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Global Perspectives by Kevin Oakes

As CEO of i4cp, Kevin provides strategic direction and vision, and is responsible for the overall operations of the organization. Kevin has been a pioneer in the human capital field for the last 15 years, and is a frequent author and international keynote speaker on topics such as talent management, leadership, innovation, metrics, and strategic learning in organizations.   Prior to founding i4cp, Kevin created SumTotal Systems, the world's largest learning management system company and the industry's leading provider of talent development solutions, when he merged Click2learn with Docent in 2003. The merger won Frost & Sullivan's Competitive Strategy Award in 2004. Kevin was also the 2006 chair of ATD’s board, and served five years as an ATD board member.

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Is your frontline aware of development opportunities? Probably not, according to Developing America’s Frontline Workers, new research from i4cp and Aspen Institute's UpSkill America.

Is Your Front Line Aware of Development Opportunities?

March 2021 - TD Magazine

Synopses of Culture Renovation: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company by Kevin Oakes and Social Chemistry: Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection by Marissa King

Book Capsules, March 2021

Business and learning leaders alike expect great things from leaders-as-teachers (LAT) programs: enhanced professional development opportunities for leaders who teach, deeper levels of engagement for employee learners, and support for an organizational culture that thrives on learning, to name just a few. Many organizations leverage their leaders as teachers. Unfortunately, most of those companies struggle to gain traction and truly profit from the time and effort leaders invest in teaching. High levels of effectiveness are only happening in about one in five organizations using the LAT approach.
In Leaders as Teachers: Engaging Employees in High-Performance Learning, ATD and the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) partnered to identify and explore what high-performance organizations are doing to derive the greatest benefits from LAT programs.
Join i4cp CEO Kevin Oakes as he discusses the findings and recommendations from this exciting new research. He will be joined by Martin Scott, VP, Talent Development, Comcast University.
 

ATD Research: Leaders as Teachers

This webcast is based on the recently released report from ATD and the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), titled MOOCs: Expanding the Scope of Organizational Learning. The report explores the current and anticipated use of MOOCs (massive open online courses) in the business world.
Join Kevin Oakes, CEO of i4cp, and Amy Rouse, director of operations training at AT&T, as they explore the findings of the report and how organizations are using MOOCs.
 

MOOCs: Expanding the Scope of Organizational Learning

When making the connection between learning programs and bottom-line business results, organizational learning functions have a track record of limited success.  Recent research conducted by ASTD and the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) found that while most feel their learning goals are highly aligned with organizational business goals, very few say that specific business outcomes are included as drivers in the development of their organization’s learning strategy.  Additionally, investments in learning measurement remain quite low, and very few organizations have staff dedicated to evaluating the connection between learning and business impact.
Join Kevin Oakes, CEO of i4cp, and Rob Lauber, CLO of YUM! Brands, as they explore what metrics learning professionals are tracking today, as well as what metrics these professionals should be tracking for business impact in the future.  
 

Value of Learning: Gauging the Business Impact of Organizational Learning Programs

Research + Practical Application = Insight! Presented by i4cp CEO, Kevin Oakes and John Polaschek, Senior Manager of Learning Technology at Qualcomm, as they explore the latest research uncovered in ASTD and i4cp recently published report, Going Mobile: Creating Practices That Transform Learning, coupled with examples of mobile learning in action from Qualcomm, the world leader in 3G, 4G and next-generation wireless technologies. The brand new report looks at the current landscape from the perspective of what high-performance organizations are doing today- and plan to do in the future - with mobile learning and will share several best and next practices. In addition, attendees will benefit from the cutting edge mobile learning applications which Qualcomm - as featured at this year's International Conference and Exposition - are currently rolling out. This webinar is sponsored by the Ken Blanchard Companies and is free for both ASTD members and nonmembers.

Going Mobile: Creating Practices That Transform Learning

This webcastis based on the ASTD/i4cp's research report, Informal Learning: The Social Evolution. It will be presented by Kevin Oakes, CEO of i4cp. Joining Kevin will be Dan Pontefract, Senior Director, Learning & Collaboration at Telus. The purpose of this report is to examine the ways in which informal learning is evolving and how organizations are leveraging it to improve performance. This Study is based on an analysis of a survey of 351 respondents. Nearly all the respondents (97 percent) reported that informal learning played a role in their learning initiatives within their organizations.

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