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Andrew Kilshaw is Chief Learning Officer at Nike Inc., responsible for overseeing the development needs of over 37,000 employees in Nike's global work-force. His varied background led from studies at Manchester University and Coventry Business School, to IMD, Lausanne, where Andrew received an MBA with distinction. Andrew has since worked with numerous top-tier global companies, and specializes in leadership development and talent management.
Your professional background has been quite diverse, focusing around areas such as talent management, leadership development, business strategy and change management to name a few. What is it that attracted you to this particular role?
Many factors made this a really attractive opportunity. Obviously there's the power of the Nike brand - one of the most iconic in the world, with its mission statement of bringing inspiration and innovation to every athlete in the world ("If you have a body, you are an athlete" - Bill Bowerman). This was a new global centralized learning function to shape, which hadn't been done before - I'm a builder and I thrive on global opportunities. It'sbeen an intellectual and pragmatic challenge to work out how to align a global function that serves the professional, functional and leadership/management development needs of over 37,000 global Nike Inc employees in one of the most highly matrixed structured companies in the world. We've made great progress in the past 18 months, and now have a very solid foundation on which to delivery great learning experiences to all Nike Inc's employees.
How do you align your own L&D strategy to support the Nike business?
At the portfolio level, we mirror and align with the corporate...