Aligning Instructional Design with Business Results: Make the Case and Deliver Results

Evaluation-oriented instructional design that delivers business results.

Rethink how to design training instruction to meet bottom-line business goals. With his eight-step framework for measurement and evaluation-focused instructional design, Kristopher Newbauer offers a straightforward process for helping instructional designers and talent development (TD) leaders demonstrate and actualize their value while also transforming their attitude toward an often-dreaded practice.

With Aligning Instructional Design With Business Goals, improve your business acumen by adopting the language of your business leaders. Enhance the partnership among measurement and evaluation specialists, instructional designers, and business leaders to improve the TD function. Uncover the root cause of performance gaps to design more meaningful instruction--and thus increase ROI.

With case studies and examples to illustrate, learn to:

• Promote your TD function as a strategy for achieving business goals.
• Ensure TD programs are aligned to the company’s strategic objectives.
• Design and develop effective TD programs.
• Demonstrate to business leaders measurable added value in revenue and employee success.

Kristopher J. Newbauer, EdM, MHRM, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, CPTD, CPT is the chief people officer and head of global people and talent for Rotary International and the Rotary Foundation, the world’s oldest and largest humanitarian service-club organization. Newbauer holds a bachelor of science in group social studies (secondary education) from Grand Valley State University, in Allendale, Michigan; a master of education in global human resource development from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and a master of human resource management from North Park University, in Chicago.

Newbauer has completed multiple certificates in human resources from Cornell University and DePaul University. He served on the faculty of the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership in the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as well as the Department of Literacy, Leadership, and Development in the Daniel L. Goodwin College of Education at Northeastern Illinois University, in Chicago, where he taught graduate courses in measurement and evaluation and organization development for several years.

Newbauer has served on the board of directors of the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), a global accrediting body for training providers, since 2009. He served as president of the IACET Board for 2013-14 and was elected chair of the IACET Board for 2022-23.

Nominated by a former Rotary employee for his contributions to leading the way to extraordinary employee experience, Newbauer was recognized by Crain’s Chicago Business as a Notable Leader in HR in 2020.