Name: 2026 Chief Learning Officer Symposium Sprint
Start: 2026-10-21T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-10-22T13:00:00-04:00

Utilization of Marketing Resources – BRONZE: Melissa Baddeley, CLO & Vice President, Learning, Coast Capital Savings

Melissa Baddeley, CLO and vice president of learning for Coast Capital Savings, the second-largest credit union in Canada, has held that title since September 2004, when the C-level position was created to stress the importance of learning’s role within the organization. Baddeley and her team developed Coast U to ensure that all Coast Capital Savings’…

Talent Management
Utilization of Marketing Resources – SILVER: Suellen Roth, Vice President, Global Policy, Compliance, Diversity & Avaya University, Avaya

As vice president of global policy, compliance, diversity and Avaya University for Avaya, Suellen Roth has engaged the company’s learners with Madison Avenue savoir-faire. “Companies don’t release products without advertising them, so why should CLOs release learning programs without promoting their value?” she asked. “If CLOs want to create a learning program that is going…

Talent Management
Utilization of Marketing Resources – GOLD: Maureen McCormick, Director, Learning & Development, University of Iowa

The idea of using marketing techniques to create interest in learning and development activities is not a new one. However, effectively deploying marketing resources to increase learning and development dollars and then stretching those dollars into more opportunities to serve the University of Iowa’s population of 42,000 faculty, staff and students, not to mention thousands…

Leadership Development | Learning Delivery | Talent Management | Technology
Strategic Alignment – BRONZE: Donald Vanthournout, Associate Partner, HR, Accenture

Accenture understands better than most how important strategic alignment can be to the realization of key business objectives. With this central purpose in mind, the company created a Capability Development organization, led by Donald Vanthounout, associate partner, HR, where learning builds the critical people skills that enable organic growth of the business and facilitate execution…

Strategy | Talent Management
Learning Innovations – SILVER: Ted Hoff, Vice President, Learning, IBM

When IBM Vice President of Learning Ted Hoff joined the company four years ago and began to actively leverage work on IBM’s On Demand Learning capabilities, one of his first stops was the sales department. To strengthen sales and ensure that there was an expansive role for sales learning at IBM, Hoff worked closely with…

Talent Management
Leading Business Change – SILVER: Michael E. Pollard, Chief Learning Officer, Regions Financial Corp.

When Regions Financial Corp. acquired Union Planters in early 2004, the new company faced post-merger integration challenges, but CLO Michael Pollard understood that he and his team would play a vital role in successfully reinventing the company and ensuring that the most critical workers performed at the highest possible levels. Pollard developed the merger learning…

Talent Management | Technology
Achieving Impact – BRONZE: Nicholas Mantia, Senior Vice President & CLO, HomeBanc Mortgage Corp.

Learning and development programs have the potential to significantly impact organizational performance. HomeBanc Mortgage Corp., which operates in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, is a case in point. CLO and Senior Vice President Nicholas Mantia helped establish the Professional Sales Development Curriculum (PSD), a nine-week, 10- to 12-hour-a-day class for new HomeBanc loan officers. The…

Talent Management
Achieving Impact – GOLD: Rob Lauber, Executive Director, Learning Services, Cingular Wireless

Mergers and acquisitions are challenging under most circumstances, but when more than 46 million customers, over 100,000 employees and a 20-day transition period are a part of the mix, an aggressive and structured plan is in order. After Cingular Wireless acquired AT&T Wireless in 2004, Rob Lauber, executive director of learning services, and his skilled…

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