As the Mad-Hatter said to Alice (in Alice in Wonderland), "if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there."  With or without the Mad-Hatter we know the basic truth of this statement.  Even without such a strategy, organizations though haven't stood still.  They have spent monies, allocated resources, and invested time.  However, without a clear and defined organizational learning strategy, organizations find themselves spending too much time, money and resources to get too little result.  Significant investments in learning technologies are wasted.  Prepared and motivated learning professionals are under-utilized. The workforce is left under-prepared and supported.  And, as a result the organization is unable to fulfill it's promise to customers and shareholders, clients and supporters.  This is truly an example of the 'ready-fire-aim' syndrome.

Having advised major public and private organizations on learning strategy for over 30 years, I've had my share of successes and failures.  In this session, I will share with you the nine myths/truths I've distilled from these experiences, covering the spectrum from vision to implementation to change.  And, from developing a learning strategy with a blank-slate to taking what you already have done and are doing to form a strategy that can be more effective.
The key objective of this webinar is to challenge all of us to re-think what we know and have done. So, please come prepared to share as well as listen.  This is an opportunity to together evolve an approach for developing organizational learning strategy based on our collective experience and learning.  I'm looking forward to learning with you!

Lance Dublin has been an advocate for innovative approaches to learning and change throughout his career. He went from designing a weeklong "Experiment in Free Form Education" program in high school to co-founding one of the nation's first fully accredited 'University Without Walls'. Later recognizing the impact of new user-centered technologies on people, business and learning, he founded and built Dublin Group, a company which became a leader in improving individual and organizational performance and implementing large-scale change. Lance is now an independent management consultant, international speaker and author based in San Francisco, California and serving clients world-wide. He specializes in strategy development, program design, and implementation for corporate learning, change management, and organizational development initiatives. He brings to his work more than 30 years' experience in adult education and training, communication and change leadership, and motivation and innovation. He is the co-author of the capstone book in ASTD's e-learning series, "Implementing e-Learning" and has contributed chapters and articles to numerous other books and professional publications. Lance was Founder and CEO of Dublin Group from its formation in 1983 until he sold the company in 1998. Under his leadership this company became recognized for its innovative solutions to improving individual and organizational performance and effective approaches to successfully implementing large-scale change initiatives. Prior to this, Lance was the founder, Dean, and later Provost of Antioch University/West, an innovative accredited bachelor's and master's degree program serving 1,000 students in the western states and Hawaii.