Sam Herring, co-founder of Intrepid, facilitates this hands-on session designed to help senior learning leaders build their digital learning blueprint. As industries get disrupted at increasingly faster rates, organizational learning leaders find themselves responsible for fostering the development of new skills across their workforce, faster and in a more scalable manner. But they can’t help their organizations prepare for disruption unless they embrace it in their own function. In this session, Herring will guide you through a model for digitally transforming learning in your own organization. Based on Intrepid’s experience shepherding numerous learning leaders through their digital transformations, Herring will share best practices for developing an effective plan to solve your organizations most critical business challenges. Areas of focus will include determining your top business challenge and relevant metrics, developing your learning vision, designing your technology ecosystem, adapting your processes and advancing your team’s skills.
Learning Objectives:
- Determine your top business challenge and most suitable digital learning metrics to measure impact.
- Develop a digital learning vision for your organization.
- Identify the critical areas to advance your learning technology ecosystem, processes and team skills.
About Sam Herring:
Sam Herring is vice president and general manager of Intrepid by VitalSource. In this role, Herring leads the VitalSource business for the corporate and professional markets. Intrepid by VitalSource products include Intrepid Learn, which enables organizations to solve their critical business challenges through a learning platform that scales massively and deeply engages learners, and Intrepid Discover, aworld class secure content delivery platform for the extended enterprise. Herring has been a leader in the corporate learning industry for nearly 20 years. Prior to joining VitalSource, he was CEO and co-founder of Intrepid Learning Solutions, an industry-leading learning consulting and outsourcing company that was acquired by Xerox in 2015, and CEO Intrepid Learning, the learning technology business acquired by VitalSource in 2017. In 2018, Intrepid was named Business of the Year by ISA, the Association of Learning Providers. Herring is past chair of the board of directors of ATD (the Association for Talent Development), and is a graduate of Yale and Harvard universities.