David Hayden
Senior Consultant
David is passionate about all things organisational learning and ensuring it is integrated with the business strategy and values. He began his career in 1988 as an operational manager with responsibility for three Youth Trainee placements. Training and Development roles morphed into Training Project, Recruitment and Training Manager, Head of Personnel and Development, Recruitment Consultant, L&D Consultant, Lean Engineer, Digital Learning Portfolio Manager and Content Manager.
He has worked for across both public and private sector and worked in distribution, local government, retail, finance manufacturing and his last employment role before going freelance was with the CIPD where he wrote the L&D factsheets as well as working on a range of L&D and organisation design and development products for members and customers.He is the co-author of 4th edition of Learning and Development Practice in the Workplace and Adjacent Learning.
In 2025 he takes up the one of the board Directors of The Learning Network
On Saturday mornings he can be seen either running a parkrun or volunteering at one!
Qualifications & memberships
- MA Distance and Online Learning (2020)
- MSc Human Resource Management (2010)
- Post Graduate Certificate in Education (2009)
- Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Development (2001)
- Chartered Fellow CIPD
- Fellow Learning and Performance Institute
