Gautham Narendran Email Address

Manager Education Excellence

Simplilearn is one of the world s leading certification training providers. We partner with companies and individuals to address their unique needs, providing training and coaching that helps working professionals achieve their career goals. With a library of 400+ courses, we've helped 500,000+ professionals advance their careers, delivering $5 billion in pay raises

Learning must be engaging and responsive to produce behavioural changes resulting in tangible outcomes. I am a practising expert in adult pedagogy, passionate about designing innovative and effective learning experiences to create value for learners and organisations. My Top Skills: 1. Leading the production of blended learning products by formulating a competitive learning experience strategy, designing an effective standard course format, and overseeing curriculum development, deployment, validation and upgrade 2. Applying my industry experience, expertise in adult pedagogy and thought leadership in the evolution of learning to create innovative, world-class learning solutions with a keen focus on learner success 3. Setting up the workflow processes, quality standards, deliverable templates and productivity metrics for a learning function in an Agile environment 4. Managing a team of Instructional Designers and allied functions in designing, developing and delivering blended learning programs on a wide range of technical (Al and Machine Learning, Cryptocurrency, DevOps, Big Data, etc.) and non-technical (Digital Marketing, Project Management, Agile, Compliance, etc.) learning programs 5. Partnering in a consulting capacity to identify learning needs, strategize holistic solutions, design creative programs, develop them efficiently and deliver them effectively, with extensive exposure to digital transformation My Top Achievements: 1. Heading the content design and development team in a learning products organization rated a Top20 Online Learning company by Training Industry(.com) 2. Shaping the revamp of the organization’s core product offering (virtual blended-learning solutions) and defining its differentiators from competitor offerings 3. Overseeing the development and successful implementation of a Learning Management System based on my design 4. Designing the m-learning and accessible e-learning courses that won the Gold (2006) and Silver (2007) awards, respectively, in the Innovative Learning Technology category of the Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning awards 5. Consulting with global majors, such as Cisco Systems Inc., McGraw-Hill Ltd.,IKEA, Cargill, British Petroleum, Rio Tinto, Mondelez, and Amazon India, to assess and fulfill learning requirements