Gordon Ritchie Email & Phone Number

Falmouth, MA, US

At Skill Collective we aim to cut through the noise of the skills conversation, focus on solving business problems and accelerate Vendors, and employers strategies to maximize the skills imperative in front of them. We provide Advisory, Professional and Partnership to challenge, compliment and augment the design, development and execution of skills-based.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Responsible for:Account Management functional team lead.Client Account Strategy: skills transformation and business impact.Client Delivery and Success: ensure Action, Traction and Value metrics transfer from pre-sale to execution and long term delivery of product and services.Renewal, expansion and Upsell: retain (first organic enterprise renewal) and.

I am passionate about enabling organizations to embrace Skills as part of their culture and how it can connect individuals more meaningfully with their work, its contribution to the business and deliver transparency and inclusion with access to opportunities. An evangelist for:- developing skills strategy- designing and embedding skills taxonomies.

Seattle, US

Responsible for:- Client Skills & Data Strategy Definition and Development- Partner Strategy Development, Acquisition and Management (OEM, Channel)- SkillsTech Market and Competitive Intelligence Analysis- Skills intelligence and analytics solution development (AI, ML, NLP, ethics)- Skills 3.0 VisioningHitch's core ML engine applying ethical AI and NLP via.

Sharing my experiences and lessons learned that I've been fortunate to gather in partnership with organizations around the world implementing skills based programs that improve the employee experience. - Certified Predictive Index Talent Optimization Consultant- HR Strategy Audits- Skills Development and Governance Process Design, - Program Management.

Reading, GB

• As a passionate advocate for aligning the intersection of enterprise HRTech and Academic EdTech I was retained to research, create and deliver the college's Online Assessment Strategy of the Future, bringing together.
• Rapidly established recognized expert in both assessment domain, and application to academic learning.
• Curated and Delivered best practice recommendations from enterprise L&D and HCM organizations, LXPTech vendors, and leading Academic best practices across their Teaching Pedagogy, LMS and Portfolio process and tech.
• Facilitated Stakeholder and Faculty enablement in the 'Art of The Possible', 'The Great British Skills Assessment Bake Off.'
• Delivered road-map and recommendation strategy for University Exec committee.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Product (Offering) Manager with ownership for the integrated IBM Talent Frameworks GTM Strategy. Recognized as a thought leader and domain expert for the Skills Economy, Responsible for cross-team guidance as the SME.
• Revenue increased >200%.
• Enabled all IBM regions to sell and deliver solution
• Brandon Hall 2018 award winning software integrating IBM Talent Frameworks Skills and Capabilities to infer and suggest employee specific career pathing and prescriptive learning opportunities.
• Signed strategic new partners: SAP/SuccessFactors, SkillSoft, CornerstoneOnDemand, KornFerry, FUEL50, Lexonis, Talentsky, TalentGuard, etc.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• As the lead Skills Solution Architect, I was trusted to quickly develop a senior level advisory relationship in problem solving through surfacing a client's real business challenge, the metrics that mattered and their.
• Global European insurance provider drove LMS ROI >189%
• Large US Retail Bank saved $25million from compensation budget through skills management.
• Global US Telecoms provider drove enterprise wide reskilling strategy for its 250,000 staff to adapt and pivot amidst massive market disruption.The opportunity for me to learn from customers, and share lessons or what.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Following the acquisition by IBM, a key part of my role was to establish the value proposition Skills Framework data across the much larger organization, and the commercial opportunity for the Skills Management solution team. Having secured that, I led the enablement and consultative selling across product and consulting practices. Showcasing potential.

• Following the acquisition of Salary.com by Kenexa, I took the lead role to manage the Skills Framework Product Management virtual team. As the lead and evangelist I was responsible for:
• Reestablishing the internal business case to keep the team and the client value proposition.
• Enabling and educating the much larger new parent organization in solution and value add: Up-sell and Cross-sell solution selling opportunity to impact immediate pipeline funnel.
• Recruiting and Onboarding new Sales and Product team members.
• Establishing new business model incorporating bottom line revenue recognition, SaaS ARR and OKR and KPI team meetings, metric reporting and delivery.
• Facilitating virtual WW team for Skills Management Content solutions; Product Management, Sales and Partner Recruitment on-boarding.

Waltham, Massachusetts, US

• Following Infobasis's acquisition by Salary.com I was the US Lead Solution Consultant for the Skills Management solutions. To support the rapidly growing company, my role was as a player/coach across Sales, Product and.
• Strategic solution selling of the competency data, related services and products
• Driving the Skills Product Management GTM, integrating the talent management life-cycle and winning the first integrated, HR Tech Shootout for TalentManager (tm).
• Sales with mentoring and advising on enterprise sales strategies and bid completion
• Developing Product Marketing strategies and content
• Driving market awareness and leadership presenting the Competency and Skills Management Webinar program.

I was responsible for the US based Strategic Program Management of Microsoft Learning's Skills Assessment for Organization's (SAO) channel program. This was designed for Partner CTECs to deliver incremental services that delivered prescriptive skill gap learning paths and additional revenues. I led the scaling and enablement across 3 global regions and.

Gosport, Hampshire, GB

Competed in the Clipper Cup amateur Round The World yacht race. Sailed 40,000 miles as Watch Leader with crew who had never sailed to very experienced. An incredible test of seamanship and team work to ensure safety while under race conditions. An experience of the most incredible lows, and highs that left an indelible mark in using perspective to look at.

Bellevue, Washington, US

With 2 colleagues identifed and launched Content Master as a full-service technical documentation and instructional design development company. I recruited a team of 4 world renowned Microsoft technology SMEs and Instructional Designers to establish a thought leading advisor relationship with Microsoft Learning, and delivered the reputation as the premier.