Articles by Kellye Whitney

Why Learning Leaders Are Perfect For HR Roles
Although the titles change, the skills to lead remain the same.
Nationwide Adapts to the Winds of Learning Change
Nationwide Insurance is No. 9 in the 2016 LearningElite.

The New Face of Leadership
Rob Lauber, chief learning officer for McDonald’s Corp., discusses what today’s leadership development strategies will require in order to be effective.

You Can’t Keep Good Leadership Down
Leadership development efforts aren’t pulling their weight.

Are You Prepared for the Digital Disruption?
It’s already happening, and digital learning is one key way to meet these changes.
Does the Future of Business Mean Mandatory Learning?
AT&T is revamping its corporate learning strategy. The company plans to retrain its 280,000 employees to ensure they can code and make data-driven decisions on the fly. That means 5-10 of online learning per week, or Chairman/CEO Randall L. Stephenson said they risk becoming obsolete.

Special Edition: Executive Education
Executive education providers are adapting to ensure tomorrow’s leaders have the skills they need to succeed in business.

Executive Education at LinkedIn
LinkedIn offers a set of in-house offerings for its executives.

LinkedIn’s Kelly Palmer Makes Learning Happen
For Kelly Palmer, LinkedIn’s chief learning officer, the future of learning is now, and it’s all about technology, personalized, curated content and social learning.

Is Ignorance Bliss?
For better or worse, all the things you learned and experienced in 2015 are yours now, you and you alone determine what happens with that knowledge in the new year.

Not Talking About Diversity Makes You a Racist?
Sam’s Club CEO Rosalind Brewer found that even when you say all the right things, anything can happen when you talk about diversity.

Justice Scalia and the Myth of the Black Brain
As the Supreme Court prepares to decide on Fisher v. University of Texas, let’s hope deep-rooted bias doesn’t creep into the decision-making process.

Breast Pumps and Terrorists
Sharing superficial traits with a criminal element does not automatically make you a criminal.

To Benchmark or Not to Benchmark?
That’s not actually a valid question – if you’re interested in organizational change and improvement.

Female Stereotypes — Bah Humbug!
“Scandal” can teach us quite a bit about the need to follow one’s heart when it comes to challenging the common expectation that women and minorities should go along to get along.