Hachette India

The Expertise Economy: How the Smartest Companies Use Learning to Engage, Compete and Succeed

Kelly Palmer

David Blake

The authors provide the latest scientific research on how people really learn and concrete examples from companies in both Silicon Valley and worldwide who are driving the conversation about how to create experts and align learning innovation with business strategy. It includes interviews with people from top companies like Google, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Unilever, NASA, and MasterCard; thought leaders in learning and education like Sal Khan and Todd Rose; as well as Thinkers50 list-makers Clayton Christensen, Daniel Pink and Whitney Johnson.

Kelly Palmer

Kelly Palmer (Author)
KELLY PALMER Chief Learning Officer Degreed. A well-known thought leader on the future of learning and career development Kelly was the chief learning officer of LinkedIn. Prior to LinkedIn Kelly was vice president of Learning at Yahoo! and held executive positions in learning M&A and product development at Sun Microsystems. She speaks regularly at business conferences around the world has been featured in Big Think Forbes and Chief Learning Officer (CLO) magazine where she writes a regular column on the employee experience.

David Blake (Author)
DAVID BLAKE is cofounder and CEO of Degreed and has spent his career innovating higher education and lifelong learning. Prior to Degreed he helped launch a competency-based accredited university and was a founding team member at Zinch (acquired by Chegg). David was selected as a Top EdTech Entrepreneur by the Stanford d.School EdTech Lab sponsored by Teach For America and NewSchools Venture Fund. He has been published in the Harvard Technology Review Business Insider TechCrunch and Huffington Post. He has spoken around the world on the topic of the future of learning including the ASU Education Innovation Summit EdTech Europe and TEDx.