Every training executive has not one task, but three. These are:

• The present internal training organization must be made more effective.
• New learning/training potential for increasing work-force productivity must be identified and realized
• The existing internal training organization must be made into a different organization for a different future

Each task requires a distinct approach. Each asks different questions. Each comes out with different conclusions. Yet they are inseparable. All have to be done at the same time: Today.

The Corporate University Summit is organized around these three (highly interrelated) distinct tasks.

The Corporate University Summit will share with you how today's most progressive internal training organizations/corporate universities perform each of these tasks systematically, purposefully, with understanding, and with a reasonable probability of success.

Our Corporate Learning Headliners Include:

Sam Szteinbaum Chief Learning Officer Hewlett-Packard Company	Robert Campbell Vice President & Chief Learning Officer Cerner Corporation
Peter Marchesini CLO Inventiv Health Inc	Laura Birk Director, Learning & Talent Development Barilla
Jim Wortner Executive Director, Global Marketing Amgen	Karen Gay Global Citizenship Director Cirque Du Soleil

• Karen Barley, President and Co-Founder, CORPORATE UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISE, INC.
• Paul R. Niven, Management Consultant, THE SENALOSA GROUP
• Alan Babcock, Chief Learning Officer, Jones/NCTI
• Don Duquette, SVP Learning Solutions, GENERAL PHYSICS
• Steve Farner, PhD, Senior Research Associate, Bellevue University's Human Capital Lab, Associate Professor of Management & Associate Dean, College of Business – Bellevue University
• Jenny Murnane, Assistant Director, Bellevue University's Human Capital Lab
• Lynn Schmidt, former CLO, Countrywide
• Jean Ann Larson, BSIE, MBA, FACHE, FHIMSS, CSSGB, Chief Learning Officer, Beaumont University, Beaumont Hospitals
• Carolyn B. Turman, CLO, MLGW University, Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division
• Cyndi Scott-Williams, Sr. Director Human Resources, VERTRUE
• Chris Spencer, Head of Learning, JOHN LEWIS PARTNERSHIP
• Justin Lombardo, Chief Learning Executive, NORTHWEST MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
• Will Kenny, Training Industry Writer, Guru and Blogger, President, BEST TRAINING PRACTICES
• Ron Pagliarulo, Director of Training, AARON RENTS

MGM Grand Training & Cirque Du Soleil Site Tour

MGM Grand Training Center Tour Monday, May 19, 2008 (2:30pm) Participants will enjoy a facility tour and a presentation about the development and structure of the training offerings, with ample time for Q&A. Depending on the types of training being offered on the day of our visit, you'll also have the chance to see a training initiative in action. The training facility is a 5-minute walk from the MGM Grand Conference Center.

Talent Management and Retention at Cirque du Soleil Wednesday, May 21, 2008 (11.15am) Join us for a discussion of the challenges and successes of the Cirque’s employee development program, and how it is evolving through a period of major expansion and change. Panel will include a “cast” of managers, artists, HR personnel, and corporate, from the Resident Shows Division in Las Vegas.

Proven tips, tactics, master classes and case studies on how the best training organizations:

• Align individual and organizational learning activities with corporate strategy
• Enable star performers - via usage of new technologies such as social networking - to share success tactics with others in the organization
• Transform into knowledge brokers by facilitating the application of knowledge gained in one part of the company where and when it is needed elsewhere
• Craft leadership programs to ensure tomorrow's leaders are fully prepared to cope with a different future
• Determine and measure what really counts...and make performance measurements perform
• Improve training economics through systematic abandonment of obsolete and unproductive training activities and other methodologies for “running training like a business.”
• Reengineer learning program development to meet “we need it now” management demands.
• Meet the demands ssof today's career customers for continuous learning and growth

If you are not yet ready to register, feel free to request a reminder nearer the time.

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