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Learning and Development Chair
Bachelors of Science Degree Minimum of 10 years of experience in L&D Strong personnel management skills Strong project and budget management skills Knowledge of adult learning definition, design, and development Career development activities including hiring and onboarding and development planning Strong teaming skills Strong communication skills Analytical ability and organizational development skills Must be likable…
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Crucial Conversations Skills
Many companies fail or at least limp along because we’ve become far better at “differentiation” than at “integration.” We’re world class at dividing people into amazingly narrow specialties, but scarcely literate at bringing them together to discuss probl
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Leading Learners to Strategic Thinking
The ability to think strategically is one of those essential components a well-rounded businessperson should have in his arsenal. It has direct implications on an organization’s future growth and present productivity, but it’s not easy to teach. Further,
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Critical Characteristics for CLO Success
The CLO’s role in the company is still fluctuating, but best practices are emerging. To earn a seat at the executive table, learning leaders must take a proactive stance and shape their own futures.
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Lehman Brothers: Uniting Strategy and Business Culture
An innovator in global finance founded in 1850, Lehman Brothers serves the financial needs of diverse customers around the world, maintaining its leadership position in equity and fixed income sales, trading and research, investment banking, private equity and wealth and asset management services. Headquartered in New York, Lehman has roughly 20,000 employees worldwide working in…
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Leading the Whole Person
In my last column, I said that too many managers are still stuck in an Industrial Age mindset that treats people as things. Many think we’ve put the Industrial Age behind us and that we’re in a new “Age of the Knowledge Worker.” They think the bad old days of robotic workers and hierarchical mindlessness…
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Boeing’s Bonnie Stoufer Helps Learning Take Flight
Boeing jetliners carry millions of passengers around the globe on a daily basis. Bonnie Stoufer, vice president for learning, training and development at Boeing, helps learning take flight for a workforce of 155,000.
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The Peace Corps: Education With a Mission
The Peace Corps reaches out to developing countries to help Americans and people of other cultures understand one another. Learning is key to mission success for a volunteer workforce that must communicate in more than 300 languages.












