H. Wayne Hodgins

Strategic Futurist, Director of Worldwide Learning Strategies, Autodesk Inc.
Past President, Strategic Advisor to the Board of the Computer Education Management Association (CEdMA)
Chair, IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) Learning Object Metadata
President & Co-founder, Learnativity Alliance

Wayne has long said that the ability to learn and apply the right stuff faster is the only sustainable competitive advantage there is for any of us. As a preeminent authority on hot trends and companies in the converging space of technology, standards, knowledge creation, creativity and learning, Wayne spends his days (and nights) wandering and pondering as he scours the world for trends and technologies most of us will not see for the next 18 months to 10 years.  His track record for identifying useful technologies, and seeing their resultant trends and directions in learning and human performance that no one else does, combined with his gift for articulating them with more passion and enthusiasm than most have ever witnessed, has earned him a well-deserved label for a (sometimes over-used term): Visionary.

In his role as Director of Worldwide Learning Strategies at Autodesk, Wayne Hodgins is the chief architect and strategic futurist responsible for increasing human performance (employees, partners & customers) through what he refers to as Learnativity.

As Past President of CEdMA and now Strategic Advisor to the Board of Directors of the Computer Education Managers Association (CEdMA), he champions the continuous quest of the Association's vision to be the hardware & software vendor force shaping excellence in education, training and learning.  Mr. Hodgins is also the President and co-founder of the Learnativity Alliance which works at the intersection of learning, productivity, creativity and activity and is the inflection point of the New Learning Economy.

Mr. Hodgins sits on advisory boards for many industry and government groups, commissions and associations in Canada, USA, Latin America, Asia and Europe and is frequently sought out to lead major industry wide task forces. Recent ones include the Certified Technical Trainer (CTT) program that has been adopted by hardware and software vendors and the professional training community as the standard for assessing instructional skills in technical training and the Learning Architectures and Learning Object (LALO) task force which sets standards for skills, learning objects and learning architecture. Mr. Hodgins is currently the elected Chair of the IEEE P 1484 Standards Working Group for Learning Object Metadata and was most recently asked to be the Special Advisor and Strategic Futurist for the recently formed Commission on Technology and Adult Learning. This commission was jointly formed by the American Society of Training & Development (ASTD) and the National Governors' Association (NGA) in February 2000 and asked Wayne to develop their Vision Paper Into the Future.

Due to his unique blend of skills, experience and perspectives, Wayne is one of the most highly sought after speakers in the industry and typically manages to deliver as many as 100 keynotes and featured presentations to groups worldwide.  For examples of recent presentations and much more highly valuable information in these areas please see the Speaking Notes 2000 and other sections at www.learnativity.com

Contact him directly at [email protected]

Last updated 01-Sept-2000

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