#LINGOsForum

September 2016

CONNECT WITH OTHERPROFESSIONALS WHO BELIEVE THATLEARNING IS A DRIVER FOR CHANGEAT ALL LEVELS OF OUR SECTOR

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SCHEDULE

Chris ErnstGates Foundation

KEYNOTERS

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Julian StoddSea Salt Learning

A self­described “explorer of the Social Age,” Julian is

devoted to helping organizations form strategy and

shape projects to deliver transformative change. His

numerous books, articles, papers and blog posts

provide windows into topics like social learning, social

leadership, collaborative technology, social justice, and

dynamic change.

In 2014, Julian founded Sea Salt Learning, a global

consultancy that delivers services and solutions around

learning, leadership, technology, and change.

Uniquely positioned to enable innovation and

change in complex environments, Chris’ life’s work

is to empower people to learn and collaborate

across wide­ranging boundaries to tackle their

toughest challenges. 

He’s been able to do just that through executive

roles with the globally top­ranked Center for

Creative Leadership (CCL), Juniper Networks in

Silicon Valley, and now as the Director of Learning,

Leadership & Organization Development with the

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 

@julianstodd @cternst

@dkkippen @redasadki

@gsiemens

Kimo KippenHilton Worldwide

Reda SadkiGeneva Learning Foundation

George SiemensGeneva Learning Foundation

Known as a “Citizen of the World", Kimo Kippen is

a thought leader and sought­out international

keynote speaker. His goal is to make a difference in

the world by inspiring business and civic leaders, as

well as employees, to think outside the box.

As the Chief Learning Officer of Hilton Worldwide,

Kimo has transformed its learning and development

culture, directly improving the company’s guest

scores, brand loyalty, and global market foothold.

Most recently, he has supported the success of

Hilton’s “Travel with Purpose” initiative, which

educates and trains company team members on

how to help stop child trafficking.

Reda is an educational innovator

with over two decades working in

the United Nations, the Red Cross

Red Crescent Movement, and in

Dr. Siemens is an internationally

renowned author, researcher, and

theorist in the field of learning,

systemic change, and technology.

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local communities. Reda believes in doing new things

in new ways to do more, do better, and reach further –

and to do good.

In addition to work in learning analytics and massive open

online courses, he pioneered the connectivist learning

theory with Stephen Downes. He serves as professor and

executive director  of the LINK Research Lab at the

University of Texas at Arlington. 

1.1: 1600 Heads Are BetterThan One!

Broaden your reach and increase your impact.

This interactive session will help you describe the valueof expanding your learning network, develop buildingblocks to solve a current job challenge, and identifyresources available to you for expanding your L&D skillset, such as networking events, social media,conferences, and volunteer opportunities. We'll alsoexplore no-cost and low-cost strategies for fosteringongoing learning across your organization.

1.2: Democratizing Access to Learning

Reaching traditional and non-traditionalhumanitarian actors

Organizations need to change how theyshape and deliver learning in response tochanges in the way that we learn. In thissession we'll explore a framework forscaffolded social learning: a designmethodology that combines both formal andtacit, tribal forms of knowledge.

We will look at examples of storytelling,community and co-creative technology, aswell as the role of trust and social leadershipin making social learning successful.

We will consider how to measure successand how organizations must become trulysocially dynamic if they are to thrive in theSocial Age.

This session will look at how blended learningsolutions can be used to scale up access to engaginglearning for individuals, communities andorganizations responding to disasters in their owncommunities.

1.3: Certification Standardsfor the Sector

Raising capability of an agency at its highestlevelsAs LINGOs continues to collaborate with dozens ofinternational NGOs to develop a series of certification-based standards for the sector, new opportunities areemerging to link these standards to an organization'sLearning and Development Strategy. This session willexplore creative approaches to connect certification-based standards to integrated talent managementsystems, development planning and career models.

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KEYNOTE:WELCOME TO THESOCIAL AGE: EXPLORING THE NEWECOSYSTEM WEINHABIT

Julian StoddSea Salt Learning

Kimberli JeterPYXERA Global

Atish GonsalvesHumanitarian Leadership Academy

Brain WashburnSightLife

@julianstodd

@KimberliJeter @flipchartguy

@atishgonsalves

Mike CulliganLINGOs

@culliganmike

2.1: The Launch of WCS U

In this session, we'll discuss how WCS used LINGOs-provided learning technologies to launch its WCS Ulearning community. We'll explore how to align learningstrategy with your organizational strategy and mission,and how to build a learning community through strategiccommunication and engagement activities.

Looking beyond the system

3.1: Making the Move

Transitioning an instructor-led training to a web-basedtraining offers obvious advantages, includingaddressing resource availability, budget issues, andonline learner-centric activities. But how do you makethe move?

Learn how to create an interactive multimedia e-learning environment that makes innovative andinventive use of tools you may already have at yourdisposal.

Converting an instructor-led training to aweb-based training

2.2: Social Learning: Jointhe Revolution

Fed up with the tyranny of the “next” button and lookingfor a new way to drive higher level of engagement inlearning? Prepare to join the Social Learning Revolution! Inthis session, you'll learn from a variety of case studies justwhat an impact Social Learning can have on anorganization. You will also be encouraged to take part in asmall Social Learning experiment so you can experiencethe results firsthand.

Drive a higher level of engagement in learning

3.2: Learning Localization

In this session, we'll explore LINGOs learning initiativesaimed at helping local and national NGOs engage withsector-wide learning and "powering up" how individualsand organizations learn from each other.

Learning for development organizations inLatin America and the Caribbean

2.3: Improv Lab

Improvisation (improv) has enormous potential in theINGO sector, both as a learning methodology and as aphilosophical framework. It can be used in a variety ofsettings to quickly break down barriers and build alearning community at an INGO joint gender conference,to enhance trust and leadership agility with severalgroups of leaders, to help teams build more mindful waysof engaging with each other, to wake people up in themiddle of the afternoon, or simply to spur creativity.

L&D Applications of improv for the INGOsector

3.3: The Leader as Learner

How can NGO leaders help the organization and itsemployees to learn if they cannot? How can NGO topleaders maintain a “learning agility and commitment tolearning”? What are the challenges to individuallearning that top NGO leaders face and how can theyovercome them? This interactive session will shareobservations across the cohorts of INGO alumni ofthe past five years of the Transnational NGOLeadership Institute.

Transitioning to top leadership in INGOsG

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Michelle Turchin & Carolyn Gibson Wildlife Conservation Society

@mkturchin

@nature_org

Heather SnyderThe Nature Conservancy

@johncropper

John Cropper & Juan Manuel PalaciosLINGOs

@MaxwellSU

Tosca Bruno-Van VijfeijkenMaxwell School, Syracuse University

Kristin HiblerK Hibler Consulting

Alan BettsHT2

@alanbettsht2

4.1: Hands-on Practice

Selecting the right technologies fora blended learning solution

Based on decades of practical, global experience inlearning technologies and training, Aina Irbe andJacqueline Deelstra have developed a framework tosystematically lead the user to recommendations forlearning technology solutions, and to ensure that theselearning solutions meet the needs of learners.

Explore common challenges when building theseblended solutions.

4.2: Developing E-workshops

What Mango has learned about facilitatingactive learning and group tasksasynchronously

In this session, Terry Lewis, Mango's Director ofLearning and Development, will share lessons andtop tips learned from developing and running severale-workshops. Discuss how to create and activeengaged groups of learners (and how to deal withlearners who don't engage), the "dos" and "don'ts" ofsetting group tasks, and how to develop and sustainan active question-asking culture in an online setting.

4.3: From ZERO to StrategicPositioning

The L&D Journey in ActionAidIn this session, we'll learn from ActionAid’s journey:from not having a Learning and Capacity Developmentunit to having a function that is strategically positioned,sponsored by the CEO and senior leadership, ownedby key stakeholders in the federation and relevant tolearners. Replicate strategies put in place to showcasethe benefits of an ecosystem approach and get buy-infrom senior leadership and key stakeholders.

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Jacqueline DeelstraCreative Associates

International

Aina G. IrbeADCI/VOCA

@Mango4NGOs

@acdivoca

Terry LewisMango

@EnnieChipembere

Ennie ChipembereActionAid

KEYNOTE:DIGITAL, DISTRIBUTED,AND DATA-DRIVEN: ISTHE FUTURE OFHUMANITARIAN ACTIONTHE FUTURE OFLEARNING IN THEDIGITAL AGE?

This keynote will consist of a joint exploration ofthe future of learning and humanitarian action inthe Digital Age. In a complex, knowledge­drivenworld, our ability to learn new things in new ways– to know more than what is known – is key to ourability to survive, sustain, and thrive. Based inSwitzerland, the nineteenth century birthplace ofthe first humanitarian conventions, the GenevaLearning Foundation (La Fondation Apprendre)has the mission to connect learning leaders toresearch, invent, and trial breakthroughapproaches for new learning, talent andleadership as a way of shaping humanity andsociety for the better.

Reda Sadki & George SiemensGeneva Learning Foundation

@redasadki @gsiemens

5.1: Out of the Box and IntoPractice!

Are you tasked with delivering more— but with fewer fundsand resources? Do you lack geographically-located, skilledfacilitators to meet the needs of all your learners? If so, thendon’t miss this session! Join Paige Winn (FHI 360) andShannon Dowd (PATH) as they walk you through FacilitatedeLearning, a process to identify and review third-party onlinecontent, build contextualized interactions to support learningobjectives, and infuse organization-specific practices.

Join Lisa as she explores the data that will help us to drivelearning forward in our organizations. Big data can beoverwhelming without the right understanding and alsolenses to view it with. But going beyond viewing it to a placewhere it becomes a driver for learning engagement willincrease capacity within our organizations and take learningto the next level.

Facilitated ecourses create custom learning

Taking the big dreams from big data and making ita reality.

6.1: Skilled Practitioners, Effective Institutions

In this session, you'll get an inside look at how CRSbuilt the online Institute for Capacity Strengthening– an online one-stop shop for resources andlearning that supports effective partnership andreal-time solutions to organizational effectivenesschallenges.

Professionalizing and scalingup partnership and capacity strengthening

6.2: Preventing Corruptionin Humanitarian Aid

Understand how they are expanding the awarenessand ability of the humanitarian community toaddress and handle corruption risks in theirprograms/operations. You will learn about corruptionrisks and risk-based tools in humanitarian aid. Andexplore the new tools developed by .

Achieving this through eLearning and ILT

5.3: From TraditionaleLearning to Mobile Learning

5.2: Big data, analytics, andstrategy to promote learning inNGOs

Cegos has delivered an e-learning Catalog for several years .Now, Cegos is launching a new Mobile Catalog on businessand professional skills.

In this session, Pascal Debordes will provide answers to thequestions that learning and development professionals oftenask about Mobile Learning, like How does Mobile Learningreflect the needs of learners? Aren’t all mobile learningsolutions pretty much the same? and How well does MobileLearning work on tablets and smartphones? Join Pascal'ssession to find out!

The growing appetite for mobile learning.

6.3: Organizational LearningChange Management

Learn about the approach Gateway Academy istaking towards change management, and the tractionthey are gaining with regards to eLearning adoptionwith partners in Sub-Saharan Africa. Share yourchallenges and opportunities in change managementand provide inputs into the change managementprocess for Gateway Academy.

Build a learning culture and increaseadoption to eLearning

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@camperrevamper

Shannon Dowd PATH

@PATHtweets

@Cegos

Paige Winn FHI 360

Pascal Debordes Cegos

@Giacumo

Lisa GiacumoBoise State University

Sarah Ford Catholic Relief Services

@Philopportunity

Anne Signe Hørstad Transparency International Norway

@anticorruption

Parvati Patil & Thom Sinclair World Bank

@WorldBank

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7.1: A Story of Data

What happens when the unstoppablelearner meets the immovable Learning function

In this session, Kim Hagan (Cornerstone on Demand)and Ross Coxon (LINGOs) will compare LINGOsmembers' benchmarks on learning technologies, usingthe findings of a survey carried out in Syria by CoD.

7.2: Driving to LeadershipDevelopment

In real time!

In this session, Gretchen will share a case study of thechallenges, wrong turns and successes in driving talentand leadership development in real time, and thesolutions and approaches she has implemented alongthe way. You'll explore the talent identification andreview process that has worked for CI, learn about themethodology that resonated with a science-basedorganization for defining Leadership Competencies, hearabout the Leadership Development approach and howwe're trying to sustain the momentum, and share yourwins and challenges in Leadership Development withyour peers.

7.3: Mobile Learning on the Go

Reaching a global audience

The mobile phone is rapidly bringing communicationto the most remote areas of the world. NGOs,governments and companies alike are beginning torealize the potential of this ubiquitous tool to addressa variety of global educational challenges. This interactive session will explore successful examples ofmobile devices used to facilitate teaching and learning.It will also critically engage with issues of equity, privacyand access. You can expect a dynamic learningenvironment with a number of real-world case studiesand hands-on activities.

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Ross CoxonLINGOs

@Rosslingos

Kim HaganCornerstone on Demand

@CornerstoneInc

Nick Martin TechChange

@TechChange

Gretchen RegehrConservation International

@ConservationOrg

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KEYNOTE:USING BOUNDARYSPANNING NETWORKSTO DEVELOPCOLLECTIVE CAPABILITY

Explore the notion that boundaries can beexperienced in organizations and broadercommunities as two very different things. 

Chris will take a deeper look into the sixleadership practices which allow you tocreate direction, alignment, and commitmentbetween groups to achievecritical organizational outcomes. 

As a boundary­spanning leader, understandthat your job is to build a bridge, and that yourrole is to provide the space for these practicesto occur.

Chris ErnstGates Foundation

@cternst

KEYNOTE:CONNECTING WORK TOHEARTS AND MINDS

In this session, Hilton Worldwide CLO Kimo Kippenwill describe how he and his team created a learningculture that fosters engagement and alignmentamong people, processes, and purpose.

Kimo and his team first aligned with businesspartners and gained senior level sponsorship tocreate a corporate university that best supportspeople and process and can achieve the company'sobjectives. With this foundation, the company hasbeen able to expand its impact beyond teammembers to reach communities, and to tackle globalissues including human trafficking, literacy, diversityand inclusion, and more. G

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Thank you to all our sponsors

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Kimo KippenHilton Worldwide

@dkkippen 

GOLD Sponsor

silver sponsor

Bronze Sponsor

Program sponsor

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AWARDS2016

The Member of the Year Awardrecognizes a LINGOs

member organization that hasdemonstrated commitment to

LINGOs’ mission: providingaffordable, high-quality learning

solutions to those working toimprove lives in developing and

vulnerable communities.

The Partner of the Year Awardrecognizes a LINGOs

partner organization that hasmade a significant contribution

to the LINGOs community interms of collaboration,

localization, accelerationor delivering best practice

solutions affordably.

The Rising Star Awardrecognizes a new member of

the LINGOs community(member, partner or

volunteer) who sharesideas, innovations and/or best

practices in support of theLINGOs vision and mission.

Member of the Year Partner of the Year Rising Star

LINGOs has a longstanding tradition of giving awards to

those that have made an impact on the community above

and beyond the norm. Awards this year include:

SPECIAL SESSION:LEARNING HACKATHON

Friday 30, September 

with friends fromSeattle's L&D Community 

When it comes to learning and training in the world of INGOs, you’ve probably thought “we could do this

better”.  You’re not alone!  After 2 days of conference content, participants in this workshop will have a

chance to collaborate with local workplace learning thought­leaders on ways to put the best ideas into

practice. Working quickly and modeled on the hackathon approach, this ideation session will yield practical

solutions with near­future implementation possible.

If you want to “hack” some of the major pain points with a group of like­minded disruptors and innovators,

join us for this workshop to make learning & training in your organization AWESOME !... or at least better.