Adele Cook is Chief
Learning Officer at Arizona Department of Economic Security and Office of
Professional Development Adele s a
learning leader with 24+ years’ experience in employee and organizational
development in both the public and private sector. She specializes in building
successful teams that drive success not only within the learning and
development function but across the organization. Most recently, she joined a
team of professionals who had been traumatized by prior events within the
organization, and which as a result was under-performing: she rebuilt the team,
added staff, reduced vacancy from 50% to 4%, reduced regrettable attrition to
7% improved quality and timeliness by 10% and 75% respectively, reduced costs,
and as a result improved employee engagement by 300%, She has expertise in
aligning learning and development interventions and services with the needs of
the organization. She has led several changes with far-reaching organizational
impact, the move from a decentralized to an enterprise learning function; the
establishment of a multi-faceted leadership development program; adoption of
best-in-industry standards and practices for learning design, delivery, and
evaluation; and use of rigorous certification programs to ensure product and
service quality. She led the adoption of the state's Lean management system within
her part of the organization. Adele holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from
Pomona College in Claremont, California, and has attended both Harvard and
Oxford. She is a member of the Association for Talent Development.
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