1. business and industrial
2. business operations
3. human resources

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
ALIGN
ENGAGE
PERFORM
Monday, May 18, 2015
7:30 a.m.
4:30 p.m.
Global Channel Partner Summit at Perspectives
(Click here for detailed agenda)
10 a.m.
5 p.m.
Registration Desk Open
1 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
Learning Consultant Office Hours
1 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
Full Length Workshop
Monday, May 18 | 1 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Workshop
Skillsoft/SumTotal Workshop | Aligning Your Programs to Organizational Goals for Maximum Impact
Many practitioners struggle with the issue of alignment. They know it is important, especially to their senior
leaders, but they have not found a practical way to get it done successfully. Consequently, it becomes difficult to
secure funding (particularly repeat funding) for good programs.
Join us in the Alignment Workshop to explore what senior leaders really want to see and to learn how to achieve
and demonstrate strategic alignment. We will begin with alignment of a program or initiative to a single goal, then
explore programs and initiatives in support of multiple goals, and finally examine alignment at a department level
to all organizational goals. Theory and practical guidance will be followed by case studies.
This workshop is designed to improve your business acumen, make you a better and more strategic business
partner, and increase the impact of your programs. You will learn how to:
•• Align programs and initiatives to organizational goals
•• Discuss alignment and expected impact with senior leaders
•• Show alignment and expected impact in reports
•• Manage the alignment processes
David Vance
Executive Director
Center for Talent Reporting
Monday
1 p.m.
2:30 p.m.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Mix-N-Match Workshops
Skillsoft/SumTotal Workshop | Tangible Outcomes for Building Blocks 1 and 2: Engagement and
Alignment
The best practices of organizational learning can be summarized into four building blocks: Engagement,
Alignment, Adoption and Value. Learning programs centered around these four Building Blocks are poised to
achieve desired business outcomes. This workshop will focus on the first two Building Blocks: Engagement and
Alignment and includes best practices co-presented by a customer.
Engagement: Defining goals and success criteria are necessary to set the compass that defines the direction for
the learning program.
Monday, May 18 | Mix-N-Match Workshops | 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
•• Discuss setting Goals and Objectives and review templates around defining Success Criteria
•• Best practices for engaging stakeholders and senior management
Alignment: Learn how well aligned learning programs include learning offerings designed to contribute to the
growth agenda of the organization.
•• Best practices on staying in tune with Business Units’ learning governance groups, and other functional groups
•• Understand how to link performance appraisals to learning without heavy IT infrastructure investments
•• Blended learning design best practices
Stacey Boyle, Ph.D.
Vice President
Client Services
Vestrics
Ann Cantrell
Learning Consultant
Skillsoft
Benny Ramos
Senior Customer
Success Consultant
Skillsoft
Paul Scott
Manager
Learning and Development
UT Southwestern Medical
Center
Skillsoft Workshop | Engage Learners FAST: Best Practices from Clients Who Launched Skillsoft in the
Last Year
Have you ever been to a conference and didn’t know anyone and wished you had the opportunity to connect with
individuals that shared the same successes and/or challenges that you have? This workshop is designed to bring
together individuals who are new to Skillsoft or looking to partner with Skillsoft. You will hear success stories from
customers who have implemented Skillsoft within the last year. Their experiences are all very recent and relevant
to the information you may be trying to glean as you prepare to implement Skillsoft within your organization.
During this workshop you will:
•• Hear customer success stories from on their successful program launches
•• Discover how others are breaking the rules by driving engagement in their new learning program
•• Walk away with a check list for implementation that will help you prove the success to your leadership
Amy Martin
Corporate HR Manager
Menasha Corporation
Mac McConnachie
Director
Technical Support Training Strategy
Salesforce
Irene Posyluzny
HR Director
Shared Services - Talent Development
Newalta
Ivonne Smith
Client Engagement
Global Manager
Skillsoft
Sharon Swatscheno
HR Director
Menasha Packaging Co
Sheri Treu
Manager, Organizational Development
Orbis Corporation
2:30 p.m.
Networking Break
3 p.m.
Monday
3 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Mix-N-Match Workshops
Skillsoft Workshop | Skillport Reporting for Beginners
This introductory workshops designed to enhance your understanding of Skillport Reporting. Attendees will follow
along in Skillport and run their own reports seeing for themselves how robust yet simple Skillport reporting can be.
In this workshop, you’ll learn:
•• Key terminology and concepts to help you get started with Skillport Reporting
•• How to use the built-in report templates that ship with Skillport to create your own personal templates
•• Step-by-step directions for using filters to customize report templates to meet your needs
•• How to apply best practices to ensure that you get the most from your Skillport reports
•• How to export reports in different formats and set up report schedules
Monday, May 18 | Mix-N-Match Workshops | 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
George Carlier
Product Manager
Skillsoft
Gary Hartman
Partner Alliances Manager
Skillsoft
Deanna Peterson
Learning Consultant
Skillsoft
Julie Pitcher
Learning Strategist
Skillsoft
Skillsoft/SumTotal Workshop | Continuous Learning Journey
How do you break the mold on event based and build it they will come myths to elearning? Learner expectations
have changed and understanding the Forgetting Curve is pivotal to breaking the mold and understanding how to
monetize elearning. This workshop will focus on the “how” of “how to break the mold”. You can expect to learn:
•• Hands on exercises to learn how to minimize the Forgetting Curve
•• Introduction to tools to help with the “how” (Continuous Learning Framework, Checklist and/or Best Practices)
•• Attendee examples of existing programs or need
•• Begin the creation of, or convert to a continuous learning initiative and learn how to implement across various
levels of the organization
Regis Chasse
Director
Global Curriculum
Department
Capgemini University
Mindi Forth
Curriculum Director & Product
Lifecycle Manager
Curriculum Department
Capgemini University
Cindy Miller
Learning Strategist
Skillsoft
Kristin Shackelford
Learning Strategist
Skillsoft
Skillsoft Workshop | Higher Education, State and Local Government Workshop
Join us for our annual “Bean Bag” discussions in a relaxed environment while sharing challenges, best practices,
and meeting your colleagues from across the country.
SumTotal Workshop | Optimizing the Customer Experience and Driving Revenue by Catering to the
Extended Enterprise
Have you ever considered the power of extending your learning strategy across your customer, partner and
vendor ecosystem? By connecting your extended enterprise to reliable, relevant learning with anytime access,
you’re in the driver’s seat to profoundly impact critical business outcomes – including greater productivity,
improved customer satisfaction and increased revenue.
Join us for this informative, practical session that will bring together leaders from our sales and product
organizations as they share some of the best practices and capabilities that enable delivering learning across your
extended enterprise, including:
•• Learn how you can leverage ecommerce capabilities to monetize your extended enterprise program and
demonstrate added value from learning programs.
•• See how organizations are delivering an individualized and meaningful learning experience that engages and
educates your customers to optimize the Customer Experience?
•• Learn how you can drive revenue by empowering your reseller or channel partners with the expertise they need
to be successful.
Bill Docherty
Vice President, Product Management
SumTotal, A Skillsoft Company
6 p.m.
8 p.m.
Welcome Reception
Jody Petruzziello
Vice President, Worldwide Sales Operations
SumTotal, A Skillsoft Company
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
7 a.m.
5 p.m.
Registration Desk Open
7:15 a.m.
8:15 a.m.
Networking Breakfast
8:30 a.m.
9 a.m.
2015 Global Skillsoft Perspectives Welcome and Opening Remarks
Pam Boiros
Vice President, Global Corporate Marketing
Skillsoft
9 a.m.
10 a.m.
Chuck Moran
Chief Executive Officer
Skillsoft
Jerry Nine
Chief Operating Officer
Skillsoft
Skillsoft Strategy: Dawn of the Self-Developing Organization
Employee engagement is the #1 issue facing every C-suite. CHROs are being challenged like never before to bring
new solutions to the table that simplify rapid skills development and deliver data-driven results. Every HR function
entrusted with developing talent must step up. Clunky old practices of treating talent content and talent platforms
as separate, disconnected solutions will not work in a world where millennials now make up 50% of the workforce.
Welcome to the dawn of the Self-Developing Organization – a ground-breaking new Skillsoft approach to talent
acceleration emerging from the fully integrated capabilities of Skillsoft and SumTotal. The foundation of the SelfDeveloping Organization is a deeply integrated content and engagement platform that knows, entices, improves
and rewards employees. Learning occurs naturally and contextually as part of, rather than apart from, the
daily flow of work. As radical as the self-driving car, the Self-Developing Organization is the industry’s first truly
integrated solution to accelerate individualized employee development at scale by tightly integrating:
•• Rich talent profile for each individual drawn from a full array of HCM modules including third-party
•• Big Data algorithms that identify hidden patterns in content consumption at enterprise scale
•• Hyper-personalized learning plans that dynamically adapt to each employee’s own journey
•• Analytics for directly quantifying the business impact of learning
The sum total of these innovations means you are witnessing the biggest advance since “e” was added to
learning.
John Ambrose
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development
Skillsoft
10 a.m.
10:15 a.m.
Innovation Awards Part 1
10:15 a.m.
10:45 a.m.
Networking Break in Product Showcase
10:45 a.m.
12:30 p.m.
Designing Your Business for the 21st Century
The companies that thrive in the near future will be the ones that not only embrace change but are the first to
break the rules. If you could start with a clean sheet of paper, how would you design your company? Should your
youngest staff member be making coffee or running your R&D team? Is Big Data something for your IT department
to worry about, or a weapon to be wielded by your management team? Do you ban social networks or use them
to collaborate more effectively?
According to Mike Walsh, most companies are simply not designed to survive. They become successful on the
basis of one big idea or breakthrough product. That early success then becomes a rigid code, and as customer
habits and markets change, many fail to see that everything that made them successful is exactly what will destroy
them later. You will learn:
•• What it takes to recruit, retain and motivate tomorrow’s employees
•• How to transform employee engagement by hacking your corporate culture
•• How to leverage enterprise social networks to solve real business problems
•• Why the multicultural web of tomorrow will be different from the one we use today
Mike Walsh
Chief Executive Officer
Tomorrow
Tuesday, May 19 | 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Breakout Sessions
Monday
12:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 p.m.
2:30 p.m.
Breakout Sessions 1
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Skillsoft/SumTotal | Optimizing Skillsoft’s Building Blocks of Engagement, Alignment, Adoption and
Value at Joy Global
Showing value to the business and application of learning are the goals Joy Global strives for when providing
learning opportunities to their employees. Over the past three years, Joy Global has utilized Skillsoft’s Business
Library along with SumTotal’s Enterprise Learning Management System to align training opportunities to the
business through marketing Learning Packs on a regular basis and embedding Skillsoft content into their Instructor
Led training programs. During this session attendees will learn how:
•• Utilizing of Learning Packs and frequent marketing can raise awareness and engage employees in the available
training
•• Selecting training that is relevant to current business initiatives increases utilization and can be applied to the
business in a timely manner
•• Leveraging the SumTotal LMS Catalog to organize and promote content making it easily accessible to learners
Tanya Sherin
Project Manager – Learning Systems
Joy Global
Skillsoft | Integrating Technology and Learning for the Learner
Learning is not typically top of mind for leaders which makes reporting on learning and development resources,
such as Skillsoft, extremely important. At Humana, the team had an initial vision to demonstrate to leadership that
their investment in learning and development resources are worth the money spent. In order to accomplish this
goal they needed to make learning fun and easy to find in order to increase adoption and have reportable data.
This included integration of the various learning resources into one location for one-stop shopping and the debut
of the IT Fall Learning Meet, where learners can race each other to different levels of learning prowess. During this
session attendees will learn about:
•• The implementation of a consolidated search tool for learning resources
•• Gamification of learning through Humana’s Fall IT Learning Meet, a contest for people to reach different levels
and receive prizes just for learning
•• A different way to look at the tools available and ways to partner with their IT departments to maximize
resources and make learning easier for the learner
Theresa Butler
Learning Tech Consultant
Humana
Nik Johnson
Learning Technology Consultant
Humana
Tuesday, May 19 | 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Breakout Sessions
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Skillsoft | When Less is Better – High Impact, Targeted and Aligned Learning Program
In 2012, the Sun Life Financial engagement survey results reported that a significant number of employees from
their Finance Division, which is comprised of 800 professionals across North America, Asia and the UK, expressed
a need for more learning and development opportunities. Sun Life engaged with key business stakeholders to
create a completely customized, targeted and aligned blended learning solution that not only addresses the key
development needs of all Finance professionals, but also solves a number of challenges facing the business; talent
development, performance management, time management and knowledge management. During this session you
will learn:
•• How the talent development area used an engagement survey and competency assessment results to develop
and deliver a customized training and development solution.
•• How to leverage Skillsoft assets to deliver a targeted learning and development program using the
KnowledgeCenter Editor.
•• How to help your business partner take control of their training and development.
•• Delivering a targeted learning solution for a diverse and international audience
Maryann Baird
Director, Employee Development
Global Talent Development, Human Resources
Sun Life Financial
Mark Doty
Senior Learning & Development Consultant
Sun Life Financial
Compliance | Building a Best-in-Class Compliance Program: Positive Outcomes Drive Business Growth
Have you ever asked yourself, “is our program best-in-class?” Join this session and participate as a panel of
experts, including speakers from globally-recognized organizations such as Starbucks, Baker & McKenzie, and
Goodwin Proctor, as they discuss how top organizations build effective compliance programs. This session will
cover:
•• Understanding business risks and how to identify the threat of financial and reputational exposure
•• How to align your compliance program with your business strategy to enhance business outcomes
•• Uncover the value of organizational culture and how employee engagement and business alignment drive
business growth
•• How industry leaders are measuring performance to ensure compliance program effectiveness
Moderator:
Shari Daniel, PMP
Compliance Learning Consultant
Global Compliance Solutions
Skillsoft
Jason P. Anthony, CSP
Senior Health and Safety Project Manager
EnSafe
Stephen Martin
Founder and Managing Director
Baker & McKenzie, LLP
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Higher Education, State and Local Government
Part 1: Being truly human through online learning
The success story of how USC shifted from a predominantly in-person L&D service department, to leveraging
an online platform while creating truly human partnerships. What you will gain by attending: Develop marketing
strategies based on the variety of your audience, leveraging human connections; Create the “hook” of online
learning to your audience; and Implement your marketing campaign with a branding personality that aligns with
your organization’s culture.
Tuesday, May 19 | 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Breakout Sessions
Alexandra Fabry-Mourer
Talent Management Business Partner, MSW
University of Southern California
Beverly Philipp
Talent Management Business Partner, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
Part 2: From Pandering to Prosperity
Texas Tech University has dramatically grown their campus adoption of Skillsoft resources using a progressive
strategic marketing and educational awareness campaign. This program will cover the challenges overcome, and
the strategic and targeted marketing approaches that yielded campus adoption and sustained growth.
Katherine Austin Beltz, Ph.D.
Assistant Vice President, Information Technology Division
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department(s) of Psychology and Political Science
Graduate Adjunct Faculty, Public Administration Program
Co-PI East Lubbock Promise Neighborhood, Data Team
Texas Tech University
Skillsoft Product | Skillsoft Content Solutions Primer
Are you new to Skillsoft or perhaps looking for a walk-through of Skillsoft’s broad range learning solutions? If so,
please come join the leaders of our Leadership, IT, Business, and Compliance product management teams for an
“all-in-one” session where you’ll learn of Skillsoft’s current and emerging content offerings. We’ll share examples
of our extensive learning portfolios and how clients are leveraging these resources to successfully address their
learning needs to drive improved performance throughout their organizations. We will also provide you with
insights into our development plans for the coming year.
Norm Ford
Vice President, Operations
Global Compliance Solutions
Skillsoft
Russ Howard
Senior Director
Product Management – Content Products
Skillsoft
Priti Shah
Vice President
Leadership Product Strategy &
Corporate Development
Skillsoft
Skillsoft Product | Skillport Update — Continue Extending Reach and Impact of your Learning
The Skillport platform introduced over 15 years ago continues to evolve as one of the learning industries most
successful content delivery platforms for learning professionals. Today Skillport supports over six thousand
customers and seventeen million users worldwide with learners accessing it from wherever they are including from
Smartphones with Skillsoft’s NEW Learning App. In this session we will share the latest features of our flagship
version Skillport 8 and explore why if you are not there today you should be planning to get there soon.
Jeff Bond
Senior Director, Product Marketing
Skillsoft
Scott Oliver
Senior Product Manager
Skillsoft
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Tuesday, May 19 | 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Breakout Sessions
SumTotal | Leveraging SumTotal LMS to Support Transition from a Push to Pull Learning Environment
at CarMax
Does your organization assign learning activities and monitor compliance? Do your associates search for and
consume the learning activities you offer on their own? In 2008, our learning technology infrastructure limited our
associates’ ability to easily find and consume learning content. Our LMS primarily contained “push” activities and
was under-utilized. This session will cover the transition from Push to Pull at CarMax. We will outline the goals,
processes, and steps of this journey as our Performance Technologies and Sales Development teams worked
together to overhaul content design, development and delivery. We will share the best practices that we have
captured and refined based on user feedback, LMS usage, and performance data analysis. This session will cover:
•• Identifying opportunities to increase LMS utilization
•• Changing the design, development and delivery processes for learning content
•• Leveraging SumTotal LMS to enhance access to learning content
•• Measuring results – learning activity consumption/behavior change/results achieved
Bryan Ababurko
Director, Sales Development
CarMax
Rob Kelley
Director of Performance Technologies
CarMax
SumTotal Talent | An Integrated Approach to Uncovering and Growing the Capabilities of Your People
Talent Management isn’t just about managing your people – we take it one step further, and deliver the capabilities
to know, entice, improve and reward your talent. This individualized approach to talent helps you identify and
provide people with clear goals, a path for building skills and competencies, and a plan for career growth so they
stay engaged and productive (and, they stick around!).
Whether you’re an existing SumTotal Talent user or new to the SumTotal Talent solution, join us for an intriguing
discussion around the evolving practices and trends in the talent management industry and how SumTotal Talent
capabilities can help support these best practices.
•• By bringing together a rich Talent Profile, Performance, Succession Planning and other capabilities you
can identify and get to know your top talent. Learn how this visibility can help you offer people meaningful
opportunities for skill development and career growth that keep them with the organization.
•• Performance Management practices are changing, but many organizations struggle to move away from an
outdated model. Learn how SumTotal Performance Management can support efficient and effective practices
that drive retention of high performers.
•• How can you align compensation, performance and succession information to provide critical insight across
your people?
•• Social and Mobile are trendy – but, what do they really mean to your talent?
Don Stoddard
Senior Director of Product Management
SumTotal, A Skillsoft Company
Monday
2:40 p.m.
3:40 p.m.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Breakout Sessions 2
Tuesday, May 19 | 2:40 p.m. - 3:40 p.m. Breakout Sessions
Skillsoft/SumTotal | Are You Ready for When Millennials Take Over?
Whether we are ready for it or not, the future of business is here. It’s a future in which organizations must learn
how to move faster, flatten their hierarchies, share more openly, and operate more digitally. And although many of
these changes are a direct result of the Millennial generation shaking up today’s workplaces, it’s much bigger than
that. This new era goes beyond generations--and requires leaders from every generation to learn new ways of
working, leading, and managing.
In this session, authors and thought leaders Jamie Notter and Maddie Grant will share research, case studies and
lessons learned from their newest book, When Millennials Take Over: Preparing for the Ridiculously Optimistic
Future of Business that identify the four key capacities that must be developed inside organizations to successfully
adapt to this new reality. It’s not about simply “dealing with Millennials”-it’s about working with them to design
organizations that thrive in today’s environment and understand how to drive deep engagement with both employees and customers in a new way. During this session you will understand:
The key drivers of the Millennial generation, not in an attempt to “deal” with them, but to understand how their
perspective is relevant to the broader changes we face leading and managing organizations in today’s environment
The importance of digital, clear, fluid, and fast in creating organizational cultures that will thrive in the 21st century
Some practical ways to start shifting the culture of your own organization by changing processes and facilitating
new behaviors among employees from all generations.
Maddie Grant
Co-founder and Author
Culture that Works
Jamie Notter
Co-founder and Author
Culture that Works
Skillsoft | Lacing Up for Learning: How Foot Locker, Inc. Drives Learner Adoption
As a new Skillsoft customer, Foot Locker saw rapid results in user adoption, with over 80% of our users
completing at least one course in the first full year of our Skillsoft partnership. Foot Locker was able to align course
content to organizational initiatives, to engage learners from all areas of the corporation, and to drive employee
engagement with dynamic follow-up sessions which increased retention and generated excitement
throughout the organization. Come to this session to learn how Foot Locker:
•• Leveraged relationships with business unit leaders to identify strategic priorities and gained their financial
commitment to fund and reinforce employee development on the job
•• Assigned course content via customized Learning Plans to almost all associates, and followed up with usage
contests (complete with fabulous Skillsoft prizes)
•• Paired online course content with instructor led activities to increase retention, and engaged senior leaders at
Foot Locker to lead follow up sessions
•• Required associates to sharpen their public speaking skills by delivering a presentation on what they learned
during their Skillsoft classes, improving on-the-job application
Rachel Warren
Manager, Learning & Development
Foot Locker, Inc.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Skillsoft | Customizing Advantage Content for Organizational Alignment
Boy Scouts of America is providing their workforce an opportunity to fill the gaps between classroom and
continuous learning by using Skillsoft Advantage. The Skillsoft Advantage content provides organizations with
access to first class competency training content that can be customized using KnowledgeCenter editor to meet
your organization’s learning approach. Boy Scouts of America employees and volunteers receive their Skillsoft
credentials after attending their first ITL session and then are provided with seven sessions to complete prior to
their next ITL session. During this session attendees will:
•• Learn how customizing content can ensure that your training aligns to your content and builds engagement with
your organizations learners
•• Discover how to leverage additional learning methods within the Advantage series
•• Hear how Boy Scouts of America built competency content that is aligned specifically to your business
outcomes
Tuesday, May 19 | 2:40 p.m. - 3:40 p.m. Breakout Sessions
Steve Yackel
Team Leader - Instructional Design
Boy Scouts of America
Skillsoft | Tailor Training to the Individual by Aligning Learning to Corporate Strategy
The phrase “aligning learning to the business” seems to be everywhere. But what are the indicators you need to
watch to know you learning programs aren’t tracking anymore? How do you make sure you have the right topdown sponsorship and buy-in to support any changes? And, how do you set the framework for success once
you do re-align? During this session you will learn why and how Navigant addressed these questions and the role
Skillport and Skillsoft Sales Advantage have played in the fundamental success of Navigant’s new and evolving
programs. You’ll also hear:
•• Key steps to align your learning programs to support your business strategies
•• How to engage corporate leadership to actively support learning programs as a foundation for employee
performance
•• How to utilize and customize Skillport and Sales Advantage to further engage leadership and support
organization-wide sales initiatives
Ann Stavrovich
Director, Learning & Professional Development
Navigant Consulting
Norene Trodsen
Senior Manager
Navigant Consulting
Compliance | Staying Ahead of Emerging Business Risks: The Compliance Conundrum
In today’s business environment, some of the most significant risks come from threats that you may not expect.
Join this session and participate as our panel of compliance experts, including a former federal prosecutor, discuss
the important new issues compliance professionals now face. Our panelists will address emerging risks and the
ways they can impact various areas of your business:
•• HR Department – Harassment and discrimination issues are well known, and often costly, but what other issues
should HR be aware of? Our panelists will offer ideas for building a strategy to keep up with ever-evolving
compliance issues.
•• Chief Technology Officer and IT Department – privacy and data security are very much in the spotlight. Learn
about proactive approaches to things like employee education and technology-based tools to ensure your
business’s name stays out of the headline when the next data breach occurs.
•• Various Operational Departments – Compliance isn’t just the concern of Legal, IT, and HR. Hear our experts
describe ways to embed compliance into the culture of an organization, ensuring all operational departments
understand the risks they face and the ways they can support the company’s overall compliance objectives in
Legal, Workplace Safety and Hospitality.
Moderator:
Shari Daniel, PMP
Compliance Learning Consultant
Global Compliance Solutions
Skillsoft
Jason P. Anthony, CSP
Senior Health and Safety Project Manager
EnSafe
Stephen Martin
Founder and Managing Director
Baker & McKenzie, LLP
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Higher Education, State and Local Government
Part 1: Making the Connection between Skillport and Blackboard
As student usage of Skillport increased over the years, faculty have asked for a connection between Skillport and
Blackboard that would make assigning Skillsoft content seamless for their students. Learn how UNCW leverages
Building Block connections (live demonstration) and also how faculty use Skillport to supplement classroom
instruction.
Tuesday, May 19 | 2:40 p.m. - 3:40 p.m. Breakout Sessions
Dana Ward
Consulting Specialist, ITS
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Part 2: Evolution of Integration: Injecting Learning into the Life of the Enterprise
Is your elearning investment linked to your strategic business goals? Are you embedding learning into the traffic
patterns of your employees to increase elearning adoption? Since the initial launch of LLNL’s online learning
program U-Learn, the program team has always followed a strategic plan and vision to embed and integrate
learning into the life of the enterprise. In this session, we’ll reveal the evolution of elearning that has gone from
simple marketing strategies to program alignment to integration with enterprise systems.
Brian Molyneaux
e-Learning Information Technology Lead
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Leslie Positeri
Senior Training & OD Specialist
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Skillsoft Product | Scaling Leadership Development the Skillsoft Way
Organizations must invest in their leaders to drive business forward in today’s volatile and uncertain climate, and
they must do so in a way that is flexible, scalable and immediately actionable. Join the Skillsoft leadership team to
learn how to scale your leadership development programs using our product portfolio. In this interactive session,
we will share how our existing and exciting new leadership products and processes can be utilized to create a
culture of continuous leadership learning across any organization.
Shawn Hunter
Vice President and Executive Producer
Skillsoft
Priti Shah
Vice President
Leadership Product Strategy & Corporate Development
Skillsoft
SumTotal Learn | Driving Engagement through an Individualized, Connected and Continuous Learner
Experience
Today, more than ever, employee engagement is recognized as a critical driver of productivity, profitability and
talent retention for companies. Organizations have the opportunity to capture the hearts and minds of their
employees by connecting people to the tools and technologies that help them develop skills while they excel at
doing their job – SumTotal Learn is doing this by delivering individualized learning actions seamlessly linked to
meaningful content when and where people work.
Come see how the latest release of SumTotal Learn is connecting learning, content and business processes
through a compelling user experience that engages your employees, continuously expands their skills and
prepares employees and managers to meet the changing demands of the business.
•• A glance at the industry landscape and trends shaping the urgency to elevate learning & development program
capabilities
•• We’ll share some of the best practices your organization can leverage to drive employee engagement, close skill
gaps and build a leadership pipeline
•• See how the latest release of SumTotal Learn seamlessly connects SumTotal and Skillsoft to maximize the
impact of learning actions by embedding meaningful content throughout the learner experience
•• What’s next with SumTotal Learn?
Erik Finch
Senior Director of Sales Strategy
SumTotal, A Skillsoft Company
Eric Theobald
Vice President Product Management
SumTotal, A Skillsoft Company
2:40 p.m. - 3:40 p.m. Breakout Sessions
Monday
Wednesday
Thursday
SumTotal Workforce Management and Payroll | Engaging your Audience to Align Productivity and
Compliance
As a solution that touches every employee, in every organization, every day, organizations are starting to grasp
the immense opportunity that workforce management offers to better connect with their employees. They must,
however, consider that today’s workforce expects a higher level of personal engagement that entices interaction
and inspires trust – they need a system that enables employees to do their jobs better without compromising
compliance or corporate goals, or being cumbersome to use. Working hand in hand, see how you can leverage
the SumTotal Payroll solution to complement workforce practices and ensure regulatory compliance. Join our
Workforce Management and Payroll experts as they share:
•• Usability best practices – there’s more to it than being easy-to-use!
•• See how just-in-time training opportunities can deliver access to SumTotal Learn actions and Skillsoft content at
the point of need
•• Learn how SumTotal Workforce Management eases the compliance burden, including meeting multiple
requirements like ACA, FMLA, Sick leave Legislation, FLSA and more
•• Enable your users to engage where and when they do their work with enhanced mobility and SumTotal impulse
clocks
•• Building on the capabilities of Workforce Management, learn how SumTotal Payroll can perform gross-to-net
calculations with integrated payroll and benefit administration
•• In today’s modern and fast-moving business environment, see how we make it easy to provide employees with
convenient online access to benefits, pay stubs and annual tax filing statements
Craig Fearon
Senior Director of Product Marketing
SumTotal, A Skillsoft Company
4:10 p.m. - 5:10 p.m. Breakout Sessions
Tuesday
Warren Gouws
Director of Workforce Management Sales Support
SumTotal, A Skillsoft Company
3:40 p.m.
4:10 p.m.
Networking Break in Product Showcase
4:10 p.m.
5:10 p.m.
Breakout Sessions 3
Skillsoft/SumTotal | Succession Management: Filling Talent Pipelines Means Crafting a Revised Lease
on a Critical Management Practice
Succession management is likely the most important element in ensuring business continuity. As validated in
Brandon Hall Group’s 2015 State of Succession Management study, many organizations do not believe their
organizations are doing enough to address the identification and development of leaders and other critical talent to
address today’s unique workforce profile and complex business challenges. Worse yet, they are not confident they
have the right practices in place, nor know what they are, to select and groom tomorrow’s most qualified talent.
In this session, please join Brandon Hall Group’s Laci Loew Vice President and Principal Analyst Talent
Management Practice who will:
•• Explore today’s succession management drivers, challenges, and philosophies
•• Share Brandon Hall Group’s proprietary framework for transforming succession management to the new,
high-performance approach
•• Present the business value of adopting the new leading practices approach to succession management
Invite your questions and comments
Participants will leave with insight data and actionable information to push forward succession management and
better align its approach for measurable business impact
Laci Loew
Vice President and Principal Analyst Talent Management Practice
Brandon Hall Group
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Skillsoft/SumTotal | Performance + Rewards Building Excellence for Manager Learning Series
Performance management fails to be a hot topic at most C-Suite meetings in companies today yet most Human
Resources professionals know it’s a key driver directly tied to individual and business results. Customizing the
SumTotal platform, AECOM dramatically shifted its performance management process to increase transparency
and honest feedback on employee performance and behaviors. To support managers in this process, we modified
the Skillsoft Five@5 program and called it Building Excellence for Managers. This learning series focused on topics
managers needed throughout the performance process. During this session attendees will hear how AECOM:
Tuesday, May 19 | 4:10 p.m. - 5:10 p.m. Breakout Sessions
•• Has leaders talking about performance management in nearly every meeting
•• Aligned learning to performance management
•• Created brand as a way to engage managers and employees
•• Leveraged Skillsoft content and SumTotal Performance Management to meet current manager/workforce needs
Jocelyn Chan
Senior Manager, Talent Management
AECOM
Maribeth Coyne
Solutions Services Consultant
Skillsoft
Talisa McNally
Talent Management Specialist
AECOM
Skillsoft | Veterans Career Transition Program at Syracuse University
Since July of 2011, the Veterans Career Transition Program at Syracuse University has been assisting transitioning
service members and their spouses to prepare for post-military careers. Operated by Syracuse University’s
Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) with curricular oversight by the School of Information Studies
(iSchool), the program delivers via Skillport both Skillsoft content and Syracuse University custom content
to improve our learners’ marketability in the highly competitive job market, prepare for industry certifications,
understand corporate culture and build out other necessary career skills. Utilizing both Skillsoft content and
Syracuse University custom content, students prepare for roles in Project Management, Human Resources and
Information Technology. During this session attendees will hear:
•• How Syracuse University has used the Skillsoft library of content to deliver an online learning experience to
veterans and military families in preparation for the transition to post-service careers
•• How Skillsoft’s vast library of content has contributed to the university’s ability to efficiently scale the program up
to over 500 participants quarterly
•• Techniques the university has employed to raise completion rates of learning paths
Dan Cohen
Director, Distance Education Programs
Institute for Veterans and Military Families
Syracuse University
Deb Nosky
Assistant Professor of Practice
Director, Undergraduate Programs
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
Jim Zimmermann
Director
IT Product Marketing
Skillsoft
Skillsoft | Welch Way Program Implementation
Menasha Corporation launched the Welch Way program in September 2014 with 20 participants which included
employees from all of our businesses (Corporate, Orbis, Menasha Packaging). They held a one-day kick-off
meeting which included an outline of the Welch Way program, breakout sessions on attributes of a successful
leader. They provided discussion boards for engaging the participants in the program to share their own leadership
experiences, check-in sessions and triad groups during the program. Menasha Corporation has seen such
success in the Welch Way program that they are adding more cohorts this year. During this session attendees will
learn:
•• How to run successful kick off meetings, check-in sessions and closing meetings for each module
•• How to make the program your own within your organization
•• How to use technology to enhance the learning experience Menasha Learning, discussion boards
Amy Martin
Corporate HR Manager
Menasha Corporation
Sharon Swatscheno
HR Director
Menasha Packaging Co
Sheri Treu
Manager, Organizational Development
Orbis Corporation
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Skillsoft | Leveraging E-Content for Impactful Talent Development Solutions
NXP was faced with a challenging business situation. It had committed to achieve aggressive business targets,
but it also needed to upskill its managers globally and address employee engagement. The company took steps
to get the most out of its e-assets by broadening usage of elearning, investing in targeted content, and deploying
high-impact blended solutions. These efforts resulted in significant benefits to the organization. The value of
elearning was further validated through the results of an impact analysis. During this session attendees will learn:
•• How to engage employees and increase their utilization of elearning assets
•• How to design and deploy impactful blended solutions that leverage e-content
•• How to demonstrate the value of eLearning using Impact Analysis
Tuesday, May 19 | 4:10 p.m. - 5:10 p.m. Breakout Sessions
Lawrence Goh
Senior Director, Management & Organizational Effectiveness
NXP Semiconductors
SumTotal | Intel Security’s Journey with SumTotal for Extended Enterprise Partners
Intel Security, formally known as McAfee, has an individual user base of 80k individuals worldwide. In 2010 they
adopted SumTotal LMS to begin a journey for enhanced user experience. Their extended enterprise users have a
choice of who they use for their training and it’s important to have the best and easiest user interface for continued
usage and adoption. During this session you will hear how Intel Security:
•• Addressed challenges with change management to implement a new system
•• Enhanced the user interface for ease of use
•• Maximized the system to get the usages from their extended enterprise partners
Laura Pinkston
Global Channel Programs Manager
Intel Security
Skillsoft Product | Build an Effortless Learning Experience
Do you want to:
•• push content to your users and drive consumption?
•• simplify your learner experience?
•• lower your administrative burden?
•• measure business impact and not just activity?
Your LMS is at the heart of your learning ecosystem, but how well connected is it to all of your tools, processes,
and people? Let us show you how to build or improve the key pathways of your ecosystem to reduce effort,
enhance experiences, demonstrate value and improve your people.
In this session we will discuss single sign-on (SSO), deep linking, data management, and other solutions which
can meet these goals and enable you to build a better, more connected ecosystem. We’ll show real-world
examples, describe key technologies, and discuss how to engage you IT organization to make it all happen.
Gary Hartman
Partner Alliances Manager
Skillsoft
Jim Renner
Senior Technical Consultant
Skillsoft
Skillsoft Product | Bridging the Digital Skills Gap with Vodeclic
Over 2 billion people globally interact with a growing number of personal and professional productivity applications
on a wide variety of devices. This accelerating path towards Cloud-based applications is deeply impacting
enterprise learning needs, yet nearly 1 out of every 2 workers believe their digital skills are not sufficient. The
Vodeclic solution is designed to meet this critical need with short, video-based learning. Vodeclic’s 25,000+ videos
are sequenced into courses and available in six languages, and are delivered in an engaging and purpose-built
online video delivery platform. Just a few weeks ago, Vodeclic was acquired by Skillsoft; join this session to hear
more about this exciting new product offering.
Mark Onisk
Vice President, Content Production
Skillsoft
Xavier Sillon
General Manager
Vodeclic, A Skillsoft Company
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
SumTotal Innovation | Meeting the Evolving Needs of the Modern Organization through Innovation
As the industry landscape evolves, HR and Learning professionals are firmly placed at the intersection of meeting
changing business demands and supporting strategic initiatives - connecting your people to innovative tools,
technology and processes that keep employees engaged, productive and help them continuously grow while
excelling at their job will become even more critical. We’re also recognizing the key role managers play in
leveraging Big Data and Analytics, as well as visibility across organizational capabilities, to drive critical decisionmaking.
Join leaders from the SumTotal Product Management team as we highlight some of the ways we’re embracing
innovation throughout future releases of the SumTotal Talent Expansion® Suite to provide solutions that support a
new way of work for the evolving workforce, including:
•• Get a preview of how Big Data and Predictive Analytics capabilities deliver actionable insight and shape
business outcomes
•• See how we’re building a new, compelling user experience that will engage your employees
•• Learn how our new, modern organizational charting and succession capabilities can help drive productivity,
grow and align capabilities and build a leadership pipeline
Brian Gaspar
Senior Director of Product Innovation
SumTotal, A Skillsoft Company
6 p.m.
9 p.m.
Skillsoft Reception
Morne Swart
Vice President of Product
SumTotal, A Skillsoft Company
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
7:15 a.m.
4 p.m.
Registration Desk Open
7:15 a.m.
8:15 a.m.
Networking Breakfast
8:30 a.m.
8:40 a.m.
Day 2 Welcome
8:40 a.m.
9:15 a.m.
Skillsoft Product Update: Enhancing Solutions for more Engaged Learners
Join Tim Hildreth and Stephanie Pyle from Skillsoft’s Product Management team to hear about recent product
enhancements and upcoming solutions in the areas of business skills and leadership, IT, Desktop, and
Compliance solutions. Tim and Stephanie will share highlights from Skillsoft’s 2015 product roadmap including
new content solutions, expanded mobile support, and an update on Skillport.
Tim Hildreth
Vice President, Product Management
Skillsoft
9:15 a.m.
9:30 a.m.
Stephanie Pyle
Vice President, Product Management - Technology
Skillsoft
SumTotal Talent Suite: Engaging Today’s Talent with Personalized Solutions
Ensuring your organization has front edge technology solutions that are agile and responsive to business
demands is key to attracting, developing, rewarding and retaining the right talent. The integrated SumTotal suite
delivers an integrated solution harnessing the combined power of HCM, Learning, Content, Talent Management
and Big Data that is enticing and easy to use with a personalized experience. Explore how your organization can
benefit from these powerful solutions to create a culture where employees are engaged, thriving and rewarded.
Humair Ghauri
Senior Vice President, Products and Technology
SumTotal, A Skillsoft Company
9:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
Industry Expert Panel: Talent Analytics in Practice
Talent analytics presents a groundbreaking opportunity for HR. Research shows that companies that implement
talent analytics can increase their engagement, improve revenue, and dramatically affect business outcomes with
more informed people decisions. While talent analytics is a hot topic in our field, readiness and execution is low.
In fact, research shows that talent analytics is rated among the top five priorities in every region of the world, yet
only 4% of organizations feel they have predictive talent analytics capabilities today. During this provocative panel
discussion, attendees will get expert advice on what is really happening compared to the hype, how to overcome
the chief obstacles that limit progress, and suggestions for advancing to the next level of talent analytics maturity.
The industry thought leader panelists are renowned subject matter experts with a diverse set of experiences. They
include:
Moderator:
Kieran King
Global Vice President, Loyalty Strategy
Skillsoft
Panelists:
Shreya Sarkar-Barney
President and Founder
Human Capital Growth John Mattox II, PhD
Senior Measurement Consultant
CEB Metrics that Matter
Laurie Ruettimann
Influential HR Speaker and Author
LFR, Inc.
Anshul Sheopuri
Senior Manager, Digital and IBM Master Inventor
IBM Watson Research Center
10:30 a.m.
10:50 a.m.
Innovation Awards Part 2
Gene Pease
Chief Executive Officer
Vestrics
Monday
Tuesday
10:50 a.m.
11:30 a.m.
Networking Break in Product Showcase
11:30 a.m.
12:30 p.m.
Keynote: Bring on Learning Innovation
Wednesday
Thursday
The changing fortunes of the Fortune 500 will tell you that no company has a guaranteed place at the top.
Keeping up and staying ahead of the game depends entirely on continuous and sustained innovation. We all know
that’s true, but what do company leaders have to do to make it happen? Sir Ken Robinson has worked with some
of the world’s leading creative organizations – in the corporate, educational and cultural fields. In this presentation,
he identifies the three myths about innovation that hold many organizations back, and the basic practices that
drive the most innovative organizations ahead of the pack. He presents a three-tier strategy to generate “systemic
innovation” across the whole organization. He then identifies the three core roles of creative leaders to make this
happen. Takeaways include:
•• The need for “systemic innovation”
•• The relationships between imagination, creativity and innovation
•• The three levels of systemic innovation
•• The basic roles of creative leaders
2 p.m. - 3 p.m. Breakout Sessions
Sir Ken Robinson
Expert on Creativity and Innovation
Author, Finding Your Element, The Element and Out of Our Minds
12:30 p.m.
2 p.m.
Lunch
2 p.m.
3 p.m.
Breakout Sessions 4
Skillsoft/SumTotal | Liberating Learning – The Transformation Journey from Supplier/Partner
Relationship to True Collaborators
In 2012 Johnson & Johnson Center for Leadership & Learning altered its strategy, re-branded itself to focus
exclusively on Leadership. The new program was designed to assist the over 128,000 leaders at all levels access
the appropriate content. J&J chose 5 key competencies; Coaching & Feedback; Communications, Leading
Teams, Change Management and Transitions. Skillsoft assisted in mapping a manageable assortment of courses,
videos and learning tracks in multiple languages. Through collaboration with the Skillsoft and SumTotal teams,
Johnson & Johnson built a customized portal, linked to the SumTotal LMS, to deploy their new mix of leadership
assets and track course completions. During this session attendees will learn:
•• Key components in the decision to change, rebrand, re-deploy and re-focus Leadership Development – focus
on one component, the Learning Portal
•• How to leverage the Skillsoft Learning Growth Model as a framework for transforming the learning organization
•• Concrete examples of activities within four Building Blocks (Engagement, Alignment, Adoption and Value)
Kristin Rich
Manager, Instructional Design, Center for Leadership & Learning
Johnson & Johnson
Wednesday, May 20 | 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. Breakout Sessions
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Skillsoft | Building a Talent Pipeline with Certifications
Recognizing a need for a flexible training approach that supported multiple learner preferences, provided
access to remotely located employees and supported diverse learner needs, Booz Allen developed a strategic
partnership with Skillsoft to offer blended learning programs to prepare employees for the CEH, CISSP, ITIL,
Network+, and Security+ certification exams. The programs are designed around a virtual facilitated classroom
supplemented by Books24x7, self-paced resources, including elearning courses, practice exams, mentors, and in
some cases virtual office hours. Booz Allen leverages virtual classrooms to reach a broader audience and increase
the number of certified employees. This use of virtual and blended delivery formats provides a cost-effective and
cost-saving alternative to traditional classroom instruction. Its popularity, and above industry certification exam
pass rates, are a result of the format of the program, which allows staff to engage in training outside of core
business hours. During this session attendees will hear:
•• How certification preparation courses can be scaled and delivered to reach all staff in a cost effective manner
•• Best practices for designing and delivering virtual certification programs
•• The ability to leverage certified staff as a streamlines talent pipeline in a competitive market
Jennifer Hentz
Cyber University Program Director
Booz Allen Hamilton
Skillsoft | LEADing with Heart: Building Leaders for our Future
American Heart Association has created a year-long leadership development program targeted at the Executive
Director role, which is a pivotal role at AHA. LEAD was designed to accomplish the following goals for the
organization around development and advancement of top talent, foster and support the culture of learning and to
accelerate the performance across the organization. By improving the performance of these Executive Directors,
we improve strategic execution and the likelihood of strategic success. LEAD is an action and blended learning
experience drawing on a highly customized design including senior leader sponsorship and involvement, real-life
case studies, Skillsoft’s Leadership Advantage collection, projects, monthly live webinars with executive guest
speakers recognized for their topic expertise, ‘flipped classroom’ approach, social learning technology, best
practices sharing, and 2-day in person launch and closing sessions. During this session attendees will learn:
•• Targeted learning based on gap analysis
•• Rapid implementation of learning and best practices to successfully impact performance
•• Lessons learned regarding how to manage a year-long, multi-faceted leadership development program
Katherine Neverdousky
Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Learning & Development
American Heart Association
Wednesday, May 20 | 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. Breakout
Sessions
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Skillsoft | Extended Enterprise: Building Resiliency through Integrated Learning
Did you know that human factors are the direct or indirect cause of at least 70 percent of business and
commercial property losses? FM Global is a global commercial and industrial insurance provider with a unique risk
engineering focus. One of FM Global’s unique solutions to build client’s resiliency to property loss from fire, natural
hazards and other perils is client training. Skillsoft’s technology, consulting expertise and program management
have enabled FM Global to build client resiliency through education, further integrate training into client’s existing
learning environments and measure our success. The integrated learning program has enabled FM Global to
make training available when and where our client learners want it to foster our shared goal of loss prevention, all
while maintaining full control of our proprietary content. During this session attendees will learn how to:
•• Identify Skillsoft technologies and services that can be leveraged for success in deployment of elearning to a
diverse global audience
•• Establish effective program alignment practices that support business initiatives
•• Define and implement a measurement strategy and methodology that will demonstrate true business value for
their respective organizations
Connor Gormley
Learning Specialist
FM Global
Skillsoft Product | Bridging the Digital Skills Gap with Vodeclic
Over 2 billion people globally interact with a growing number of personal and professional productivity applications
on a wide variety of devices. This accelerating path towards Cloud-based applications is deeply impacting
enterprise learning needs, yet nearly 1 out of every 2 workers believe their digital skills are not sufficient. The
Vodeclic solution is designed to meet this critical need with short, video-based learning. Vodeclic’s 25,000+
videos are sequenced into courses and available in six languages, and are delivered in an engaging and purposebuilt online video delivery platform. Just a few weeks ago, Vodeclic was acquired by Skillsoft; join this session to
hear more about this exciting new product offering.
Mark Onisk
Vice President, Content Production
Skillsoft
Xavier Sillon
General Manager
Vodeclic, A Skillsoft Compay
Skillsoft Product | Speed to Performance: Sales Onboarding Best Practices
Effective onboarding programs are critical to ensure that new sales staff can get up to speed quickly.
Unfortunately, according to research, most of what is trained in the classroom never makes it to the field.
This session will describe how a continuous, blended learning approach to sales onboarding, supported by
Skillsoft Sales Advantage, has been used successfully with customer organizations and within Skillsoft to improve
engagement and speed to performance. Attendees of this session will learn:
•• Best practices for sales onboarding programs, according to research and practical experience
•• How customized Skillsoft Sales Advantage learning portals can be used to provide access to a wide variety of
new hire training content to extend learning and practice into the workplace
•• How – and when – to certify the skills adoption of new sales staff
Tom Cunningham
Vice President
Global Sales Enablement
Skillsoft
Phil Harriman
Sales Development Manager
Skillsoft
Cindy Simms
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Skillsoft
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Skillsoft Product | Creating a Continuous Learning Environment for your IT Organization
Your IT department is under incredible pressure, facing a severe talent shortage (less than 0% unemployment),
high turn-over (41% of IT staff surveyed plan to look for a new job in the next 12 months!), and significant skills
gaps created by a rapidly changing IT environment. One way to combat all of these pressures is by creating an
engaging Continuous Learning environment in IT. With Continuous Learning you can develop in-house IT talent
and avoid having to try to hire scarce talent, you can make it more likely that people will stay in your IT organization
because you are helping them develop their skills, and you can reduce the skills gaps in the organization.
During this session attendees will learn:
Wednesday, May 20 | 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. Breakout Sessions
•• How to engage IT management and the IT team
•• How to find out what the key learning challenges are in IT
•• How to curate learning to align with key IT priorities
•• How to create a continuous IT learning environment using Skillsoft’s and other learning resources
•• More about Skillsoft’s IT learning resources to support continuous learning
Derek Pleadwell
Senior Product Manager, Product Management
Skillsoft
Jim Zimmermann
Director, IT Product Marketing
Skillsoft
SumTotal elixHR® Platform | Delivering Actionable Insight and Pervasive Access through a Unified
Platform
Organization’s that seamlessly connect their people to the tools, technology and content they need to be engaged
and productive recognize the impact these capabilities have on measurable business outcomes.
Enter the SumTotal elixHR® Platform – providing one single place for your employees, managers and HR
organization to manage their talent, learning and organization. With a unified platform across applications and
information, elixHR® helps deliver contextual actions and recommendations when and where your people are
working to engage users and improve productivity. Join us for this session covering the SumTotal elixHR®
Platform, as we discuss:
•• Get to know the new, modern organization chart – delivering managers key visibility into employee capabilities,
readiness and team capabilities while providing a comprehensive view of the organization for employees
•• See how Widgets provide pervasive access to SumTotal applications, embedded Skillsoft content and a
dashboard view of critical information all within the applications where people work
•• Get a preview of our SumTotal innovation efforts focused on delivering a new user experience
Brian Gaspar
Senior Director of Product Innovation
SumTotal, A Skillsoft Company
SumTotal Maestro
In today’s rapidly-changing business environment, competitive differentiation comes from the ability to engage,
develop and retain talent while preparing your people with the skills necessary to meet the evolving demands of
the business. With Maestro, you can leverage a SaaS LMS that is easy to implement and administer, yet enables
the robust capabilities your organization needs to deliver learning when and where your employees need it.
Whether you’re an existing Maestro user or exploring the capabilities of Maestro, join leaders from our Product
Management organization as they highlight how you can leverage the wide-range of Maestro features – from
a personalized user experience to automatic assignment of prescriptive learning, mobile, ILT, and reporting
capabilities – to drive adoption of your LMS, improve employee engagement and deliver real value through
learning.
Mikka Kjarland
Maestro Product Manager
SumTotal, A Skillsoft Company
Monday
3:10 p.m.
4:10 p.m.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Breakout Sessions 5
Wednesday, May 20 | 3:10 p.m. - 4:10 p.m. Breakout Sessions
Skillsoft/SumTotal | Increase LMS Adoption and Utilization by Marketing, Content Mapping and
Onboarding
RELX Group is a world leading provider of information solutions for professionals and encompasses a group of
companies including LexisNexis Legal & Professional, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Reed Business Information,
Elsevier, Reed Exhibitions. For this large organization, a global LMS implementation for 35,000 users was no
simple task. This session will review how RELX Group evolved from rolling out the system to over fifty business
units with multiple functional groups/departments, to promotion and adoption with SumTotal and Skillsoft. During
this session we will discuss the following:
•• Explore marketing tactics used to increase adoption and improve user experience such as search and deep link
functionality
•• Integration of Skillsoft content with the SumTotal platform using OLSA and Reed Elsevier allowing mapping the
content to their business priorities
•• Discuss how Reed Elsevier is using SumTotal for their onboarding processes
Varsha Gumastha
Global Learning Management App Manager
RELX Group
Skillsoft/SumTotal | Leveraging SumTotal’s SaaS solution for Global Compensation Efficiency at
Syngenta
Syngenta entrusted Capgemini with the attainment of a very lofty goal – a global rollout of their annual
compensation review program. Capgemini was tasked with selecting the technology, and designing and delivering
a solution in nine months that would serve 25,000 people in 89 countries.
Capgemini delivered. The speed and success of this challenging global deployment make it prime example of
leveraging SumTotal’s SaaS on a massive scale. Capgemini enabled Syngenta to differentiate and reward the
performance of their teams more efficiently. Managers can now control the global compensation spend of all
25,000 of their professionals across 89 countries.
This session will enable you to learn more about:
•• The creation of an end-to-end global compensation review solution – the technology, policies, processes and
outsourced service model that guarantee success
•• Capgemini’s HRO as a stack – This “assemble-to-order” solution comprises an integrated mix of layers including
HRO services, processes, applications and infrastructure
•• How to avoid some of the pitfalls we encountered – and how to plan for them accordingly
Krzysztof Lis
HRO Transformation Manager
Capgemini BPO
Mira Magecha
Global Project Manager HR Outsourcing
Capgemini BPO
Skillsoft | Innovation in Leadership Development: Shifting from Programs to Processes
With the sheer volume of work, managers struggle with finding the time to invest in their development. To address
this issue, MasterCard and Sunrise Senior Living both leveraged a unique continuous learning process that pushes
targeted Skillsoft content directly to people employees to maximize self-directed learning. Join this session to learn
how Sunrise Senior Living and MasterCard both implemented this innovative approach to:
•• Modernize learning and make it more timely and accessible
•• “Push” less content to a greater audience for higher impact
•• Create engagement and alignment with organizational goals to targeted employee populations
Taavo Godtfredsen
Vice President and
Executive Producer
Skillsoft
Patti Mirallegro
Senior Director
Learning & Organization Development
Sunrise Senior Living
Julie Ng
Business Leader
Global Talent Development
MasterCard
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Wednedsay, May 20 | 3:10 p.m. - 4:10 p.m. Breakout Sessions
Skillsoft | Xerox Learning Innovation for Workforce Alignment, Engagement, and Mobility
Learning innovation isn’t fashionable or fun. It’s a business necessity driven by globalization, disruptive
technologies, changing marketplaces and evolving workforce needs. Like most companies, Xerox relies heavily on
the individual and collective expertise of our people. We enable a high impact learning culture, including workforce
knowledge sharing, to achieve results aligned to our vision, values, and business direction. Xerox Learning plays
a critical role in enabling global workforce alignment, individual engagement, the integration of learning with
work through mobile capabilities, and ultimately business performance. This session will provide an enterprise
perspective, with specific examples of Xerox innovation.
Xerox has strategic integration with Skillsoft, which our people can access via PC, and on the go via tablet or
smartphone. Xerox leverages Skillsoft offerings globally – with integration of Skillport as a core part of enterprise
learning innovation. The session will highlight effective use of Skillsoft content and services within our learning
process and ecosystem, as well as:
•• How Xerox learning innovation is a key enabler to global workforce alignment, engagement, and performance at
all stages of career progression
•• How Xerox integrates Skillsoft content and services to support a broad range of job roles and career stages
•• Examples of learning innovation that leverage Skillsoft as a core component of our strategy to drive a culture of
learning, with high impact learning practices that achieve workforce performance
StevenRath Morgan
Global Learning Process and Innovation
Xerox
Skillsoft | Achieve Business Objectives through Technology Adoption
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta has a strategic goal to drive their culture to actively embrace the use of
technology to achieve business objectives. They are charged with defining and implementing a process to bridge
the gap between technology and efficient use of technology. Where technology is an enabler to becoming a
high performing organization and provides a means “to get even better.” The process facilitates increased staff
awareness and usage of available end user technologies to take the Bank from the current state (where we are)
to a future state (where we want to be) by leveraging a process to fill the gaps (how to get there) by aligning
tool usage with specific business needs. To deploy the program, the bank leveraged the Skillsoft online learning
library of courses, along with in-house developed instruction, to assess the current baseline and establish new
benchmarks. Training developers employed the SkillStudio authoring tool to develop customized assessments and
training for each department. Supplemental learning was provided within the customized courses (Skillsoft and
in-house developed content) to help users achieve the defined benchmark. During this session attendees will hear
how Skillsoft:
•• Supports the vision of becoming a high performing organization through the efficient use of technology
•• Provides opportunities for continuous improvement by leveraging technology to support collaboration,
streamline interaction and improve performance
•• Assists businesses in meeting objectives by leveraging technology
•• Supports quantitative and qualitative gains from leveraging the use of technology
Dori Abele
Product Marketing Manager
Skillsoft
Torion Kent
Assistant Vice President, Technology Solutions Services
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Skillsoft | Maximizing Your LMS Investment
Have you ever wondered how to satisfy your executive’s desire to feel and touch tangible return on investments,
which typically oppose learner needs, wants, and expectations? During this interactive session, you will learn
how SRA dramatically impacted three areas of focus (usage, awareness, and engagement) by leveraging myriad
innovative solutions and a holistic approach to managing their system. Over the course of a year, SRA explored
every aspect of their LMS and implemented improvements to increase learner engagement, awareness, and
usage by:
Wednesday, May 20 | 3:10 p.m. - 4:10 p.m. Breakout Sessions
•• Appreciation for the variety of LMS options that can be leveraged to increase engagement, awareness, and
usage
•• Understanding of how to develop a holistic, methodical approach to tackling your biggest LMS challenges
•• Ideas for maximizing learner return on expectations as well as executives return on investment — the puzzling
juggling act that needs to demonstrate balance
Jason Cole
Lead Systems Partner, Learning and Talent Development
SRA International
Megan M. Hanik
Director of Learning & Talent Development
SRA International
Skillsoft Product | Customizing Advantage Portals for Organizational Alignment
Skillsoft Advantages are competency-based content solutions designed to support formal and informal learning
programs. By leveraging customization and blended learning techniques, these portals can be adapted to the
specific needs of your users or groups. In this session you will learn and see how branding, custom content, and
alignment to your competencies can help you to achieve higher engagement and to set the stage for greater
impact and value.
•• Learn about methods and services to customize the Advantage series including: Leadership Advantage,
Professional Advantage and Sales Advantage
•• Hear customer best practices for adapting and integrating the Advantage portals into existing programs, and for
creating new programs using Advantages as the foundation
•• Using real customer examples, see how customization and blended learning techniques can be leveraged to
adapt the Advantage portals to the specific needs and goals of your organization
George Carlier
Product Manager
Skillsoft
Lynn Gallin
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Leadership
Skillsoft
Cindy Simms
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Skillsoft
SumTotal Reporting and Analytics | Driving Compliance and Talent Development with Advanced
Reporting and Analytic Capabilities
As organizations look to leverage new technology and information sources to deliver new insight, many struggle
to efficiently create even the most basic reporting and analysis the business needs to grow talent and maintain
compliance. Effectively converting the extensive data in your talent and learning systems into meaningful, datadriven insight is more critical to productivity, profitability and retention than ever before. Whether you are currently
leveraging SumTotal Reporting and Analytics, or if you are exploring how to build these capabilities, learn how
you can leverage SumTotal’s Advanced Reporting and Analytics solutions to create and distribute operational and
strategic insights to your stakeholders across the organization.
•• Explore the power of content and capability, and how they can help propel compliance and organizational
performance
•• See firsthand how simple it is to enable ad hoc reporting capabilities available with SumTotal elixHR® Advanced
Reporting
•• Compare the functional differences between Report Manager and Advanced Reporting
•• Get a sneak preview into the product roadmap for SumTotal’s Reporting and Analytics Solutions
Brandon Smith-Daigle
Director of Product Management
SumTotal, A Skillsoft Company
6:30 p.m.
10 p.m.
Evening Event: Universal CityWalk® Block Party
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Thursday, May 21, 2015
7:45 a.m.
12:30 p.m.
Registration Desk Open
8 a.m.
9 a.m.
Networking Breakfast
9 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
Mix-N-Match Workshops
Skillsoft/SumTotal Workshop | Tangible Outcomes for Building Blocks 3 and 4: Adoption and Value
The best practices of organizational learning can be summarized into four building blocks: Engagement,
Alignment, Adoption and Value. Learning programs centered around these four Building Blocks are poised to
achieve desired business outcomes. This workshop will focus on the last two Building Blocks: Adoption and Value
and includes best practices co-presented by a customer.
Thursday, May 21 | 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Mix-N-Match Workshops
Adoption: Adoption hinges on two critical factors: 1) Effective program visibility to the target learner populations
and 2) ease of access. Learn how to:
•• Create effective program visibility to target audiences
•• Make it all about the end user experience
•• Share best practices on integration options to maximize your adoption rate and enhance the end user
experience
Value: Learn best practices for evaluating and validating your learning program’s impact on employees and the
organization by:
•• Experiencing a deeper dive into Skillsoft’s Estimated Value Summary and the Value Impact Analysis (core-based
services) including customer success stories
•• Discover trends related to what motivates learners and how best they can apply their acquired knowledge and
skills
John Mattox, II, Ph.D.
Senior Measurement
Consultant
Head of Research
Corporate Executive
Board-Metrics That Matter
Sheila Petersen
Team Leader, Learning &
Organizational Development
Hyland Software, Inc.
Tara Tapley
Virtual Learning
Consultant Manager
Skillsoft
Kristin Thomas
Learning
Consultant
Skillsoft
Skillsoft Workshop | Enhance the End User Experience and Increase Adoption by Creating a
Forward-Thinking Strategy
Have you pondered ideas of how to implement relevant and targeted learning and development programs across
various levels of the organization? How do you embed learning into the workflow? By looking at your organization
holistically, you will be able to identify the most effective and efficient ways to position and promote your program
across the business. During this workshop attendees will:
•• Explore creative ways to increase adoption, whether the adoption is for a targeted initiative or a broader solution
•• Blend real world examples, along with best practices so you will walk away with concrete ideas on how to target
your efforts in the coming year
•• Learn ideas to build out a forward-thinking strategy to enhance the end user experience and maximize adoption
Shreya Sarkar-Barney
President and Founder
Human Capital Growth
Visiting Scholar
UC Berkeley
Beth Teixeira
Learning Consultant
Skillsoft
Lisa Woolsgrove
Consulting Services
Manager
Skillsoft
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Skillsoft Workshop | Skillport Catalog Curation and Customization
Skillport provides training administrators a number of ways to organize, curate and promote content to learners.
This hands-on workshop will provide new and prospective customers tips and examples for setting-up, managing
and featuring your Skillport Library assets in ways that meet the needs of your organization and end users.
Attendees will also gain an understanding of common tools offered in Skillport and used for content promotion and
site configurations.
Scott Oliver
Prodcut Manager
Skillsoft
Deanna Peterson
Learning Consultant
Skillsoft
Julie Pitcher
Learning Strategist
Skillsoft
10:30 a.m.
11 a.m.
Networking Break
11 a.m.
12:30 p.m.
Mix-N-Match Workshops
Hank Riehl
Product Management Director
Skillsoft
Thursday, May 21 | 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Mix-N-Match Workshops
Skillsoft Workshop | Skillport Reporting for Advanced Users
Ready to take it to the next level? This hands-on session is aimed at experienced Skillport Administrators who
want to get the most out of their reporting. Experienced Skillsoft Product Managers and Learning Consultants
will lead attendees through this deep dive into Skillport reporting, focusing on tips and techniques to extract even
more meaningful data to meet your organization’s needs.
George Carlier
Product Manager
Skillsoft
Gary Hartman
Partner Alliances Manager
Skillsoft
Deanna Peterson
Learning Consultant
Skillsoft
Julie Pitcher
Learning Strategist
Skillsoft
Skillsoft Workshop | Where does Skillsoft fit in the 70:20:10 Model?
Are you struggling with where elearning fits into the 70:20:10 Model? Using proven best practices as well as
new insights from industry thought leaders; we will provide the structure, process and tools for the selection of
formal and informal training events and blended learning activities. Through instruction and collaboration program
participants will create an actionable program design and will be provided with knowledge and tools to support
implementation.
Melany Barlow
Learning Consultant
Skillsoft
Simone Hiemstra
Global E-learning Consultant
Heineken
Jennifer Pullen
Program Manager
Skillsoft
Skillsoft Workshop | Turn Your Content Mapping into Something Actionable
You’ve been asked to map the content to your learning program initiatives, but where should you really start with
these requests? What questions should you be asking business leads when asked for a content mapping? What
do you do with the mapping once it’s complete? This session will help you vet mapping requests, ensure a plan is
in place to implement the results and plan a measurable outcome. This workshop will help you:
•• Think beyond just the mapping and teach you effective steps to take for every new learning initiative/mapping
request
•• Bring customers together to share best practices around content alignment
•• Provide a guide for the questions and dialogue that need to take place when the content mapping request is
made
Scott Elvin
Learning Consultant
Skillsoft
Brian Irvin
Learning Strategist
Skillsoft
12:30 p.m.
Boxed Lunches
1 p.m.
Agenda subject to change without notice
Judy Robison
National Learning and Development Manager
Mazars South Africa