{"id":38653,"date":"2022-05-30T12:02:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T10:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herbertnathan.com\/2022\/05\/30\/intervju-med-michel-westher-vd-pa-knowly-ab-copy\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T15:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:33:23","slug":"intervju-med-dan-tesnjak-vice-vd-for-apac-och-emea-pa-degreed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herbertnathan.com\/sv\/2022\/05\/30\/intervju-med-dan-tesnjak-vice-vd-for-apac-och-emea-pa-degreed\/","title":{"rendered":"Intervju med Dan Tesnjak, Vice VD f\u00f6r APAC och EMEA p\u00e5 Degreed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terhi Benjaminsson som \u00e4r Seniorkonsult p\u00e5 HerbertNathan & Co har haft n\u00f6jet att intervjua Dan Tesnjak som \u00e4r Vice VD f\u00f6r APAC och EMEA p\u00e5 Degreed.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Degreed \u00e4r en global learning tech-pionj\u00e4r och en av de f\u00f6rsta leverant\u00f6rerna som introducerade Learning experience platform (LXP) p\u00e5 marknaden. <\/strong><\/em>De har varit banbrytande n\u00e4r det kommer till att dra nytta av den teknologiska utvecklingen f\u00f6r att st\u00f6tta f\u00f6retags l\u00e4rande att g\u00e5 \u00f6ver till ett personlig l\u00e4rande med \u00f6kat fokus p\u00e5 upplevelsen.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Degreed var en av de f\u00f6rsta plattformar som gav st\u00f6d f\u00f6r en personlig och individuell upplevelse, d\u00e4r utbildningserbjudandet var baserat p\u00e5 intresse, kompetensniv\u00e5 och inl\u00e4rningsstil hos medarbetaren.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Och som Dan Tesnjak s\u00e4ger; ”L\u00e4rande ska inte f\u00f6rvaltas, utan konsumeras.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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B<\/strong>er\u00e4tta lite om din bakgrund och hur l\u00e4nge du har varit i din nuvarande roll. <\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

– <\/em>I\u2019m VP APAC and EMEA at Degreed, overseeing the go-to-market strategy and educating learning and development teams about skills-based approaches to learning<\/span> and talent. I have over two decades of international experience in this area, coaching business leaders on corporate learning best practices as well as leadership development, diversity, <\/span>inclusion<\/span> and multicultural teamwork. I have been at Degreed for ove<\/span>r 5 years now and before this, I was at <\/span>Learnlight<\/span> as their head of sales and marketing and Pearson.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Ber\u00e4tta kort om er som bolag, tex<\/span> n\u00e4r ni grundades, antal anst\u00e4llda, var ni finns lokaliserade, osv.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

– <\/em>Degreed is the workforce upskilling platform for hundreds of the world\u2019s most innovative employers. We connect all your learning, on-the-job development, and internal mobility opportunities to intelligence on the skills your business needs next. And we do it all in one simple, fluid, skill-building experience that\u2019s powered by your people\u2019s interests and goals so you can transform your workforce from within.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

We have more than 600 employees (and growing) across Europe, Asia, Australia, North America and Latin America.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ber\u00e4tta kort om er produkt, dess \u00f6vergripande funktionalitet samt er m\u00e5lgrupp.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

– <\/em>We have three products. Degreed started with our Learning Experience Platform (LXP) that supports learning teams in curating, promoting, and consolidating all kinds of learning resources. It tailors learning to each individual, whatever their learning style and preferences \u2014 from informal learning like reading blogs or listening to podcasts, to formal courses or modular, bite-size learning.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Because it is delivered virtually, our LXP has been helping clients create more learning agility and respond to the pressures of the pandemic. Mining company Vale, for example, provides access to learning opportunities to all its employees regardless of if they\u2019re based in its head office, down a mine, on a ship, or on the road in one of its trucks. Similarly, during the pandemic, Unilever shifted much of its learning online including its entire leadership curriculum. Learning at Unilever rose 161% during the pandemic. With all of this tracked through Degreed.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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In 2020, Degreed launched its second product, Degreed Opportunities, as a way to make learning actionable in an organization giving people opportunities to practice, apply and stretch their skills through on-the-job learning opportunities like projects, assignments, mentorships or even individual tasks. That also levels the playing field for talent development. For example, an employee in sales can learn new skills in social media, through Degreed\u2019s LXP, and then do a temporary assignment in the marketing department through Degreed Opportunities to reinforce those skills.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Our third product, Degreed Intelligence, was launched in 2021 and provides a way for organizations to track the skills in their workforce, spot skill gaps, plan ahead and inform upskilling plans, and understand how to best utilize their workforce skills.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Degreed\u2019s community consists of HR and learning leaders, although we\u2019re increasingly seeing IT and business leaders becoming interested in our solutions too as upskilling and skills become more of a C-Suite priority.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Vilka skulle du s\u00e4ga \u00e4r de fr\u00e4msta styrkorna med ert erbjudande, b\u00e5de som produkt och leverant\u00f6r av systemet?<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

\u00a0– Degreed was the first of its kind in the Learning Experience Platform (LXP) sector, and since then it has remained at the forefront<\/span> of (firstly) learning, and now, upskilling and reskilling. It achieves this by remaining highly focused on the people who use our platform \u2014 we put control, autonomy, and insights directly into the hands of workers. Learning opportunities are tailored to <\/span>people\u2019s interests and aspirations, while work opportunities (in the form of permanent roles, secondments, stretch assignments, project-based work, volunteering and more) are offered based on skills, learning, and career goals. Every Degreed user has a ski<\/span>ll profile that tracks <\/span>all of<\/span> their current skills, experience, and formal and informal learning, to give an up-to-date view of what they can do. This profile follows individuals throughout their career to become the most accurate information on their skil<\/span>ls \u2014 enabling them to transact on their current and future skills.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Hur uppfattar ni nuvarande efterfr\u00e5gan p\u00e5 marknaden f\u00f6r <\/strong>Knowly<\/strong> b\u00e5de fr\u00e5n befintliga kunder och nytillkommande?<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

– Degreed has grown quickly since its inception, but particularly <\/span>during 2020 where we focused on supporting our customers and partners in dealing with the sudden impacts of the pandemic and remote-work shift. In 2020 alone, Degreed more than doubled its active user base and increased its team by 50%, to nearly 600 emplo<\/span>yees, across six continents. One in seven Degreed users activated their profile between April-May 2020 (the first global lockdown).\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Hur uppfattar ni nuvarande att efterfr\u00e5gan f\u00f6r Learning Management system har f\u00f6r\u00e4ndrats de senaste fem \u00e5ren?<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

– Th<\/span>e arrival of the LXP in the market forced a rethink, making learners the consumers of learning. Before this, many LMS companies focused solely on administrative tasks and reporting on the activity of the L&D <\/span>organization as a whole, a<\/span> justification of L&D\u2019<\/span>s \u201craison <\/span>d\u2019etre<\/span>\u201d and learning budgets. LXPs are all about inspiring curiosity and widening access to learning and skilling opportunities so their user experience (UX) is really designed for discovery and surfacing relevant content. This disruption has for<\/span>ced LMS companies to tweak their user interfaces to be simpler and friendlier for users. However, they are also quickly discovering that creating a holistic and modern learning experience is not just about making a homepage look more attractive. There is s<\/span>o much more to building an intuitive and truly learner-focused learning experience.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Vad tror ni kr\u00e4vs av LMS-leverant\u00f6rer f\u00f6r att vara relevanta akt\u00f6rer inom Learning Technologies de n\u00e4rmaste \u00e5ren?<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

We think diverse and healthy learning ecosystems should have, at a minimum, the following features: AI-driven personalization of learning content, the ability to build communities and connections around shared practice or interests, social learning capabil<\/span>ities (including tools for creating and sharing), curation and experience authoring capability that leverage influencers and subject experts, as well as learner insights, opportunities to practice skills, and various assessment possibilities.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vad st\u00e5r \u00f6verst p\u00e5 er lista n\u00e4r det g\u00e4ller framtida vidareutveckling av produkten?<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

– We are interested in creating meaningful learning experiences that span across <\/span>all of<\/span> the specific moments of need for all employees. While learning will continue to be at<\/span> the core of our solution, we\u2019re also laying the foundations for a flexible skills framework that could serve as the jet fuel for many other HR processes. We\u2019re already doing that with our Degreed Opportunities and Degreed Intelligence products. And we\u2019re exploring o<\/span>ther uses like business transformation, succession planning and performance management. Using skill insights <\/span>as a way to<\/span> understand and even predict emerging or lagging capabilities, we hope to help our clients better prepare their workforce for the future<\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Vilka framg\u00e5ngsr\u00e5d skulle du ge till den som \u00f6nskar erbjuda engagerande l\u00e4rande f\u00f6r sina medarbetare?<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

– <\/em>There is much room for improvement with this – globally, workers and managers give their employer\u2019s learning and development an aggregate net promoter score (NPS) of -25<\/a>. If your learning is missing the mark, that\u2019s a lot of time and resources wasted.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Career development is a very personal thing and learning must reflect this. Offering a range of learning resources will ensure every individual\u2019s learning style is catered for. Similarly, learning opportunities should be tailored to an individual\u2019s role, interests, and career goals. This makes learning relevant to them and makes it more likely that they\u2019ll engage with the resources on offer. Making learning accessible is another key tactic, people should feel able to engage with learning whenever they feel like it, wherever they are, and in whatever format they prefer. Finally, reinforcing learning through relevant work opportunities will provide the \u2018why\u2019 behind learning \u2014 it\u2019ll also make it more likely that people will remember their new skills and knowledge because it\u2019ll be regularly used. These can take the form of stretch assignments, temporary positions, permanent redeployment, volunteering and mentoring.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ber\u00e4tta g\u00e4rna om ett lyckat samarbete med kunden d\u00e4r ni tillsammans bidrog till att digitalisera och effektivisera kundens s\u00e4tt att leverera utbildning och l\u00e4rande i sin organisation.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

– <\/em>When the Visa L&D team reimagined workforce development, it wanted to create \u201can\u00a0 organization that learns versus a learning organization.\u201d<\/em> They wanted to create a worker-centric learning culture that was intuitive and tailored to each individual. The team also wanted to align learning more closely with ever-emerging business needs.<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Visa turned to Degreed to fulfill these goals. It consolidated a comprehensive learning technology ecosystem \u2014 under the name, Visa University, which now offers all 20,000 Visa employees globally a wide range of learning experiences. Through Degreed\u2019s LXP, the Visa L&D team now efficiently curates content and delivers relevant resources to every employee.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u200b\u200b\u201cWe always knew there would need to be a front door from which people would arrive, socialize, collaborate, and get personalized recommendations around different ways they could skill up, whether it be for their role or for something else they were interested in, or because somebody shared something with them,\u201d said Gordon Trujillo, Vice President and Global Head of Learning Enablement at Visa University. \u201cThat\u2019s where Degreed came into the picture.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Within four months of launching Degreed, 65% had logged on. And the L&D team had already integrated 80,000 assets from which it could curate. Learning data generated as people engage with the platform, tells the L&D team what topics, content formats, and resources are resonating the most in different departments and with different people. This is helping them tailor their offering even further. The virtual learning experience is also democratizing learning for the whole organization, making it more accessible in the flow of work or whenever suits each learner. It is also making learning more cost-efficient compared to in-person learning.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Ultimately, Degreed helps Visa encourage workers to be continuous learners by providing a consumer-grade experience that people want to make a part of their daily routines.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Tack Dan f\u00f6r att du tog dig tid att svara p\u00e5 v\u00e5ra fr\u00e5gor! Vi p\u00e5 HerbertNathan & Co kommer med sp\u00e4nning f\u00f6lja utvecklingen av er produkt.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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