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Published December 2009

Learning in Practice Awards: Practitioners

Chief Learning Officer Staff

Chief Learning Officer magazine created the Learning In Practice Awards six years ago to recognize learning leaders who have made a tangible impact on their enterprises through a combination of outstanding leadership, vision, business acumen and strategic alignment.

Embodying those attributes are this year’s Learning in Practice Award winners, who were judged by a select group of their peers. We highlight them and their achievements in the following pages.

Chief Learning Officer magazine also created Provider Awards to recognize distinguished service providers for their close work with clients to design and implement innovative and effective learning solutions. (See "Learning in Practice Awards: Providers.")

Winners were recognized in a special ceremony at the Fall 2009 Chief Learning Officer Symposium in each of the following categories.

The Leadership Award: For learning executives who have demonstrably extended their power and influence within their organizations in the past year.

The Vanguard Award: For learning executives who have either launched a new enterprise learning function or completely overhauled existing workforce development initiatives in the past year.

The Innovation Award: For learning executives who have successfully applied emerging technologies and/or methodologies to create a stimulating and engaging combination of content and modalities in the past year.

The Business Impact Award: For learning executives who have demonstrated measurable business impact of their workforce development programs in the past year.

The Global Learning Award: For learning executives who have delivered development initiatives to geographically dispersed and/or culturally and linguistically diverse audiences internally and/or externally in the past year.

The Learning Team Award: For learning departments that have performed well as a team to help develop and deliver wide-ranging, effective employee development programs in the past year.

Leadership — Division 1 — Gold

Louise Korver-Swanson, Former Global Head of Executive Development, EMC Corp.

Louise Korver-Swanson received the Leadership Award for her vision and efforts in creating an integrated executive and leadership development framework at EMC.

“It’s a great honor and a pinnacle in my career,” she said. “It is especially rewarding to be recognized by professional peers in the industry. This award also enables me to acknowledge my staff in their achievements and their significant contributions to the work that we have done over the last two years.”

Korver-Swanson spearheaded the endeavor to generate an EMC Executive Assimilation Model that would help on-board and develop the next generation of high-potential leaders attuned to EMC’s evolving strategic vision.

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