Enabling Personalized Career Development with Skill-Based Learning
(On Demand)
Learn how Verizon’s Talent GPS helps employees explore and own their personal career journeys by using career exploration tools designed for self-reflection, setting career objectives and taking action to achieve their career goals. Employees SkillUp using curated skill-based learning plans designed to build the most critical skills needed at Verizon. In this session led by Lou Tedrick and Ashley Walvrood from Verizon and moderated by Linda Moeller from Degreed, discover how this approach enables all employees to purposefully build skills that will advance their personal career goals in alignment with those skills most needed in the future.
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About Your Speakers
Erica Jones, Director - Global Learning & Development, Verizon
Erica Jones is a talent development and business professional with 25 years in the communication technology industry. In her current role at Verizon, Erica leads leadership development, enterprise and corporate upskilling, and learning operations. She believes there is great power in continuous learning that unlocks opportunities and breaks through barriers for people and society. She's incredibly passionate about leveraging coaching paired with inclusive leadership as a critical lever to drive employee and company success. Erica is a proud alum of the University of Washington with fields of study in business administration and finance. She is also a Certified ROI Professional (CRP).
Ashley Walvrood, Director - Talent Management, Verizon
Ashley Walvoord is an organizational scientist-practitioner responsible for architecting strategies to deliver enterprise talent objectives. At Verizon she leads performance management and development, assessments for selection and development, careers, talent intelligence and talent technology/enablement. Ashley is passionate about the art of the possible and enjoys leading a think tank of industrial organizational psychologists and talent experts to move mountains for this Fortune 23 company. The team’s work has been featured and/or recognized by industry thought leaders including i4cp, Bersin, Brandon Hall, Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology and OneTen. Previously Ashley led strategy and solutions for Verizon talent acquisition, and prior to her work with Verizon, Ashley worked in consulting with military and government clients in areas of employee engagement, attrition, virtual team effectiveness, human factors and multimodal communication.
Linda Moeller, Key Account Director, Degreed
Linda Moeller is a key account director at Degreed, a pioneering learning experience and upskilling platform that connects learning to opportunities. She’s driven by the Degreed belief that great things happen when people are inspired to learn and put their knowledge into practice. For nearly two decades, Linda has helped large global organizations optimize their business results using the power of innovative HR technology. Her career has spanned roles within organizations that include Jobs2Web, SAP SuccessFactors and LinkedIn, and she‘s worked with clients that include Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Exxon Mobil. During her tenure at Degreed, she’s helped all her clients win Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards and been a committed partner who measures her success by yours.
"Degreed has uniquely built its own technology category from the ground up and it is a hot one. They have also provided a blueprint for what best-in-class looks like as a product and a company."
Michael Rochell
Brandon Hall Group Chief Strategy Officer and Principal HCM Analyst
