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A series of real case studies of how L&Ds have supported leadership development.
In the L&D world, success stories, lessons learned, challenges faced, and results achieved are often closely guarded secrets. In a rapidly evolving world, the importance of open-sourcing our projects becomes even more prominent.
"How do you support your leaders in growing?" That's probably one of the most popular questions we've heard lately. So we decided to bring to the spotlight people who want to share their own case studies with the world. If you're looking for inspiration about how to design your leadership development program, how to work with data to support leaders in growing, how to spice up your workshops, or what else we can do besides learning programs, you've come to the right place.
The participants explored real-world case studies in an authentic way, with the good parts, and the less successful parts. All so that we could learn together and have more impact!
What did participants experience?
9 Real Case Studies
April 22 - 24
The first part of our event was a journey spanning three days featuring 9 case studies presented by L&D professionals.
You can watch all the presentations at your own pace by purchesing an Offbeat Fellowship Subscription
Round-Table Session
April 25
The second part of the event brought all speakers together. Together with our Offbeat Fellows, we will explore all their lessons learned, share our own, and draw conclusions to the question "How do you support your leaders in growing?"
9 speakers. 9 case studies. Lots of lessons learned.
Bin Sou
Learning & Development Specialist - Leadership at Printify
Chris Wong
Executive Coach | Licensed Therapist | Owner at Leadership Potential
Anne Marie DeCarolis
Global Talent Leader & Founder of Today's Unicorn Talent
9 case-studies packed with lessons learned
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Bin Sou
Learning & Development Specialist - Leadership at Printify
Starting from the leadership values of the company, Bin Sou created an assessment for Printify’s leaders. The purpose was to measure self-awareness and the frequency of desirable leadership behaviors. His case study will walk us through how they came up with the questions, how they approached the assessment process, and how they empowered leaders with data to drive action.
Chris Wong
Executive Coach | Licensed Therapist | Owner at Leadership Potential
Leadership development is a long-term investment － Chris will walk us through an 18-month leadership development program and will cover the why, the “recruitment” process for the program, all the instruments he used to develop leaders and measure the success of the initiative.
Anne Marie DeCarolis
Global Talent Leader & Founder of Today's Unicorn Talent
Do we need to use long powerpoint-presentations, and heavy-content workshops, to develop leaders? How can we put leaders in the driving seat, and get them out of their comfort zone? Anne will explore a case study filled of usual and unusual instruments we can use in leadership workshops: case studies, role plays, theatre, and improvisation being just some of them.
Shaheen
Leadership and Learning Lead at Hireup
Development looks different for everyone － it’s true for every role in your company. Using design thinking can help in gaining more empathy toward leaders, but also in shaping leader personas. Shaheen will walk us through how they did so at HireUp, and how the leader personas shaped the leadership development journeys they designed.
Saad Qureshi
Non-executive director | Senior Advisor | Founder & CEO at Metron
Saad’s case study has almost nothing to do with your usual, traditional, content-based leadership development program. Starting from challenges such as “leaders feared admitting they don’t know something”, and “leaders looking at their workplace like a job, not a place where they can learn”, among others, he designed an unusual way to support leadership development.
Antonia Onaca
Diagnostician & Solutionist for Leadership Enablement at Miro
Different seniority levels might need different types of support. What can you do when you’re dealing with senior leaders who’ve gone through all the workshops and have seen all the content already? Anto will walk us through 3 initiatives she designed to help senior leaders that didn’t require them to go to “another, just more expensive” program.
Catalina Veneziano
Learning Architect at Superbet
Your first leadership development design will not be the perfect one. That’s ok, as long as you keep on improving. What Catalina will share is the journey of going through various iterations of a leadership development program, improved through feedback, over the course of 2 years, and 3 iterations.
Sara Hoxhaj
People Development Specialist at Lingoda
Sara will share her journey of building a leadership framework, assessing the leaders based on determined skills, and piloting a leadership development program based on the results of the assessment. Join us to get an overview of the end-to-end process, the lessons learned, and the biggest successes.
Aditi Patil
Talent & Organizational Development at Wipfli
We are tasked with creating learning experiences that solve business problems, meet organizational goals, and build employee capabilities. And all of these asembled in an engaging learning experience. We may do a needs assessment, and stakeholder analysis and then design programs. But it can still fall short of expectations. What if there were a better way to design WITH your audience? In this session, Aditi will share how she used design thinking principles and led a hackathon to create prototypes for learning experiences in the Wipfli leadership experience. She’ll share how they went from a blank slate to a prototype to a launch.
How Might We Support Our Leaders From Now On?
The second part of the event brings all speakers together. Together with our Offbeat Fellows, we will explore all their lessons learned, share our own, and draw conclusions to the question "How do you support your leaders in growing?"This session is only dedicated to Offbeat Fellows.
The Offbeat Fellowship is your best partner in your L&D development. Joining us will give you access to bi-monthly learning session, a library full of curated resources, our private community, and other learning experiences. See you there!
Have questions about the Leadership Development Fair? Our FAQs have got you covered. Discover important details on registration, session logistics, and more.
Yes, most of it! The 9 case study presentations between April 22nd and 24th, are all free. The only paid session is the round-table organized for Offbeat Fellows, which you can join as well if you subscribe here, for €79/year.
All L&D and L&D-related peers. As long as you're passionate about our field, you'll definitely take away with you an idea or framework to try out.
No. Depending on your role, you might be interested in getting inspiration around how to organize a leadership program, what initiatives work best for leaders, or how to measure your leadership development efforts. Take a look at each session, and join the ones that are a fit to your purposes.
Yes, they will. Sessions will be recorded, but they will be available only to Offbeat Fellows, in our paid platform. We encourage you to either attend the live session or join us in the Offbeat Fellowship to get access to recordings as a follow-up.
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