TIM WASSERMAN
FOUNDER & CHIEF LEARNING OFFICER

Inquiry. Advocacy. Focus.

WHAT I BELIEVE

Seek first to understand.

Be willing to listen and learn.

Mix these insights together with creativity and innovation, thought leadership, contextual relevance, and a real world sensibility.

Blend together to design for agility and applicability.

And remember it's a journey, not an event.

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BUILD SOMETHING GREAT, AND IT MUST ADD VALUE

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Having spent my career helping organizations and individuals plan, implement and scale strategic talent initiatives that improve their organization's alignment, innovation and adaptive execution capabilities, the universal truth is it takes the collective talents and actions of many, inside the core team and outside, to drive and sustain successful change and transformation. And now more than ever, during these constantly changing, volatile and uncertain times, the choices of what to do are as difficult and critical as ever.

As Chief Learning Officer for TwentyEighty Strategy Execution (formerly IPS Learning & ESI International), I helped develop, direct and scale university partnership programs including the award-winning Stanford Advanced Project Management (SAPM) program, a dynamic partnership of renowned University faculty and expert practitioners in the field; as well as the Adaptive Strategic Execution Program (ASEP) in partnership with Duke CE and the Duke Fuqua School of Business. Both programs designed to help leaders and mid-level managers adaptively lead and execute their work. 

In addition, I've led global design and development, product management and implementation teams distributed across the Americas, Middle East, India, Asia and Europe with responsibility for the delivery of innovative multi-modality product portfolios for both start-ups and large global organizations. The context is almost always different, but equally important. The design and delivery must be contextually relevant.

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And now more than ever, if it doesn't add value, and if this value can't be measured, then the very effort itself should not be undertaken.

DELIVER AND FACILITATE WITH THE LEARNER IN MIND

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I learned early on that for learning to be sticky for adult learners: (1) it must relate to their real world context and experiences; and (2) they must have the opportunity to learn by doing.

In the learning ecosystem, it is our job as facilitators, educators, trainers, and coaches to make sure everything we do is contextually relevant. 

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I love to facilitate and teach, as well as speak and write about the topics of adaptive leadership, strategy execution, team effectiveness, organizational change and transformation, and improving the business impact of organizational learning.

I have the good fortune to be a frequent contributor to the Stanford University's Center for Professional Development, as well as many of our partner organizations, delivering to a global audience live virtually, as well as in person in Europe, Asia, India, the Gulf Region, and across the United States.

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At the end of the day, we owe it to every one of our students, participants and attendees, to make the connections from theory to practice, to ensure contextual relevance, and to create the stickiness for learning to convert to action.

WE ALL OWN THE LEARNING CULTURE 

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I have led efforts to develop and implement enterprise-wide initiatives for diverse global clientele including Apple, Barclays, Boeing, Cisco, Cognizant, EU Parliament, Hewlett-Packard, Kaiser Permanente, Medtronic, Nationwide, Nordstrom, Prudential, Saudi Industrial Development Fund, Stanford University, Visa and many more.  A shared belief amongst this eclectic group is that culture matters, and that a culture of learning enables real changes in the mindsets and skill sets that leads to positive change, measurable results, and true transformation.

My clients, colleagues and partners have given me feedback about my abilities as a skilled collaborator, team builder, partnership champion and thought leader. I look to build upon these core capabilities everyday. Through doing great work with our partners. Through doing great work for our clients. For doing great work with our students. We are all on a lifelong journey of learning.

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