Nic Girvan is the director of learning and delivery at global diversity and inclusion training consultancy PDT Global, a GP Strategies company. Her expertise in business psychology, modern leadership, and adult learning practice blend together to break the mold of traditional training experiences and redefine the way DEIB transformation takes hold. Nic believes that corporate training is too important to be a check-box exercise – and that, for successful learning and organizational development strategies to make a measurable change, organizations need to embrace innovative and enhanced methods of delivery.
In a constantly evolving world of social justice movements such as Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, learning and development professionals cannot rest on their laurels with outdated DEIB learning templates and the ever-present iceberg graphic.
Change tends to bring a mixture of brilliant opportunities and worrying realities. In times of crisis, there are those who get creative — and those who resolutely stick with what they know. Here’s what the pandemic has taught us about L&D.