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CLO Symposium 2022

CLO Symposium 2022

Chief Learning Officer's 2021 Fall Symposium

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Dr. Michelle R. Weise

Dr. Michelle R. Weise serves as Vice Chancellor of Strategy and Innovation for National University System.
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Dr. Michelle R. Weise (pronounced W-ice) is the author of Long-Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs that Don’t Even Exist Yet (Wiley, 2021). Her book was awarded the 2021 Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature by UPCEA (University Professional and Continuing Education Association), recognizing the author and publisher of an outstanding work of continuing higher education literature. Thinkers50 named her one of 30 management and leadership thinkers in the world to watch in 2021. She is the Vice Chancellor of Strategy and Innovation at National University System.​

Dr. Weise’s work over the last decade has concentrated on preparing working-age adults for the jobs of today and tomorrow. She has served as a senior advisor at Imaginable Futures, a venture of The Omidyar Group. She was also the chief innovation officer of Strada Education Network as well as of Southern New Hampshire University. With Clayton Christensen, she coauthored Hire Education: Mastery, Modularization, and the Workforce Revolution (2014) while leading the higher education practice at Christensen’s Institute for Disruptive Innovation.

Dr. Weise also advises BrightHive, a data collaboration platform, the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), the SkillUp Coalition, Basta, Hitch, Bayes Impact, Clayton Christensen Institute Social Capital R&D Project, and World Education’s Personal and Workplace Success Skills Library. She has also served as a commissioner for Massachusetts Governor Baker’s Commission on Digital Innovation and Lifelong Learning, Harvard University’s Task Force on Skills and Employability, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education.

Her commentaries on redesigning higher education and developing more innovative workforce and talent pipeline strategies have been featured in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review and on PBSNewshour.​

Michelle is a former Fulbright Scholar and graduate of Harvard and Stanford.


Other Speakers

Ashley St. John
Chief Content Officer, Editor in Chief
BetterWork Media Group
Elliott Masie
Chair
The Learning COLLABORATIVE
David Vance
Executive Director
Center for Talent Reporting
Jeff Higgins
Founder and CEO
Human Capital Management Institute
KimArie Yowell
Chief Learning Officer
Rock Central
Kristina Tsiriotakis
Director of Learning & Organizational Development
DECIEM Global
Pamay Bassey
Chief Learning and Diversity Officer
The Kraft Heinz Company
Summer Salomonsen, Ed.D
Head of Cornerstone Studios
Cornerstone OnDemand
Molly Nagler
Chief Learning Officer
PepsiCo
Lou S. Tedrick
Vice President, Global Learning & Development
Verizon

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Ashley St. John

Chief Content Officer, Editor in Chief, BetterWork Media Group

Ashley St. John is the chief content officer and editor-in-chief for BetterWork Media Group. She oversees the online content production of Chief Learning Officer and Talent Management. 

St. John has almost 15 years of experience developing, writing and editing print and digital magazine content. Before joining BMG, she held various editorial roles with several Chicago-based associations. Most recently, she served as content and publications manager for Association Forum, Chicago’s “association for associations,” where she managed all print and digital communications and the production of FORUM magazine. Before that, she was marketing and communications manager for the American Association of Law Libraries and associate editor and communications manager for the National Roofing Contractors Association. 

St. John graduated from the University of Iowa in 2005 with a bachelor of fine arts in journalism and mass communications.

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Eliott Masie

CEO, the MASIE Center

Elliott Masie is a provocative, engaging, and entertaining researcher, educator, analyst, and speaker - focused on the changing world of the workplace, learning, and technology. Elliott is acknowledged as the first analyst to use the term eLearning and has advocated for a sane deployment of learning and collaboration technology as a means of supporting the effectiveness and profitability of enterprises. 

He heads The MASIE Center in Saratoga Springs, NY focused on how organizations can support learning and knowledge within the workforce. He leads the Learning COLLABORATIVE, a coalition of 75 global organizations cooperating on the evolution of learning strategies. Members include Amazon, Zoom, Bank of America, Subway, The Hartford, and others.

He is the editor of e-NOTES & Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie (Internet newsletters read by business executives worldwide), and a regular columnist in professional publications, including CLO Magazine. He is the author of 12 books, including the ASTD/MASIE Center’s Big Learning Data and recent eBooks on “Learning Pivots” and “Empathy”.

Elliott's professional focus has been in the fields of corporate learning, organizational performance, and emerging technology. He has developed models for accelerating the spread of knowledge, learning, and collaboration throughout organizations.

Elliott has served as an advisor to a wide range of government, education, and non-profit groups. He has served on the Board of Trustees of Skidmore College, as a member of FIRST Robotics Board of Directors. He has also served as a pro-bono advisor to the Department of Defense and on the White House Advisory Council on Expanding Learning Opportunities, and as a member of the CIA University Board of Visitors.

Elliott is known as a highly approachable speaker and trainer, blending humor, applicable stories of best practice, and high levels of audience involvement. Over the past thirty-five years, he has presented programs, courses, and speeches to over 4,000,000 professionals around the world. He lives in Saratoga Springs, owns thoroughbred horses, and is a Tony Nominated Broadway Producer of shows, which include: Kinky Boots, An American in Paris, The Prom, The Anastasia, The Play that Goes Wrong, SpongeBob, Mrs. Doubtfire and Allegiance.

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Eliott Masie

CEO, the MASIE Center

Elliott Masie is a provocative, engaging, and entertaining researcher, educator, analyst, and speaker - focused on the changing world of the workplace, learning, and technology. Elliott is acknowledged as the first analyst to use the term eLearning and has advocated for a sane deployment of learning and collaboration technology as a means of supporting the effectiveness and profitability of enterprises. 

He heads The MASIE Center in Saratoga Springs, NY focused on how organizations can support learning and knowledge within the workforce. He leads the Learning COLLABORATIVE, a coalition of 75 global organizations cooperating on the evolution of learning strategies. Members include Amazon, Zoom, Bank of America, Subway, The Hartford, and others.

He is the editor of e-NOTES & Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie (Internet newsletters read by business executives worldwide), and a regular columnist in professional publications, including CLO Magazine. He is the author of 12 books, including the ASTD/MASIE Center’s Big Learning Data and recent eBooks on “Learning Pivots” and “Empathy”.

Elliott's professional focus has been in the fields of corporate learning, organizational performance, and emerging technology. He has developed models for accelerating the spread of knowledge, learning, and collaboration throughout organizations.

Elliott has served as an advisor to a wide range of government, education, and non-profit groups. He has served on the Board of Trustees of Skidmore College, as a member of FIRST Robotics Board of Directors. He has also served as a pro-bono advisor to the Department of Defense and on the White House Advisory Council on Expanding Learning Opportunities, and as a member of the CIA University Board of Visitors.

Elliott is known as a highly approachable speaker and trainer, blending humor, applicable stories of best practice, and high levels of audience involvement. Over the past thirty-five years, he has presented programs, courses, and speeches to over 4,000,000 professionals around the world. He lives in Saratoga Springs, owns thoroughbred horses, and is a Tony Nominated Broadway Producer of shows, which include: Kinky Boots, An American in Paris, The Prom, The Anastasia, The Play that Goes Wrong, SpongeBob, Mrs. Doubtfire and Allegiance.

Cornerstone is a global people development company. We believe people can achieve anything when they have the right development and growth opportunities. We offer organizations the technology, content, expertise and specialized focus to help them realize their people potential. Featuring comprehensive recruiting, personalized learning, modern content delivered in the flow of work, development-driven performance management and holistic workforce data management and insights, Cornerstone’s people development solutions are used by more than 3,600 global clients of all sizes, spanning more than 40 million users across 180+ countries and 40+ languages.

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Cornerstone is a global people development company. We believe people can achieve anything when they have the right development and growth opportunities. We offer organizations the technology, content, expertise and specialized focus to help them realize their people potential. Featuring comprehensive recruiting, personalized learning, modern content delivered in the flow of work, development-driven performance management and holistic workforce data management and insights, Cornerstone’s people development solutions are used by more than 3,600 global clients of all sizes, spanning more than 40 million users across 180+ countries and 40+ languages.

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