Amber Boyd
Learning & Performance Manager, Nationwide
Amber Boyd, learning & performance manager for Nationwide Insurance, specializes in using human performance methodologies to increase an organization’s efficiency by aligning processes and procedures with strategic goals and influences individual contributors and C-D suite leaders to perform at their optimal level of competency. She has served at Nationwide for almost five years, and has 17 years of experience within the insurance industry. Amber earned her BA in women’s studies from The Ohio State University, and an MS in instructional design and learning technology from Franklin University.
Latest from Amber Boyd
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Using Data to Align Training to Business Goals
Do you find it challenging to marry business expectations with adult learning principles? Often there is a disconnect between the learning assets we develop and the business outcomes our clients are seeking. This misstep could result in a misalignment between our customers’ expectations and the learning artifacts that we deliver. It could also jeopardize creating a learner-centric experience that results in increasing business performance and learner competency. In this session you will learn how to request the required data needed to establish rapport with your stakeholders to create learning experiences that will meet the needs of the business and learners.…
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Monthly Meetup: The Role of Agile Project Management in L&D
Amber Boyd, Learning & Performance Manager at Nationwide, joins ourMonthly Meetup with a presentation titled, “The Role of Agile Project Management in L&D.”
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Ignite Your L&D Team: Migrating to Agile Project Management
Are you ready to move your learning organization into an Agile project management framework? What if strict Agile strategies like Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe do not meet your learning organization’s needs? Join this session! We’ll walk through the process of customizing your Agile strategy to meet the needs of your learning organization, breaking down the process into a step-by-step plan including a build and run timeline. You’ll also learn why and how an L&D team implemented Agile methods, what it took to bring about the change, and lessons learned along the way. We’ll explore the tools we implemented, how the…
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Swimming Upstream: Shift L&D Projects from Waterfall to Agile
With proper planning, you can move your L&D team from a waterfall approach to Agile project management—and dramatically boost efficiency and performance.