Karie Willyerd, internationally recognized Chief Learning Officer, author and Advisory Board Member at GSV Ventures, joins Skillable.
New Port Richey, Fla – March 19, 2024 – Karie Willyerd, former Chief Learning Officer (CLO) and head of Education Services at Visa, SAP and Sun Microsystems, has joined Skillable, the pioneer in experiential learning and skill validation, as an Advisor and CLO in Residence. Karie will work closely with Skillable’s leadership team to support its global growth and customer-centric product innovation.
An influential leader in the learning and development (L&D) sector, Karie established the first CLO role for Visa globally, where she integrated its previously disparate learning functions into a single, award-winning corporate university. She also grew Visa’s client learning business to achieve 100% growth. Her results were recognized with an ATD Best award – one of two ATD Best awards that Karie has won – alongside the Top 20 APEX awards and an ATD Distinguished Contribution award. Karie is also the co-author of two best-selling books covering the future of HR and careers.
Karie Willyerd
Chief Learning Officer in Residence and Advisor
Karie’s unique experiences as a CLO and industry influencer will help Skillable’s customers and prospects better understand how to address their skills challenges and prepare their workforces for the future through hands-on learning.
Karie said, “Skillable offers a compelling solution for leaders, giving workers a much-needed hands-on way of deepening and validating their skills. It’s a missing piece for many training strategies, which have relied on theoretical, knowledge-based skill-building for too long. Skillable’s experiential learning opportunities and virtual labs rely on actual demonstration of capability, making skills-based hiring and development a reality.”
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About Skillable.
Skillable is the trusted pioneer and innovator in performance-based learning and skill validation. In job and organization-specific scenarios, people develop their skills through hands-on experiences that accelerate job readiness and produce evidence-based skill data. Since 2004, more than 400 global customers and their millions of learners have launched 35 million labs, using Skillable to practice and validate their skills in live learning environments.
