In 2016, Degreed acquired Gibbon, a pioneer in developing software to curate and share learning resources from across the internet. Based outside Amsterdam, in The Netherlands, it was Degreed’s first big step expanding into Europe. But that was only the beginning. Almost three years into Degreed’s European expansion, Gibbon has blossomed into a fast-growing [...]
The Expertise Economy Authors: Kelly Palmer & David Blake Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing ISBN: 978-1-473-67700-5 Subtitled, ‘How the smartest companies use learning to engage, compete, and succeed’, Kelly Palmer’s and David Blake’s book begins with an exploration of how humans really learn. That’s because the authors make the point that the world of [...]
In today’s rapidly changing world, one of the key organizational challenges is developing workers’ skills to ensure success now – and for the future. To help meet this challenge, Kelly Palmer, a Silicon Valley-based thought-leader from LinkedIn, Degreed, and Yahoo, along with David Blake, the co-founder of the Ed-tech pioneer, Degreed, have shared their [...]
Engage in Learning is both broadening and restructuring its popular and already extensive portfolio of online learning materials and resources. “We’re restructuring our course line-up,” said Chris Horseman, Engage in Learning’s Managing Director. “This includes regrouping some of our products as well as taking on some third-party products including Bookboon and Clear Lessons, in [...]
Some 400 women in Oman have now completed the Springboard women’s development programme. Developed by the UK-based Springboard Consultancy, the Springboard women’s development programme enables women to identify the clear, practical and realistic steps that they want to take to make a better world for themselves at work and home, while building both the [...]
The Springboard Consultancy’s ‘Sprint’ programme answers recent concerns about female graduates being able to get jobs. So says Karen Daly-Gherabi, Managing Director of The Springboard Consultancy (SBC), a UK-based international training company specialising in women's development issues. Recent research from The Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) reveals that female graduates [...]
Some 1,000 women employed by Rolls-Royce plc, have completed the Springboard Women’s Development programme. Rolls-Royce plc, a global company providing highly-efficient integrated power and propulsion solutions and one of the world’s most famous brands, began implementing the Springboard programmes in 1997. In the late 1990s, there was no mechanism in Rolls-Royce for single [...]
Karen Daly-Gherabi has become Managing Director of The Springboard Consultancy, a UK-based international training company specialising in women's development issues. After a successful career as a senior officer in the British Army, promoting excellence, development, achievement, and diversity, Karen spent 12 years working for The British Council, creating international opportunities, building [...]
The University of Bath has begun offering its female undergraduates access to a special skills development programme. The programme, called ‘Sprint’, helps participants to develop skills related to assertiveness, leadership, managing conflict and ‘networking with purpose’. Forty-one female undergraduates at the University of Bath have just completed the university’s first Sprint programme, which began [...]
While more than 35,000 women in Australia have now experienced the Springboard development programme, the programme’s results are greater than mere numbers. Developed by The Springboard Consultancy (SBC), a UK-based international training company specialising in addressing women's development issues, the Springboard programme is delivered by a number of licensed trainers in Australia. The programme [...]
