Jackie Clifford

Thanks to Carla Watkins for taking this picture
Member Since: 3rd Sep 1999
Columnist
Jackie has been working in learning and development since 1990. She has worked in the following sectors and industries: Sales Recruitment Retail Voluntary sector Further education Port industry Training consultancy Prison Service Non-departmental public body Since 2000 Jackie has co-authored three books, all published by Kogan Page. She works on a freelance and interim basis providing support for organisations in all areas of learning and development, including needs analysis, programme development, business skills training, coaching and strategy development. Jackie is passionate about learning and about helping people to recognise the potential for learning to take place - in the training room, the workplace and beyond. Her experience, skills and knowledge enable her to work with individuals and groups in a facilitative and practical way, helping to define specific learning outcomes and achieve them using approaches that are appropriate to each situation and organisational culture. As an Ambassador for Girlguiding (the largest youth organisation for girls and young women in the UK, with half a million members aged 4-25 and more than 65,000 adult leaders) she was the lead volunteer on a project to review and develop their learning and development strategy in 2010 and supported the group that was working to update the strategy in 2016. Jackie works with a number of Associates and will be happy to put together a team to meet the specific needs of your organisation.
Director Clarity Learning and Development
12th Jul 2022
A new L&D paradigm for business strategy
In recent years, HR and L&D have been evolving to become more strategic – at least that is what many books and articles would like to...
Strategy
24th Jun 2022
Are you guilty of ‘wilful blindness’ when examining L&D data?
A while ago I listened to the audiobook version of Margaret Heffernan’s ‘Wilful Blindness’ . Through the chapters of this thought-provoking...
Strategy
10th May 2022
Be the learner you want to see in the world
According to LinkedIn’s 2022 Workplace Learning report , demand for L&D specialists increased by 94% between the periods of July–...
Talent
31st Mar 2022
Why it's time to reconnect with the fundamentals of L&D
I’m really interested in the language that we use around learning and development compared with the day-to-day vernacular used across our...
Training
23rd Feb 2022
How can we measure the impact of L&D on culture change?
As a part of the judging panel for last year’s Culture Pioneer Awards , it was a real privilege to work alongside others from our industry...
Culture
18th Jan 2022
The 'learning culture' debate: Is the term still valid in today's climate?
In an article written for Harvard Business Review back in 2018, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Josh Bersin discussed different ways of...
Culture
6th Jan 2022
Five reflective questions for embarking on a new year of learning
The transition from one year to the next has many of us beginning to reflect on where we have been during the last 12 months and where we...
Talent
15th Nov 2021
How L&D can partner with managers to surface meaningful learning data
A few weeks ago I was listening to Andrew Marr interviewing Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak in advance of the budget. One of the...
Strategy
8th Oct 2021
How to better support your flexible learners
While flexible learning is not a new topic, it is one that is worth coming back to on a regular basis, especially during this current...
Talent
30th Sep 2021
Onboarding: How L&D can contribute to securing the future
How did it get to be September again? 2021 seems to have flown by in a flash – not just for me, but for many of the people who I’m talking...
Talent