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Meet the CLO Advisory Board: Kimo Kippen

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Kippen is the former CLO of Hilton and the former vice president of learning at Marriott International. In 2015, he was recognized as CLO of the Year. CLO: What was your official job in learning and development? CLO: What lessons did you learn in 2020 that you’re taking with you into 2021? Lots of good lessons.

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Booming tech sends L&D back to basics

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For learning professionals to bloom through the boom, reexamining our root system and turning to the sun are needed. Turn to the sun Light illuminates what works and dispels what does not. When learning professionals “follow the sun,” we align to a north star and establish a litmus test for how and where we spend our efforts.

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CLO Summit

Janet Clarey

I had the pleasure of speaking at the marcus evans CLO Summit in Georgia last week. The other presenters and most of the attendees were directors, VPs, or CLOs. Jay Colker, SVP & CLO at ShoreBank Corp. Karie Willyerd, former VP, CLO at Sun Microsystems was also fabulous. I just assumed the default was “yes.”.

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Kelly Palmer, chief learning officer for Degreed, shares her career journey

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I spent a huge part of my career at Sun Microsystems first in product development (and actually working on online help systems for the Java platform). After about 10 years, I got a great opportunity to move into corporate strategy at Sun running the acquisition integration function. It was the turning point in my career.

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Uncertainty is the key to unlocking opportunity

CLO Magazine

zooming down a sun-drenched Hawaii highway behind the wheel of a cherry red Ferrari 308 GTS after another successful caper with your best buds T.C. 1 learning organization in the Chief Learning Officer LearningElite in 2017 and Jim being named CLO of the Year in 2019. Oh, that was just me? For many, not having the answer is shameful.

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Sun, Elite, and the future

Jay Cross

At the CLO Symposium, Karie Willyerd showed samples of how Sun Microsystems is preparing to greet the workforce of 2020. Sun is constructing a platform that makes the nuggets available; you can mine for them however you choose. Sun and ILA are developing what I call learnscapes. That’s no longer the case.

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Cultivating capability with Walmart’s Brandon Carson

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In 2007, Sun Microsystems hired Carson and eventually put him in charge of creating one of the first online social learning experiences and the game-based Sun Open Learning Center for system administrators. ” The post Cultivating capability with Walmart’s Brandon Carson appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media.

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