Over the last 30 years, David Butler has organized more than 100 Strategic Learning Expeditions in over 30 countries around the globe for both corporate and business school clients, as outlined in the link below. In spite of the significant investments involved, when these expeditions are carefully designed and facilitated, there is a very positive ROI. In a nutshell, there is great fit with BLS’s slogan “impactful learning @ the speed of business”.
BLS can play a key role in analyzing the business and learning objectives and explore with the organization’s Talent Development Team on how best to select the candidates.
Active sponsorship from the organization’s EXCOM is a key success factor. Each expedition is a customized learning experience involving a wide variety of activities: intercultural team-building, encounters with local eco-systems of innovation (incubators, accelerators, start-ups, universities…), government and embassy officials, corporates (both close to and far from the organization’s business activities), customers, thought leaders, think tanks, ONGs, etc. BLS will be very pleased to share with you the endless possibilities of these expeditions and start a discussion on what makes the most sense for your organization.
We will be very happy to explain our “Inside-out, Outside-in” approach to these expeditions.
Once we are all able to travel again in somewhat “normal” conditions, these expeditions could play a key role in kick-starting global L+D efforts and help service the pent-up demand for high-level corporate networking.