Faster, Better, Smarter: Creating a Future Ready Workforce

Registration and Breakfast

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Welcome Address

15 minutes

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Mike Prokopeak

Mike Prokopeak is vice president and editor in chief for Human Capital Media, publisher of Chief Learning Officer, Talent Economy and Workforce magazines. In that role, he directs content for the magazines as well as the company’s online and in-person events including the CLO Symposium and CLO Breakfast Club. Prokopeak has a proven track record […]

CLO Profile

During this time, we’ll hear from a local learning executive about their career path, the work they’re doing in their organization and their view on the biggest challenges and opportunities facing learning leaders.

45 minutes

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Jon Kaplan

Jon Kaplan is responsible for training, development, diversity and inclusion at Discover Financial Services. He has enterprisewide responsibility for leadership, executive and professional development; compliance training; industry learning; and functional training. He is also responsible for enterprisewide D&I initiatives. He has more than 25 years of experience in the education industry, having led learning and […]

Networking and Refreshment Break

15 minutes

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Panel Discussion – Learning in the Age of Acceleration

Between fast-moving business, emerging technology and ever-evolving skills, the pace of change at work is increasing, not slowing. For organizations, that means a near constant state of disruption. Success hinges on being agile, resilient and willing to disrupt the status quo. In this panel discussion, we’ll examine the role of learning and the CLO in the age of acceleration including:

• Creating a learning strategy that is resilient and adaptable
• Matching technology to purpose
• Creating a data-centric organization to continuously take the pulse of learning and performance

60 minutes

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Skip Marshall

Skip Marshall,CTO and HCM technology leader with DXC Technology, is responsible for humancapital management product strategy and solution architecture. He has extensive design, development and deployment experience in instructional programs, enterprise talent management initiatives and the technology infrastructure to support them. Marshall specializes in designing technology solutions to address complex business issues within the HCM space.

Alison O’Malley

Alison (Ali) O’Malley, Ph.D., is a Senior Behavioral Scientist at BetterUp where she designs and implements interventions to promote positive growth and development in employees and the organizations to which the belong. Prior to joining BetterUp, Ali led the human capital practice area of a management consulting firm and supervised geographically distributed analytics teams as […]

Allen Partridge

Dr. Allen Partridge is a learning addict with a rebellious spirit and a passion for evidence-based reasoning. Dr. Partridge served on the Doctoral faculties of The University of Georgia & Indiana University of Pennsylvania before joining Adobe in 2007. As Adobe’s Head of Evangelism, he provides guidance by relating customer experiences & challenges to the […]

Nicole Hajdrowski

Nicole Hajdrowski, senior director of enterprise learning and development at US Foods, has nearly 20 years of L&D experience. She recently joined US Foods to lead, cultivate and motivate her team to achieve enterprisewide learning solutions for employee development, sales training, new hire training, career and management development and instructional design. Prior to US Foods, […]

CLO Hackathon

Let's talk about what's on your mind — from sharing job-related challenges to swapping creative “hacks” for dealing with them. What topic or issue currently facing L&D leaders would you like to hear discussed? Let us know when you register and we'll add the most prominent issues to our agenda.

30 minutes

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Networking / Close

30 minutes

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