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A True Practitioners Group

At The Learning Forum, we empower senior leaders from the world's most influential companies and government agencies to excel in a rapidly changing world. Our mission is to facilitate high-level peer learning and collaboration within a trusted network, ensuring that our members are at the forefront of innovation and strategic development.

Practitioner-Driven Leadership: Seasoned practitioners reclaiming the thought leadership agenda, countering the industry’s tendency toward "shiny object syndrome" and fleeting trends.
Focused on Solving Persistent Problems: Tackling the most complex, pervasive, and intractable issues in L&D—those that have remained unsolved across generations despite the constant churn of new ideas from industry players.
Building a Collective Voice: Amplifying practitioner-led influence to cut through the noise and provide clear, actionable direction for the industry.
Establishing Industry Standards: Emphasizing the need for a common language, accepted standards, and shared metrics to measure and calibrate the true value of the L&D function.

The Skills Accelerator

Upskilling needs to move at a speed equal to or greater than the pace of the business and markets. This requires the ability to surge a skill as it becomes strategically critical, making a material difference in compressed time periods.

Reframing the challenge

A need for a systematic approach to demonstrating value for the time invested in upskilling and aligning learning initiatives with business objectives.

Governance as a Strategic Enabler

A need to effectively govern learning, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, resource optimization, and the scalability of a coherent learner experience.

What is CLO LIFT and Why Does it Matter?

Authored by Chief Learning Officers from diverse global organizations, along with ecosystem partners who collectively embraced first principles to pave the way for a more impactful future.

CLO LIFT

A practitioner-led community where senior L&D leaders collaborate to solve the field's most persistent challenges, co-create thought leadership, and shape the future of learning. By joining, you'll gain practical solutions, contribute to establishing industry standards, and help amplify the collective voice of CLOs focused on real impact—cutting through trends to deliver measurable value. Whether leading discussions or sharing insights, your participation drives meaningful change across the L&D landscape.

Representing 20 major organizations and partnering with key ecosystem contributors, our CLOs are at the forefront of pioneering thought leadership, shaping innovative strategies that prepare L&D for future demands and operational shifts.

Practitioner-Driven Leadership
Focused on Solving Persistent Problems
Building a Collective Voice
Establishing Industry Standards

CLO LIFT

A practitioner-led community where senior L&D leaders collaborate to solve the field's most persistent challenges, co-create thought leadership, and shape the future of learning. By joining, you'll gain practical solutions, contribute to establishing industry standards, and help amplify the collective voice of CLOs focused on real impact—cutting through trends to deliver measurable value. Whether leading discussions or sharing insights, your participation drives meaningful change across the L&D landscape.

Representing 20 major organizations and partnering with key ecosystem contributors, our CLOs are at the forefront of pioneering thought leadership, shaping innovative strategies that prepare L&D for future demands and operational shifts.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

We extend our gratitude to our ecosystem partners, St. Charles Consulting Group, Ariel Group, Attensi, and Abilite for their unwavering commitment as genuine thought collaborators. Their active participation in addressing crucial issues and striving for solutions has been instrumental in the success of our endeavors.

A special appreciation goes out to the Chief Learning Officers who have generously invested their time, expertise, and dedication to collaborate, research, write, and address these pressing issues. The collective thought work undertaken by Abbvie, BMS, Colgate-Palmolive, Comcast, DaVita, Ingka Group IKEA, Intuit, Key Bank, Liberty Mutual, Marsh McLennan, Mastercard, McKinsey, Oliver Wyman, PepsiCo, Pernod Ricard, Sanofi, Starbucks, Takeda, Visa holds immense value in our shared mission.

We also extend our gratitude to Eric Dingler, Retired Managing Director, CLO Deloitte US, and Mike Ohata, Retired CLO KPMG, for their invaluable contributions.

Lastly, we acknowledge McKinsey's research support under the leadership of Heather Stefanski, which has been pivotal in advancing our mission. Together, with the support of these remarkable individuals and organizations, we are making strides toward meaningful solutions.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

We extend our gratitude to our ecosystem partners, St. Charles Consulting Group, Ariel Group, Attensi, and Abilite for their unwavering commitment as genuine thought collaborators. Their active participation in addressing crucial issues and striving for solutions has been instrumental in the success of our endeavors.

A special appreciation goes out to the Chief Learning Officers who have generously invested their time, expertise, and dedication to collaborate, research, write, and address these pressing issues. The collective thought work undertaken by Abbvie, BMS, Colgate-Palmolive, Comcast, DaVita, Ingka Group IKEA, Intuit, Key Bank, Liberty Mutual, Marsh McLennan, Mastercard, McKinsey, Oliver Wyman, PepsiCo, Pernod Ricard, Sanofi, Starbucks, Takeda, Visa holds immense value in our shared mission.

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