The most important benefit Millennials say they want from a new company is an opportunity for advancement and career development.  Yet companies are very clearly saying that employees are responsible for their own development.  Essentially, every employee has a DIY career.  What can we do to enable careers in organizations and meet the expectations of our newest employees?  We'll interactively discuss the key capabilities every employee should develop and share ideas on how Millennials can approach a DIY career.

The higher education field is facing a historic pivot point challenging assumptions about every role in the learning process.  The way students interact with faculty and with institutions is rapidly changing.  What are the implications for organizational learning and what do the shifts in higher education mean for corporate learning?  Creative disruption advocates that it's best to scan the environment and jumpstart change before the market or others force change upon us. As one person said, "Disrupt or be disrupted."
 
What are the possibilities for disruption in learning? If there is discussion about the possibility of dramatic reductions in faculty in higher education, is the same true for corporate learning?  We'll use crowdsourcing techniques to create a list of target opportunities for disruption in learning.  
 

Karie Willyerd is the Workplace Futurist in the HR line of business for the SAP Cloud.  Prior to that she was the cofounder and CEO of Jambok, a video social collaboration platform acquired by SuccessFactors in 2011 and now part of the SAP Jam platform. While Karie was the Chief Learning Officer for Sun Microsystems, she and her team won the most awards for learning excellence in history, including being named by ASTD as the #1 BEST in the world.

She is the coauthor of the bestseller, The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today and has written dozens of articles, including a feature in Harvard Business Review on Mentoring Millennials.  She blogs for Harvard Business and Forbes, and is an advisor to the business school at Colorado State University and the Center for Effective Organizations at USC.  She serves on the board of City Year, Silicon Valley.  Karie is at work on her next book -- Stretch: How to Future Proof Yourself for Tomorrow’s Workplace, to be published in October, 2015.