Laura Overton

Position: Speaker : Author: Facilitator
Organization: Explorer (UK)
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Laura Overton is an award winning learning analyst dedicated to uncovering and sharing effective practices in learning innovation that lead to business value. The author of over 40 reports and hundreds of articles, her work is based on 35 years of practical experience and a commitment to supporting evidence based learning decisions. Dedicated to surfacing and sharing collective wisdom, Laura established #Learningchangemakers and is a co-founder of Emerging Stronger – global initiatives to support the changing world of workplace learning. As the founder and original CEO of Towards Maturity, she is also known for leading a 15 year longitudinal study programme (2004 – 2019) with thousands of Learning leaders and workers around the globe to uncover and share learning strategies that lead to business success. In the UK, Laura is an Academic Fellow of the CIPD, taking an active lead on their L&D research initiatives, and is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In the last decade, she was the first woman to be awarded the Learning and Performance Institute’s prestigious Colin Corder Award for services to training and was the recipient of the inaugural elearning age Special Achievement award at the Learning Technology awards. Since 2014 she has been consistently recognised as a significant global influencer of workplace learning trends.

Session Overview

Beyond Boundaries: Creating Strategic HR and L&D Impact Together

In today’s fast-changing business world, HR and L&D teams can’t afford to work in isolation. This practical keynote shows how to transform HR from separate specialists into a unified strategic force that directly improves business results.

Using real examples from organisations that are making this shift, this session will show you how to:

• Align with Purpose – Clearly identify business goals HR can help achieve, create shared priorities across all people teams, and build partnerships that break down silos

• Use Evidence That Works – Combine multiple sources—people data, employee feedback, business metrics, behavioural science, and your own experience—to understand what’s happening, design better solutions, track what’s working and adapt your course

• Create Joined-Up Impact – Coordinate actions across HR and with other departments by using multiple approaches at once, making sure rewards support desired behaviours and building coherent experiences that drive real change

You’ll leave with practical tools you can use immediately in your organization—no matter your role or company size—and renewed confidence in tackling complex challenges without feeling overwhelmed. This session will help you see how connecting your work across HR creates new opportunities for influence and innovation.

Three Tangible Learnings
1. Connect HR and business goals, creating shared priorities that everyone understands and supports
2. Feel confident using different types of evidence to design, monitor and adapt better solutions
3. Discover practical ways to coordinate actions across teams, ensuring everyone pulls in the same direction for greater impact

 

From Good Ideas to Great Adoption: Executing a Successful Change Journey
Learn how to get your L&D innovations working without succumbing to change fatigue. This interactive session will reveal why useful ideas fail still to spread and how to create conditions for natural, sustainable adoption. You’ll leave with a practical tool for amplifying conditions where people proactively engage with new learning approaches.

 

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Laura Overton is an award winning learning analyst dedicated to uncovering and sharing effective practices in learning innovation that lead to business value. The author of over 40 reports and hundreds of articles, her work is based on 35 years of practical experience and a commitment to supporting evidence based learning decisions. Dedicated to surfacing and sharing collective wisdom, Laura established #Learningchangemakers and is a co-founder of Emerging Stronger – global initiatives to support the changing world of workplace learning. As the founder and original CEO of Towards Maturity, she is also known for leading a 15 year longitudinal study programme (2004 – 2019) with thousands of Learning leaders and workers around the globe to uncover and share learning strategies that lead to business success. In the UK, Laura is an Academic Fellow of the CIPD, taking an active lead on their L&D research initiatives, and is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In the last decade, she was the first woman to be awarded the Learning and Performance Institute’s prestigious Colin Corder Award for services to training and was the recipient of the inaugural elearning age Special Achievement award at the Learning Technology awards. Since 2014 she has been consistently recognised as a significant global influencer of workplace learning trends.