Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Interests & Hobbies
Timeline
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Kevin  Jennings

Kevin Jennings

Barcelona

Summary

Global leader with 25 years developing agile maturity in employee lifecycle, learning strategy, and modern technology ecosystems. Key strengths include driving transformational initiatives, creating communities of practice, and maximizing talent enrichment. I approach stakeholder engagement with an open mind and diverse expertise, always striving to create real, measurable value for the benefit of the organization. My disciplined research methods help to increase productivity, engagement, and retention. Above all, I believe that creativity, fun and humanity should never be sacrificed in the process of achieving success.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience

Work History

Director, Global Digital Learning

Page Group
2022.09 - 2023.09

Driving global strategy by ensuring effective digital learning is aligned with business needs and impact. Leveraging key data and analytics to proactively collaborate with HR and business leaders to ensure quality and continuous improvement that drove effective organizational change.

  • Championed good learning practices & advancements in social & digital learning which were applied across organization.
  • Ensured all learning content was aligned globally to create unified vision, values & principles that underpinned the commitment to internal development.
  • Monitored KPIs and evaluated learning curriculums around learner experience & business impact.

Sr Manager, Learning & Development

TESLA GigaFactory
2021.02 - 2022.01

Responsible for developing a world class department driving capability & scalability excellence across executive management, and production teams.

  • Assembled new L&D department and team of 40+ team members.
  • Managed & influenced current and future capability requirements and delivery of technical training.
  • Streamlined training and development partnerships through vendor management across 10 vendors.
  • Creation of hybrid COE and academy model.

Global Lead, Learning & Talent Development

UCB PHARMA
2019.06 - 2021.01

Collaborated to transform and modernize employee experience from traditional Learning to a holistic workflow and program landscape.

  • Influenced 5 year strategic plan & technology roadmap.
  • Guided 10 cross-functional workstream stakeholders.
  • Modernized traditional instructional design to agile learning experience methodology.
  • Reduced cost & complexity of processes and systems.

Director of Learning Innovation

ALLIANCE SAFETY COUNCIL
2016.11 - 2018.10

Transformed and led commercial safety training service organization into digital, modernized workforce development model.

  • Directed vision & expansion of corporate online workforce development solution from inception to release.
  • Standardized product management & software development with innovative solution process.
  • Defined corporate & product Mobile learning strategy.
  • Remove 100% paper materials. Saved many trees.

Lead, Knowledge Strategy Consultant

CSAA INSURANCE GROUP
2014.03 - 2016.08

Spearheaded an enterprise Knowledge Management solution throughout CSAA as the first program under the corporate transformation initiative. Executing technology and metrics strategy was key to add value to our services in response to needs of departments throughout the
organization.

  • Established & led cross-functional teams of 40+ members for content assessment effort to streamline & enrich learning experiences for all HR content.
  • Collaboratively structured overall governance & communication strategy.
  • Defined Measurement, Evaluation, Assessment, & Learning metrics for knowledge management program.
  • Architected multi-application process for 8 learning verticals. This Learning ops team increased compliance learning completion from 56% to 98%.

15 Years- Diverse Roles

IBM CORP (Acquired OutStart)
1999.07 - 2014.03

Sr Solutions Consultant Manager 2009-2014

  • Collaborated with sales executives and prospective clients to understand business requirements, promote sale of company products, and provide sales support. Contributor of over $50M of new customers primary in global Fortune 1000 and Government projects. CSAT score from 56% to 98% with post-sale surveys.

Outstart- Founding Member 1999-2009

Head of Product Management - Learning Technology

  • Increased brand recognition on global scale by presenting at conferences and seminars globally as product evangelist and industry expert. Planned and executed product strategy and roadmap based on analysis of market trends, innovative technology concepts and customer demands.

Professional Services Lead

  • Strategized and Implemented LCMS/LMS software for customers training & best practices. Developed departmental utilization and forecasting metrics for scalability and budgeting.

Learning Development Manager

  • Managed 25 individuals and 5 development teams across complex simultaneous projects. Acted as primary liaison between customer and product teams during software release cycle. Defined strategies and guidelines to standardize development outcomes that led to 50% cost/time reduction on workflows.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
Fayetteville, Arkansas
05.1998

Skills

  • Inspirational Service Leadership & Team Building
  • Content & Learning Design Strategy
  • Skill and Competency Models
  • Building Learning Ecosystems
  • Stakeholder Collaboration & Alignment
  • Talent Systems (Oracle, SAP, Workday)
  • Learning Tech (LMS, CMS, VCS, LXP Gamification, AR/VR, Social)
  • Mentoring & Strategic Coaching
  • Adoptive Change Management
  • Program & Project Management

Accomplishments

  • Proven transformative global leader in startup, mid-market, and global enterprise organizations and learned every step of the way.
  • Accomplished conference speaker & award application judge in the learning & technology industry.
  • Versatility to work seamlessly with all top-down, down-top stakeholders across verticals.
  • Ability to translate business strategy and technology innovation into compelling and relatable collaboration.
  • Expert in assessing programs that improve engagement, productivity, efficiency, and overall wellbeing.

Interests & Hobbies

  • Protecting Mothership Earth
  • Travel with my family
  • Rock Climbing
  • Hiking
  • Life Learner
  • Learning Spanish
  • Wannabe Chef
  • Writing
  • Volunteerism

Timeline

Director, Global Digital Learning

Page Group
2022.09 - 2023.09

Sr Manager, Learning & Development

TESLA GigaFactory
2021.02 - 2022.01

Global Lead, Learning & Talent Development

UCB PHARMA
2019.06 - 2021.01

Director of Learning Innovation

ALLIANCE SAFETY COUNCIL
2016.11 - 2018.10

Lead, Knowledge Strategy Consultant

CSAA INSURANCE GROUP
2014.03 - 2016.08

15 Years- Diverse Roles

IBM CORP (Acquired OutStart)
1999.07 - 2014.03

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
Kevin Jennings