ICELW 2010 Keynote Speakers

ICELW is pleased to have Jonathon Levy of LeveragePoint Innovations and Dr. Tony O'Driscoll of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business as our 2010 keynote speakers. More information on both talks is below. 
 

Jonathon Levy President and Chief Strategy Officer LeveragePoint Innovations Inc.

About Jonathon Levy's talk:

"A Game-Changing Corporate Strategy: Transcending the University Model with eWorking"

Traditional eLearning is evolving into a new and more powerful solution that combines learning, performance tools, data, collaboration and change management on a single integrated platform. Flowing from a new conceptual model called eWorking, this innovative approach seamlessly supports contextual mashups of many disparate functions, resulting in a support platform that evolves and grows in value over time.

Created for the time-constrained business world in which companies struggle to compete, the new platform addresses the increasing knowledge and performance demands of the workplace that have only intensified with the global economic melt-down. Free-standing eLearning programs could not on their own respond to the increasing pressures of time and reduced workforce faced by today's knowledge workers. The result is a powerful new user-centric paradigm called "eWorking” in which global expertise of the enterprise is captured and repurposed, and the time and distance between learning and doing has been reduced to zero. Learning takes place as an intrinsic part of the workflow, with social networking, data and expert knowledge available in context as needed in the smallest coherent chunk.

We’ll hear and see how this solution is being tested and measured at some of the largest companies in the world, how it activates their previously untapped intellectual capital, and how it helps them to prepare for an uncertain future with real-time risk management software that sees around corners to prepare for change that has not yet arrived.

About Jonathon Levy (more information can be found at www.JonathonLevy.com)

Jonathon Levy is a hands-on futurist and corporate learning expert. He is President and Chief Strategy Officer of LeveragePoint Innovations Inc.(www.LeveragePoint.com), a spin-out from the international consulting company Monitor Group—where he provides vision and leadership.

At Monitor Group he provided guidance and vision for the creation of a new paradigm in online performance support called “eWorking.” That solution—designed to activate, embed and evolve business methods—has been deployed with great success by Monitor’s clients throughout the world.

Formerly the Vice President at Harvard Business School's Publishing Corporation, he helped to create the first profitable business for online learning in the soft skills market. Under his stewardship HBSP's online “performance support for busy executives,” a new model of online learning providing real time performance support for 2 million managers and executives worldwide, won an unprecedented nine industry awards in a single year. Before coming to Harvard he was Founding Executive Director of Cornell University’s Office of Distance Learning, and was founder of the Ivy-Plus Distance Learning Consortium.

He has consulted to and advised corporations and universities on six continents and has presented nearly 100 keynote speeches and featured presentations at major conferences in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America. He has conducted visionary leadership sessions “for CEOs only” in the U.S., China, and in Latin America. An acknowledged thought leader in the field of learning and technology, he has published numerous articles in professional management and education journals, including: ASTD's T+D, Chief Learning Officer's CLO Magazine, Distance Educator, HR.com, and many management journals throughout the world. He is author of a series focusing on next steps in the converging field of e-Learning, knowledge management and technology in Chief Learning Officer Magazine. He authored a column on “Sustainability” for Distance Learning, published by the United States Distance Learning Association.