We meet

Laura Overton
Managing Director of Towards Maturity
laurao@towardsmaturity.org
www.towardsmaturity.org
Personal Profile
Laura Overton the Managing Director of Towards Maturity – a not for profit
benchmark practice that provides independent research to help business deliver
improved performance through learning innovation. Her work is based on 25+
years of practical experience looking at learning innovation for business advantage
and is backed by her independent research with over 2000 organisations and
thousands of learners since 2003.
Laura was the author of ‘Linking Learning To Business’ – one of the first industry
benchmark studies with both organisations and learners investigating good
practices of successful implementations (Jan 04). Since then she hasauthored 10
independent reports looking at effective e-learning practices in the workplace that
are referenced around the globe.
With over 2 decades of experience of implementing learning technologies in the
workplace, she works with government policy makers representing employer
interests and has contributed toinitiatives associated with the UK’s Sector Skills
Councils, the European Commission andhas sat on the steering groups of a number
of UK government learning technology strategy boards (including the Becta
Harnessing Technology strategy and as a member the originaladvisory board to the
Learning and Skills Council (now Skills Funding Agency).
Laura is a Fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute (LPI)and of the British
Institute of Learning and Development and is a popular industry commentator
having published over 150 articles and case studies. She sits on the steering
committee of Online Educa Berlin and advisory board of ELIG and the LPI. In
February 2010, she was awarded the Institute of IT Training’s prestigious Colin
Corder Award for services to IT training.