Leadership training reimagined: a Fortune 500 company brought leaders together with social learning

Challenge

A Fortune 500 company and leading provider of distribution, logistics, and supply chain solutions wanted to create impactful and inclusive leadership development programs. These programs needed to engage learners across business units, physical locations, languages, and time zones. Empowering learner involvement and allowing people to share their diverse perspectives was crucial to their leadership development. However, their Learning Management System and Sharepoint environments simply weren’t going to allow them to unlock the engagement and collaboration needed to create real value for their leaders and overall organization.

Solution

Their Director of Talent Management & Organizational Development knew Howspace from her previous work at a large enterprise and immediately knew it was the missing piece in creating more inclusive leadership development programs. Howspace’s platform was soon rolled out as the enterprise leadership development platform for their growing employee base of 20,000 people across 50 countries.

With Howspace, they are bringing together a diverse group of leaders that would have never otherwise met, taking them on a seamless six-month learning journey in an inclusive and engaging way. The learning journeys in Howspace are designed in a variety of ways to ensure that participants are really absorbing the content and providing their perspective and feedback early and often. Involving participants in this way enables real-time feedback and the ability to be agile and pivot to truly meet learner needs. This flexible way of working adds unique value in terms of what the transformative power of these leadership programs offer.

Results

With Howspace, they are empowering inclusive leadership and social learning in a way they’ve never done before, bringing together people across different functions, geographies, and languages. Where leaders perhaps once felt isolated and afraid to speak up, now they have a platform to share, learn, and create change together.

Howspace’s powerful AI features are also a huge benefit, summarizing large-scale conversations and allowing powerful themes to emerge to inform and improve their learning strategy.

Their Director of Talent Management & Organizational Development also points to Howspace’s ease of use and customizability as key in helping them create powerful and engaging programs in no time at all. “We are so appreciative of our relationship with Howspace. I have nothing but positive things to say. I truly don’t know what we would do without Howspace.”