Virtual Event
November 18, 2020 - November 19, 2020
Cultivating Agility, Quality & Resilience: Learning in an Age of Disruption
The Learning & Development Virtual Summit is a gathering of L&D, Leadership and Talent Development practitioners that will connect, benchmark, network and focus on key learning initiatives. During these uncertain times, it’s important to create and maintain relationships with like-minded L&D professionals, and the L&D Virtual Summit fosters these relationships - all from the safety and comfort of our homes or offices.
Our Summit provides a specialized, strategically-built experience that features unparalleled keynote speaking sessions with thought-leading case studies, highly-interactive panel discussions, and a virtual experience that includes customized networking opportunities and real-time attendee insights.
We believe in creating a memorable, collaborative and effective experience focused on continuous improvement for Chief Learning Officers, Chief Talent Officers and other top executives in Learning & Development, Leadership Development, Talent Management, and Corporate Training.
Join us! Interested in attending, speaking or sponsoring? Contact Katherine Ilagan at (212) 532-9898 ext 233 or email info@opalgroup.net.
Speakers Shawna Erdmann, Senior Vice President, Learning, Comcast Tracy Dodd, Head of Global Talent, Tiffany & Co. Kim Stewart, SVP, Head of Talent Management, First Citizens Bank Victoria Alexander, Vice President, Learning & Development, Signature Healthcare Brian Steinberg, Director of Leadership Development, Kemper Svetlana Yedreshteyn, Director of Learning & Development, Invesco Daniel Kimble, CEO, Resonance Executive Coaching Dave Romero, President, Unboxed Randy Sabourin, Co-President, Practica Learning Anna Strasshofer, Director, Mursion Adrian Voorkamp, Director, Learning Deployment - Americas, Johnson Controls Clive Wright, VP, Academic and Enterprise Solutions, edX Jayne Jenkins, Founder & CEO, Churchill Leadership Group Bob Rosen, CEO, Healthy Companies Heidi Brandow, Vice President, Global Learning & Talent Development, Palo Alto Networks Wesley Connor, Global Head of Learning & Development, Randstad Lisa-Anne Ferris, Ph.D., Director of Client Success, Wiley Beyond Michael Weldon, Sr. Account Executive, Rosetta Stone Shrikant Pattathil, President, Harbinger Systems |
All Times in EST |
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11:00am |
Virtual Welcome and Opening Remarks |
11:05am |
Opening Keynote Presentation
FLEXLearn: Reinventing Work for Today & Tomorrow
2020 has presented us unprecedented levels of challenge. With that though, comes an incredible opportunity to change and evolve the workplace. In the midst of all this we’ve discovered we are capable of amazing levels of productivity – and of working in new ways. While many of us are longing for the old days – some of our old ways of working are gone for good – and that is very good news.
In this session we’ll explore how FLEXWORK is revolutionizing the workplace of the future today – through personalizing the employee experience in three critical areas: Location, Benefits, and Learning.
Heidi will introduce FLEXLearn and how it’s delivering on personalized learning for employees and leaders across the globe and enabling a customized approach to learning that delivers employees and managers what they need, when they need it, in a way that is meaningful to them. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to explore what’s possible when you put employee choice in the driver’s seat for your learning and performance. Heidi Brandow, Vice President, Global Learning & Talent Development, Palo Alto Networks |
11:40am |
Keynote Presentation
Your People Want More: Why Building a Continuous Learning Culture is No Longer an Option
If you’re still measuring training success as a series of completions and checkmarks, it’s time to think differently. The competition for top talent is tighter than ever, and the best of the best are looking for opportunities to continuously grow and improve their skills every day.
The key to developing a learning culture is to curate, surface, and build experiences that reward continuous learning and supplement formal training with curiosity and knowledge networks. Continuous learning is all about practice and measurable progress. It’s never about perfection or completion.
During this session, Dave Romero, President at Unboxed Training & Technology, will share how to develop the continuous learning culture your people want by:
Presented by
Dave Romero, President, Unboxed |
12:15pm |
Keynote Presentation
Important Conversations: Turning Knowledge into Skill in a Virtual World
This breakout session will explore ideas and data on how we convert training knowledge into measurable skills in a remote and virtual world. The focus will be on skills such as coaching, DEI, customer-facing, and peer-to-peer conversations.
Organizations spend the majority of their L&D budget on knowledge transfer activities such as workshops and eLearning, but does this new remote workplace offer opportunities to increase the skill level for these important conversations?
Join this interactive discussion as we will review skill data from 20,000 Sales and Coaching conversations and share best practices.
Presented by
Randy Sabourin, Co-President, Practica Learning |
12:55pm |
Learn something new and stay connected in the L&D space by reserving your spot for a research meeting with one of our premier Summit sponsors. Meet & Greet with Daniel Kimble, CEO of Resonance Executive Coaching and author of, “Unshakeable Influence: Mastering the Inner Game of Leadership.”
Register to receive your free hard copy of the newly published book. Daniel Kimble, CEO, Resonance Executive Coaching |
1:30pm |
Panel Discussion
The Future of Executive Development
The developmental needs of executives have changed dramatically in 2020. What was ideal pre-pandemic no longer works like it used to. Moreover, the level of VUCA we are experiencing in 2020 probably only marks the beginning of a more dynamic and difficult to predict future. It’s never been more important to re-evaluate how we can best approach executive development to optimally prepare leaders to maximize their effectiveness in the VUCA reality that is our new normal.
Join this engaging and interactive panel as we discuss how 1:1 executive coaching supports the executive development outcomes we need to aim for in 2021 and beyond, including:
Moderator
Daniel Kimble, CEO, Resonance Executive Coaching
Panelists
Svetlana Yedreshteyn, Director of Learning & Development, Invesco Brian Steinberg, Director of Leadership Development, Kemper |
2:20pm |
Keynote Presentation
Human-in-the-Loop VR Simulation for Essential Workplace Skills
This is the moment for human skills. Traditional, top-down, one-size-fits-all leadership is a way of the past. True leadership is highly context dependent and team driven. The modern leader is inclusive, assumes risk with judgment, provides certainty in an uncertain world, and inspires deep motivation with a lived-in, authentic grasp of the landscape and people involved. By offering immersive practice and precision in virtual connection and influence, VR simulation is the fastest way to achieve mastery of these skills. See it for yourself in this interactive session.
Powered by a blend of AI and live human interaction, experiential VR has become the ideal way to gain essential workplace skills and see rapid gains in leadership, communication, and empathy. It combines true human intelligence augmented by AI in order to unlock empathic potential in your workforce and ensure organizational readiness to perform.
Presented by
Anna Strasshofer, Director, Mursion |
2:55pm |
Keynote Presentation
Creating an Environment of Belonging and Inclusivity
In today’s socio-political environment, every organization needs to rethink how they present themselves and structure their workforce as an extension of the world in which they operate. Companies need to consider their branding and marketing, board makeup, and employee population from c-suite down. Then act based on how the world has, and will continue to, evolve.
Join us in the engaging discussion as we review how to build organizational energy around:
Presented by
Brian Steinberg, Director of Leadership Development, Kemper |
3:30pm |
End of Day One |
All Times in EST |
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11:00am |
Chairperson’s Opening Remarks |
11:05am |
Keynote Presentation
Case Study: Learning Disrupted
Randstad has long been successful at developing people, with an expert internal team producing world-class live training events. But COVID-19 required them to shift suddenly to an all-virtual strategy. Join Wesley Connor, Global Head of Learning & Development, as he shares what he has learned and how you can avoid falling into one of the virtual learning “pitfalls”.
Join us for this informative session as we’ll examine:
Wesley Connor, Global Head of Learning & Development, Randstad |
11:40am |
Keynote Presentation
Leadership Health: Grounded & Conscious Leaders at All Levels
Organizations of the Future will be fundamentally different from those in the past. They will be inspired by purposeful missions, driven by rapid digital transformations, and organized in collective networks. Their cultures will be agile, obsessed with social and emotional learning and intimate customer relationships, with flexible workforces and places. These new companies will require more evolved leaders at all levels of business – complete with new values, mindsets and behaviors necessary to promote health and well-being, change agility and resilience, diversity, inclusion and equity in a digital environment.
Those who know how to survive and thrive in a disruptive and accelerating world will outperform their peers. After 30 years of leadership research in over 50 countries, Dr. Bob Rosen calls this Grounded & Conscious Leadership. And leaders cannot wait. The rapidly changing world is forcing all of us to transform ourselves – right now! Bob Rosen, CEO, Healthy Companies |
12:10pm |
Learn something new and stay connected in the L&D space by reserving your spot for a research meeting with one of our premier Summit sponsors. Meet & Greet with Daniel Kimble, CEO of Resonance Executive Coaching and author of, “Unshakeable Influence: Mastering the Inner Game of Leadership”
Register to receive your free hard copy of the newly published book. Daniel Kimble, CEO, Resonance Executive Coaching |
12:45pm |
Interactive Panel Discussion
Using Online Learning to Create an Agile Upskilling Program that Aligns with Business Priorities
Ongoing learning is an essential career practice, and online learning is an attractive option to improve L&D initiatives for a variety of reasons. Online learning is a critical component of an agile upskilling program, as it gives learners control over the scheduling, convenience of access, and lets learners tailor their programs by choosing the courses they actually need. However, not all online courses are alike, and it’s very important to ensure that the online education initiatives foster the learners’ sense of support and guidance and prevents feelings of isolation that can demotivate them.
Join this interactive panel discussion as we discuss strategies to administer effective online learning initiatives that help to create an agile upskilling program, such as:
Moderator
Shrikant Pattathil, President, Harbinger Systems
Panelists
Kim Stewart, SVP, Head of Talent Management, First Citizens Bank Clive Wright, VP, Academic and Enterprise Solutions, edX Tobias Washington, Director Learning Experience Design & Technology, CHRISTUS Health |
1:30pm |
The shift from instructor-led to online training is well underway. LinkedIn reports that 57% of L&D professionals expect to increase spending on online training; 38% said they plan to spend less on instructor-led training. Online training looks even more attractive when the logistics of face-to-face instruction becomes difficult to predict. A recent Accenture report noted how learning and working will be affected as the digital shift kicks into overdrive. “Anything that can be done virtually will be.”
Simply put, it may be time for your organization to go with a single, online language solution. Face-to-face training requires additional expenses beyond the cost of a learning module. But when your employees learn a language online, many of those costs vanish.
In this round table, we’ll talk through how you can: • Consolidate L&D associated with language training software Michael Weldon, Sr. Account Executive, Rosetta Stone The future of the workplace is changing. How you and your organization adapt is vital. Wiley’s own adaptability has been proven over our 213-year-old history. As we navigate the new challenges brought to us this year, we are beginning to gain a better understanding of the challenges for talent management in a remote and socially distanced world.
Roundtable participants will gather to share insights, experiences, and thoughts about what the future holds for talent development. In this interactive session, you will:
Lisa-Anne Ferris, Ph.D., Director of Client Success, Wiley Beyond |
2:10pm |
Keynote Presentation
L&D’s New Role: Strategic Business Partners and the Rising Impact on Organizational Success
Business decisions are no longer made without consulting key HR executives, and now, more than ever, learning leaders are involved in crafting the strategies needed to ready the workforce of the future. Hear how Learning Leaders with Johnson Controls are creating a team of learning professionals that are so deeply embedded into the business, that they are seen as true Business Partners, critical to the success of the enterprise. Join this session to hear best practices, including:
Adrian Voorkamp, Director, Learning Deployment - Americas, Johnson Controls |
2:40pm |
Closing Panel Discussion
Remote Work is Here to Stay: Leadership Development in a Virtual World
With the world of work going virtual, leaders must adapt their skills and improve their ability to manage remote teams. Now more than ever, a focus on Leadership Development is crucial to the success of companies who hope to thrive in a virtual world. Being a leader can be challenging at the best of times, but even more so in a crisis situation like the current pandemic – if leadership development services hope to stay relevant, they must be delivered effectively in the virtual format.
Join us in the informative session as we discuss the essential elements of an effective virtual Leadership Development program, such as:
Moderator
Jayne Jenkins, Founder & CEO, Churchill Leadership Group
Panelists
Shawna Erdmann, Senior Vice President, Learning, Comcast Tracy Dodd, Head of Global Talent, Tiffany & Co. Victoria Alexander, Vice President, Learning & Development, Signature Healthcare |
3:30pm |
End of Summit |
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Learning & Development, Talent Management, Human Resources Practitioners | Complimentary* |
Solution Providers | $149.99* |
*Subject to Opal Group’s verification and approval. Only individuals who are practitioners within the following areas qualify for a complimentary pass: Learning & Development, Leadership Development, Talent Management, Human Resources, and Organization Effectiveness. Practitioners and executives representing solution provider organizations must register as a sponsor attendee.
The Learning & Development Virtual Summit is currently seeking solution providers to present case studies and share cutting edge solutions in the L&D space. Learn more about sponsored thought leadership opportunities by contacting info@opalgroup.net
Prescheduled One-to-One Meetings:
Each participating solution provider and attendees will have pre-summit access to our matching software that allows you to completely customize your meeting agenda. The password-protected website provides the information needed to make your selections on who you want to meet with.
Exceptional Networking Opportunities:
We strive to maximize your face-to-face time by providing a multitude of avenues to engage the senior executives in attendance. The agenda incorporates an off-site networking activity, networking luncheons and cocktail reception. Leverage the meeting’s intimate atmosphere to build strong personal relationships with current and future clients.
The Learning & Development Virtual Summit is an exclusive event for L&D, Talent and Leadership Development practitioners from leading organizations in North America and around the world.
Chief Learning Officer
SVP/VP/Head of Learning & Development
Directors and Managers of Learning & Development
Chief Talent Officer
SVP/VP/Head of Talent Management
Directors and Managers of Talent Management
SVP/VP/Head of Leadership/Organizational Development
Directors and Managers of Leadership/Organizational Development
SVP/VP/Head of Organization Effectiveness
SVP/VP/Head of Training/Corporate Training
Directors and Managers of Training/Corporate Training
CHRO
SVP/VP/Head of Human Resources
Directors and Manager of Human Resources
To request your invitation today, please contact Katherine Ilagan at 212-532-9898 ext 233 or email info@opalgroup.net.