Corporate University Director Course: Lead Learning [EN]

Posted on: 10th June 2026

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Lead corporate learning as an L&D Director including strategy, instructional design, succession planning, and competency models.

Description

Building a thriving corporate university is not just about delivering training. It is about crafting an ecosystem that shapes your company's success. This course gives you the blueprint to design, launch, and manage a corporate university aligned with your organization's goals, covering audit, strategy, and budgeting, working with trainers (recruitment, training, remuneration), interaction with business (translating business needs into learning initiatives and proving ROI), instructional design and results based learning, developing employee training and creating A players, coaching and facilitation, managing careers and succession planning, competency models and employee assessment, working with external providers, and distance learning.

This Course Offers

  • Corporate university audit, strategy, and budgeting: Understand what a corporate university is, why businesses and HR need it, employee competency models, auditing, strategy creation, and budgeting. Turn an HR audit into a business driven HR strategy.
  • Working with trainers and interaction with business: Identify successful trainer competencies, internal and external trainer selection, training trainers and remuneration. Discover how to translate business needs into learning initiatives and prove ROI.
  • Instructional design, employee training, and A players: Develop learning programs that drive real world results using instructional design techniques and Results Based Learning Models. Build a culture of excellence through targeted development programs for employees to become A players.
  • Coaching, career management, succession planning, and distance learning: Master coaching and facilitation techniques to support learning transfer. Manage career development including succession planning and talent pools. Build and implement competency models. Develop and manage distance learning programmes, webinars, and online courses.

Why We Love This Course

  1. The course is taught within the PapaHR ecosystem with over 1.6 million enrollments.
  2. It includes two role plays, 10 downloadable resources, and practical examples throughout.
  3. It covers how to manage career development within the company including succession planning and talent pools.
  4. It is designed for HR Directors, L&D professionals, business leaders, HR Business Partners, and anyone tasked with implementing learning initiatives.

Corporate universities transform learning from a cost center into a strategic driver. The question is whether you want to become a Certified L&D Director and lead corporate learning, or keep delivering training that fails to connect to business results.

Course Eligibility

  • HR Directors and Managers who want to launch or improve a corporate university.
  • Learning and Development professionals looking to develop strategic training programs.
  • Business leaders and team leads interested in aligning training with company goals.
  • HR Business Partners who aim to elevate their role in business performance.
  • Anyone tasked with implementing or managing learning initiatives in their organization.

Course Requirements

  • No prior experience in building or managing a corporate university is required.
  • A basic understanding of HR practices and business operations is helpful.
  • An interest in learning how to align employee training with business goals.

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Price: Free