How to Win the Hearts and Minds of Business Leaders

Charles is a director of The Internet Time Alliance, a multinational think-tank of leading learning and business performance experts helping organisations exploit emerging practice in workplace and social learning to ‘work smarter’.

He is a leading expert on building and implementing 70:20:10 learning strategies. 70:20:10 is based on observations that high performing individuals and organisations build most of their capability by learning within the workflow.

Past roles include:

- Chief Learning Officer for Reuters and Thomson Reuters

- Head of the UK national centre for network-based learning

- Professor at Southampton Business School

- Senior business roles for global companies

- Evaluator for the European Commission’s learning, performance and eCommerce research initiatives

Links

http://www.duntroon.comhttp://www.charles.jennings.net

Laura Overton has over 2 decades of experience helping organisations to improve business impact of learning technologies in the workplace.

She is the Managing Director of Towards Maturity – a not for profit organisation that provides research and online resources to help organisations deliver effective learning intervention at work.

Laura is the co-author of ‘Driving Business Benefits’ (09) and ‘Towards Maturity’ (07) – two studies with over 500 organisations into effective e-learning practices in the workplace. She is also the author of ‘Linking Learning To Business’ – one of the first studies with both organisations and learners looking at good practice of successful implementations (Jan 04).

Laura is a founding ambassador for Next Generation Learning @ Work, a national initiative in the UK backed by Becta to promote the effective use of technology in learning, training and development in the workplace, colleges and schools.

She works with government policy makers representing employer interests and has contributed to  initiatives associated with the European Commission, the UK’s Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and Becta both in her current organisation and as a member the original advisory board to the LSC.

Laura is a Fellow of the Institute of IT training and of the British Institute of Learning and Development and is a popular industry commentator.
 

Links

http://www.towardsmaturity.orghttp://www.e-skills.com