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Aligning L&D with Business Strategy

Aligning and forging a strong connection between learning, data, and business is the foundation of a great skills-first business strategy. In his in-depth discussion with Todd Tauber, discover how Brad Watt at Colgate-Palmolive worked with the company’s Chief Digital Officer and the Head of Analytics to integrate L&D into business strategies and processes to help ensure business and learning targets could be met in tandem. Hear detailed examples of Colgate’s interwoven learning program, including how their team is using:

  • Skills data as a succession planning tool
  • Badging as an employer value prop
  • Learning to build the skills Colgate needs to win

The bottom line? If learning isn’t working to achieve business targets, then it’s not working for your business. Let’s make it work!
Aligning L&D with Business Strategy

   

   

   

About your speakers

Brad Watt

Brad Watt

Chief Learning Officer, Colgate-Palmolive

His tenure at Colgate Palmolive spans over 16 years. Brad’s career at Colgate began as a Senior Brand Manager during which he had oversight of different consumer product lines.

Brad’s success titles at Colgate Palmolive were Worldwide Marketing Director, Global Marketing and then Worldwide Director, Marketing Strategy and Effectiveness.

In his current role as Chief Learning Officer with Colgate Palmolive, Brad has been able to use his deep and varied knowledge of this formidable, consumer goods company to inform his People Centric approach. In doing so, he can ensure that the company keeps pace with talent acquisition and development in the ever-evolving digital world in which we live.

Brad hails from South Africa, has an MBA from Henley Business School and has pursued Executive Education through the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Todd Tauber

Todd Tauber

SVP Strategy, Degreed

Todd Tauber leads Degreed’s Strategic Advisory Services + Solutions team. His thought leadership on workforce learning and development (L&D) has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Quartz and The Atlantic as well as by Chief Learning Officer, SHRM and ATD.

Before Degreed, Todd led the enterprise learning practice at Bersin, Deloitte’s human capital research business. He also helped bring Nomadic Learning, a pioneer in digital academies, to market. And he launched a new corporate learning offering at The Economist, the global news publisher, where he also led strategy, M&A and product development.

Todd has an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BBA from The George Washington University.