The L&d Leader: Principles and Practice for Delivering Business Value

By Laura Overton and Michelle Ockers

Is your learning strategy delivering measurable value to the business?

The L&D Leader by Laura Overton and Michelle Ockers is a strategic guide for senior L&D executives and organizational leaders who want to align learning priorities with business objectives, build workforce capability and drive long-term performance.

Written by two leading industry voices, this book distills over 20 years of research with more than 10,000 L&D professionals and 230 learning leaders. It provides proven tools for assessing focus areas, adopting evidence-based practices and embedding principles that make L&D more outcomes-led, innovative, data-driven and agile.

You'll discover how to:
- Align L&D strategy with business priorities for maximum impact
- Build workforce skills that meet current and future demands
- Move beyond tools and models to create sustainable learning value
- Lead change in L&D culture, governance and delivery

With real-world examples from McKinsey & Company, Barnardo's, AstraZeneca and Multiplex, The L&D Leader equips senior decision-makers to transform learning into a strategic driver of business success.

Themes include: L&D strategy, leadership, governance, workforce capability, data-driven learning, business alignment

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1398620270
• ISBN13: 9781398620278
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"