Acknowledgements: These Great People Helped Me

These great people enabled me to take up my leadership role as Head of Corporate Learning:

  • Andrea Bacca
  • Urs Lehner
  • Georges Schlegel
  • Thomas Karlen

These are the excellent people I've worked with:

  • Thomas Späti
  • Yves Epiney
  • Stephanie Perrier
  • Ekaterina Molokova
  • Natasha Patil
  • Matthias Angele
  • Felix Nater
  • Susanne Kaufmann
  • Funda Alku
  • Erika Bucher
  • Desiree Behrens
  • Michaela Pfister
  • Marie-Aude Ramos
  • Daniel Schnellmann

(not all team members are shown on the above photo)

These are the great apprentices I've worked with:

  • Michelle Fechner
  • Noemi Krüsi
  • Raffael Bühler
  • Alex Peter
  • Anic Grand
  • Jan Sommer
  • Joël Wäger
  • Salome Artho
  • Antonia Rakaric
  • Dominic Nussbaum

These are the great professional external people I've worked with:

  • Albrecht Kresse
  • Wolf Samland
  • Sumit Chatterjee
  • Rahel Heer
  • Monica Scott
  • Carlo Badini
  • Alexander Faga
  • Daniel Wagner
  • Stefan Klameth
  • Stephanie Sonderegger
  • Daniel Schwarzenbach
  • Sarah Schwab
  • Désirée Anja Jäger
  • Dirk Rosomm
  • Pierre Dillenbourg
  • Roman Bruegger
  • Per Bergamin
  • Marco Spinelli
  • Matteo Zennaro
  • Josh Squires
  • David Brannon

(not all people are shown on the above photo)​​

These great people were kind enough to Beta-Test and helped me improve this learning experience before launching it:

  • Christina Henschen
  • Patrik Hanson
  • Alexandre Mugnier
  • Kaissar Salamy
  • Natalie Mc Nulty
  • Bernard Jaccard
  • Urs Langenegger
  • Mehmet Karatay
  • Remon van den Berg
  • Dan Oltersdorf
  • Mathieu Menet
  • Sebastian Brosowski
  • Elizabeth Hoisington
  • Lucia Stejer
  • Larry Borgese
  • Sandra Vonderlind
  • Michael Jedamzik
  • Arthur Buchmüller
  • Pius Gruber
  • Astrid Lindmar
  • Alison Jones
  • Funda Alku
  • Annett Kuhnert
  • Sarah Schwab
  • Anja Staubli
  • Zachary Pfau
  • Claudia Rüegg

These are the methodologies, sources and resources that I have used to disrupt corporate learning and implement the social learning marketplace successfully. All of these approaches are copyright protected by their respective owners.

  • Business Model Canvas
  • Value Proposition Design
  • Blue Ocean Strategy
  • Business Model You
  • SWOT
  • PESTLE
  • Porter's Five Forces
  • BCG Growth-Share Matrix
  • Michael Treacy & Fred Wiersma (1997). The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market.
  • The Lean StartUp
  • Human Centered Design
  • User Experience Research
  • User Experience Design
  • Prototyping
  • Data Science / Data Analytics
  • Winning Complex Sales - InfoTeam and Daniel Schwarzenbach
  • The Challenger Sales
  • The Challenger Customer
  • Blended Learning Consultant - EduTrainMent and Bildungsinnovator
  • Ten Steps to Complex Learning
  • Smovie - Daniel Wagner and Stefan Klameth
  • Bersin by Deloitte
  • Fosway Group Research
  • Prof Pierre Dillenbourg EPFL
  • Prof Per Bergamin FFHS
  • TED Talks/ Insight videos: respective speakers

Listed in random order.


These images I've used from Unsplash:

The Need for Disrupting Corporate Learning & Development - https://unsplash.com/photos/1K9T5YiZ2WU

Driving Business Value - the new L&D Vision - https://unsplash.com/photos/wD1LRb9OeEo

Co-Creating the new L&D Vision - https://unsplash.com/photos/TamMbr4okv4

Selling the new L&D Vision - https://unsplash.com/photos/gMsnXqILjp4

Transforming the L&D Mindset - https://unsplash.com/photos/geM5lzDj4Iw

Co-Creating the new L&D Operating Model - https://unsplash.com/photos/dZxQn4VEv2M

Transforming the L&D Team - https://unsplash.com/photos/hCb3lIB8L8E

Successfully Implementing the new L&D Vision - https://unsplash.com/photos/zoCDWPuiRuA

Enabling a Sustainable Learning Culture - https://unsplash.com/photos/j-0olYcaihg

Best Practice & Fuck Ups - https://unsplash.com/photos/PMVBRYY9F3s and https://unsplash.com/photos/alANOC4E8iM

MeetUp - Reverse Classroom - https://unsplash.com/photos/k_T9Zj3SE8k

MeetUp - Quarterly MeetUp - https://unsplash.com/photos/MAnhvw0nDDY

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