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Filling the Leadership Gap: Creating a Learning Community

Research indicates that within the next fifteen to twenty years, the Baby Boomers will exit the workforce. This exodus will create a leadership vacuum within organizations not prepared to fill that vacuum. Boomers will not only leave many upper-level leadership positions vacant, but more critically will take coveted institutional knowledge with them. In order to achieve its goals, organizations must have a current pool of trained employees ready to step in and assume leadership roles. Tennessee state government is experiencing this challenge.

The Strategic Learning Solutions Division of the Tennessee Department of Human Resources developed a leadership training initiative designed to enable agencies within the state to achieve their present and future organizational goals. The LEAD Tennessee Leadership Initiative, recipient of the IPMA-HR 2010 award, is a dynamic statewide, 12- month development initiative which includes six one-day summits of intense, personally tailored, high-impact learning focused on twelve core competencies. The goal of LEAD Tennessee is to increase the state’s leadership bench strength by providing agencies with a continuous pipeline of motivated and prepared leaders that share a common language and mindset about great leadership. Encouraging and developing emerging and current leaders is a fundamental requirement for successfully achieving organizational goals, and LEAD Tennessee fulfills that need for Tennessee state government.

This experiential presentation will provide insight on how to develop a learning community within an organization using the LEAD Tennessee initiative as a transferable model.

 Trish Holliday serves as Assistant Commissioner and  Chief Learning Officer (CLO) on the executive team for the State of Tennessee Department of Human Resources. She provides state appointing authorities with executive coaching, in workforce planning and development. Trish drives the overall curriculum focus and development of the statewide leadership programs: LEAD Tennessee, Tennessee Government Executive Institute, Tennessee Government Management Institute, Tennessee Government Leadership Council, and the HR Masters Series, aligning them with the state’s vision for workforce development. Trish builds relationships with internal and external stakeholders by networking with universities/colleges, national and local industry associations, government entities and non-profit organizations.

Trish is passionate about public service and the opportunity to create learning environments that are engaging, experiential and applicable for the participants. She is a relationship builder and people leader, with over 25 years of experience in talent development, executive coaching, curriculum design, and program management. She specializes in leadership creating and sustaining partnerships and workforce development within all levels of an organization. As a learning facilitator, Trish strives to create development opportunities that stretch and push adult learners to look at new perspectives, broader view points and diverse thoughts. She promotes the philosophy it is important to “grow your own” and “strive to continually improve in all you do to become more effective and efficient.”

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