David Vance is the executive director of the Center for Talent Reporting, which is a nonprofit, membership-based organization dedicated to the creation and implementation of standards for human capital measurement, reporting and management. He is the former president of Caterpillar University, which he founded in 2001. Prior to this position, Dave was chief economist and head of the business intelligence group at Caterpillar Inc.
Dave teaches in the Ph.D. programs at Bellevue University and the University of Southern Mississippi and in the executive education program at George Mason. He also serves on the Metrics Working Group for the International Organization for Standardization, where he led the creation of the first standard on L&D metrics.
Dave is the author of The Business of Learning, now in its second edition, and co-author with Peggy Parskey of Measurement Demystified as well as the Measurement Demystified Field Guide.
