Closing the skills gap is a modern fairytale
“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.”| Chief Learning Officer
“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.”| Chief Learning Officer
The final ranking will be revealed on Thursday, November 6, 2025, at the virtual LearningElite Gala.| Chief Learning Officer
As new and exciting technologies flood the workplace, the greatest challenge isn’t adoption, but rather a lack of discipline in how organizations use them. Without intentionality, tech becomes a source of fatigue, distraction and disengagement. Leaders play a critical role in shaping not just tech skills but tech standards, practices, and behaviors.| Chief Learning Officer
In learning and development, there is often tension between theory and practice. Too much theory and learners disengage. Too much application without grounding, and learners risk missing the “why” behind their actions. To bridge this divide, I have been shaping what I call the COPA Learning Framework, a cycle of context, observation, practice and application.| Chief Learning Officer
Portable, verified, and career-long: the new way employees get valued.| Chief Learning Officer
The learning and development function is at a pivotal crossroads. Once viewed as a support mechanism for compliance and onboarding, L&D is now being called upon to become a strategic enabler of business transformation or lose its value entirely. | Chief Learning Officer
Director Challenge develops the more strategic skills senior leaders need to lead multiple team managers while balancing the long-term cultural and performance needs of the organization.| Chief Learning Officer
September 3, 2025 – Imagine the scene: one of your team managers uses all the right buzzwords — empowerment, engagement and culture — but for some reason his team isn’t very happy. Performance drops, engagement stagnates and he can’t explain why. In this situation, what do you do as his leader? How do you get to the root of the issue and turn things around?| Chief Learning Officer
At SAX, we know that to succeed in today’s market, we need professionals who can learn quickly, apply that learning effectively and continuously adapt as client needs evolve.| Chief Learning Officer
Netflix viewers spend 60 seconds – 90 seconds for those strong-willed enough to keep scrolling – searching for a movie or television show to watch before giving up and moving on to something else. Just one minute, that’s all the time people give to searching for entertainment. Now think about how long people would search for information and answers at work so they could do their jobs. It likely won’t be much more than 60 seconds.| Chief Learning Officer
