LILA PROJECT - NEW LEARNING VENTURE

I have always known that new challenges drive my learning so its a delight to open my mailbox and discover an interesting and exciting  invitation. This happened to me a few weeks ago when I received an email from Marga Biller who is the Project Director for the Learning Innovations Laboratory at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. LILA is a 20-year old research project that brings together non-competing chief learning,  talent and innovation officers from 20 global organizations to push one another's thinking and practices as they consider the future of human development and creativity in the workplace. The community consists of leaders operating in a variety of contexts such as  Steelcase, Deloitte, US Army University, Merck, Independent Schools of Victoria Australia, Publicis Sapient, and Visa.  Each academic year, the LILA community explores a topic related to challenges of human and organizational development. Last year LILA explored the theme of Collective Mindfulness and based on conversations that took place last year and the member’s current challenges, it was decided that the theme for 2019 - 2020 would be Ecologies of Learning in a Transforming World.  Marga was inviting me to join the process to share our work on learning ecologies, lifewide and lifelong learning and I will be going to present and discuss my ideas at the first meeting in October 23 and 24th.

At this point I have little idea about how I will try to connect the ideas I have grown in an educational environment to the corporate organisational worlds of participants but over the next few weeks I will try to document some of the things I learn and also the ecology of practice I create in order to learn


WHAT IS LILA? short animation to explain how it works
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/resources/what-is-lila