Laurie provides guidance and management for learning within organizations. She provides comprehensive needs assessment at the initiation of a project with stakeholders to determine the scope and depth of the project; develops learning programs to support the organization's strategic plan and business objectives; analyzes performance gaps as needed for adopting training solutions or other resources; evaluates the effectiveness of the learning objectives to ensure the desired results are being achieved; works with leadership teams in implementing tools and resources to support organizational change management.
Laurie Burruss is a popular and sought-after speaker and is often committed well in advance. She is an experienced presenter and keynote speaker who simultaneous educates and engages. Audiences not only get the ``big picture`` - the research, the ideas, and theories - but leave with tangible actions and strategies. To secure Laurie for an event, please complete the contact form below.
Combining experience in the classroom with research in the field, Laurie shares her understanding of complex topics and the strategies that shift behavior, facilitate innovative practices, and ensure transformative results. She has created online training courses, provided learning solutions for organizations, and conducted hands-on and interactive workshops for all levels. Recently she conducted a design thinking workshop attended by staff, faculty, and administrators at Houston Community College to create an innovative entrepreneurship program.
Laurie aids organizations and schools in setting overall goals and then developing both a continuous process and an iterative plan for appraising the progress and the success of implementation through regular assessment. She views strategic planning as an organization's process of defining a strategy, developing a plan, while making decisions on allocating resources to achieve its vision.
As a performance coach and mentor, Laurie seeks to bring out the best in the client. She asks questions, poses challenges, and creates an actionable agenda with frequent touch points. Her style of guiding with purpose, searching for answers, giving critical feedback and completing goals brings success to both individual and team performance. She helps people ``exceed their expectations.``
With direct experiences at over 250 academic site visits, Laurie's ``sweet spot`` is addressing the process of creating, retaining, and transferring knowledge within an organization. Organizational learning is a function of experience within the culture as it attempts to stay competitive in an ever-changing environment. Laurie examines at all aspects: individual learning, group learning, organizational learning and inter-organizational learning.
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