depends on our ability to identify, attract, and retain additional qualified senior personnel. Competition for such individuals in the current labor market and in our industry is intense, and we may not be successful in attracting and retaining such personnel.

If we are unable to attract, retain, and motivate high-quality employees, including sales personnel and training consultants, we may not be able to grow our business as projected or may not be able to compete effectively.

Our success and ability to grow are partially dependent on our ability to hire, retain, and motivate sufficient numbers of talented people with the increasingly diverse skills needed to serve our clients and grow our business. Competition for skilled personnel is intense at all levels of experience and seniority. There is a risk that we will be unable to hire and retain a sufficient number of employees with the skills or backgrounds we require, or that it will prove difficult to retain them in a competitive and inflationary labor market. If we are unable to hire and retain talented sales and delivery employees with the skills, and in the locations, we require, we might not be able to grow our business at projected levels or may not be able to effectively deliver our content and services. If we need to hire additional personnel to maintain a specified number of sales personnel or are required to re-assign personnel from other geographic areas, it could increase our costs and adversely affect our profit margins. In addition, the inability of newly hired sales personnel to achieve increased sales metrics as they progress may inhibit our ability to attain anticipated sales growth.

Our work with governmental clients exposes us to additional risks that are inherent in the government contracting process.

Our clients include national, state, provincial, and local governmental entities, and our work with these governmental entities has various risks inherent in the governmental contracting process. These risks include, but are not limited to, the following:

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scope of, or terminate, these projects for lack of approved funding, budgetary changes, and other discretionary reasons. Changes in governmental priorities or other political developments, including disruptions in governmental operations, could result in reductions in the scope of, or in termination of, our existing contracts.

Governmental entities often reserve the right to audit our contract costs, including allocated indirect costs, and conduct inquiries and investigations of our business practices with respect to our government contracts. Findings from an audit may result in our being required to prospectively adjust previously agreed upon rates for our work, which may adversely affect our future margins.

If a governmental client discovers improper activities in the course of audits or investigations, then we may become subject to various civil and criminal penalties and administrative sanctions, which may include termination of contracts, forfeiture of profits, suspension of payments, fines and suspensions, or debarment from doing business with other agencies of that government.

Political and economic factors such as pending elections, the outcome of elections, revisions to governmental tax policies, sequestration, debt ceiling negotiations, and reduced tax revenues can affect the number and terms of new governmental contracts signed.

The occurrences or conditions described above could affect not only our business with the particular governmental agency involved, but also our business with other agencies of the same or other governmental entities. Additionally, because of their visibility and political nature, governmental contracts may present a heightened risk to our reputation. Any of these factors could have an adverse effect on our business or our results of operations.

Some terminology, language, or content in our offerings may be deemed offensive by certain individuals due to rapidly changing societal norms, which may cause damage to our brand or reputation.

Our mission is to enable greatness in individuals and organizations everywhere regardless of race, religion, gender, or other individual characteristics. We write and design our content and materials to accomplish this mission and believe that the principles we teach improve lives. Through our directly owned offices and international licensees, our content is delivered in numerous countries around the world in different languages and in different cultures. The language, graphics, and examples used in our content and materials may be understood and interpreted differently by individuals based on culture, experience, societal norms, and other factors. As a result, some individuals may find some of the content in our materials offensive. While we have an ongoing review process to remove potentially offensive terms or images from our materials, a rapidly changing cultural and social environment may create unfavorable interpretations of language or images faster than we can identify and remediate them. Although our intent is to educate and improve individual lives and organizational cultures without offense, an unfavorable interpretation by an individual or organization of the language, concepts, or images used in our content or materials may harm our reputation and brand, cause us to lose business, and adversely affect our results of operations.

Cybersecurity and Information Technology Risks

The All Access Pass and Leader in Me subscription services are internet-based platforms, and as such we are subject to increased risks of cyber-attacks and other security breaches that could have a material adverse effect on our business.

As part of selling subscription-based services, we collect, process, and retain a limited amount of sensitive and confidential information regarding our customers. Because our subscription services are internet-based platforms, our facilities and systems may be vulnerable to external or internal security breaches, acts of vandalism, computer viruses, misplaced or lost data, stolen intellectual property, programming or human errors, or other similar events.

We strive to employ global best practices in securing and monitoring code, applications, systems, processes, and data, and our data protection practices are regularly reviewed and validated by an external auditing firm. However, no information security program is perfect, and these efforts may be insufficient to protect sensitive information against illegal activities.

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legal and financial exposure, damage to our reputation, or a loss of confidence in the security of our systems, products, and services, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, or results of operations. To the extent we are involved in any future cyber-attacks or other security incidents, our brand and reputation could be affected, and these conditions could also have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, or results of operations.

For further information on our cybersecurity efforts and Board of Directors oversight, please refer to Item 1C Cybersecurity as found in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

We could incur additional liabilities and our reputation could be damaged if we do not protect client data or if our information systems are breached.

We are dependent on information technology networks and systems to process, transmit, and store electronic information and to communicate between our locations around the world and with our clients. Security breaches of this infrastructure could lead to shutdowns or disruptions of our systems and potential unauthorized disclosure of personal and confidential data. We are also required at times to manage, utilize, and store personal data, including sensitive or confidential client or employee data. As a result, we are subject to numerous U.S. and foreign jurisdiction laws and regulations designed to protect this information, such as the various U.S. federal and state laws governing the protection of personal data. If we, our associates, business partners, or our service providers negligently disregard or intentionally breach our established controls with respect to such data or otherwise mismanages or misappropriates that data, we could be subject to notification requirements, monetary damages, fines, and/or criminal prosecution, as well as litigation from parties impacted by a breach of their data or harm to their systems as a result of malware or other security incidents within our own networks or systems. Unauthorized disclosure, loss or alteration of personal, sensitive, or confidential client or employee data or client or end-user systems, whether through systems failure, employee negligence, fraud, or misappropriation could damage our reputation and cause us to lose clients.

Global legal requirements relating to the processing of personal data continue to proliferate and evolve. The violation of these laws can result in significant penalties. For example, under the privacy law in the EU and UK, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), fines of up to 20 million Euros or up to 4% of the annual global revenues of the infringer, whichever is greater, could be imposed. In addition, over twenty U.S. states have enacted general consumer data privacy laws since 2018. We have implemented policies, controls, and procedures, including a team dedicated to data protection, to comply with the requirements of these new privacy laws. However, these new procedures and controls may not be completely effective in preventing breaches or unauthorized processing of personal data. In addition, we continue to see jurisdictions around the world make new laws as they revise and enforce their privacy laws. Accordingly, we will need to continue evolving our compliance measures over time, and there is some risk that common interpretations of the requirements in such laws may not necessarily align with opinions of applicable regulators or potential litigants, such that the risk of fines and litigation may be increased in countries with newer laws.

In addition, some privacy laws, particularly GDPR, impose restrictions on cross-border transfers of personal data to the United States. Current regulatory guidance regarding those transfers imposes heightened privacy obligations, including the obligation to conduct a transfer impact assessment and, depending on a party’s role in the transfer and the laws and practices of the destination country, to implement additional security measures, and update internal privacy practices. Privacy advocates in the EU and UK have filed lawsuits seeking to impose even more stringent restrictions on cross-border transfers due to concerns about the ability of the U.S. government to compel recipients in the U.S. to provide personal data for national intelligence and law enforcement purposes. If successful, these measures could impair our ability to import personal data from Europe to the United States or other countries and may thereby decrease demand for our products and services as our customers that are subject to such laws may seek alternatives that do not involve personal data transfers out of Europe or the UK. In addition, we are subject to regulations in China relating to the collection, use, transfer, security, and other processing of personal information in or from China. Our inability to transfer personal data to the United States and other countries may decrease the functionality or effectiveness of our products and services, increase costs, and adversely impact our marketing efforts, plans, and activities.

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Our efforts to effectively secure and monitor code, applications, systems, processes, and other data may be insufficient to protect sensitive information against illegal activities. We are exposed to additional risks and liabilities from the various data protection laws enacted within the jurisdictions where we operate, as well as a risk of litigation in jurisdictions where there is a private right of action related to violations.

Technology is rapidly evolving, and if we do not continue to develop and improve our offerings and technology platforms, in response to these changes, our business could suffer.

Since the introduction of our online subscription services, our dependence on the use of sophisticated technologies and information systems, particularly including technologies and information systems provided by third parties, has increased. Moreover, our technology platforms will require us to continue cash investments (including business acquisitions) to expand existing offerings, improve the client experience, and develop complementary offerings. Our future success depends in part on our ability to adapt our services and infrastructure while maintaining and continuing to improve the performance, features, security, and reliability of our services in response to the evolving demands of the marketplace. Failure to adapt and improve these areas could have an adverse effect on our business, including our results of operations, financial position, and cash flows.

Our use of AI technologies may not be successful and may present business, compliance, and reputational risks.

We are working to integrate AI technologies in our offerings and processes. If we fail to keep pace with rapidly evolving AI technological developments, our competitive position and business results may be negatively impacted. Our use of AI technologies will require resources to develop, test, and maintain such products, which could be costly. Third parties may be able to use AI to create technology that could reduce demand for our products. In addition, the introduction of AI technologies, particularly generative AI, into new or existing offerings may result in new or expanded risks and liabilities, due to enhanced governmental or regulatory scrutiny, litigation, compliance issues, ethical concerns, confidentiality, data privacy or security risks, as well as other factors that could adversely affect our business, reputation, and financial results. For example, the use of AI technologies could lead to unintended consequences, such as accuracy issues, cybersecurity risks, unintended biases, and discriminatory outputs, which could impact our ability to protect our data, intellectual property, and client information, or could expose us to intellectual property infringement claims.

Public Company Risks

We may fail to meet analyst expectations, which could cause the price of our stock to decline.

Our common stock is publicly traded on the NYSE, and at any given time various securities analysts follow our financial results and issue reports on us. These periodic reports include information about our historical financial results as well as the analysts’ estimates of our future performance. The analysts’ estimates are based on their own opinions and are often different from our estimates or expectations. The price of our common stock could, however, decline if an analyst downgrades our common stock or if those analysts issue other unfavorable commentary or cease publishing reports about us or our business. If analysts do not continue to follow us or if our operating results are below the estimates or expectations of public market analysts and investors, our stock price could decline. If our stock price is volatile, we may become involved in securities litigation following a decline in price. Any litigation could result in substantial costs and a diversion of management’s attention and resources that are needed to successfully run our business.

Our business performance may not be sufficient for us to meet the financial guidance that we provide publicly.

We may provide financial guidance to the public based upon expectations regarding our financial performance. Such financial guidance is based on assumptions that may not always prove to be accurate and may vary from actual results. If we fail to meet the financial guidance that we provide, or if we find it necessary to revise such guidance during the year, the market value of our common stock could be adversely affected.

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Our future quarterly operating results are subject to factors that can cause fluctuations in our stock price.

Historically, our stock price has experienced significant volatility. We expect that our stock price may continue to experience volatility in the future due to a variety of potential factors that may include the following:

 Fluctuations in our quarterly results of operations and cash flows

 Overall market volatility

 Variations between our actual financial results and market expectations

 Changes in key balances, such as cash and deferred revenues

 Currency exchange rate fluctuations

 Unexpected asset impairment charges

These factors, among others, may have an adverse effect upon our stock price in the future.

Liquidity and Capital Resource Risks

We may need additional capital in the future, and this capital may not be available to us on favorable terms or at all.

We may need to raise additional funds through public or private debt offerings or equity financing in order to:

Develop new services, programs, or offerings

Take advantage of opportunities, including business acquisitions

Respond to competitive pressures

Going forward, we will continue to incur costs necessary for the day-to-day operation and potential growth of the business and may use our available revolving line of credit facility and other financing alternatives, if necessary, for these expenditures. We obtained a credit agreement in March 2023 (2023 Credit Agreement) that expires in March 2028. We expect to regularly renew or amend our lending agreement in the future to maintain the availability of this credit facility. Additional potential sources of liquidity available to us include factoring receivables, issuance of additional equity, or issuance of debt from public or private sources. If necessary, we will evaluate all of these options and select one or more of them depending on overall capital needs and the associated cost of capital.

Any additional capital raised through the sale of equity could dilute current shareholders’ ownership percentage in us. Furthermore, we may be unable to obtain the necessary capital on terms or conditions that are favorable to us, or at all.

Failure to comply with the terms and conditions of our credit facility may have an adverse effect upon our business and operations.

Our 2023 Credit Agreement requires us to comply with customary non-financial terms and conditions as well as specified financial ratios. Failure to comply with these terms and conditions or maintain adequate financial performance to comply with specific financial ratios entitles the lender to certain remedies, including the right to immediately call due any amounts owed on the credit agreement. Such events would have an adverse effect upon our business and operations as there can be no assurance that we may be able to obtain other forms of financing or raise additional capital on terms that would be acceptable to us.

We may not be able to generate sufficient cash to service our indebtedness, and we may be forced to take other actions to satisfy our payment obligations under our indebtedness, which may not be successful.

Our ability to make scheduled payments on or to refinance our indebtedness depends on our future performance, including the performance of our subsidiaries, which will be affected by financial, business and economic conditions, competition, and other factors. We are unable to control many of these factors, such as the general economy, economic conditions in the industries in which we operate, and competitive pressures. Our cash flow may be insufficient to allow us to pay

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principal and interest on our indebtedness and to meet our other obligations. If our cash flows and capital resources are insufficient to fund our debt service obligations, then we may be forced to reduce or delay investments and capital expenditures or to sell assets, seek additional capital, or restructure or refinance our indebtedness. These alternative measures may be unsuccessful, and we may not meet our scheduled debt service obligations. In addition, the terms of existing or future debt agreements, including our 2023 Credit Agreement and subsequent modifications, may restrict us from pursuing any of these alternatives.

In the event that we need to refinance all or a portion of our outstanding indebtedness before maturity or as it matures, we may not be able to obtain terms as favorable as the terms of our existing indebtedness or refinance our existing indebtedness at all. If interest rates or other factors existing at the time of refinancing result in higher interest rates upon refinancing, then we will incur higher interest expense. Furthermore, if any rating agency changes our credit rating or outlook, our debt and equity securities could be negatively affected, which could adversely affect our financial condition and financial results.

General Business Risks

Adverse resolution of litigation may harm our operating results or financial condition.

We are subject to various legal proceedings and claims in the ordinary course of business domestically and internationally. Any litigation can be costly, lengthy, and disruptive to normal business operations. Moreover, the results of complex legal proceedings are difficult to predict. An unfavorable resolution of lawsuits could materially harm our business, operating results, or financial condition.

For example, on December 20, 2024, our previous headquarters office landlord filed a lawsuit alleging breach of lease for failure to perform certain equipment repairs and replacements. While we believe that the premises and associated equipment were in sound operating condition, and that no such repairs were warranted or needed and we intend to respond to all claims vigorously, we cannot predict with certainty the outcome of current or future legal proceedings. The outcome of legal proceedings, whether or not meritorious, is inherently uncertain. Defending against claims requires significant management attention and financial resources. We may incur costs through defense expenses, settlements, or adverse judgments. These proceedings could materially harm our business operations, financial results and condition, management focus and resources, and reputation and brand value. The costs and distractions of litigation, particularly if claims increase in scope or number, could materially impact our business success and shareholder value.

Unstable market and economic conditions may have serious adverse consequences on our business, financial condition, and operations.

The global credit and financial markets have from time to time experienced extreme volatility and disruptions, including severely diminished liquidity and credit availability, declines in consumer confidence, declines in economic growth, increases in unemployment rates, and uncertainty about economic stability. The financial markets and the global economy may also be adversely affected by various factors, including the current or anticipated impact of military conflict, including the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, terrorism, other geopolitical events, such as war,natural or environmental disasters, international economic instability, public health emergencies, market uncertainty, debt crises and downgrades, embargoes, tariffs, sanctions and other trade barriers, and other governmental trade or market control programs. Sanctions imposed by the United States and other countries in response to such conflicts, including the one in Ukraine, may also adversely impact the financial markets and the global economy, and any economic countermeasures by the affected countries or others could exacerbate market and economic instability. There can be no assurance that a deterioration in markets and confidence in economic conditions will not occur. Our general business strategy may be adversely affected by any such economic downturn, volatile business environment, long-term government shut down, or continued unpredictable and unstable market conditions.

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Our results of operations may be adversely impacted by the costs of persistent and rising inflation if we are unable to pass these costs on to our clients.

In recent years, inflation has increased significantly in the United States and in many of the countries where we conduct business. Inflation increases the cost of many aspects of our business, including the cost of our products and materials sold, benefit costs, travel expenses, and associate salaries since we must increase our compensation to retain key personnel. If we are unable to increase our prices to sufficiently offset the increased costs of doing business, our results of operations and profitability may be adversely impacted.

Our global operations pose complex management, foreign currency, legal, tax, and economic risks, which we may not adequately address.

We have directly owned offices that serve clients in Austria, Australia, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. We also have licensed operations in numerous other foreign countries. As a result of these foreign operations and their impact upon our financial statements, we are subject to a number of risks, including, but not limited to:

Restrictions on the movement of cash

The absence in some jurisdictions of effective laws to protect our intellectual property rights

Political instability

Compliance with extensive and evolving laws and regulations that are often ambiguous or inconsistently enforced

Currency exchange rate fluctuations

These and other related risks could adversely affect our ability to access sources of liquidity, increase costs related to regulatory compliance, and adversely affect our results of operations.

Our global operations expose us to numerous and sometimes conflicting legal and regulatory requirements, and violation of these regulations could harm our business.

Because we provide services to clients in many countries, we are subject to numerous, and sometimes conflicting, regulations on matters as diverse as import/export controls, content requirements, trade restrictions, tariffs, taxation, sanctions, government affairs, internal and disclosure control obligations, data privacy, and labor relations. Violations of these regulations in the conduct of our business could result in fines, criminal sanctions against us or our officers, prohibitions on doing business, and damage to our reputation. Violations of these regulations in connection with the performance of our obligations to our clients also could result in liability for monetary damages, fines, unfavorable publicity, and allegations by our clients that we have not performed our contractual obligations. Due to the varying degrees of development of the legal systems of the countries in which we operate, local laws may be insufficient to protect our rights.

In many parts of the world, including countries in which we operate, practices in the local business community might not conform to international business standards and could violate anticorruption regulations, including the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits giving anything of value intended to influence the awarding of government contracts. Although we have policies and procedures to ensure legal and regulatory compliance, our employees, licensee operators, and agents could take actions that violate these requirements. Violations of these regulations could subject us to criminal or civil enforcement actions, including fines and suspension or disqualification from United States federal procurement contracting, any of which could have an adverse effect on our business.

We have operations in China, which exposes us to risks inherent in doing business in that country.

Operating in China exposes us to political, legal, and economic risks. In particular, the political, legal, and economic climate in China, both nationally and regionally, is fluid and unpredictable. Our ability to operate in China may be adversely affected by changes in U.S. and Chinese laws and regulations such as those related to, among other things,

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taxation, import and export tariffs, intellectual property, currency controls, network security, employee benefits, and other matters. In addition, we or third parties with whom we contract, may not obtain or retain the requisite legal permits to continue to operate in China, and costs or operational limitations may be imposed in connection with obtaining and complying with such permits. In other cases, we may be forced to spend a significant amount of resources to obtain the requisite legal permits or otherwise be required to forfeit such permits. Moreover, the Chinese government may impose additional regulations regarding our business. The government may regulate or apply a substantially different set of requirements to our business than anticipated, in which case we may need to invest a significant amount of resources and time before we can operate in the country. Any of these events may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations. In addition, Chinese trade regulations are in a state of flux, and we may become subject to other forms of taxation, tariffs, and duties in China. Furthermore, third parties that we rely on in China may disclose our confidential information or intellectual property to competitors or third parties, which could result in the illegal distribution and sale of counterfeit versions of our products. If any of these events occur, our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.

The Company’s use of accounting estimates involves judgment and could impact our financial results.

Our most critical accounting estimates are described in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations found in Item 7 of this report under the section entitled, Use of Estimates and Critical Accounting Policies. In addition, as discussed in various footnotes to our financial statements as found in Item 8, we make certain estimates for loss contingencies, including decisions related to legal proceedings and reserves. Because, by definition, these estimates and assumptions involve the use of judgment, our actual financial results may differ from these estimates. If our estimates or assumptions underlying such contingencies and reserves prove incorrect, we may be required to record additional adjustments or losses relating to such matters, which would negatively affect our financial results.

Ineffective internal controls could impact our business and operating results.

Our internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements because of its inherent limitations, including the possibility of human error, the circumvention or overriding of controls, or fraud. Even effective internal controls can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements. If we fail to maintain the adequacy of our internal controls, including any failure to implement required new or improved controls, or if we experience difficulties in their implementation, our business and operating results may be harmed and we could fail to meet our financial reporting obligations.

Extreme weather conditions and natural disasters could negatively impact our operating results and financial condition.

Extreme weather conditions in the areas in which our suppliers, customers, distribution facilities, offices, and headquarters are located could adversely affect our operating results and financial condition. Moreover, natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, and tsunamis, whether occurring in the United States or abroad, and their related consequences and effects, including energy shortages and public health issues, have in the past temporarily disrupted, and could in the future disrupt, our operations, the operations of our customers, vendors, and suppliers or have in the past resulted in, and in the future could result in, economic instability that may negatively impact our operating results and financial condition. In particular, if a natural disaster or severe weather event were to occur in an area in which we or our suppliers, customers, distribution facilities, and vendors are located, our continued success would depend, in part, on the safety and availability of the relevant personnel and facilities and proper functioning of our or third parties’ computer, network, telecommunication, and other systems and operations. If we were to experience a local or regional disaster or other business continuity event or concurrent events, then we could experience operational challenges, in particular depending upon how a local or regional event may affect our human capital across our operations or with regard to particular aspects of our operations, such as key executive officers or personnel. Further, if we are unable to find alternative suppliers, replace capacity at key distribution locations, or quickly repair damage to our information technology systems, our ability to serve our customers could be adversely affected. These events could result in reputational damage, lost sales, cancellation charges, or markdowns, all of which could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations, and financial condition.

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The impacts of climate change and related regulatory responses could adversely affect our business.

Sustainability and protecting our natural environment are significant priorities at Franklin Covey and we strive to implement practices and policies that support this concern. We recognize that there are inherent climate-related risks wherever business is conducted; however, we cannot predict the long-term impacts on us from climate change or related regulatory responses. We expect to face increasing regulations relating to climate change, including, for example, disclosure of the impacts of climate change on our business. A failure to uphold or make strides toward achieving publicly stated climate goals may harm the Company’s reputation with customers, suppliers, and employees. This increased scrutiny will likely require us to expend significant resources and could adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition. Additionally, we expect that the complexity of compliance with climate disclosure regulations will increase as various countries take different approaches to such regulation. We will continue to monitor the impacts of these issues on our business and consider responsive action as needed.

Further, climate change may increase both the frequency and severity of extreme weather conditions and natural disasters, which may affect our business operations, either in a particular region or globally, as well as the activities of our vendors, suppliers, and customers. For example, the delivery of our services is dependent on reliable and relatively inexpensive electricity. If electricity is not readily available or affordable, we may not be able to deliver our products and services and therefore our operating results may be adversely impacted. In addition, the physical changes prompted by climate change could result in changes in regulations or consumer preferences, which could in turn affect our business, operating results, and financial condition.

ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS

None.

ITEM 1C. CYBERSECURITY

Cybersecurity risk management is a key component of our overall risk management efforts at Franklin Covey. We have cybersecurity processes, technologies, and controls in place to assist in our efforts to assess, identify, and manage material risks from cybersecurity threats that may impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our information systems, networks, and offerings. Cybersecurity risk is addressed at both management and Board of Director levels as described below.

Management’s Role in Assessing Cybersecurity Risk and Directing Strategy

At the management level, primary responsibility for assessing and managing cybersecurity threats and material risks rests with our Chief Information Officer (CIO), who reports directly to our Executive Vice-President of Operations.Our CIO has over two decades of experience in information technology and cybersecurity and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). The CIO leads a team of five other information system professionals, three of whom also have CISSP credentials. Our CIO and cybersecurity team are responsible for understanding, managing, and communicating cybersecurity risk to our management and works with our legal department to oversee compliance with various legal, regulatory, and contractual cybersecurity requirements.

Our cybersecurity program is aligned with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800 Cybersecurity Framework and uses a layered strategy, relying on technology and human processes to safeguard our systems and client data. Our cybersecurity strategy utilizes numerous layers of security controls, processes, and procedures across our information systems and networks, including but not limited to, multi-factor authentication, identity access management, endpoint security, mobile security, application security, network security, web security, and encryption. We also use systems and processes designed to reduce the impact of a security incident at a third-party vendor or customer. Additionally, we use processes to oversee and identify material risks from cybersecurity threats associated with our use of third-party technology and systems, including technology and systems we use for encryption and authentication; employee email; content delivery to customers; back-office support and operations; and other functions. The Company

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provides ongoing mandatory cybersecurity training for associates that is intended to help them understand cybersecurity risks and comply with our cybersecurity policies.

We engage third party professionals to assess our cybersecurity program and to perform audits of portions of our cybersecurity control environment based on risk or where necessary to ensure regulatory compliance. In addition, our internal audit function regularly meets with the cybersecurity team and periodically tests the control framework and operation of our cybersecurity incident response plan. The results of these tests are presented directly to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.

The cybersecurity team meets frequently to monitor the prevention, detection, mitigation, and remediation of cybersecurity threats and incidents. In the event of a cybersecurity incident, we have developed an incident response plan which is designed to “respond, restore, and resume” operation of our information systems and platforms. Our incident response plan also governs our immediate response to attacks, including detection, notification, escalation, assessment, and remediation efforts. The cybersecurity team routinely tests the incident response plan across the organization to validate the procedures for appropriately assessing and escalating risks and incidents. Our cybersecurity team may also coordinate its incident response efforts with external advisors and key stakeholders if necessary.

Board of Director Oversight

The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors has the primary responsibility for cybersecurity risk oversight, including risk priorities, resource allocation, and oversight structures. The Audit Committee and Board of Directors receive regular reports from the CIO on a variety of topics including cybersecurity strategy, the threat landscape, recent developments and trends, and key initiatives. Our incident response plan includes documented protocols which govern established reporting thresholds for escalating cybersecurity incidents within the Company and where appropriate, to the Audit Committee or full Board of Directors.

Cybersecurity Risks, Threats, and Incidents

While we have not experienced any material cybersecurity incidents, there can be no guarantee that we, or any third parties with which we interact, will not be the subject of future successful attacks, threats, or incidents. We rely significantly on information technology for the operation of our business, including our All Access Pass and Leader in Me portals. For more information on cybersecurity risks we face, refer to Part I, Item 1A Risk Factors under the section entitled Cybersecurity and Information Technology Risks, which should be read in conjunction with the information presented in this Item 1C.

ITEM 2. PROPERTIES

During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025, we relocated our principal executive offices to a new site in Draper, Utah. The new executive office occupies approximately 26,000 square feet of leased space that is accounted for as an operating lease. The lease on the new headquarters expires in March 2036 and includes two five-year renewal options that may be exercised at our discretion. This facility accommodates our executive team and corporate administration, as well as other professionals and is utilized by personnel in both our Enterprise and Education Divisions. We also occupy leased sales and administrative offices in various countries around the world, which are accounted for as operating leases:

Banbury, England

Tokyo, Japan

China: Beijing and Shanghai

We consider our existing facilities to be in good condition and suitable for our current and expected level of operations in the upcoming fiscal year and in future periods.

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ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

From time to time, we are the subject of certain legal actions, which we consider routine to our business activities. Information regarding material legal proceedings can be found in Note 9, Commitments and Contingencies, of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements, included in Item 8 of this report and is incorporated herein by reference.

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ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES

Not applicable.

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ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

Our common stock is listed and traded on the NYSE under the symbol “FC.”

We did not pay or declare dividends on our common stock during the fiscal years ended August 31, 2025 or 2024. Any determination to pay cash dividends will be at the discretion of our Board of Directors and will be dependent upon our results of operations, financial condition, terms of our financing arrangements, and such other factors as the Board of Directors deems relevant. We currently anticipate that we will retain all available funds to finance future growth and business opportunities, pay our liabilities, and to repurchase outstanding shares of our common stock.

As of October 31, 2025, we had 12,155,832 shares of common stock outstanding, which were held by 429 shareholders of record. A number of our shareholders hold their shares in street name; therefore, we believe that there are substantially more beneficial owners of our common stock.

Purchases of Common Stock

The following table summarizes our purchases of common stock during quarter ended August 31, 2025:

(1)On April 18, 2024, our Board of Directors approved a plan to purchase up to $50.0 million of our outstanding common stock. Through May 31, 2025, we purchased $22.1 million of our common stock on this Board authorized plan. On August 11, 2025, the Board of Directors approved a replenishment of the plan to purchase up to $50.0 million of common stock. On August 14, 2025 we initiated a 10b5-1 plan to purchase up to $10.0 million of our common stock through daily purchases. This 10b5-1 plan was completed in the first quarter of fiscal 2026.

The actual timing, number, and value of common shares purchased under our board-approved purchase plan will be determined at our discretion and will depend on a number of factors, including, among others, general market and business conditions, the trading price of common shares, and applicable legal requirements. We have no obligation to purchase any common shares under the authorization, and the purchase plan may be suspended, discontinued, or modified at any time for any reason. Amounts shown in the table include the commissions, fees, and 1% excise tax applicable to our purchases of common stock for treasury.

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Performance Graph

The following graph demonstrates a five-year comparison of cumulative total returns for Franklin Covey Co. common stock, the S&P SmallCap 600 Index, and the S&P 600 Commercial & Professional Services Index. The graph assumes an investment of $100 on August 31, 2020 in each of our common stock, the stocks comprising the S&P SmallCap 600 Index, and the stocks comprising the S&P 600 Commercial & Professional Services Index. Each of the indices assumes that all dividends were reinvested.

The stock performance shown on the performance graph above is not necessarily indicative of future performance. The Company will not make or endorse any predictions as to our future stock performance.

The performance graph above is being furnished solely to accompany this Annual Report on Form 10-K pursuant to Item 201(e) of Regulation S-K, and is not being filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act, as amended, and is not to be incorporated by reference into any filing of the Company, whether made before or after the date hereof, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing.

ITEM 6.

Reserved.

ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The following Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (Management’s Discussion and Analysis) is intended to provide a summary of the principal factors affecting the results of operations, liquidity and capital resources, and the critical accounting estimates of Franklin Covey Co. (also referred to as we, us, our, the Company, FranklinCovey, and Franklin Covey) and subsidiaries. This discussion and analysis should be read together with the accompanying consolidated financial statements and related notes contained in Item 8 and the Risk Factors discussed in Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Forward-looking statements in this discussion are qualified by

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the cautionary statement under the heading “Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act Of 1995” contained later in Item 7 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Non-GAAP Measures

This Management’s Discussion and Analysis includes the concepts of adjusted earnings before interest, income taxes, depreciation, and amortization (Adjusted EBITDA) and “constant currency,” which are non-GAAP measures. We define Adjusted EBITDA as net income excluding the impact of interest, income taxes, intangible asset amortization, depreciation, stock-based compensation expense, and certain other items such as restructuring charges and building exit costs. Constant currency is a non-GAAP financial measure that removes the impact of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates and is calculated by translating the current period’s financial results at the same average exchange rates in effect during the prior year and then comparing this amount to the prior year.

We reference these non-GAAP financial measures in our decision making because they provide supplemental information that facilitates consistent internal comparisons to the historical operating performance of prior periods, and we believe it provides investors with greater transparency to evaluate operational activities and financial results. For a reconciliation of our segment Adjusted EBITDA to income before income taxes, a related GAAP measure, refer to Note 17 Segment Information to our consolidated financial statements as presented in Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

General Overview

Franklin Covey Co. is a global company focused on individual and organizational performance improvement. Our mission is to “enable greatness in people and organizations everywhere,” and our worldwide resources are organized to help individuals and organizations achieve sustained superior performance at scale through changes in human behavior. We believe that our content and services create the connection between capabilities and results. In the training and consulting marketplace, we believe there are three important characteristics that distinguish us from our competitors.

1.World Class Content – Our content is based on timeless principles of human effectiveness and is designed to help people change both their mindset and behavior. When our content is applied consistently in an organization, we believe the culture of that organization will change and improve to enable the organization to get desired results and achieve its own great purposes.

2.Breadth and Scalability of Delivery Options – We have a wide range of content delivery options, including: the All Access Pass and Leader in Me membership subscriptions, coaching and consulting, organization-wide transformational processes, intellectual property licenses, digital online learning, on-site training, training led through certified facilitators, and blended learning. We believe our expert delivery consultants combined with investments in digital delivery modalities have enabled us to deliver our content to clients in a high-quality learning environment whether those clients are working remotely or in a centralized location.

3.Global Capability– We have sales professionals in the United States and Canada who serve clients in the private sector, in government, and in educational institutions; wholly owned subsidiaries that serve clients in Australia, Austria, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom; and we contract with independent licensee partners who deliver our content and provide services in approximately 150 countries and territories around the world. Our capabilities allow us to serve a wide range of clients from small locally owned entities to large multinational enterprises.

We have some of the best-known offerings in the training industry, including a suite of individual-effectiveness and leadership-development training content based on the best-selling books, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Speed of Trust, Multipliers, The 4 Disciplines of Execution, and Trust & Inspire, and proprietary content in the areas of Execution, Sales Performance, Productivity, Customer Loyalty, Leadership, and Education. We believe that our offerings help individuals, teams, and entire organizations transform their results through achieving systematic, sustainable, and

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measurable changes in human behavior. Our offerings are described in further detail at www.franklincovey.com. The information contained in, or that can be accessed through, our website does not constitute a part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and the descriptions found therein should not be viewed as a warranty or guarantee of results.

Our fiscal year ends on August 31, and unless otherwise indicated, fiscal 2025, fiscal 2024, and fiscal 2023 refer to the twelve-month periods ended August 31, 2025, 2024, 2023, and so forth.

Key Strategic Objectives

The theme of our fiscal 2026 Company kickoff was, “Deep Roots, Bold Future.” Building on our enduring areas of competitive strength and the significant growth investments we made in fiscal 2025, we plan to focus on the following four strategic objectives that we intend to execute with discipline in fiscal 2026 to help us achieve our vision of helping our clients achieve their missions and strategic objectives.

Clarify our position in the market. FranklinCovey is not just a training company. We believe we are a trusted leadership and performance partner and that our comprehensive solutions can help drive breakthroughs in performance as our clients engage leaders and teams across their organizations to move their strategies forward. In fiscal 2026, our message to potential and current clients is designed to firmly position us in this more strategic, outcomes-oriented place in the market.

Focus and declare who we serve. In fiscal 2026 we intend to significantly increase the precision and impact of our outcome-oriented messaging to our target buyers, namely, senior executive leaders who own the responsibility for achieving strategic outcomes and who can make the spending decisions to do what it takes to achieve them. Our messaging target also includes senior, performance-oriented talent and human resource leaders who serve as internal partners to these executives inside of their organizations. As we increase the effectiveness of our messaging, we expect that we will engage with more significant clients in more strategic ways, driving better results for our clients and for FranklinCovey.

Build and sell like a “solutions leadership” company. A solutions leadership company is differentiated by the strength of its products and services. We intend to increasingly position and package our solutions as integrated offerings that drive collective action and deliver breakthrough results for clients. Our trusted content and frameworks will be more frequently combined with consulting and technology to help clients achieve measurable outcomes at scale—enabling lasting client impact and durable growth for FranklinCovey.

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Model what we teach, internally and visibly. As we pursue our growth strategy, we will heavily use and model our own methodologies and frameworks. This process includes further investments in our already strong culture to increase our ability to execute with even higher trust and accountability as we engage our own leaders and teams in achieving our own breakthrough results.

We believe the pursuit of these strategic priorities will enable us to make more progress toward our mission of enabling greatness in both people and organizations and our vision to impact billions. In addition, we believe that successful implementation of these objectives will provide our associates with additional resources and opportunities for growth and impact in the future and will drive results that are expected to provide return to our shareholders.

Other key factors that influence our operating results include: the number of organizations that are active customers; the scale and duration of our engagements with them; the number of people engaged in our solution implementations within those organizations; the continuation or renewal of existing services contracts, especially subscription renewals; the availability of budgeted spending in our solution areas among our clients and prospective clients, which, in certain content categories, can be significantly influenced by general economic conditions; client satisfaction with our offerings and services; the number and productivity of our international licensee operations; and our ability to manage operating costs necessary to develop and provide meaningful offerings and related products to our clients.

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Fiscal 2025 Financial Overview

Fiscal 2025 was a challenging year as our operations and financial results were adversely impacted by various macroeconomic factors, including threatened or enacted tariffs that have created significant business environment uncertainty, specific actions to reduce U.S. federal government spending, a general weakening of economic conditions both domestically and internationally, and ongoing geopolitical tensions which continue to produce instability in certain regions of the world. While threatened or enacted tariffs have not directly impacted our operations, the uncertainty created by the threatened tariffs have adversely impacted our clients both domestically and internationally. In response to the economic uncertainty, many of our clients and prospective clients have sought to reduce their spending to maintain profitability, which led to delayed decision making, decreased contract expansion, and lower client retention. Despite these challenging macroeconomic issues, we are pleased that the majority of our clients are renewing their All Access Pass subscriptions and Leader in Me memberships. Our solutions are designed to help clients improve their key metrics and manage through difficult and uncertain times. During fiscal 2025, we implemented a new go-to-market strategy in North America, and these initiatives are designed to enable us to systematically drive growth in both the breadth and depth of our client relationships at scale. We believe these initiatives will provide strong growth in amounts invoiced during fiscal 2026, which will then translate into meaningful growth in reported revenue toward the back half of fiscal 2026 and increasing in future periods.

Our consolidated revenue for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025, totaled $267.1 million, compared with record-high revenues of $287.2 million in fiscal 2024 and reflected the impact of business conditions and macroeconomic challenges previously described. In constant currency, our consolidated revenue was $267.3 million for fiscal 2025. The Company’s revenue performance during fiscal 2025 included the following key metrics:

Enterprise Division revenue in fiscal 2025 totaled $188.1 million compared with $208.1 million in the prior year. Enterprise Division revenue performance was primarily impacted by a $15.8 million decrease in North America segment revenues and a $4.0 million decrease in International Direct Office revenues, which were each adversely impacted by macroeconomic uncertainties, decreased U.S. government spending, and trade tensions from threatened or enacted tariffs. These challenging economic and business conditions adversely impacted new logo sales, expansion activity, and client retention throughout the fiscal year.

For the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025, Education Division revenue increased to $74.6 million compared with $74.2 million in the prior year. Fiscal 2025 revenue growth was primarily attributable to increased coaching and consulting revenue and increased membership subscription revenue, which were partially offset by decreased sales of classroom and training materials, primarily due to a new state-wide initiative and district contracts that included large training materials orders in fiscal 2024. Delivery of training and coaching days remained strong during fiscal 2025 as the Education Division delivered a similar number of training and coaching days when compared with fiscal 2024. Education subscription and subscription services revenues in fiscal 2025 increased 4% compared with the prior year and Education deferred subscription revenue at August 31, 2025, increased 13% over the balance at August 31, 2024.

Consolidated subscription and subscription services revenues for fiscal 2025 totaled $225.9 million compared with $231.8 million in fiscal 2024. For the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025, subscription revenue invoiced was $151.7 million compared with $156.8 million in the prior year.

At August 31, 2025, we had $111.7 million of deferred subscription revenue compared with $107.9 million at August 31, 2024. Our deferred subscription revenue at August 31, 2025 and 2024 includes $5.1 million and $6.7 million, respectively, of deferred subscription revenue that was classified as long-term based on expected recognition. Our unbilled deferred revenue at August 31, 2025 was $72.8 million compared with $75.2 million at the end of fiscal 2024. Unbilled deferred revenue represents business that is contracted, but unbilled and therefore excluded from our balance sheet.

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The following table sets forth our consolidated revenue by division and by reportable segment for the fiscal years indicated (in thousands):

YEAR ENDED % %

Enterprise Division:

Gross profit consists of net revenue less the cost of services provided or the cost of goods sold. Our cost of revenue includes the direct costs of delivering content onsite at client locations, including presenter costs; content royalties; materials used in the production of training products and related assessments; amortization of previously capitalized curriculum development costs; and freight. Gross profit may be affected by, among other things, the mix of services sold to clients, prices of materials, travel, labor rates, changes in product discount levels, and freight costs. Our consolidated cost of revenue in fiscal 2025 totaled $63.5 million compared with $66.2 million in fiscal 2024. Consolidated gross profit for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025 was $203.6 million compared with $221.1 million in the prior year and decreased primarily due to lower revenue as described above. Our gross margin for fiscal 2025 decreased slightly to 76.2% compared with 77.0% in fiscal 2024 primarily due to changes in the mix of services and products sold during the year.

Our operating expenses in fiscal 2025 totaled $197.9 million, an increase of $9.8 million, compared with $188.0 million in the prior year. The increase was primarily due to a $6.7 million increase in selling, general, and administrative (SG&A) expenses and a $3.7 million increase in restructuring costs. The increase in SG&A expenses was primarily due to a $5.5 million increase in associate expenses primarily related to new personnel, including new sales and sales support personnel hired in connection with the implementation of our new go-to-market strategy in North America; $2.1 million of costs related to the exit from our previous corporate campus, including relocation and litigation expenses; and $1.6 million of increased software subscription costs for new software programs being used in the normal course of business. These increases were partially offset by a $4.3 million decrease in share-based compensation expense resulting from less awards outstanding during the year and the determination that certain performance tranches of long-term incentive awards would not vest. During fiscal 2025, we continued to restructure our sales force in North America and to reduce costs in certain areas of our operations. We incurred $6.7 million of expenses for these restructuring activities in fiscal 2025, which primarily consisted of severance and related costs, compared with $3.0 million in fiscal 2024.

Our effective income tax rate for fiscal 2025 was approximately 49% compared with an effective income tax rate of approximately 29% in fiscal 2024. Our effective tax rate for fiscal 2025 was higher than the statutory tax rate primarily due to an increase in the valuation allowance against our deferred income tax assets in some foreign jurisdictions and non-deductible executive compensation, which were partially offset by the tax differential on foreign income. Our effective rate in fiscal 2024 was higher than statutory rates primarily due to non-deductible executive compensation and an increase in the valuation allowance against our deferred income tax assets in some foreign jurisdictions, which were partially offset by benefits for share-based compensation deductions in excess of the corresponding book expense and the tax differential on income subject to both U.S. and foreign taxes.

Net income for the year ended August 31, 2025 was $3.1 million, or $0.24 per diluted share, compared with $23.4 million, or $1.74 per diluted share, in fiscal 2024. Our Adjusted EBITDA in fiscal 2025 was $28.8 million compared with $55.3 million in fiscal 2024, reflecting the above-noted factors. In constant currency, our fiscal 2025 Adjusted EBITDA was $29.0 million. Adjusted EBITDA and constant currency Adjusted EBITDA are non-GAAP financial measures. For additional information regarding our use of non-GAAP financial measures, see the discussion under the heading Non-GAAP Measures above.

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Further details regarding these items can be found in the comparative analysis of fiscal 2025 with fiscal 2024 as discussed within this Management’s Discussion and Analysis.

Our liquidity, financial position, and capital resources remained strong throughout fiscal 2025. At August 31, 2025, we had $31.7 million of cash, with no borrowings on our $62.5 million revolving credit facility, even after spending $26.4 million on purchases of our common stock and $15.8 million on capital assets during fiscal 2025. At August 31, 2024 we had $48.7 million of cash, and no borrowings on our revolving credit facility. For further information regarding our liquidity and cash flows, refer to the Liquidity and Capital Resources discussion found within this Management’s Discussion and Analysis.

For a discussion of the results of operations and changes in financial condition for fiscal 2024 compared with fiscal 2023, refer to Part II, Item 7 Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in our fiscal 2024 Form 10-K, which was filed with the SEC on November 12, 2024.

Results of Operations

The following table sets forth, for the fiscal years indicated, the percentage of total sales represented by the line items through income before income taxes in our consolidated income statements. This table should be read in conjunction with the accompanying discussion and analysis, the consolidated financial statements, and the related notes to the consolidated financial statements.

YEAR ENDED

Amounts shown as a percent of total revenue

Selling, general, and administrative 68.4 61.3 63.4

Restructuring costs 2.5 1.0 0.2

Impaired asset - 0.3 -

Interest expense (0.2) (0.4) (0.6)

Income before income taxes 2.3 11.5 9.2

FISCAL 2025 COMPARED WITH FISCAL 2024 RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

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North America Segment

The North America segment includes our personnel that serve clients in the United States and Canada. The following comparative information is for our North America segment in the periods indicated (in thousands):

Fiscal Year Ended Fiscal Year Ended

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Revenue. In fiscal 2025, our North America segment revenue was $147.6 million compared with $163.4 million in the prior year. North America segment revenues in fiscal 2025 were adversely impacted by the uncertain macroeconomic environment and by canceled or postponed government contracting. During fiscal 2025, North America subscription and subscription service revenues were $131.1 million compared with $138.9 million in fiscal 2024. While we remain optimistic about the future impact of our new North America go-to-market strategy and sales force restructuring, continued economic uncertainty, including threatened or enacted tariffs and continued decreases in governmental spending, including due to the U.S. federal government shutdown, may prevent us from achieving expected sales goals until these conditions stabilize or are resolved. Foreign exchange rates had a $0.2 million adverse impact on North America segment revenues and a $0.1 million adverse impact on operating results during fiscal 2025.

Gross Profit. Gross profit was impacted by lower revenue as described above. North America gross margin remained strong during fiscal 2025 and was 83.1% of revenue compared with 83.5% in the prior year.

SG&A Expense. North America SG&A expenses increased primarily due to associate costs resulting from new sales and sales support personnel primarily related to our new go-to-market strategy and the reorganization of our North America sales force in fiscal 2025.

International Direct Offices

Our directly owned international offices serve clients in Australia, Austria, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The following comparative information is for our International Direct Office segment in the periods indicated (in thousands):

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August 31, % of August 31, % of

Revenue. International Direct Office revenues for fiscal 2025 were adversely affected by ongoing economic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions as previously discussed. Revenues decreased in Japan by 23%, in China by 21%, and in the United Kingdom by 15%, and were reflective of the macroeconomic conditions and their impact on existing and potential clients. Decreases in these offices were partially offset by increased revenue recognized through our new France office and a slight increase in Australia. The fluctuation of foreign exchange rates had a $0.4 million favorable impact on our International Direct Office revenue and a $0.1 million favorable impact on operating results in fiscal 2025. We believe the resolution of multiple international trade issues and improving economic conditions will lead to improved sales performance in future periods. However, the successful resolution of these macroeconomic issues is not within our control and may not generate expected revenue growth at our International Direct Offices in future periods.

Gross Profit. Gross profit in the International Direct Office segment decreased primarily due to reduced revenue as described above. Gross margin for the third quarter of fiscal 2025 was 73.6% of sales compared with 76.6% in the prior year and decreased primarily due to a shift in the mix of services delivered and products sold during fiscal 2025 when compared with fiscal 2024.

SG&A Expenses. International Direct Office SG&A expenses decreased $0.1 million primarily due to cost reduction initiatives enacted to offset the impact of decreased revenue.

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International Licensees Segment

In foreign locations where we do not have a directly owned office, our training and consulting services are delivered through independent licensees. The following comparative information is for our international licensee operations in the periods indicated (in thousands):

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Revenue. International licensee revenue is primarily comprised of royalties on sales of our content by the licensees. In fiscal 2025, our International Licensees’ revenue decreased primarily due to decreases in our share of AAP revenue and a 2% decrease in royalty revenue. Throughout fiscal 2025, our foreign licensees have encountered ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty and geopolitical instability in the regions where they operate, which have adversely impacted their operations. Foreign exchange rates had an immaterial impact on International Licensee revenues and operating results during fiscal 2025.

Gross Profit. Gross profit decreased primarily due to decreased revenue as previously described. Gross margin remained strong at 87.2% compared with 88.2% in the prior year and declined due to decreased royalty revenue compared with the prior year.

SG&A Expense. International licensee SG&A expenses decreased by $0.1 million compared with the prior year primarily due to cost cutting efforts implemented during fiscal 2025 in response to decreased revenue.

Education Division

Our Education Division is comprised of our domestic and international Education practice operations (focused on sales to educational institutions) and includes our widely acclaimed Leader in Me program. The following comparative information is for our Education Division in the periods indicated (in thousands):

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Revenue. Education Division revenue for fiscal 2025 increased to $74.6 million compared with $74.2 million in fiscal 2024. Fiscal 2025 revenue growth was primarily attributable to increased coaching and consulting revenue and increased membership subscription revenue, which were partially offset by decreased sales of classroom and training materials, primarily due to a new state-wide initiative and district contracts that included large training materials orders in fiscal 2024. These materials orders did not repeat at the same levels in fiscal 2025. Delivery of training and coaching days remained strong during fiscal 2025 as the Education Division delivered a similar number of training and coaching days when compared with fiscal 2024. Education subscription and subscription services revenues in fiscal 2025 increased 4% compared with the prior year and Education deferred subscription revenue at August 31, 2025, increased 13% over the balance at August 31, 2024. Education Division growth during fiscal 2025 was partially offset by changes in foreign exchange rates, which adversely impacted revenue and operating results by $0.4 million. We continue to be pleased with the strength and momentum of our Education Division, which added 624 new The Leader in Me schools in a very challenging funding environment during fiscal 2025. We believe the momentum generated in fiscal 2025 will continue into fiscal 2026, but our expectations may be impacted by a number of factors outside of our control, including available

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funding from governmental agencies in the midst of spending reductions. At August 31, 2025, over 8,000 schools around the world were using The Leader in Me program.

Gross Profit. Education Division gross profit increased primarily due to increased revenue as previously described. Education segment gross margin remained strong and was 64.0% in each of fiscal 2025 and fiscal 2024.

SG&A Expenses. Education SG&A expenses increased primarily due to increased associate expenses from new personnel, changes to compensation plans, and increased commissions on higher revenue.

Other Operating Expense Items

Depreciation – Depreciation expense increased $0.2 million to $4.1 million compared with $3.9 million in the prior year. The increase was primarily due to new capital assets purchased in fiscal 2025. We currently expect depreciation expense will total approximately $4.5 million in fiscal 2026.

Amortization – Amortization expense increased to $4.4 million compared with $4.2 million in fiscal 2024. The increase was primarily due to the reacquisition of license rights for our France operations, which occurred in the first quarter of fiscal 2025. We currently expect definite-lived intangible asset amortization expense will total approximately $3 million during fiscal 2026.

Interest Expense – Our interest expense, which totaled $0.6 million in fiscal 2025, decreased $0.5 million primarily due to reduced term loan debt and a reduced principal balance on our financing obligation (long-term lease on our corporate campus) compared with the prior year.

Income Taxes

Our income tax provision fiscal 2025 totaled $3.0 million on pre-tax income of $6.1 million for an effective income tax rate of 49% compared with income tax expense of $9.6 million on pre-tax income of $33.0 million for an effective tax rate of approximately 29% for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2024. Our effective income tax rate for fiscal 2025 was higher than the statutory tax rate primarily due to tax expense of $1.5 million for increases to the valuation allowance against deferred tax assets in some foreign jurisdictions and $0.9 million related to non-deductible executive compensation, which were partially offset by a $0.5 million benefit in tax differential on foreign income. Our effective income tax rate for fiscal 2024 was higher than the statutory tax rate primarily due to tax expense of $3.2 million for non-deductible executive compensation and a $1.2 million increase in the valuation allowance against our deferred income tax assets, which were partially offset by a $2.6 million benefit for share-based compensation deductions in excess of the corresponding book expense and a $0.5 million benefit in tax differential on income subject to both U.S. and foreign taxes.

On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was enacted, introducing significant amendments to U.S. tax law with varying effective dates. Key provisions relevant to Franklin Covey include the expansion of bonus depreciation, the permanent reinstatement of immediate expensing for research and development costs, and revisions to international tax rules. The legislation did not have a material impact on income tax expense or effective tax rate for fiscal 2025. Franklin Covey will continue to monitor future regulatory guidance and assess any potential impacts in subsequent periods.

We paid $7.7 million in cash for income taxes during fiscal 2025. We anticipate our total cash paid for income taxes over the coming years to approximate our total income tax provision.

LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

Introduction

Our cash at August 31, 2025 totaled $31.7 million, with no borrowings on our $62.5 million revolving credit facility. Of our $31.7 million of cash at August 31, 2025, $12.2 million was held outside the U.S. by our foreign subsidiaries. We routinely repatriate cash from our foreign subsidiaries and consider cash generated from foreign activities a key

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component of our overall liquidity position. Our primary sources of liquidity are cash flows from the sale of services and products in the normal course of business and available proceeds from our credit facility. Our primary uses of liquidity include payments for operating activities, purchases of our common stock, capital expenditures (including curriculum development), working capital expansion, debt payments, and potential business acquisitions.

The following table summarizes our cash flows from operating, investing, and financing activities for the past three years (in thousands):

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Total cash provided by (used for):

Effect of exchange rates on cash (273) 141 (296)

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Our Current Credit Agreement

On March 27, 2023, we entered into a credit agreement with KeyBank National Association (KeyBank) leading a group of financial institutions (collectively, the Lenders), which replaced our previous credit agreement. The 2023 Credit Agreement provides up to $70.0 million in total credit, of which $7.5 million was used to replace the outstanding term loan balance from the previous credit agreement. The remaining $62.5 million is available as a revolving line of credit or for future term loans. We believe the 2023 Credit Agreement provides significant flexibility and financial resources to allow us to grow the business in future periods.

The 2023 Credit Agreement matures on March 27, 2028, and interest rate for borrowings on the 2023 Credit Agreement is based on the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) and is a tiered structure that varies according to the Leverage Ratio as defined 2023 Credit Agreement (refer to Note 5, Secured Credit Agreement to our consolidated financial statements for the interest rate structure).

As defined in the 2023 Credit Agreement, we are (i) required to maintain a Leverage Ratio of less than 3.00 to 1.00 and a Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio greater than 1.15 to 1.00; and (ii) we are restricted from making certain distributions to stockholders, including repurchases of common stock. However, we are permitted to make distributions, including through purchases of outstanding common stock, provided that we are in compliance with the Leverage Ratio and Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio financial covenants before and after such distribution. At August 31, 2025, we believe that we were in compliance with the terms and covenants contained in the 2023 Credit Agreement.

At August 31, 2025 our debt structure was relatively simple and consisted of notes payable to the former owners of Strive Talent, Inc., and obligations for leased office and warehousing space. For further information on our notes payable and leasing obligations, refer to the notes to our consolidated financial statements as presented in Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

The following discussion is a description of the primary factors affecting our cash flows and their effects upon our liquidity and capital resources during the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025.

Cash Flows from Operating Activities

Our primary source of cash from operating activities was the sale of services and products to our customers in the normal course of business. Our primary uses of cash for operating activities were payments for SG&A expenses, direct costs necessary to conduct training programs, to fund working capital changes, and to suppliers for materials used in training manuals sold. Our cash provided by operating activities during fiscal 2025 was $29.0 million compared with $60.3 million in fiscal 2024. The decrease in cash flows from operating activities was primarily attributable to lower operating

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income in fiscal 2025 as previously discussed, and changes in working capital, including a $5.9 million decrease in taxes payable as we no longer benefit from the utilization of our net operating loss position compared with the prior year. While we expect our cash flows from operating activities to improve in future periods, certain conditions are beyond our control or influence such as general macroeconomic conditions, general business environment uncertainty, further reductions in government spending, and conditions in international locations which impact our financial results at our international direct offices and international licensees.

Cash Flows from Investing Activities and Capital Expenditures

For the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025, our cash used for investing activities totaled $16.9 million. Our primary uses of cash for investing activities consisted of purchases of property and equipment in the normal course of business and additional investments in the development of our content and offerings.

Cash used for purchases of property and equipment during fiscal 2025 totaled $8.3 million and consisted primarily of computer software and hardware, and leasehold improvements at our new headquarters office, which we moved into during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025. We expect to continue to use cash to pay for the leasehold improvements and furniture during the first half of fiscal 2026. Including the payments for these leasehold improvements, we currently anticipate that our purchases of property and equipment in fiscal 2026 will total between approximately $5 million and $7 million.

During fiscal 2025, we spent $7.6 million on the development of our various offerings and related content. During the first half of fiscal 2025, we launched a significantly refurbished The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People offering and expect to release new and refurbished content in fiscal 2026 and in future years. We believe continued investment in our offerings and content is key to future growth and the development of our business. We currently expect that our capital spending for curriculum development will total between approximately $8 million and $10 million in fiscal 2026.

In the first quarter of fiscal 2025, we reacquired the license rights to sell our content in France for $0.3 million in cash and $0.2 million of forgiven receivables from the former licensee. The operations of the newly opened direct office in France are included in the International Direct Office segment. We look forward to expanding our business and operations in France over the coming years.

Cash Flows from Financing Activities

Our net cash used for financing activities during fiscal 2025 totaled $28.8 million. Our primary uses of financing cash were $26.4 million used to purchase shares of our common stock, which consisted of shares purchased on the open market and shares withheld for income taxes on stock-based compensation awards, and $3.9 million used for principal payments on our financing obligation and notes payable. Partially offsetting these uses of cash for financing activities were $1.5 million of proceeds received from ESPP participants to purchase shares of our common stock during the fiscal year.

On April 18, 2024, our Board of Directors approved a plan to purchase up to $50.0 million of our outstanding common stock. Through May 31, 2025, we purchased $22.1 million of our common stock on this Board authorized plan. On August 11, 2025, the Board of Directors approved a replenishment of the plan to purchase up to $50.0 million of common stock. On August 14, 2025 we initiated a 10b5-1 plan to purchase up to $10.0 million of our common stock through daily transactions. This 10b5-1 plan was completed in the first quarter of fiscal 2026.

Our uses of financing cash during fiscal 2026 will include purchases of our common stock. However, the timing and amount of common stock purchases is dependent on a number of factors, including available resources, and we are not obligated to make purchases of our common stock during any future period.

Sources of Cash and Liquidity

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available line of credit if necessary. Going forward, we will also continue to incur costs necessary for the day-to-day operation of the business and may use additional credit and other financing alternatives, if necessary, for these expenditures. During fiscal 2023 we entered into a five-year credit agreement which we expect to renew and amend on a regular basis to maintain the long-term borrowing capacity of this credit facility. Additional potential sources of liquidity available to us include factoring receivables, issuance of additional equity, or issuance of debt to public or private sources. If necessary, we will evaluate all of these options and select one or more of them depending on overall capital needs and the associated cost of capital.

We believe that our existing cash and cash equivalents, cash generated by operating activities, and the availability of external funds as described above, will be sufficient for us to maintain our operations for the next 12 months and into the future. However, our ability to maintain adequate capital for our operations in the future is dependent upon a number of factors, including sales trends, macroeconomic activity and uncertainty, our ability to contain costs, levels of capital expenditures, collection of accounts receivable, and other factors. Some of the factors that influence our operations are not within our control, such as general economic conditions and the introduction of new offerings or technology by our competitors. We will continue to monitor our liquidity position and may pursue additional financing alternatives, as described above, to maintain sufficient resources for future growth and capital requirements. However, there can be no assurance such financing alternatives will be available to us on acceptable terms, or at all.

Material Cash Requirements

We do not operate any manufacturing, mining, or other capital-intensive facilities, and we have not structured any special purpose entities, or participated in any commodity trading activities, which would expose us to potential undisclosed liabilities or create adverse consequences to our liquidity. However, we have cash expenditures and are subject to various contractual obligations that are required to run our business. Our material cash requirements include the following:

Associate and Consultant Compensation – Associate and consultant compensation is our largest expense and most significant recurring use of cash. Our compensation plans for associates and delivery consultants include fixed (salaried) and variable elements as well as the cost of benefits, and may fluctuate with sales, financial results, and hiring/retention activity. During fiscal 2025, we expensed approximately $172 million for associate and delivery consultant cash compensation. Associate compensation expense is included in SG&A expense and consultant compensation is included in our cost of revenue. Our associate costs include variable compensation such as commissions, incentives, and bonuses, and may fluctuate from year-to-year.

Information Technology – Our business is reliant on computer software and hardware. Our subscription service portals require ongoing development, recurring maintenance, security upgrades, and utilize various software applications. In addition, we utilize various software programs to run our business, including applications for customer resource management, general ledger, cybersecurity, spreadsheets, word processing, e-mail, etc. Including capitalized hardware and software, we spent approximately $16 million for information technology software and hardware during fiscal 2025.

Content Development – We believe that ongoing investment in our content and offerings is key to our future success. Our innovations group is responsible for the development of new content as well as refreshing and maintaining our existing content. Including capitalized development, we spent approximately $8 million (excluding innovation associate compensation discussed above) for the development and maintenance of our offerings and content in fiscal 2025.

Income Taxes – We are required to pay income taxes in the various jurisdictions where we operate. During fiscal 2025, we paid $7.7 million in cash for income taxes. We believe our use of cash for income taxes in future periods will more closely resemble our income tax provision and will fluctuate based on profitability as we have previously utilized most of our deferred tax assets.

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Contractual Obligations – In addition to the expenses described above, which we believe are required to successfully run our business, we have other longer-term contractual obligations, which require additional cash payments. We have summarized our significant contractual obligations at August 31, 2025 in the following table (in thousands):

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Strive note payable 835 - - - - - 835

Purchase obligations 4,488 - - - - - 4,488

CRITICAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES

Our consolidated financial statements were prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. The significant accounting policies that we used to prepare our consolidated financial statements are outlined primarily in Note 1 and in Note 2 (revenue recognition policies) to the consolidated financial statements, which are presented in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Some of those accounting policies require us to make assumptions and use judgments that may affect the amounts reported in our consolidated financial statements. Management regularly evaluates its estimates and assumptions and bases those estimates and assumptions on historical experience, factors that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, and requirements under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions, including changes in economic and political conditions and other circumstances that are not within our control, but which may have an impact on these estimates and our actual financial results.

The following items require the most significant judgment and often involve complex estimates:

Revenue Recognition

We account for revenue in accordance with Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606). For the All Access Pass, judgment is required to determine whether the intellectual property and web-based functionality and content are considered distinct and accounted for separately, or not distinct and accounted for together.

We have determined to account for the AAP as a single performance obligation and recognize the associated transaction price ratably over the term of the underlying contract beginning on the commencement date of each contract, which is the date the Company’s platforms and resources are made available to the customer. This determination was reached after considering that our web-based functionality and content, in combination with our intellectual property, each represent inputs that transform into a combined output that represents the intended outcome of the AAP, which is to provide a continuously accessible, customized, and dynamic learning and development solution only accessible through the AAP platform.

Judgment is required to determine the stand-alone selling price (SSP) for each distinct performance obligation in a revenue contract. Where we have more than one distinct performance obligation, we must allocate the transaction price to each performance obligation based on its relative SSP. The SSP is the price which we would sell a promised product or service separately to a customer. In determining the SSP, we consider the size and volume of transactions, price lists, historical sales, and contract prices. We may modify our pricing from time-to-time in the future, which could result in changes to the SSP.

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Stock-Based Compensation

Our shareholders have approved a performance-based long-term incentive plan that provides for grants of stock-based performance awards to certain managerial personnel and executive management as directed by the Organization and Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors. Under the terms of some equity awards, the number of common shares that are vested and issued to participants is variable and is based upon the achievement of specified performance objectives during defined service periods. Due to the variable number of common shares that may be issued under some of our equity awards, we reevaluate our performance-award grants on a quarterly basis and adjust the number of shares expected to be awarded based upon actual and estimated financial results of the Company compared with the performance goals set for the award. Adjustments to the number of shares expected to vest, and to the corresponding compensation expense, are made on a cumulative basis at the adjustment date based upon the new estimated probable number of common shares to be awarded.

The analysis of our performance awards contains uncertainties because we are required to make assumptions and judgments about the timing and/or the eventual number of shares that will vest in each grant. The assumptions and judgments that are essential to the analysis include forecasted sales and operating income levels during the service periods. These forecasted amounts may be difficult to predict over the life of the awards due to changes in our business, such as from the introduction of subscription-based services, or other external factors, such as the recent pandemic, and their impact on our financial results. Events such as these may leave some previously approved performance measures obsolete or unattainable. The evaluation of performance awards and the corresponding use of estimated amounts may produce additional volatility in our consolidated financial statements as we record cumulative adjustments to the estimated service periods and/or number of common shares expected to vest as described above. For example, uncertainties related to macroeconomic factors and prevailing business conditions resulted in a significant reversal of previously recognized performance award stock-based compensation expense in fiscal 2025.

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