In today's rapidly evolving workplace, organizational learning, training, and talent development executives face unprecedented challenges. They must equip and develop employees for a complex, changing work environment, lead their teams effectively, align talent strategies with business goals, and navigate increased workforce complexity. To help leaders in that space, Penn GSE has partnered with the Association for Talent Development (ATD) for the new Talent Development Executive Certificate program.
This new professional development program, which recently welcomed its first cohort, is designed for senior talent leaders to enhance their leadership skills and learn to design strategic workforce development programs, advocate for enterprise-wide talent initiatives, and influence stakeholders with a business-first, people-focused approach. Completed online in just six months, the program was developed for busy executives and workplace-learning leaders, including those preparing for C-suite roles.
Combining the unparalleled expertise of ATD, the world’s largest association dedicated to those who develop and enhance employee knowledge and skills, with Penn GSE’s academic rigor and faculty and alumni from its Chief Learning Officer Program, this program equips leaders with the personal insight, learning innovation, and business acumen required to thrive at the highest levels.
“This collaboration between ATD and GSE is a wonderful chance to connect theory with real-world application, offering participants the opportunity to learn from distinguished faculty experts and some of the industry's leading practitioners,” said Alana Elkins, senior associate director of the Penn Learning Network, Penn GSE’s home for professional development. “We intentionally designed this program to be immediately relevant to our learners' professional responsibilities while also opening doors to lifelong learning. It allows GSE to reconnect with alumni currently working in leadership and talent development fields and provides those new to GSE with an authentic experience of what learning with us is truly like.”
“The benefit of this experience is not only the content we’re learning, but the access to the instructors,” said Katie Pagano-Gerwitz, director of global learning and leadership development at Ball Corporation and a member of the certificate program’s inaugural cohort. “This course has helped me consider how I need to start thinking about talent strategy. What I need to do and what are some of the levers I can pull. It’s been great networking with other participants and being able to fully understand the people that have sat in the seat that I want to sit in one day.”
The first cohort will finish their certificate program August 27. Penn GSE is currently enrolling the next cohort, whose six-month program starts September 17. The registration deadline is September 10.
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