Laura Overton, Michelle Ockers

The L&D Leader (eBook, ePUB)

Principles and Practice for Delivering Business Value

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Is your learning strategy delivering measurable value to the business?

The L&D Leader by Laura Overton and Michelle Ockers is a strategic guide for senior L&D executives and organizational leaders who want to align learning priorities with business objectives, build workforce capability and drive long-term performance.

Written by two leading industry voices, this book distills over 20 years of research with more than 10,000 L&D professionals and 230 learning leaders. It provides proven tools for assessing focus areas, adopting evidence-based practices and embedding principles that make L&D more outcomes-led, innovative, data-driven and agile.

You'll discover how to:
- Align L&D strategy with business priorities for maximum impact
- Build workforce skills that meet current and future demands
- Move beyond tools and models to create sustainable learning value
- Lead change in L&D culture, governance and delivery

With real-world examples from McKinsey & Company, Barnardo's, AstraZeneca and Multiplex, The L&D Leader equips senior decision-makers to transform learning into a strategic driver of business success.

Themes include: L&D strategy, leadership, governance, workforce capability, data-driven learning, business alignment

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kogan Page eBook
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781398620315
• Artikelnr.: 75511662

Autorenporträt

Laura Overton is an award-winning learning expert with over 35 years' experience in the industry. She is the founder of Towards Maturity, an academic fellow of the CIPD and the Royal Society of Arts. Based in London, UK, she is consistently recognized as a significant global influencer of workplace learning trends.

Michelle Ockers is the Founder and Director of Learning Uncut where she helps organizations to develop a high-impact L&D strategy. Based in New South Wales, Australia, she is a popular keynote speaker and the host of the podcast series, Learning Uncut.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter
00: Introduction
a navigator's tale; Section
ONE: What got us here won't get us there . or will it?; Chapter
01: Calling all L&D leaders; Chapter
02: Looking back to look forward; Section
TWO: Equipped
navigation principles; Chapter
03: Tuning in; Chapter
04: Responding; Chapter
05: Improving; Chapter
06: Integrating TRI
astraZeneca's learning transformation; Section
THREE: Charting your course; Chapter
07: Navigating safe waters
equipped for today; Chapter
08: Beyond the horizon
ready for tomorrow; Chapter
09: Journeying together; Section
FOUR: Ready
the BOLD navigator; Chapter
10: Mindset matters; Chapter
11: Calibrating our BOLD compass; Section
FIVE: Shaping the future; Chapter
12: L&D
equipped and ready; Chapter
13: Shaping our future; Section
14: Appendix 1
learning performance benchmark; Section
15: Appendix 2
tool to build your matrix of models; Section
16: Appendix 3
learning science checklist; Section
17: Appendix 4
L&D thinking habits continuum; Section
18: Appendix 5
L&D sail plan;