David Leaser is an award-winning strategist, C-Suite consultant & program lead in L&D and HCM. David is Vice President at MyInnerGenius and was the senior strategist for IBM’s Smarter Workforce and the Global Skills Initiative.  He is the founder of the IBM Digital Badge program, a leading-edge digital credential program, the IBM New Collar Certificate Program and IBM’s first cloud-based embedded learning solution. David is the co-founder of Digital Badge Academy. He is a member of the national Credential As You Go Advisory Board, the U.K. Digital Badge Commission and is a senior advisor to New Markets Venture Capital Group. David provides guidance to the US Department of Labor and the US Department of Education as an employer subject matter expert. He is a LinkedIn Top Voice™?.

David was appointed as an Industry Fellow in the Center for the Future of Higher Education & Talent Strategy in the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University, an American Tier 1 university. He is the author of thought leadership white papers on talent development, including “Migrating Minds,” “The Social Imperative in Workforce Development” and Wiley’s “Connecting Workplace Learning and Academic Credentials via Digital Badges.”