Rand Stagen

This article focuses on Rand Stagen, Chief learning Officer of Data Return Corp., based in Dallas, Texas. Stagen is a man with a mission. He wants to leverage employee development as a differentiator for Data Return Inc. Stagen is driven to create a high-performing organization that can create and execute a complex business model. To do that, the company is using employee development to drive complex decision making and future corporate success. Data Return, under Stagen's leadership, models integral theory in its approach to the development of its 225 highly technical employees, who carry out the firm's core businesses of managed hosting and IT outsourcing. Data Return Academy is founded on the principle that development occurs across multiple dimensions, or performance capacities. When it is properly addressed across those dimensions, individual development will accelerate. Stagen says that Data Return draws from the best of ancient and modern approaches to cultivating individual and organizational competencies, relevant to sustained high performance.