Beyond the Buzzwords: Personalization That Starts with Strategy

Most L&D teams actively contribute to their organization’s skills strategy, but few have a clear framework for shaping that strategy specifically for learning. While skills efforts often promise personalized learning as an outcome, the path from strategy to personalization is rarely well-defined.

In this session, we’ll introduce a practical framework for aligning the six foundational components of a skills strategy—scope and purpose, steering committee and stakeholders, culture, data, architecture, and technology—with the needs of the L&D function. We’ll explore how L&D leaders can use this framework to make the most of the skills work already happening in their organizations—and to create the conditions for more effective, personalized learning experiences.

We’ll also discuss how L&D can proactively influence skills strategy design, avoid common disconnects, and ensure the resulting data and systems truly serve learning goals.

Learning Outcomes / Key Takeaways 

• Reframing the six parts of a skills strategy through an L&D lens
• How to adapt your organization’s skills strategy to serve L&D goals
• What good looks like: Stories from L&D teams getting this right

Dani Johnson, Co-Founder of Redthread
Dani co-founded RedThread in 2018 with Stacia. Before that, Dani led the Learning and Career research practice at Bersin, Deloitte, and previously led research at the Ross School, University of Michigan. Dani holds an MBA and a MS and BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from BYU. Before Kid, her favorite vacations involved a backpack, a map, and Google Translate.

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