A Chief Learning Officer for the days your business needs one
Senior learning leadership on a part-time basis, for organisations that need strategy, structure and measurable results without a full-time Chief Learning Officer.
- 1Align learning priorities with the business plan
- 2Review the capability roadmap with leaders
- 3Guide the L&D team and your learning vendors
- 4Check progress against agreed measures
- 5Report the impact to leadership
Many organisations need a learning leader long before they need a full-time one. A Fractional CLO brings the strategy, structure and measurement of a senior leader, on the days it matters most.
What a Fractional CLO does
The same responsibilities as a full-time Chief Learning Officer, delivered for the days your organisation needs.
Learning strategy
Defines how learning supports the business plan, so every program serves a clear priority.
Capability roadmap
Identifies the skills your people need next, and sequences the programs that build them.
Team and vendor leadership
Guides your L&D team and learning partners, and raises the quality of what is delivered.
Governance and budget
Brings structure to planning, approvals and spend, so learning investment is used wisely.
Measurement and reporting
Sets the measures at the start and reports results in language that leaders understand.
Trusted advisor to leaders
A senior sounding board for your CHRO and leadership team on every people and capability decision.
How the engagement unfolds
A clear path from understanding where you are today to running learning as a measured business function.
Know where you stand
We review how learning is organised today, who owns it, which needs matter most and where the gaps are.
Set the strategy and structure
We agree the learning strategy, the capability roadmap, the measures of success and the way the function will work.
Run and improve
We lead delivery, review results with your leaders every month and refine the plan as the business changes.
Choose the shape that fits
Every organisation is at a different stage, so the engagement is shaped around yours.
We run learning for you
L&D Academy acts as your learning function, leading strategy, delivery and measurement as an outsourced partner.
- Best when you have no L&D team yet
- Fast start with senior ownership
We direct, your team delivers
Your internal coordinators run day-to-day activity while our Fractional CLO sets direction and designs the major programs.
- Best when you have a small L&D team
- Builds strength inside your team
We build it, then step back
We design the learning function, help you recruit and train the team, and then move to occasional advisory.
- Best when you plan a full-time team
- A clear, planned handover
Why a fractional model works
Senior leadership, matched to the size and stage of your organisation.
A full-time CLO
- TimeA full-time role
- StartDepends on recruitment and notice periods
- CommitmentFixed from the first day
- PerspectiveBuilt within one organisation
A Fractional CLO from L&D Academy
- TimePart-time days each month, agreed with you
- StartCan begin quickly, with a senior leader from day one
- CommitmentScale the days up or down as your needs change
- PerspectiveInsight from work with 75+ organisations across many industries
Is it the right time?
A Fractional CLO is often the right step when you recognise a few of these.
- Training is run alongside other HR responsibilities
- Your business is growing, and capability needs to keep pace
- Programs are delivered, and you would like them tied to the business plan
- Leaders ask what learning delivers, and you want clear answers
- You are planning an L&D function and want it designed well
- A full-time Chief Learning Officer is not yet the right fit
Your Fractional CLO, Zubin Rashid
Zubin Rashid is the Founder and Chief Learning Officer of L&D Academy. He has spent more than 25 years in learning and development, including leading L&D at Tech Mahindra and heading intercultural consulting at ICUnet.AG, and he is the #1 Corporate L&D Instructor on Udemy.
That blend of in-house leadership, consulting and teaching shapes how every Fractional CLO engagement works: practical, structured and focused on results that can be measured.
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