Panel Presentation LTG211
Finding a Path to the Future with Agile L&D Teams
Date Friday, Nov 29 Time – RoomSchöneberg
Organisational agility is a top priority in workplaces. What are the progressive capabilities required from agile L&D departments? Get ready to hear from those applying the method and new skills in their departments. Of all the things you can do to create more effective L&D, building the power of your teams is probably the most important.
Matthias Schrepfer
Lead Expert for Continuous Improvement Methdologies, Zalando SE, Germany
How to Embed Learning in a Development Programme Supporting Operational Excellence
Matthias Schrepfer is Lead Expert for Continuous Improvement Methodologies at Zalando SE and member of the Business Excellence team at Zalando SE. Matthias drives initiatives to ensure reliable and superior performance of Zalando's operational business processes. In his function he is leading cross-departmental projects that apply continuous improvement methodologies to optimize and sustain business process performance. Besides that, he develops and adapts methodologies tailored towards specific goal and project scenarios within Zalando.
Matthias is owner of an internal development program enabling employees in continuous improvement methodologies. He is not only organizing the program but also active mentor for projects within the program. Matthias’ responsibilities are also the development of new trainers and mentors for the development program.
Matthias is member of the leadership team for Business Excellence where he focuses on team strategy, project portfolio and planning.
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https://corporate.zalando.com/en/compan…
Alvaro Caballero
Chapter Lead Customer Journey Experts - Tech Academy, ING, The Netherlands
Adopting Agile and Customer Experience Practices within an L&D Context
Alvaro is part of the ING Global Tech Academy, a squad of employee journey experts, event managers, and data analysts trusted with the mission of enabling and supporting an engineering culture within the IT community.
His current focus and ambition are to adapt and embed ING’s tailor-made PACE methodology, an iterative process bringing concepts from Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Agile Scrum, and User Experience, within his L&D squad.
Alvaro brings more than 10 years of experience in the fields of consulting, collaborative platforms adoption programs, and community and change management.
Curious about learning, networks, and innovation, he likes to experiment with the opportunities of new technologies, while trying to make sense of their implications and impact on community dynamics.
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Anja Schmitz
Professor, Hochschule Pforzheim, Germany
L&D needs LSD (Learning Strategy and -Design)! How to Use Agile Methodologies to Create and Support Better Learning Strategies and Learning Design in Organisations
Anja Schmitz is a professor for Human Resource Management at Pforzheim University and a member of the Institute for Human Resources Research at Pforzheim University. She has worked in several HR contexts with a focus on learning and development, including HR, Learning and Development, organizational development.
Currently, she teaches in HR Bachelor and Master programs where she developed different digital teaching formats, among them online social collaboration formats. Her research and publication interest lies in current HR trends with a special focus on the future of learning and development, employee experience, “new work” and the effects of the digital transformation on individuals and organizations.
Anja is passionate about developing people’s and organization’s potential, empowering them to openly yet critically embrace the opportunities of the digital transformation. She is inspired by the powers of social collaboration – across hierarchies, disciplines and cultures.
Jan Foelsing
Academic Employee / Learning and NewWork Designer, Hochschule Pforzheim, Germany
L&D needs LSD (Learning Strategy and -Design)! How to Use Agile Methodologies to Create and Support Better Learning Strategies and Learning Design in Organisations
Jan Foelsing is a Learning and NewWork Designer.
At the moment he works in part-time at the University of Pforzheim where he researches modern learning methods in combination with using social collaboration software as digital learning support tools.
Further he works as a freelancer and speaker in the area of corporate learning, social collaboration and digital working/learning tools. He although worked in a Startup Incubator and is now a startup himself to develop a modern (collaborative) learning eco system.
Before focusing on organizational and learning development he worked for several years as a SAP CRM consultant manly in the finance and automotive sector.
His purpose behind the projects he is doing is to create better learning environments which combine learning with innovation to foster value-creation oriented learning.
Learning can and should be challenging and fun at the same time.
His passion is to actively explore and shape our modern working and learning environments.
Learning by Doing and Leading by Example.
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Moderator
Donald H. Taylor
Chairman, Chair, Learning Technologies Conference Track, UK
Donald H Taylor is a 25 year veteran of the learning, skills and human capital industries, with experience at every level from design and delivery to chairman of the board. He has been chairman of the Learning and Performance Institute since 2010.
A recognised commentator and organiser in the fields of workplace learning and learning technologies, Donald is passionately committed to helping develop the learning and development profession.
His background ranges from training delivery to director and vice-president positions in software companies. Donald has been a company director and shareholder for three companies through start up, growth and acquisition.
He is an influential writer and speaker in the fields of the professional development of L&D and of technology-supported learning. He was the 2007 recipient of the Colin Corder award for services to training and has chaired the Learning Technologies Conference since 2000. He also chairs the Learning and Skills Group, hosting its bi-weekly webinar programme, and edits Inside Learning Technologies Magazine. He is a graduate of Oxford University and in 2016 was awarded an honorary doctorate by Middlesex University in recognition of his work developing the L&D profession.