With over 25 years of experience in corporate learning, Nigel is a regular speaker, writer and broadcaster on the topics of learning culture, technology and leadership. Between 2002 and 2006 he headed up the BBC’s Learning and Development operation. Following this, he started his own company nigelpaine.com Ltd that is focused on building great workplaces that develop great people. He helped create and taught on a doctoral programme at an Ivy League University for fifteen years. He has written four recent books, on the role of L&D (The Learning Challenge); Leadership Development (Building Leadership Development Programs that Work), and Learning culture (Workplace Learning). His fourth and most recent book focuses on organizational learning as a way of increasing organizational resilience and agility. He presents a monthly TV programme (Learning Now TV), and shares a weekly podcast (with Martin Couzins) called From Scratch. He splits his time between Europe, the US and Australia. He is a fellow of the CIPD, the UK’s professional body for HR and people development, The RSA (Royal Society of Arts Manufacturing and Science) and a Masie Fellow in the US. He was made a visiting Professor at Napier University in Edinburgh in 1998. He was recently awarded his Doctorate in Professional Studies from Middlesex University. His doctoral research forms the basis of his fourth book, published in September 2024.