Brenda Sugrue, PhD, has over 25 years’ experience leading learning transformation and innovation in large organizations. She was the Global Chief Learning Officer at EY from 2014 to 2024 and was selected as CLO Magazine’s CLO of the year in 2018. Brenda’s career spanned corporate and academic roles, including Sales Learning Leader at IBM, Vice President of Innovation and Research at Kaplan, and Professor of Instructional Design and Technology at the University of Iowa. Brenda champions evidence-based practice, translating learning science into scalable processes and systems for designing, delivering, and measuring learning.