Dave Vance

Founder and Former Executive Director Center for Talent Reporting

David Vance is the former President of Caterpillar University, which he founded in 2001, and the former Executive Director of the Center for Talent Reporting, which he founded in 2012 as a nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation and implementation of standards and best practices for human capital measurement, reporting and management. Prior to these positions, Dave was Chief Economist and Head of the Business Intelligence Group at Caterpillar Inc. Dave teaches in the Ph.D. program at Bellevue University and in the executive education program for Chief Learning Officers at George Mason University. He also serves on the Metrics Working Group for the International Organization for Standardization and led the effort to create the first comprehensive standard for learning and development metrics published in 2023. He is the author of The Business of Learning, now in its second edition, and co-author with Peggy Parskey of Measurement Demystified as well as the Field Guide to Measurement Demystified.

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