Improving Employee Experience through Learning, Skill Development & Mobility
Digital HR Leaders Podcast hosted by David Green EP43: Kat Kennedy, Chief Experience Officer, Degreed

Improving Employee Experience through Learning, Skill Development & Mobility

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Co-Author of Excellence in People Analytics | People Analytics leader | Director, Insight222 & myHRfuture.com | Conference speaker | Host, Digital HR Leaders Podcast

发布日期: 2020年9月29日
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Learning is about empowerment and about growth, it is not about compliance

Those are the words of Kat Kennedy, my guest on this week's episode of the Digital HR Leaders Podcast. Kat is the Chief Experience Officer of Degreed, where she has overall responsibility for Product and Technology

Kat was employee #3 at Degreed, and since she joined in 2012 the company has enjoyed phenomenal growth and created an entire new category in the HR technology market with its Learning Experience Platform.

In our discussion, Kat shares an interesting perspective around the experience of being part of a fast growing HR Tech company, which I think can be applied to any start-up:

It is a new company every six months, I think that is the biggest takeaway that I have had for the past eight years is that you can never rest on ‘well we have got it under control now’ because what the organisation needs changes so quickly as you are scaling at the rate that we are

The rate that Degreed is scaling has been intensified during Covid-19 with the pandemic further accentuating the importance of re-skilling, up-skilling and learning. Since the start of the crisis, as Kat outlines in our discussion, Degreed has hired another 150 people into the firm.

You can listen by clicking on the image below or by visiting the podcast website here.

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In our conversation, Kat and I discuss:

  • The challenges in running a fast-growing HR Tech company
  • Creating the new LXP category and being a female leader in tech ("The challenge in creating a category is you don't have the line item but the fun in creating a category is it's just all about listening to the challenges that those companies have and coming up with solutions through partnership to solve them.")
  • Why it is crucial to use data and analytics in L&D ("Analytics helps you know where you are, it helps you see where things are going and it can also give you insights into activities that are happening beyond your control.")
  • How companies like Unilever have tied learning to outcomes such as promotion rates and engagement
  • How learning, careers and mobility are all coming together into one personalised platform aka the talent marketplace ("When we have the right data sets, we understand the individual, how they talk about their skills and capabilities and we see the work that they are doing...")
  • What we can learn from organisations who are combining learning, analytics and skills together
  • The future direction of the learning & development field 

This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested or involved in learning, skills and the technology that support it, so that’s business leaders, CHROs, Chief Learning Officers and anyone in a People Analytics, Workforce Planning or HR Business Partner role. 

Learning is about developing skills so that the business can move forward at the pace that is needed


LISTEN TO THE PODCAST

To listen to the Podcast and read the transcript of my discussion with Kat, head over to myHRfuture by clicking on this link: Improving Employee Experience through Learning, Skill Development and Mobility


WATCH THE VIDEOS

As well as the podcast, there will be a couple of videos available on the myHRfuture YouTube channel highlighting two of the topics Kat and I covered in our conversation. In this video Kat explains how projects, jobs and talent mobility all come together with learning.


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THANK YOU

A huge thank you to Kat for sharing her time and expertise as well as Degreed's journey over the last eight years with listeners of the podcast. You can find out more about Kat on the Degreed blog and you can connect with Kat on LinkedIn. Kat will also be speaking at the virtual Degreed Lens event on 30 September.

Thanks also to Degreed for sponsoring Series 9, and also Ian Bailie, Manpreet Randhawa, Caroline Styr and the myHRfuture team for creating the Digital HR Leaders podcast and video series.


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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David is a globally respected writer, speaker, conference chair, and executive consultant on people analytics, data-driven HR and the future of work. As an Executive Director at Insight222, he helps global organisations create more cultural and economic value through the wise and ethical use of people data and analytics. Prior to joining Insight222 and taking up a board advisor role at TrustSphere, David was the Global Director of People Analytics Solutions at IBM Watson Talent. As such, David has extensive experience in helping organisations embark upon and accelerate their people analytics journeys. David also hosts the Digital HR Leaders Podcast on myHRfuture.

SEE ME SPEAK AT THESE EVENTS

I’ll be chairing and/or speaking about how to drive business value and employee experience through as well as the Nine Dimensions for Excellence in People Analytics model at the following upcoming events:

  • 5-6 Oct 2020 - PAFOW Global Fall 2020 - I’ll be co-hosting with Al Adamsen. In what is a real stellar line-up, confirmed speakers include Prasad Setty (Google), Dawn Klinghoffer (Microsoft) and Michael Arena (Amazon).
  • 6 Oct 2020 - Employee Experience Summit – I’ll be delivering the closing keynote on 6th October at the EX Summit, where other speakers include Mark Levy, Noor van Boven and Vera Gramkow.
Vidya Krishnan

Chief Learning Officer @Ericsson | Learning our way to a better future | Building critical skills + putting them to work #5G |

4 年

Great session David Green and Kat Kennedy! :-)

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Jorge Mallet ?? ??

CEO & Fundador na Elevatte | Estrategista de carreira | Pessoas | Produto | Tecnologia | Growth ?? Te ajudo a dobrar o seu salário ?? Former: Ambev, Americanas.com and Gupy

4 年

Hey, Karina Matheus dos Santos Maybe will like this David Green is a good writer and research about people!

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Mel Torres ??

Building and deploying AI Agent Digital Humans in NVIDIA Omniverse: ACE, NIM (NeMo), RIVA, Tokkio, Audio2Face, Metahumans - Join me! | STEAM Education Mentor

4 年

Love Kat Kennedy’s energy and enthusiasm in this podcast. Shared this with my team ??

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Puneet Sachdev

Globally Experienced People & Culture Leader | Future of Work | Fractional Digital HR | NASDAQ Entrepreneurial Centre | Speaker | Exec Coach to Extraordinary Female Leaders

4 年

great one! Sonia Mooney - you have a lot of value to share in the whole EX sphere!

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