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GE Consumer Finance: Expanding Global Training, Expanding Business
As vice president of training and development for GE Consumer Finance, Ginny Ertl is responsible for creating a global learning community. With her help, 32,000 employees help bring good things to light.
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Manager’s Quiz: Are You a Coach or a Referee?
If you’re a manager-coach, you’re ensuring that your employees are experiencing as much success as possible. If you’re a manager-referee, you’re waiting for your staff to make mistakes so that you can run interference, call a penalty and tell the person w
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Leading Business Change: Gold Award
Kevin Wilde Vice President and Chief Learning Officer General Mills When the opportunity came in 2001 for General Mills to acquire long-time rival Pillsbury, Vice President and Chief Learning Officer […]
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Leading Business Change: Bronze Award
Jane Dowd Chief Learning Officer Evanston Northwestern Healthcare As head of learning and development, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Chief Learning Officer Jane Dowd played a major role in changing the record-keeping […]
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The CLO’s Critical Role: Nine Areas for Action
After presenting chief learning officers with a self-assessment in his last column, Jack Phillips offers nine action areas to help improve the learning organization and connect it to business goals and strategy.
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Technology-Driven Development Pathways
Organizational development has been an on-again, off-again trend, but it is still an important consideration in learning. CLOs leverage technology to develop the organization and drive the business forward.
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Jane Hutcheson: Banking on a Learning Culture
Today’s learning must keep up with business demand and strategy. As vice president of learning and development for Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group, Jane Hutcheson ensures education is a top-priority investment.
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Kathy Sutter: Creating a Balanced Toolkit for Learning
Office Depot offers endless rows of colorful pens, folders and gadgets designed to make working easier, more organized and efficient. A former schoolteacher for grades 4-8, Kathy Sutter, vice president of leadership development and global learning for Off
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Grooming the Next CLO
Chief learning officers often play a significant role in the succession planning activities for an organization. However, some evidence suggests that CLOs are not succeeding in developing their own staff to take on top-level learning executive positions w
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The CLO’s Path
Executives who make investment decisions around learning, whether they’re called “chief learning officer,” “vice president of learning and development” or some other title, come from diverse backgrounds. Many learning executives work their way up through