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About the Program
The time has never been better for the workplace learning and performance (WLP) professional to have an impact on organizational results, whether you’re a one-person training department or part of a training team in a large company. Faced with the skills gap, executives are looking to WLP professionals to ensure the organization’s workforce can deliver business results.
How can you make the learning function strategic and aligned with your organization’s goals? This presentation shows you how to develop the learning strategy, to identify strategic partners within the organization, and to communicate the strategy and articulate the value of a highly skilled workforce to the executive suite.
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Student members - $10
Student non-members - $15
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About the Speaker David Vance
David Vance is the former president of Caterpillar University, which he founded in 2001. Until his retirement in January 2007, he was responsible for ensuring that the right education, training, and leadership were provided to achieve corporate goals and efficiently meet the learning needs of Caterpillar and dealer employees. Prior to this position, Dave was chief economist and manager of the Business Intelligence Group at Caterpillar Inc. with responsibility for economic outlooks, sales forecasts, market research, competitive analysis, and business information systems. He now consults with organizations on learning and performance issues with a particular focus on launching corporate universities and designing effective strategies for managing the learning function including alignment, governance, and measurement. His firm is Manage Learning LLC.
Dave received his Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from M.I.T. in 1974, a Master's Degree in Business Administration from Indiana University in 1983, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Notre Dame in 1988. After pursuing various "personal growth" experiences such as house builder, traveler, and YMCA camp director, he joined a medium-sized consulting firm in 1980 where he was economist and financial manager until 1984. He also was an economics and statistics instructor at Indiana University from 1983-1987. Dave joined Caterpillar in 1987 as an economist.
Dave is married with one child. He is a member and Director of ASTD and a trustee for State Farm Mutual Funds. Dave was named 2006 CLO of the Year by CLO Magazine. He also was named 2004 Corporate University Leader of the Year by the International Quality and Productivity Council in their annual CUBIC (Corporate University Best In Class) Awards.
Caterpillar was ranked number 1 in the 2005 ASTD Best Awards and was ranked Best Overall Corporate University in 2004 by both Corporate University Xchange and the International Quality and Productivity Council.
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