Insights & Innovation Show

With each episode, the Insights & Innovation Show discusses emerging strategies, technologies, and their applications for workforce transformation and employee development.

Listen to business leaders, performance improvement practitioners, and learning and development professionals discuss their work alongside new trends and best practices.

Episode #3 | Onboarding Technical Talent

While almost every industry has been affected by the labor shortage, it’s added to the already strained onboarding needs in the technical industries. In this episode, Heidi Milberg and Andy Reagan discuss the challenges, transformation, and what organizations need to identify future skills and onboard technical talent.

Improving Organizational Performance Through Employee Development

Improving an organization’s performance is more than a technology. Even the best strategies, technologies, and solutions will have little impact if no one adopts them or uses them effectively. The key to success is your people and how new approaches to employee development can be the strategic fuel to build agility and competitiveness. This series is designed to explore how business leaders can structure their organizations to use employee development as a strategic tool to ensure the success of even the most complicated challenges.

26% of people in the U.S. and 19% of college students self-identify as having a disability. As organizations implement employee development programs, it’s critical to integrate accessible technologies, strategies, and resources to enable that sometimes overlooked portion of the workforce. In this episode, Katherine Hill and Katie Radloff discuss accessibility and a variety of ways to help those populations.

In our first episode, our esteemed friend Kaihan Krippendorff, best selling author and founder of Outthinker, joins Matt to discuss his work helping companies through disruption, how communication and other important elements play a role, and updating the mental model of the workplace.

The Insights and Innovation Show Pre-Episode, The Hybrid Workforce and How to Engage Employees

In this pre-episode, recorded for an internal audience which we’ve decided to share, Leah Clark and Chris Davis join Matt to discuss how we can achieve engaged and productive employees in a hybrid environment.

Please excuse the audio quality in this episode.

Meet the Host: Matt Donovan

Matt Donovan has served as Chief Learning & Innovation Officer since December 2019. He is a recognized name in learning with more than 25 years of experience crafting learner-centric solutions and leading high-impact development teams. Not only has he received a large assortment of industry awards, but his articles are regularly published and presented at a variety of national and international conferences. He has held roles of increasing importance at GP Strategies since joining the company in 2009. In his current role, Donovan has collaboratively implemented and grown GP Strategies’ Innovation Kitchen. You will often find him presenting at global industry conferences or writing articles for industry-specific publications. Matt holds a BS in Education and a Masters in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University, Bloomington.

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