What is the Role of the Chief Learning Officer in Today’s Sustainable Businesses?

Taiga Company blog by Julie Urlaub, Founder and Managing Partner at Taiga Company
Aug 14, 2012 12:00 PM ET
Julie Urlaub, Founder and Managing Partner of Taiga Company

Blog by Julie Urlaub, Founder and Managing Partner at Taiga Company

“The title of chief learning officer, or CLO, is one that first showed up in the mid-1990s, then appeared to fade away. But now it appears to be coming back into vogue. The return of the CLO reflects the seismic shift in the way many corporations now approach their environmental futures.”

This introduction to the recent GreenBiz article, Why the Chief Learning Officer is a CSO's New Best Friend, summarizes some of our own sustainability consulting beliefs about today’s workforce needs. Traditional business skills are expanding to include a whole new wave of ‘sustainability’ understanding that must be woven into the fabric of the organization. As the article explains, the CLO’s goal is to create more skilled, engaged and satisfied workers: Click here to continue reading, What is the Role of the Chief Learning Officer in Today’s Sustainable Businesses?

Home to one third of the earth's trees, the Taiga is the largest land-based biosphere and encircles the globe. Its immense oxygen production literally changes the atmosphere and refreshes the planet. It is this continuous renewal that has shaped Taiga Company's vision to drive similar change in the business world. Taiga Company seeks to be the "oxygen for your business".