Speaker:
  Karie Willyerd, Vice President
  Learning and Social Adoption

  Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2011

  Time: 10:00AM Pacific / 1:00PM Eastern
  (40 Minute Session)

Session Description

Starting this year in the U.S, 10,000 people a day are turning 65, and will continue to do so for the next 19 years. With a big dip in the Gen X population behind the Baby Boomer group, a natural conclusion is that we will need to get the newest workforce, Millennials -- also called Gen Y -- up to speed pretty quickly. And what is their number one preferred method of learning? Mentoring.

Mentoring conjures up thoughts of one-on-one, long-term relationships. But it doesn't have to be so. Forward-thinking companies are reinventing the meaning of mentoring, and using innovative techniques to be able to scale in mass proportions to prepare for the future workplace. Based on research from the book "The 2020 Workplace" by Jeanne Meister and Karie Willyerd, this session will cover examples from companies like American Express, AT&T, and PricewaterhouseCoopers to explore how to get talent ready fast for the upcoming shifts in the workplace.

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Karie is the Vice President of Learning and Social Adoption at SuccessFactors. Prior to that she was the cofounder and CEO of Jambok, the industry's first informal social learning platform, which was acquired by SuccessFactors in March, 2011. Karie was formerly Chief Learning Officer for Sun Microsystems, and prior to that, was the Chief Talent Officer for a Fortune 200 company. During the last 24 months at Sun, Karie and her team won over 30 awards for excellence in creating an innovative learning & development function for Sun Microsystems. In October 2009, ASTD named Sun the #1 BEST learning function in the world. In February of 2010, Sun was named #11 by Training 125.

Karie is the coauthor of the bestselling book The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today (Harper Business May, 2010). Along with Jeanne Meister, she is a regular blogger for Harvard Business, and their article on Mentoring Millennials was a feature article in the May, 2010 issue of Harvard Business Review.