Toplining these efforts will be award winning keynote speaker Derek Cunard, Dean of American Heart Association. The self-proclaimed cheer captain of the worldwide leader in cardiovascular science will present a step-by-step, foot-stomping, multi-media overview on how his award winning team of corporate university faculty have inspired and achieved 100% staff participation with an impressive 85% course completion rate in mission critical. Staff participation rock’s!
Other early confirmed presenters include Diana Thomas, Vice President of U.S. Training, McDonalds, who will give first-hand insights on how the training pioneer has made employee learning and development the centerpiece of growth in the past 50 years, as well as Peggy O’Brien, Vice President Training and Development, Covance, who will dish in interactive sessions on how this Forbes 400 company established a learning and performance center for driving corporate growth.
Over four days, the 14th Annual Corporate University Week will look closely behind the learning curtain and analyze nearly every facet of maximizing the performance of internal training organizations. Attendees will gain insights into how to create a culture of learning, develop and retain talent, leverage new technologies to improve training, align learning and development with business goals, standardize practices and consequently measure and report talent development.
This engaging event will help attendees to find out how to “run training as a business” and will provide them a roadmap of next steps for moving their company forward, spiced up by a wide array of learning and networking opportunities like panel discussions, workshops, interactive learning sessions and round table discussions.
For more information about the 14th Annual Corporate University Week, please visit http://www.cuweek.com, call 1-800-882-8684, fax 1-646-378-6025 or email info@iqpc.com.
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