General Meeting: Value of Learning Organizations in the Knowledge Economy [ATD HOUSTON / HODN JOINT SESSION]

When
August 08, 2017
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Location
United Way of Greater Houston 50 Waugh Drive Houston, Texas 77007
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50 registrants

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Join us for the much-anticipated annual joint session hosted by the Houston Organizational Development Network and the Association of Talent Development Houston Chapter. This session brings together four practitioners to explore pragmatic steps organizations can take to leverage learning and foster knowledge sharing to achieve human capital and business results. You will engage also with your peers in several interactive activities to discuss pragmatic ways to generate and act on learning and knowledge to enable your organization to stay ahead of change and the competition.

This event is a great opportunity to learn about these local organizations and network with others striving to build learning organizations. Dinner begins at 5:30 pm. The interactive discussion begins at 6:15 pm.

Learning Objectives:

Explore different facets of and approaches to learning organizations
Understand differences between learning and knowledge
Be able to articulate the characteristics of an effective learning organization

ATD Competency Model - Area of Expertise This Session Supports: Performance Improvement, Knowledge Management, Change Management

Speakers:

Dynisha Klugh: Director of Learning Technologies and Development at Nalco Champion
Suzan Pickels: Lead of Knowledge Sharing at ConocoPhillips
Lisa Schwaller: Academy Sports & Outdoors (IT Governance & Knowledge Management)
Robert Tillman, PhD.: Associate Director of the Department of Faculty & Academic Development at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Dynisha Klugh is the Director of Learning Technologies and Development at Nalco Champion, the energy division of Ecolab. She has been part of key learning programs for 20 years, including a knowledge sharing and knowledge management (KS/KM) solution with a targeted focus on organizational change management, business alignment and trusted governance processes. Her team demonstrated the power of collaboration as a learning accelerator when they united the experiences of two previously rival organizations through a merger. While mergers can increase growth, efficiencies of scale and market share they can also present organizational challenges such as new processes, cultural conflicts, and a host of other changes that personnel may perceive negatively. Despite these barriers Nalco Champion saw a 100% increase in online collaboration within four short months and won the prestigious MAKE (Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise) award, demonstrating how KM platforms can be used as a professional learning and development solution that gives companies a competitive advantage. Dynisha has an IT degree, an MBA with a concentration in Environmental Management, and she is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Suzan Pickels, Lead of Knowledge Sharing at ConocoPhillips, is accountable for the strategic implementation of Knowledge Sharing spanning the global enterprise. She is responsible for consultation of user productivity, leveraging cloud based technologies, managing the Networks of Excellence and OneWiki along with the processes and infrastructure needed to support them. These processes and technologies are used to connect the employees at ConocoPhillips to capture and transfer critical knowledge and lessons learned. Suzan brings over 20 years of experience of consulting and knowledge management experience to her role at ConocoPhillips. She has built and maintained successful knowledge programs for a number of companies in oil and gas and high-tech industries. Driven by passion for exposing global business value, her strongest accomplishments center on connecting people to explore their minds and produce knowledge. Suzan earned her bachelor’s degree at Texas A&M and is certified in organizational change management (OCM). She enjoys understanding human behaviors and is devoted to exposing global business value through human connections. She loves living in Houston, Texas but her favorite hobby is traveling and enjoying different people and cultures – especially those that drink wine.

Lisa Schwaller, Academy Sports & Outdoors (IT Governance & Knowledge Management). Lisa has over 25 years of IT and knowledge management experience, spanning multiple industries such as healthcare clinical trials and retail. Her experience with knowledge management includes driving more streamlined knowledge processes, the evaluation of systems that impact knowledge management, and exploring different frameworks for knowledge management approaches. A passionate self-learner and coach of others, she has witnessed the evolution of knowledge management through the decades and believes that the increasing digitization of knowledge poses both an advantage and challenge for today’s organizations. Lisa uses the principles of organizational change management on projects where knowledge management is a key component. In her current role in IT Governance, Lisa finds it rewarding to help cross-functional teams balance the competing priorities of business agility and data protection. Lisa and her family live in Katy. They enjoy telling tall tales and exploring the Texas countryside together.

Robert Tillman, PhD. serves as Associate Director of the Department of Faculty & Academic Development at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. In his role, he supports the professional development and wellbeing of faculty and fellows at MD Anderson. At MD Anderson, he has been a lead in developing the Provost’s Faculty Mentoring Program, and has been engaged with leadership programs run through his office that have trained over 800 MD Anderson Faculty over the past 15 years. His career has been focused on introducing and delivering training for academic populations that support their development and competency to pursue careers as faculty and science-trained professionals. As the Postdoctoral Program Coordinator at New York University School of Medicine he was engaged in developing professional development opportunities from investigator skills to career education for postdoctoral fellows and students. He continued this work as Director of the Science Alliance at the New York Academy of Sciences directing a partnership of over 25 universities, teaching hospitals and independent research facilities with a focus on careers in science and engineering. Prior to his role at MD Anderson he directed Faculty Professional Development at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City Columbia University Medical Center. He is engaged with the National Research Mentoring Network as a NRMN Master Facilitator. In this role he provides mentor training at MD Anderson, the larger Texas Medical Center community and throughout the United States. He continues to be active in the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Group on Faculty Affairs and in the National Postdoctoral Association.

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