A little over 11 years ago, seven of us started a company in a garage, called Saba Software, Inc., creating a category for enterprise-scale learning and performance systems, and leading the company through an IPO in 2000, building it into a $100 million global company with over 500 people today.

Along the way, I worked with some of the world’s best companies as they built their learning organizations to become truly effective and valuable performance driving entities. These teams faced many challenges; to drive change; cross business boundaries; and create greater alignment and consensus around managing and delivering learning services enterprise-wide. In essence, address the Governance challenge head on. 

For the past year I have been leading workshops on learning governance and ‘best practices’ using  the Learning Governance Lifecycle™ model that's been perfected over the years.  It’s a well proven, road-tested methodology that will help you accomplish many different objectives:.

• Improve alignment and build consensus among learning leaders and business units to increase adoption for a more broadly defined learning charter   
• Uncover and manage ‘risk’ – quickly uncovering pitfalls, both known and unknown, and resolving conflict
• Establish ‘best practices’ to optimize organization alignment, operating processes, rules of engagement and investment justification while saving time and money, and avoiding delays, and more...