Lists. They make the world go spherical. The listing you made for Santa detailing all of the presents you need. The listing of chores it is advisable get by means of this weekend. And at this time, we’ve bought the most effective listing of all. The listing of the highest studying & improvement (L&D) consultants it is advisable learn about in 2022.

You’ll be seeing some acquainted faces from final 12 months’s listing and our prime gamification gurus listing. What can we are saying, they’re simply that good! 

However, we’ve additionally added a number of latest names to the listing. Keep a watch out for these luminaries. Without additional ado, let’s check out this 12 months’s L&D consultants!

The Top L&D Experts for 2022

We would as soon as once more prefer to reiterate that this listing is offered in no explicit order. They’re all equal superstars in our eyes! 

Brigette Hyacinth [New Entry!]

Brigette is an L&D professional if we ever noticed one. She’s a bestselling creator, keynote speaker, founder and extra. For over 15 years, Brigette has used her experience to advise CEO’s, entrepreneurs, educators, governments and leaders everywhere in the world on L&D issues.

She’s additionally acquired some superb recognition, similar to:

• Top 100 HR Influencers (Leadership & Development)
• Top 20 EMEA-Based Tech Experts to encourage Digital Transformation Efforts
• Top 100 Most Influential folks of African Descent beneath 40

She’s additionally the second most related girl and second most endorsed individual on LinkedIn! 

John Leh

We’re large followers of John right here! He utilises over 25 years of information to convey recent takes and insights to the L&D business.

John wears plenty of hats. He’s at the moment the CEO, Lead Analyst and LMS choice marketing consultant of Talented Learning. 

Organisations, distributors and HR professionals know they’ll depend on John for professional recommendation and counsel. You can even tune into the Talented Learning Show and listen to him chat to different business leaders.

Take a take a look at John’s LinkedIn!

Katrina Moss [New Entry!]

Katrina has an actual ardour for L&D. She’s a recipient of the extremely esteemed Outstanding CHRP Ross A. Hennigar Award. She additionally has expertise in different areas similar to recruitment, succession planning and worker engagement schemes. 

She’s at the moment the Head of Facilitation and Coaching at Shopify. They can you’ll want to rely on her to ship prime notch teaching programmes and wonderful outcomes.

If you’d like to listen to extra about Katrina, you’ll be able to try her look on the Learning Uncut Emergent Podcast. It’s all about how one can embed a development mindset in your organisation.

Be certain to take a look at her LinkedIn!

Karl Kapp

Karl is likely one of the OG L&D consultants on the market. He shared the excellent news about the advantages of recreation mechanics in on-line studying many moons in the past. We’re very grateful to him for it!

In true vogue, Karl designed Enterprise Game Stack for that very cause. He’s additionally one of many L&D consultants making waves in different areas, like being an creator for LinkedIn Learning. 

He passes his data all the way down to others as a professor at Bloomsburg University. And we’ve labored collectively to create Game Thinking, a well-liked sequence of movies about gamification.

Take a take a look at his LinkedIn web page!

Barbara Thompson [New Entry!]

Barbara has positively earned her place as one in all our L&D consultants. She’s labored with organisations similar to Network Rail and Boston Consulting Group and is at the moment the Head of Learning Partnerships at M&S.

She has a mixture of in-house and consulting data to attract from. She shares her data often as a visitor speaker at conferences and podcasts similar to Learning Now TV.

Barbara can be a famend mentor who’s all the time eager to share what she’s discovered all through her profession journey.

Learn extra about Barbara on her LinkedIn!

Laura Overton

Laura is an esteemed member of the CIPD and the Learning and Performance Institute. She’s additionally an ideal worldwide speaker and creator (of 300+ articles and 70 main analysis stories).

She’s the co-founder of Emerging Stronger and co-host of the Learning Uncut Emergent Podcast (we’ll get to the opposite hosts quickly!). They’re all about retaining it ‘real’ and we salute them for that!

Learn extra about Laura right here!

Jim Stroud [New Entry!]

Jim is a HR all-rounder. He’s the thoughts behind 5 books targeted on HR. The producer of his personal YouTube sequence known as The Jim Stroud Show. And the host of The Things I Think About podcast! 

Jim has additionally consulted for corporations similar to Microsoft and Google. He at the moment works at Proactive Talent who intention to assist their shoppers recruit and retain prime expertise.

Find out further particulars about Jim on his LinkedIn! 

Kevin Yates

Kevin is one in all our L&D consultants who’s prepared to resolve all of your studying mysteries. He does this by exploring the facility of studying knowledge. He’s a speaker, creator, presenter and extra. 

We’re additionally impressed together with his work outdoors of L&D. He’s arrange a non-profit known as Meals within the Meantime. They present meals to these in want at pop-up meals pantries. 

Kevin is at the moment the Learning Measurement Principal at Meta. He’s even created a brand new recreation! It’s known as ‘L&D Detective Measurement Mysteries’ and it’s set to be unveiled subsequent 12 months. How thrilling! 

You can be taught extra about Kevin right here!

Lavinia Mehedințu [New Entry!]

Lavinia is a studying architect right here to design the answer to your L&D points. She began a publication two years in the past which noticed phenomenal development and is now a start-up. It’s known as Offbeat. 

They gather and share nice L&D assets and it’s now a thriving group. They’re additionally launching a podcast quickly!

Click right here to view Lavinia’s LinkedIn profile!

Toby Beresford [New Entry!]

Toby is a speaker, CEO and founding father of Leaderboarded. He has a wealth of information on the usage of gamification in studying and HR. With it he’s written a guide and given nice speeches at a number of conferences. 

He even gamified a number of the operations on the United Nations!

More not too long ago, Toby gave a a lot appreciated contribution to our ‘Gamification: Now and In the Future’ Report. He’s additionally began working with the non-profit Bible Society!

Toby has an ideal LinkedIn profile so that you can take a look at!

Jane McGonigal [New Entry!]

Dr. Jane is the Director of Game Research and Development on the Institute for the Future. She’s labored there for over 16 years.

She’s additionally an acclaimed creator (and two-time New York Times Best Seller), recreation designer and an authorized L&D professional. 

She developed TremendousBetter after struggling a concussion. The utility now helps these going through the identical obstacles and challenges. 

Find out extra about Jane right here!

Elliott Masie

Everytime you say the time period ‘eLearning’ you really owe it to Elliott Masie. He’s a real pioneer and L&D professional. His insights are knowledgeable by over three many years of expertise. 

He’s an actual jack of all trades. Elliott is a researcher, founder, common speaker and extra. He’s additionally the CEO of the MASIE Centre and the editor of Learning TRENDS, which has over 50,000 readers! 

Additionally, Elliott is the CEO of MASIE Productions which produces top-notch Broadway and West End Theatre. Catch a present should you can!

Read all about Elliott right here!

Rob Alvarez Bucholska [New Entry!]

Rob Alvarez is a real L&D professional. He’s a global speaker with an actual ardour for gamification — that’s one thing now we have in widespread!

He’s additionally the creator and host of the Professor Game podcast. On it you’ll get to listen to inspiring gamification insights from a wide range of particular visitors.

Rob additionally passes on his gamification knowledge to college students at IE University and helps Ironhack present prime of the road options for his or her shoppers. 

Do your self a favour and take a look at Rob’s LinkedIn!

Shannon Tipton [New Entry!]

Shannon is one in all Laura Overton’s co-hosts on the Learning Uncut Emergent Podcast.

She’s additionally a marketing consultant and well-known speaker. Her purpose is easy: to make your coaching stick! Shannon is at the moment the Chief Learning Officer at Learning Rebels and makes use of professional methods to resolve their shopper’s studying points.

And she’s the creator a guide that particulars all of her data — Disruptive Learning: Discover Your Inner Learning Rebel.

Head over to Shannon’s LinkedIn!

Donald Clark [New Entry!]

Donald is at the moment the CEO of Wildfire Learning. They leverage synthetic intelligence to convey you the facility of content material creation with one easy click on.

He was additionally the director of Learning Pool for a whopping 16 years. During that point, he honed his data and have become an actual L&D professional. Aside from this, he’s an ideal creator, so you’ll be able to mine that data by having a learn of his books!

Be certain to view Donald’s LinkedIn!

Craig Weiss

Craig is the creator of the favored E-Learning 24/7 weblog. It’s learn in a staggering 174 international locations, territories and colonial territories. 

He additionally heads up the Craig Weiss Group which incorporates his weblog, consulting companies and extra. For instance, FindAnLMS.com means that you can conduct a side-by-side comparability of the most effective studying techniques in the marketplace (together with Growth Engineering LMS!).

Check out Craig’s LinkedIn!

Michelle Ockers 

And right here now we have the ultimate co-host of the Learning Uncut Emergent Podcast! 

Michelle, Shannon and Laura are additionally co-founders of Emerging Stronger. Their purpose is to ‘empower L&D professionals to take the BOLD action needed to positively impact business’. 

Michelle herself can be a superb mentor, facilitator, strategist, coach and speaker. Her function is to assist everybody on the market carry out at their highest. 

Learn extra about Michelle right here!

Josh Bersin 

Josh research all points of HR and L&D. He’s well-known for his public talking, writing, recommendation, and extra. Josh additionally based Bersin & Associates, which we now know as Bersin by Deloitte. 

He’s additionally liable for founding the Josh Bersin Academy. This serves as a goldmine of information for over a million HR professionals!

Learn extra about Josh and his work by viewing his LinkedIn profile!

Brandon Carson 

Brandon has achieved many issues throughout his twenty-year profession as an L&D practitioner and professional. 

Previously he’s labored with large names similar to Microsoft and Delta Airlines. He’s at the moment the Vice President of Learning and Leadership at Walmart, a unbelievable creator, and the founding father of L&D Cares. 

L&D Cares is an all-volunteer group of L&D and HR professionals. They intention to supply studying, help, and development alternatives for studying professionals.

We’re additionally very proud to say that he shared a few of his professional data with us. Have a learn of his interview the place he speaks about crafting the proper cell studying technique!

You also needs to have a browse of his LinkedIn!

Robin Hoyle [New Entry!]

Robin is at the moment Head of Learning Innovation at Huthwaite International and has labored on this business for over 30 years. In that point he’s created studying methods and skilled folks from all walks of life. 

He’s often invited to talk at business occasions and conferences and can be a two-time nominee of the Outstanding Contribution to the Training Industry award. Robin’s a gifted author and has written two books: Informal Learning in Organizations and Complete Training.

Lastly, Robin is Chair of the World of Learning Conference, often contributes a video piece to Learning Now TV and is an everyday columnist for TrainingZone.

Head over to his LinkedIn!

Brit Morenus [New Entry!]

Brit is at the moment the Gamification Program Manager at Microsoft.

As robust advocates of gamification, we love the work that she’s been doing. She additionally has the same mission to us: to make studying enjoyable!

During her time at Microsoft, she’s acquired a number of awards such because the FY22 Q2 CSS Impact Award, 2020 Centrical Select Professor Award and CSS Impact Team Award Winner. Go Brit!

You can discover out extra about Brit on her LinkedIn profile!

Christopher Lind [New Entry!]

Christopher is the VP, Chief Learning Officer at ChenMed. 

He can be the founding father of Learning Sharks and the host of Learning Tech Talks. On the podcast, he has discussions with different studying professionals about key business subjects. 

Learning Sharks is a global on-line group of studying and expertise improvement professionals. We advise you to affix!

Christopher can be an advisory board member on the Chief Learning Officer Exchange. This is a closed-door discussion board the place L&D consultants can join with different professionals. 

You can discover Christopher’s LinkedIn profile right here!

Donald H. Taylor [New Entry!]

Donald H. Taylor is a veteran within the battle in opposition to uninteresting on-line studying. He has expertise in each degree of L&D from design and supply by means of to evaluation.

He chaired the Learning and Performance Institute for over a decade and has been chairperson of the Learning Technologies Conference since 2000. He’s additionally the thoughts behind the L&D Global Sentiment Survey and a longtime creator!

Read extra about Donald right here!

Dr. Nigel Paine [New Entry!]

Dr. Nigel has been part of the company studying world for over 20 years. 

He’s at the moment the co-presenter of Learning Now TV. They convey us some nice interviews, steering and discussions about L&D!

Nigel additionally served as head of the BBC’s studying and improvement operation. During his time there he was liable for the creation of a model new onboarding programme, a beautiful management scheme for over 6,000 workers, and a stellar casual studying and data sharing community. 

He’s additionally the thoughts behind some nice books based mostly on L&D subjects. 

Check out his LinkedIn!

Juliette Denny

Juliette is the captain of the SS Growth Engineering. 

She based the corporate almost 20 years in the past and had one purpose in thoughts: to wage battle on uninteresting on-line studying. She’s leveraged recreation mechanics, social studying and epic which means to assist obtain this troublesome feat.

In that point, she launched three progressive merchandise: Growth Engineering LMS, Growth Engineering Learning App and Growth Engineering Authoring Tool. They all come collectively to make up our Impact Suite. 

Head right here to flick through her LinkedIn!

Final Words

This listing consists of a number of the finest consultants that the L&D business has to supply. Between them, there’s centuries of information so that you can mine from. We encourage you to attach with them and be taught extra! 

Like we stated, that is only a choose few of the most effective on the market. There are many extra. Unfortunately, we are able to’t embrace all of them or we’d be right here all day!

We hope you discovered this listing informative. Well finished to all those that made the minimize and thanks on your contribution to L&D!

We’ve bought some L&D consultants of our personal right here at Growth Engineering. If you’d prefer to get related, or increase your learner engagement ranges, then please get in touch with us!