The 2008 Learning In Practice Awards

Chief Learning Officer Staff - 12/3/08

In this special section, we recognize this year's Learning In Practice award winners.

The editors of Chief Learning Officer magazine created the Learning In Practice Awards five years ago to recognize learning leaders who have improved performance in their enterprises through a combination of leadership, vision, business acumen and strategic alignment.

In this special section, we recognize this year’s Learning In Practice award winners, who embody those attributes and were judged by a select group of their peers.

Also, Chief Learning Officer magazine recognized distinguished service providers with Provider Awards for their close work with clients to design and implement innovative and effective learning solutions.

Chief Learning Officer recognized winners in each of the following categories:

LEARNING IN PRACTICE AWARDS

CLO of the Year Award: For the learning executive who is without peer in developing and executing learning and development strategies, marshaling and managing resources and achieving measurable success.

The Leadership Award: For learning executives who have demonstrably extended their power and influence within their organizations in the past year.

The Vanguard Award: For learning executives who have either launched a new enterprise learning function or completely overhauled existing workforce development initiatives in the past year.

The Innovation Award: For learning executives who have successfully applied emerging technologies and/or methodologies to create a stimulating and engaging combination of content and modalities in the past year.

The Business Impact Award: For learning executives who have demonstrated measurable business impact of their workforce development programs in the past year.

The Global Learning Award: For learning executives who have delivered development initiatives to geographically dispersed and/or culturally and linguistically diverse audiences internally and/or externally in the past year.

The Learning Team Award: For learning departments that have performed well as a team to help develop and deliver wide-ranging, effective employee development programs in the past year.

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