The owner and CEO of Plastipak Packaging had a vision: establish a corporate university that would increase the company's bench strength. Learn how Plastipak Academy became more strategic than simply delivering training.

Many executives today are anxious to develop “learning cultures” within their organizations and to use them to retain top talent. Learn how some companies identify needed skills through employee opinion surveys in order to create a more targeted and effective learning culture that improves retention.

Employees at Principal Financial feel the best learning environment involves company leaders teaching the courses. Gary Walljasper, Head of Talent and Leadership Development at Principal Financial talks about how they fill seats in their programs.

Corporate universities have grown rapidly in the past two decades, from 400 in 1993 to a projected 3,700 by 2010. Learn how Skanska USA Building's learning opportunities reinforces their commitment to employees, and how their investment will pay off.

In the past five years, Pfizer has made significant strides in turning learning into results. Behind this success is Pfizer’s reasoning that if improved leaders apply what they learn and use it as a practice field, they will be able to deliver improved business results at the same time. Learn how Pfizer made leadership development a business process.

The first step in designing a leadership development program at Staples was to get the model clear; what were they building. Nancy Persson, VP Organization Development, Training & Communication at Staples, describes how they defined their leadership competency model.

Gilly Salmon, Professor of E-Learning & Learning Technologies at the University of Leicester, discusses the importance of driving eLearning from the learning challenge rather than the technology perspective.

In early 2007 Chris Skerlong, Chief Learning Officer for Highmark, found that the volume of e-learning her team produced might warrant a new organization structure. After a presentation by CorpU to show how maturing L&D functions are changing, Skerlong and her team of managers decided to implement a new shared services function.