David Hooton, Ed.D. Email & Phone Number

Chattanooga, Tn, Us

Chattanooga, Tn

Creating and bringing to life advanced approaches, models, and tools to sustain market leadership through organizational agility with the Future of Work and Workforces in mind. Focused on science based, data informed new ways of working, skilling, and teaming to grow autonomous capabilities across teams and employees. Also completed FoW research and am strategically embedding FoW Superpowers and methods to address FoW Perils in the age of constant disruption and AI.

United States

Bring to life real-world stories, data insights, and team effectiveness research to further enable a thriving hybrid workplace at Microsoft. Work with Microsoft's Employee Experience, Innovation and Culture team leaders. Delivered behavioral analysis for individuals and teams to identify, prioritize, and help activate superpowers and dynamic team effectiveness for the hybrid workplace. Produced deep research and thought-leading insights to smooth the transition into the new future of work and mitigate derailers for a thriving culture. Contributions: conducted over 50 empathic interviews with technical team members, managers and leaders; established a future work collective, completed a meta-analysis of research revealing the interplay of disruption, culture, technology and human-team behavior; prepared white papers translating findings into actionable insights and strategic guardrails; and working with Employee Experience and Team Effectiveness leaders to shape hybrid workplace acumen into prioritized learning and workflow embedded solutions.

Self-development role driving further exploration into the spread of emotions and behaviors in a VUCA world, disruption effects on employee identity and empathy, and psychological safety in teams. Developed novel forms of family engagement, reflective parenting, and proximity conflict resolution.

Chattanooga, Tennessee Area

Lead solution design approaches for an external facing 21st Century Job, Skills, and Employability team focusing on Future Skilling the workforce. Facilitated data-based foresight-insight and design thinking excellence to quickly prototype customer centered, scalable innovations that enable future workers and generations to be employable. Establish and lead experiment strategies to scale global execution for innovative skilling approaches and partnerships across workforce and talent development ecosystems. Established thought-leadership through research and empathic interviews, including connections with Fortune 100 talent leaders and recognized higher-ed thought-leaders.• Designed and delivered AI/Cloud global skills-gap impact studies that shaped talent ecosystem offerings.• Innovated and championed novel approaches to more easily gather customer insights used to shape solution designs. • Drove simplicity and speed for innovative learning programs that addressed global tech intensity, skilling, and challenges to digital transformation. • Crafted thought-leading presentations for SLT, Group Leaders and external facing groups focused on future work and skilling forecasts affecting regional and global workforce ecosystems and economies.

Worked with leaders and critical business teams to align strategy, foresight, and tailored design thinking practices. Drive superior business results by leveraging in-depth experience in futuring, trends and signals research, creative solutioning, talent development, technology, and research methods. Prototype and iterate new methods to efficiently embed game-changing approaches into existing processes, data driven decisions, learning, and project flow. Recognized as a go-to internal thought leader who brought energy, expertise, and truly novel approaches that empowered leaders and teams alike.● Designed and implemented first ever enterprise level, tailored foresight documentation approach using Institute for the Future research and weak signals reporting to 4000 leaders and managers. This documentation was aligned to a new Foresight Champions program.● Created and led a highly-regarded strategy to build bench strength for insight driven, empathic ‘experience design’ that has been adopted by most every critical project team working on the most important enterprise priorities. ● Managed partnerships to deliver world-class Design Thinking and Foresight2Insight workshops that generated broad ELT, SLT, and global leader pull while also creating a multi-disciplined network of over 300 Design Thinking and Foresight2Insight practitioners. ● Partnered with two key ultra-high priority enterprise solution design teams to reduce their early prototyping time frames from three months to three weeks. ● Completed futures research that served as the multi-year strategic guidepost for strategy for Cigna University.

My passion has always been to dig deep into what’s working, what’s not, and seeking evidence about how organizations and people engage with one another to forecast and affect change. Answering questions like ‘How might we help people efficiently learn in the WhiteSpaces of their life?’ Worked to innovate new models and practical approaches to overcome the challenges of building future-oriented learning ecosystems that result in desirable change. The main objective of this work was to make sense of the complex interplay between behavior change, social learning and paradoxical future-oriented systems of influence. Early on, during this period, I took a sabbatical to write a book while also conducting deep research into the relationships between neuroscience, emotional intelligence, giftedness, socio-emotional change, and social change contagions.

Lead the successful launch and growth of the General Studies College to provide enterprise wide learning and performance solutions to 26,000 employees. Partnered with business leaders to design and rollout instructor-led and virtual learning solutions and performance support for competencies, career development, Six Sigma, Communications, Project Management, and several other key areas for critical initiatives. Guided the development of in-house knowledge centers, use of innovative & technology-based solutioning, and blended programs that aligned with talent management practices and strategy. Managed related budget of $3m.

Company created and implemented advanced LMS and authoring tools for delivery of eLearning in large corporate environments, and for non-profits as an ecommerce tool. Operated the company as a hands-on CEO, managing budgets, business planning, operational oversight, software design, R&D, and chief manager of client relationships. Served with 15 years management and executive level experience in corporate training, elearning, and OD. Successfully secured and served several Fortune 500 companies with household names. Reason for leaving…company sold December 2005.

Ed. D., Human Resource Development

Received M. Ed. at Vanderbilt also

Post-Graduate Certificate, Neuro-Leadership