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In this episode of the Brandon Hall Group\u2122 Excellence at Work podcast, host Rachel Cooke<\/a>, COO of Brandon Hall Group\u2122, talks with Saravana Sivanandham<\/a>, Chief Product and Marketing Officer at Absorb Software<\/a>, about why the purpose of learning is being rewritten and what it actually takes for a learning function to be recognized as a business driver.<\/p>\n

Sivanandham has spent five years helping shape strategy at Absorb, a global learning technology company trusted by more than 3,500 organizations and 37 million learners worldwide. He and Cooke dig into why measurement still lags adoption, what has to change before technology can make a real difference and how Absorb’s new AI engine, Aura, is putting those ideas into practice.<\/p>\n

To read the Executive Interview with Saravana Sivanandham, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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