Wayne Hodgins is recognized around the world as a strategic
futurist and one of the leading experts on human performance improvement,
knowledge management, learning and training technology. With over
30-years of experience in business and education, Wayne has developed
thought-provoking and visionary perspectives on how learning, technology,
and standards can revolutionize human performance improvement and
workforce productivity.
Wayne began his career as an educator of young adults and professionals,
teaching industrial design and technology in Vancouver, Canada. He
played a key role in training other educators throughout North America
on leading technologies, such as AutoCAD. In 1988, Wayne received
the Marshall McLuhan Most Distinguished Teacher award.
As a Strategic Futurist for Autodesk, Inc., the world’s leading
digital design company, Wayne has worked with numerous Fortune 500
companies, government agencies, and high tech companies, to develop
learning, training and technology strategies. He is at the forefront
of learning technology standards, serving as Chair of the IEEE Learning
Technology Standards Committee Wayne also serves as a strategic
advisor to groups such as the US Department of Defense, the European
Commission and their large scale PROLEARN project and many research
and development groups worldwide.
As a result of his work with IEEE and other organizations focused
on learning and content strategies, Wayne is known throughout the
training industry as "Mr. Metadata" and is commonly referred
to as the "father" of Learning Objects. IEEE recognized
Wayne in 2004 with its prestigious Hans Karlsson Award for Leadership
and Achievement through Collaboration for his work in defining the
Learning Object Metadata Standard, the world’s first accredited
standard for learning and technology.
Over the years, Wayne has developed a view of human performance
improvement that promotes the synergy between learning, productivity,
creativity and activity – a concept he calls “learnativity.”
He has formed a non-profit organization, Learnativity.org, that
actively explores this concept in collaboration with others in the
training industry.
Wayne has been profiled and interviewed by business press including
Forbes, Fortune, Industry Week, CNN, C-NET, and e-CFO. Training
Magazine named Wayne one its top 10 “New Breed of Visionaries
for the 21st Century,” and e-Learning Magazine recognized
Wayne as a corporate learning leader by naming him one of the “Top
10 CLOs.”
An energetic, powerful and compelling speaker, Wayne has delivered
over 500 keynote sessions around the world for industry, government,
and academia. In 2004 alone, Wayne delivered presentations on 7
continents in over 24 countries; his presentations and broadcasts
reached an estimated audience of over 250,000 individuals and his
articles and interviews went out to an estimated 1.8+ million people
world wide.
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