Our workforces and workplaces are not just facing disruption; they’re being fundamentally redefined. Learn more about how Cognizant has engaged and enabled its nearly 300,000 associates in the wake of the pandemic, along with key insights for the future.
Ann Matteson will share why and how Thermo Fisher Scientific, with half of their employees outside of the US and of those half are Millennials, embarked on a journey to design, develop and launch a new leadership development program for emerging managers to equip them with the skills, knowledge and behaviors to lead their teams. The program entitled Developing Emerging Leaders, included a unique blend of virtual instructor led and self-paced learning that is both highly interactive and includes real world leadership simulations.
As organizations pivot their business models to digital, employees need to adapt to skills of the future with agility. Learn how learning as a service model can overcome challenges businesses face and make this journey possible.
Learn how Novartis created a Learning Centre of Excellence and Novartis Universities to re-invent its learning strategy and drive digital capability for its global workforce.
BMO Financial Group is led by award winning CLO, Gina Jeneroux who is a firm believer that in order to disrupt your learning function, you have to disrupt yourself first! Gina will share how BMO Financial Group has committed to be bold on talent, tightly align business and “people” strategies, and create the conditions where human and machine partnerships can thrive. Learn how BMO Financial Group is training for the critical skills needed for the future of work.
In today's new world for work, the need for speed, agility and new ways of working is changing how employees navigate their careers. Andrew will share the drivers for the creation of Open Talent Market, an internal talent mobility platform powered by artificial intelligence, to seamlessly match internal talent with opportunities at Schneider Electric, ranging from part time projects, stretch assignments to full time jobs. Learn the business impact of connecting the right candidates with the right opportunities.
Brent will share why and how Shell is using Virtual Reality for corporate training and the benefits this has delivered in terms of improved user experience, reduced total cost of learning and delivering learning in the flow of working. Learn the business benefits behind the ABI, estimates the VR training market will reach $6.3 billion by 2022.
Running learning as a business has been a phrase often touted by heads of learning and development. Claudine will take us through how she created a methodology, framework and communications plan to deliver on this goal for a workforce of 31,000. This will include tools, templates and organizational design principles and metrics for you to consider in your learning organization.
Companies are racing to fill current and emerging jobs. The recent PwC CEO survey reports 79% of CEOs worldwide are concerned that a lack of skills will threaten their future growth. This comes at a time when employers are increasingly concerned that many workers do not have the skills or capabilities to take on new job roles in the digital economy, one where artificial intelligence is leveraged inside the workplace. Learn how Guardian Life Insurance has taken a leadership role in closing the skills gap in their organization for both hard skills and uniquely human skills needed to ensure employability in the age of AI.
Jeanne Meister will interview Julie Dervin, CLO of Cargill, to discuss how she re-invented learning strategy by borrowing from non-traditional learning practices such as agile development from IT, popular among software engineers who demand fast and flexible collaboration across teams, and the use of employee personas and employee journey mapping, borrowed from marketing, to integrate into Cargill workplace learning. Julie will share the results of this transformation and what’s next for Cargill Learning & Development.
We are in an age where learning positively impacts earning for the employee and earnings for the organization. Tij will share with us how Cognizant Academy through the application of Modern Workplace Learning principles and leveraging the meta skills of curiosity, growth mindset and learning to learn has created a learning marketplace, one that enables learner autonomy and lets employees take charge of their own learning.
A Panel of learning & development professionals will share what is driving them to disrupt learning & development and move their learning function from one focused on creating formal ways to learn and develop to embracing a myriad of ways to help worker be “serial learners,” by providing both formal and informal learning experiences delivered in the flow of working.
