Interactive Breakout Session BUS22
For CLOs, HR and L&D Best Practice – Re-Imagining L&D Skills
What are the current key L&D professionals skills and competencies needed to support employees continuous learning, and what will they be in the future? Which teams and suppliers do you work with across your organisation? Is this in line with how you design learning in your organisation?
Rob Pearson
CEO, The Institute for Performance and Learning, Canada
Dr. Rob Pearson, CTDP is Chief Executive Officer of The Institute For Performance and Learning formerly the Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD). In collaboration with the Institute’s national board of directors, Rob is responsible for the overall strategic direction and operations of the Institute including member experience, certification, programming, research and advocacy. Rob has a long career as a visionary learning and development practitioner and senior business leader having worked for a variety of organizations including TV Ontario, The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Epstein Enterprises. Prior to joining The Institute For Performance and Learning, Rob led the Customer Experience Practice at Maritz, a St Louis based integrated marketing services company where he worked with some of North America’s major brands. Rob’s educational background is eclectic, with degrees in fine arts, communications, a Ph.D., in Instructional Systems Design from Syracuse University and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management. Rob is an active volunteer in his community and a documentary filmmaker and lives in Toronto with his partner Maria and their two children.
Links
http://www.performanceandlearning.ca
Anna Garseth
Head of Department - Learning Solutions, DNV GL, Oil & Gas, DNV GL, Oil & Gas, Norway
Anna Garseth is currently working as Head of Department – Learning Solutions in DNV GL, Oil & Gas. With over 15 years of experience in learning and development and training design and delivery, Anna’s main fascination has been on the role of training in supporting the business and helping an organisation gain and maintain its competitive advantage. She has been responsible for developing strategic competence build programs and designing learning that suits a changing and complex environment. Anna's focus in recent years has been on the industry challenge of knowledge transfer, something especially relevant in a company with a worldwide operation and a worldwide network of competent people. She has been in the forefront of developing protocols and techniques to ensure an efficient and highly valuable transfer of company critical knowledge.
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Clive Shepherd
Founding Director, The More Than Blended Learning Company, UK
Clive is a learning and development consultant, with a long-standing fascination for the applications of media and technology to learning at work. In a career spanning more than 35 years, Clive has headed up a corporate training function, co-founded a leading multimedia development business and operated as an independent consultant operating worldwide. In recent years, Clive has devoted his attention to design of next generation workplace learning solutions. He is a regular speaker at international conferences, has been recognised with two lifetime achievement awards, has written five books and more than 200 articles, and nearly 1000 posts to his blog, Clive on Learning. For four years he was Chair of the eLearning Network. His most recent book, More Than Blended Learning, was launched in January 2015. He now provides his consulting services through The More Than Blended Learning Company
Links
http://morethanblended.com/http://www.fastrak-consulting.co.uk
Patrick Singer
Programme Manager, Google Digital Academy, Germany
Patrick Singer designs and facilitates training programs for Google's advertising clients. He is curriculum lead for Squared Guru, a two-week face-to-face program for senior audiences that covers digital marketing strategy and digital transformation.
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Moderator
Dom Graveson
Partner, Hominal, UK
Dom Graveson leads Hominal, a UK based service design and transformation consultancy focusing on the transformation of businesses by leveraging both digital technology and the insights of their people at the front line.
Hominal has developed a framework for the mapping and improvement of processes across organisations both small and large, with innovation and self determination led by teams from the executive leadership board, through operational management, to the teams serving the end customer. Co-creation, accountability, measurement and lean business practices all play a part in enabling businesses to put people at the heart of effective transformation.
Hominal can be found at www.wearehominal.com. Dom can be found on twitter @dombles.