Chris Pirie

Member Since: 6th Dec 2019
Former Oracle Global VP of Online Learning, where he launched the Oracle Learning Network, Microsoft’s Chief Learning Officer for Microsoft’s entire global sales force for the past 7 years, and previously Head of Sales and Marketing for the Microsoft Learning Division where he orchestrated the move from a product to a cloud sales approach, Chris’s entire career has been spent working at the intersection between Learning and Technology.
Founder and CEO Learning Futures Group
30th Jun 2021
Purpose: the genuine game-changer for learning and development?
When I last wrote for Training Zone, it was all about how L&D’s keyword for the next decade had to be ‘human.’ I’m now going to change...
Strategy
2nd Dec 2020
L&D’s keyword for the next decade: human
The most useful statement about our fast-moving century I've ever heard was from Canadian SF writer William Gibson, who said back in 2003...
Business
5th Nov 2020
Is purpose the way to save learning and development?
It’s something that 89% of leaders think drives employee satisfaction . It’s also a factor 73% of people believe will help companies...
Culture
14th Oct 2020
Why L&D needs to think like an unemployed teenager
All my professional life in L&D, the question of how technology could change the future of learning at work has fascinated me. But it...
Strategy
17th Sep 2020
How can we use the crisis to take L&D to the next level?
“This is an opportunity to look at what used to be long-form problems; things that we had postponed for too long are now immediate, and...
Strategy
17th Aug 2020
Why L&D should not mistake ‘NeuroDazzle’ for neuroscience
The brain is… kind of complicated. After even 150 years of scientific psychology, we really don’t know much about this magical part of...
Talent
15th Jul 2020
Confessions of a well-meaning CLO: the L&D sins we must all stop committing
Sometimes, I have an anxiety dream where, AA-style, I find myself standing up before an audience of fellow-humbled L&D leaders. There,...
Training
8th Jun 2020
Using improv to get past Covid-19 and create more relevant L&D
For years, L&D – painfully aware as it is of its need to change – has been trying to do what business thinker Clayton Christensen once...
Culture
13th May 2020
Why the UK needs to better recognise informal learning achievement
Even before the current crisis, none of us really knew what to do about the adult learner hiding in plain sight. These aren’t people with...
Talent
26th Mar 2020
Learning professionals: let’s get through the crisis together
In light of the ongoing global pandemic, I want to say a few words. Arguably, all I’m doing is acknowledging the obvious: that our world...
Strategy