Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council
When: Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 : 11:00AM - 12:00PM EST
Ingersoll Rand will present - Using Business Acumen To Strengthen Leaders As Teachers Initiatives
- Assessing the strength of alignment of learning and business strategy
- How to engage leaders to ensure alignment - -a focus on a key process at IR
- Engaging leaders in design process using IR's Rapid Design Model
- Review of Meeting agendas, sample tools, process steps and outcomes
Presenters:
Ed Betof is the Executive Director of CorpU’s new Leaders As Teachers Institute. Ed is Aresty Center Fellow, Wharton Executive Education University of Pennsylvania.
After ten years, Ed retired at the end of 2007 as Vice President, Talent Management and Chief Learning Officer at BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a 110-year-old global medical technology company. Ed had WW responsibility for Talent Management Processes including BD University, HR Planning/Leadership Development, Strategic Staffing, Performance and Development Process and for integrating the worldwide processes of Associate Engagement and Inclusion/Diversity.
Ed has previously held senior functional leadership roles at BD, Hoffmann-LaRoche and the Reliance Insurance Companies. He was Senior Vice President of Manchester Consulting where he created the “Newly Appointed Leader Coaching” process and co-led the leadership development practice.
Rita Mehegan Smith is Vice President, Enterprise Learning for Ingersoll Rand and Dean for the Ingersoll Rand University (IRU). Ingersoll Rand is a $12 billion global, diversified industrial company. Ingersoll Rand University is responsible for developing strategic organizational competencies, providing leadership education, and for driving the IR culture across the globe. Dr. Smith has over 28 years of progressive leadership roles in the learning and development field. She has led learning functions in a variety of Fortune 500 companies; including the travel, financial services, and high tech manufacturing industries.
The combination of her MBA, and EdD, coupled with her Six Sigma background, enables her to leverage a practical, applied business approach to learning and development. Her professional writings, most recently in the Pfeiffer Annual and T&D Magazine, similarly reflect this pragmatism. Dr. Smith has served ASTD in a variety of leadership roles, including ASTD Board of Director from 2007 to 2009. She is also currently on the Advisory Board for Wharton CLO program. In November 2008, IRU and Ingersoll Rand’s CEO were featured on the cover of T&D Magazine highlighting the business alignment and impact of the University.
Dr. Smith was profiled in the September 2007 issue of CLO Magazine and most recently, profiled in the Long View series of the March 2010 T&D Magazine.
Sue Todd is President of Corporate University Xchange. She works as an advisor to Global 2000 organizations on all aspects of designing learning strategies, monitoring the impact of learning and development on business performance, and implementing enterprise-wide learning technology infrastructures. Sue also administers the development of CorpU research.
Sue has more than 20 years of experience consulting with corporate universities and learning and development groups on performance management, eLearning, learning content, program measurement and other HR and training-related topics. She has taken the lead on corporate university design projects with companies like Air Products, M&M Mars, Rio Tinto and others, and has presented at ASTD and Training events and other industry conferences.