About the Editors

Kevin Oakes is the CEO and founder of the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), the world’s largest private network of corporations focused on improving workforce productivity. He has been a leader in the human capital field for the past two decades and was most recently the president of SumTotal Systems, a large provider of talent and learning solutions, which he founded in 2003 by merging Click2learn with Docent. Before the formation of SumTotal, he was the chairman and CEO of Click2learn. Previously, he was president and founder of Oakes Interactive, an award-winning technology-based training company. He is a frequent author and international keynote speaker on talent management and using human capital strategically in organizations.

Pat Galagan is executive editor at ASTD, responsible for covering trends in the training industry. She writes a quarterly column for T+D magazine and is co-author of a series of interviews with Fortune CEOs. For many years, she directed ASTD’s periodicals publishing unit, launching Learning Circuits and Learning Executive magazines, and serving as editor of T+D.