United Kingdom · Learning and Development · Director/VP (16-20 years)

Director of Learning & Performance

Here is the whole job, in plain words. What it is, a real day, what you decide, how you're judged, how people get here and where they go next. Then the part no course gives you: twelve AI tutors who learn your work.

  • Experience bandDirector/VP (16-20 years)
  • Direct reports5-8 reports
  • Reports toChief People Officer
  • UK framework levelUsually a director, accountable for a division and its numbers

Also advertised as Head of Learning & Development · VP, Learning & Talent Development · Senior Director, Organisational Capability

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1What this role really is

This isn't just about running training courses; it's about shaping how our entire organisation learns, grows, and performs. You'll set the multi-year strategy for our learning and performance function, making the big calls on technology, investment, and how we measure success. Think of yourself as the architect for our people's future capabilities, making sure we're building the skills needed to hit our ambitious business goals.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

LMS/LXP (e.g., Cornerstone OnDemand, Degreed)Strategic

Leading vendor selection (RFP process), defining enterprise governance for learning platforms, architecting the learning data ecosystem, negotiating contracts with major providers. You're not just using it; you're shaping its future.

Content Authoring (e.g., Articulate 360, Camtasia)Architect

Setting content development standards and templates for the entire organisation. Evaluating new authoring technologies (e.g., VR/AR tools) for strategic fit and potential impact. You're defining *how* we create learning content, not necessarily creating it yourself.

Performance Management Systems (e.g., Lattice, Workday HCM)Strategic

Designing the entire performance management philosophy and process, ensuring it links performance data to succession planning and compensation reviews in Workday. You're shaping the 'what' and 'why' of performance management.

Analytics Tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau)Strategic

Defining the key metrics for the L&D function, presenting data-driven narratives to executive leadership to justify budget and strategy. You'll be challenging the data, not just reporting it.

Financial Planning Tools (e.g., Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning)Strategic

Owning the L&D budget, modelling different investment scenarios, defending financial plans to the CFO and executive team. This is about strategic financial oversight.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing inWhere you are nowThe step above
L&D Strategy & VisionN/AN/AN/A
L&D Budget Allocation (e.g., £5M annual budget)N/AN/AN/A
Major Learning Tech Vendor Selection (e.g., new LMS)N/AN/AN/A
New Enterprise Programme Launch (e.g., Leadership Academy)N/AN/AN/A
Team Hiring & Organisational DesignN/AN/AN/A

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Organisational Capability Index
Improvement in key skill areas identified as critical for business strategy (e.g., AI literacy, leadership effectiveness, sales acumen).
Target · Increase by 10% year-over-year

If our leadership effectiveness score was 70% in 2023, we'd aim for 77% in 2024 through targeted leadership development programmes.

Employee Retention for High-Potential Talent
The percentage of employees identified as high-potential who remain with the company, especially after participating in development programmes.
Target · Maintain 90%+ retention for high-potentials

After launching our 'Future Leaders' programme, we expect to see 92% of participants still with us 12 months later, compared to a baseline of 85%.

L&D Budget Adherence & ROI
Managing the overall L&D budget within agreed parameters and demonstrating a positive return on investment for major initiatives.
Target · Budget within ±2% variance; positive ROI on 2+ major programmes annually.

Successfully delivering a £1.5M budget at £1.48M, whilst showing that our new sales enablement programme generated an additional £500K in Q4 revenue.

Time-to-Productivity for Critical Roles
Reducing the time it takes for new hires in key roles (e.g., Senior Engineers, Sales Managers) to become fully effective.
Target · Reduce by 15% for identified roles

Our new onboarding pathway for Senior Engineers cut their ramp-up time from 6 months to 5 months, a 16% improvement.

Strategic Influence & Partnership
Being seen as a trusted advisor and strategic partner by senior leadership, not just an 'order taker' for training requests.
  • Regular invitations to C-suite strategy meetings
  • proactively consulted on business unit challenges
  • L&D strategy directly referenced in company-wide communications
  • senior leaders championing L&D initiatives.
Innovation in Learning Approach
Bringing fresh, effective, and sometimes unconventional ideas to how we develop our people, moving beyond traditional methods.
  • Successful pilot programmes using new tech (e.g., VR, AI coaching)
  • adoption of 'learning in the flow of work' practices
  • positive feedback on creativity and impact from internal clients
  • industry recognition or speaking engagements.
Team Engagement & Development
Building and nurturing a high-performing, engaged L&D team that feels supported and has clear career paths.
  • High retention rates within your direct team
  • positive scores in internal engagement surveys for your department
  • successful internal promotions from your team
  • team members actively contributing to industry best practices.
Data-Driven Decision Making
Making significant investment and programme design decisions based on solid data and analytics, not just intuition or anecdotal evidence.
  • All major programme proposals include a clear data-backed business case
  • regular reporting on learning impact to senior leaders
  • ability to defend L&D budget decisions with data
  • proactive identification of skill gaps using predictive analytics.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Driving Organisational Change

You'll spend a lot of time mapping out how new skills will transform our business units, then building the programmes and getting the buy-in to make it happen. You're not just tweaking things; you're fundamentally shifting how we operate and grow.

Leading the charge to embed a new agile mindset across Engineering, seeing how it impacts delivery speed and team collaboration.

Building High-Performing Teams & Capabilities

You'll be coaching your own team, mentoring leaders across the business, and designing frameworks that help everyone perform better. Seeing individuals and teams unlock their potential is what gets you out of bed.

Developing a leadership academy that demonstrably improves manager effectiveness scores and reduces regrettable attrition.

Strategic Impact & Influence

You'll be presenting to the C-suite, influencing major investment decisions, and ensuring L&D has a seat at the strategic table. Your ideas will directly shape the company's future talent strategy.

Successfully securing a £2M budget increase for a critical upskilling initiative, directly linking it to a 5% projected increase in market share.

What frustrates people
  • The 'Order Taker' Dilemma: Constantly battling the perception that L&D's job is to simply build whatever training a manager asks for, rather than being a strategic consultant.
  • The ROI Battle: The perpetual struggle to prove the financial impact of 'soft skills' training to a data-driven executive team.
  • 'Flavor of the Month' Leadership: A new C-suite executive arrives and wants to launch a major initiative that derails your strategic roadmap.
  • The Time Scarcity Paradox: Stakeholders champion development but don't give their teams time to learn.
  • Budget Vulnerability: Knowing that in any economic downturn, the L&D budget is often the first on the chopping block.
  • HRIS Data Nightmare: Trying to build a data-driven learning strategy when the employee data is messy or incomplete.
  • The Compliance Burden: Spending significant resources on mandatory, low-impact compliance training.
What this role does not give you
  • A quiet, predictable environment where plans never change. This is a dynamic role, and priorities shift.
  • A role where you just execute. You're expected to set the vision and strategy, not just follow instructions.
  • An easy ride. You'll face resistance, budget constraints, and the constant need to prove value.
  • A job where you don't have to deal with internal politics. Influencing senior leaders is a core part of the job.

6Who you work with

This role directly shapes our organisational capability and talent pipeline. You'll be driving the strategy that ensures we've got the skills needed to execute our business plan, improve employee retention, and build a strong leadership bench. Essentially, you're building the future workforce, one learning strategy at a time. Your decisions on what to invest in, and how, will have a multi-million-pound impact on our people and our bottom line.

Inside the business
  • Chief People Officer (CPO)
  • Chief Operating Officer (COO)
  • Heads of Product & Engineering
  • Sales & Marketing Leadership
  • Finance Director
  • Senior HR Business Partners
Outside the business
  • LMS/LXP Vendors
  • Content Providers (e.g., LinkedIn Learning)
  • External Executive Coaching Firms
  • Industry Bodies (e.g., CIPD)
  • Consulting Partners

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • Proven track record of leading a significant L&D function or a major programme area within a large, complex organisation (e.g., as a Head of L&D or Lead L&P Partner).
  • Demonstrable experience in setting and executing multi-year L&D strategies that have driven measurable business outcomes.
  • Significant experience managing and developing a team of L&D professionals, including other managers.
  • Hands-on experience with large-scale learning technology implementations and vendor management.
  • A strong understanding of P&L management and the ability to build and defend multi-million-pound budgets.
  • Extensive experience presenting to and influencing C-suite executives and Board members.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Learning Ecosystem Architecture

As our tech stack grows, ensuring all learning platforms (LMS, LXP, content libraries, performance tools) talk to each other seamlessly is critical. You'll need to design an integrated ecosystem that provides a holistic view of talent development and impact.

API Integrations · Data Governance for Learning · Vendor Interoperability · User Experience (UX) Design for Learning

  • This month: Review our current learning tech stack and identify 2-3 key integration challenges.
  • Next quarter: Meet with our IT and Data teams to understand their enterprise architecture principles and how L&D fits in.
  • Within 6 months: Research leading practices in learning ecosystem design and identify potential future state models.
  • Within 12 months: Develop a 3-year roadmap for our learning technology architecture, including key investments and integration priorities.

Quick win: Document the current 'as-is' state of our learning tech stack, including all integrations (or lack thereof). It's a simple step that provides immense clarity.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Regularly attend industry conferences (e.g., Learning Technologies, World of Learning) to stay abreast of emerging trends and network with peers.
  • Actively participate in professional L&D communities and forums (e.g., LinkedIn groups, local CIPD branches).
  • Read leading publications and research in learning science, organisational psychology, and talent management.
  • Seek out opportunities for executive coaching or mentorship to further develop leadership and strategic capabilities.
  • Engage in continuous learning around AI and its applications in HR and L&D.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: AI for Strategic Talent Foresight

AI is no longer just for automating tasks; it's becoming a powerful tool for predictive analytics. Competitors are already using AI to forecast talent needs and skill gaps 3-5 years out, allowing them to build proactive development strategies. If we're not doing this, we'll be constantly playing catch-up.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

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Built for Director of Learning & Performance

6 units that map to this job, from the qualifications that cover it.

  1. Support the culture of an organisationNCFE · covers 2 of 18 standardsLevel 7
  2. Data Analysis and VisualisationOTHM Qualifications · covers 2 of 18 standardsLevel 7
  3. Coaching, Mentoring and Managing Organisational Culture and BehaviourOTHM Qualifications · covers 1 of 18 standardsLevel 7
  4. Managing organisational cultureChartered Management Institute · covers 1 of 18 standardsLevel 7
  5. Improve organisational performanceThe Learning Machine · covers 1 of 18 standardsLevel 7
  6. Provide learning opportunities for colleaguesNCFE · covers 2 of 18 standardsLevel 5
These are the real units behind this job, in the order they rank for it. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

AI for Strategic Talent Foresight

AI is no longer just for automating tasks; it's becoming a powerful tool for predictive analytics. Competitors are already using AI to forecast talent needs and skill gaps 3-5 years out, allowing them to build proactive development strategies. If we're not doing this, we'll be constantly playing catch-up.

  • Workforce Planning with AI
  • Ethical AI in HR
  • AI-Driven Skill Taxonomy
  • Scenario Planning with AI

Advanced Data Storytelling & Visualisation

The sheer volume of data is only growing. Simply presenting numbers isn't enough anymore. You need to be able to weave a compelling narrative around the data that resonates with non-technical executives, drives action, and justifies significant investment. This is how you'll secure budget and influence strategy.

  • Narrative Arc in Data
  • Visualisation Best Practices
  • Audience-Centric Reporting
  • Impact vs. Activity

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Performance Consulting (HPI)
  • Learning Measurement & Evaluation (Kirkpatrick/Phillips)
  • Competency Modelling & Career Pathing
  • Adult Learning Theory (Andragogy)
  • Change Management (e.g., Prosci ADKAR)

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    Head of L&D (Mid-sized Company)

    3-5 years as Head of L&D

    Skills to master

    • Full ownership of L&D strategy, budget management, building a small team, vendor management, proving ROI in a resource-constrained environment.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Successfully scaled a learning function from scratch or significantly transformed an existing one.
    • Consistently delivered measurable business impact through learning initiatives.
    • Managed a team of 3-5 L&D professionals.
    • Developed and managed an annual L&D budget of at least £500K.
  2. 2

    Lead Learning & Performance Partner (Large Enterprise)

    4-6 years as a Lead L&P Partner

    Skills to master

    • Strategic partnership with a major business unit, architecting complex learning solutions, influencing senior leaders without direct authority, managing large programmes.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Successfully led 2-3 enterprise-wide learning programmes from conception to evaluation.
    • Consistently received high feedback on strategic partnership from business unit leaders.
    • Mentored or informally managed a small team of L&D specialists.
    • Demonstrated ability to influence decisions at the Director/VP level.
  3. 3

    Senior HR Business Partner (with L&D Specialism)

    5-7 years as Senior HRBP

    Skills to master

    • Deep understanding of business unit needs, talent management, organisational development, translating HR strategy into L&D initiatives, influencing senior stakeholders.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Successfully driven talent development initiatives within a specific business unit.
    • Demonstrated strong analytical skills in identifying talent gaps and proposing solutions.
    • Experienced in coaching and developing leaders within their business unit.
    • Proven ability to manage complex HR projects with significant L&D components.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your journey as Director of Learning & Performance here is just one exciting chapter. We're committed to supporting your growth, whether that's into broader executive HR roles, deeper specialisation, or even into external consulting. The skills you'll hone will set you up for a truly impactful and rewarding career.

Pay & demand

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The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Director of Learning & Performance is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

…and nine more, matched to you after your first chat. Meet all twelve

13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Support the culture of an organisationLevel 7

Applied to your work in Director of Learning & Performance

By completing this unit, learners will understand organisational culture, enabling them to agree on values and objectives that support the culture and monitor their effectiveness.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

DemonstrateIllustration

Evidenced on your work in Director of Learning & Performance

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

  • Organisational Capability IndexImprovement in key skill areas identified as critical for business strategy (e.g., AI literacy, leadership effectiveness, sales acumen).If our leadership effectiveness score was 70% in 2023, we'd aim for 77% in 2024 through targeted leadership development programmes.Increase by 10% year-over-year
  • Employee Retention for High-Potential TalentThe percentage of employees identified as high-potential who remain with the company, especially after participating in development programmes.After launching our 'Future Leaders' programme, we expect to see 92% of participants still with us 12 months later, compared to a baseline of 85%.Maintain 90%+ retention for high-potentials
  • L&D Budget Adherence & ROIManaging the overall L&D budget within agreed parameters and demonstrating a positive return on investment for major initiatives.Successfully delivering a £1.5M budget at £1.48M, whilst showing that our new sales enablement programme generated an additional £500K in Q4 revenue.Budget within ±2% variance; positive ROI on 2+ major programmes annually.
  • Time-to-Productivity for Critical RolesReducing the time it takes for new hires in key roles (e.g., Senior Engineers, Sales Managers) to become fully effective.Our new onboarding pathway for Senior Engineers cut their ramp-up time from 6 months to 5 months, a 16% improvement.Reduce by 15% for identified roles
These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Director of Learning & Performance to VP of Talent & Organisational Development, and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 7 · in progressAI Fluency→ VP of Talent & Organisational Development→ your design
Where this takes you

Your journey as Director of Learning & Performance here is just one exciting chapter. We're committed to supporting your growth, whether that's into broader executive HR roles, deeper specialisation, or even into external consulting. The skills you'll hone will set you up for a truly impactful and rewarding career.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration
Director of Learning & Performance
  • Performance Consulting (HPI)
  • Learning Measurement & Evaluation (Kirkpatrick/Phillips)
  • Competency Modelling & Career Pathing
  • Adult Learning Theory (Andragogy)
  • Change Management (e.g., Prosci ADKAR)
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Director of Learning & Performance is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. VP of Talent & Organisational Development

    3-5 years in Director role

    L7

    • Advanced Workforce Planning: Leading sophisticated workforce planning and analytics to predict long-term talent needs and risks.
    • Executive Coaching & Development: Overseeing and sometimes delivering executive coaching for C-suite and senior leadership.
    • Organisational Culture Transformation: Driving large-scale culture change initiatives through talent and learning levers.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, even at a Director level, there's always more to do than hours in the day. Imagine if you could reclaim a significant chunk of your week, not just to catch up, but to focus on truly strategic work. That's where AI comes in. We're not talking about replacing human judgment, but augmenting it, making you and your team incredibly more effective.

For a Director of Learning & Performance, AI isn't just a buzzword; it's a strategic partner. It helps you move faster, make smarter decisions, and prove the value of your function with unprecedented clarity. You'll use AI to cut through the noise, identify real needs, and craft impactful solutions, freeing you up for the high-level influence and vision-setting that only you can provide.

Automated Content Strategy & Curation

Use AI tools to quickly scan vast internal documentation (Confluence, SharePoint, Teams chats) and external market trends. This helps you rapidly identify key knowledge gaps, generate first drafts of strategic learning briefs, and curate personalised learning pathways for specific roles or business units. Imagine getting a head start on a new leadership programme's content outline in minutes, not days.

Predictive Skill Gap Analysis & Talent Forecasting

Stop guessing what skills we'll need next. Use AI to analyse performance reviews, project data, and external market trends to predict future skill gaps across the organisation. This shifts L&D from reactive 'order-taking' to proactively developing talent for future needs, giving you a powerful data-backed narrative for your strategy.

Intelligent Coaching & Leadership Simulations

Deploy AI-powered simulation tools (like Second Nature) to allow your managers and leaders to practice difficult conversations (e.g., performance feedback, conflict resolution) in a safe, private environment. The AI provides instant, objective feedback on tone, word choice, and clarity, drastically reducing the need for manual 1:1 role-play coaching from your team.

Personalised Learning Path Architecture

Design and oversee an AI engine that integrates with our HRIS (Workday) and LXP (Degreed). This engine will analyse an individual's role, tenure, performance data, and stated career goals to automatically generate and recommend unique, dynamic learning paths. This frees up your L&D partners from manual development plan creation and ensures highly relevant learning for everyone.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a Director of Learning & Performance?

Common routes in include Head of L&D (Mid-sized Company) (3-5 years as Head of L&D), Lead Learning & Performance Partner (Large Enterprise) (4-6 years as a Lead L&P Partner) and Senior HR Business Partner (with L&D Specialism) (5-7 years as Senior HRBP). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Director of Learning & Performance progress to?

This role can lead on to VP of Talent & Organisational Development (3-5 years in Director role), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Director of Learning & Performance in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 7 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Director of Learning & Performance?

Increasingly, AI for Strategic Talent Foresight and Advanced Data Storytelling & Visualisation. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows a Director of Learning & Performance, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

  • Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
  • Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
  • Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 18 national skill standards. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Director of Learning & Performance: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.
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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 7

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Learning and Development

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you'll develop as a Director of Learning & Performance are highly transferable across various sectors, particularly within technology, professional services, finance, and any industry undergoing significant transformation. Your ability to drive organisational capability and strategic talent development is universally valued.

Not sure this is the right direction?

Work out what you actually want from work first, then come back and see which roles fit it. Takes about ten minutes.

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