The Penn Chief Learning Officer program prepares corporate and nonprofit learning and talent management leaders. We cultivate scholar-practitioners who know how to develop and implement evidence-based practices that support formal and informal human capital, leadership, and skills development through on-demand, just-in-time, and longer-term learning and development initiatives. Our multi-disciplinary executive doctoral program is designed to meet the needs of mid- to senior-level executives and learning leaders from a variety of sectors and institutions. The program provides a rigorous academic environment in which executive students gain knowledge and build the skills necessary to ensure successful learning initiatives that will align with an organization's strategy and guide employee performance across the organization.In a knowledge economy, developing an organization's talent is a critical component of its success. It is imperative for those committed to human capital development within organizations to infuse evidence-based practice into the creation and oversight of leadership development, learning, and managerial initiatives. For this reason, in today's organizations everyone is a learning leader.