Keynote Speakers
Wendy Gates Corbett
Adjunct Professor of Leadership & Management
Duke University
Wendy Gates Corbett, CPTD, champions cultures of caring through her professional speaking, her consulting work as the President of Signature Presentations, LLC, and as an Adjunct Professor of Management and Leadership at Duke University. Wendy helps companies identify, acknowledge, and address barriers to building thriving workspaces with a culture of belonging. Informed by her research into strategies for building caring work cultures, she works with individuals and organizational leaders at all levels to create safe, compassionate environments where employees are connected, respected, and protected. Having trained more than 175,000 people over the past 20 years, Wendy is a respected leader in the training industry. Her #1 bestselling book, The Energy of Belonging: 75 Ideas to Spark Workplace Community, was published in early 2024.
Frank Nguyen, Host
Executive Director
Genentech
In this session, you will learn to:
Describe leadership practices to identify both high-potential future learning leaders as well as practices that are specific to growing and developing learning leaders
Identify crucible experiences that have informed or unlocked the full potential of learning leaders
Identify coaching and mentoring practices that may be specific to learning leadership
In this panel, we will explore leadership practices from experts across an experienced and tenured group of learning leaders who also range from classically trained instructional designers to business leaders who initially joined their learning organizations for development and growth. Join us and learn how our panelists spot great talent, cultivate growth, challenge to unlock full potential, and support learning leaders throughout their professional and personal journeys.