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THE PRACTICE

the L&D leader you need before you're ready to hire one.

Comprehensive senior L&D leadership without a full-time hire.

Learning & Development is how we operationalize culture.

The early organizational work. Structure that keeps things consistent as you scale. Some companies need someone who can build and run an L&D function but aren't ready to fill the role full-time. We step in and do the work. Dwayne has led L&D teams and functions at On, Zalando and Apple, and managed brand programs at adidas and lululemon. That's the range you get, on your terms.

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WHO THIS IS FOR

  • Scale-ups and mid-size companies without a senior L&D hire

  • Organizations building, rebuilding or scaling their L&D function

  • CHROs, CPOs and founders who need a partner with a track record

  • Teams going through growth, change, or both

WHAT WE CAN OWN

Everything on this list, through one person.

A fractional engagement means we're in your meetings, we know your people, and the strategy work and the facilitation happen inside the same partnership.

Strategy + Function

  • L&D strategy and function design

  • Learning measurement and reporting that goes beyond attendance

  • Building and growing your L&D team

  • Strategic advisory and mentorship for you and your team leads

Programs + Capability

  • Leadership and pre-leadership development

  • Onboarding for new hires or new leaders

  • Skilling, enablement and capability programs

  • Change and reorganization enablement

  • Culture and brand programs

Collaboration + Facilitation

  • New leader integrations and culture resets

  • Leadership offsites and team building

  • Kickoffs, retrospectives and all-hands

  • Design, vision and solution sprints

  • Steering boards and planning sessions

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“Dwayne has a rare ability to translate business intent into learning experiences that resonate across an organization. His work always felt grounded in personal and company values and the ripple effect continues long after the programs were launched.”

Dimitri Lungo
Senior Lead, Global Retail Training:
On, Burberry & Luxottica

HOW WE PARTNER

The first ninety days.

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Discovery: We talk about where you are, what you're trying to build and what's in the way.

02

Scope: We propose what we'd own, how many days a week, and what the first 90 days look like.

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Embedded: We work inside your team. Your meetings, your tools, your people by name.

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Handoff: We build it so you don't need us. When it stands on its own, we step back and you keep everything.

From €10,000 for three months

Longer partnerships are scoped by days per week. One day a week runs from €40,000 a year, two days a week from €80,000. Investment is scoped to your situation, so let's talk. Engagements run in person, virtually, or hybrid, and in person includes travel. Value-based pricing is available for outcome-linked work.

WHAT YOU'LL GAIN

  • A working L&D function built by someone who's done it at scale.

  • Programs your people use (and look forward to).

  • A team set up to carry it forward.

  • The collaboration & facilitation work handled, not outsourced.

What happened next.

This engagement became ongoing advisory through our Fractional L&D offering and a PATH Onward cohort for their team.

PATH New Ground
65% negative→79% positive
A team that opened the year 65% negative left it 79% positive.
The engagement became ongoing advisory through our Fractional L&D offering and a PATH Onward cohort for their team.
Berlin tech startup · ~30 people
The challenge

A 30-person startup began last year with broken trust. A perceived lack of leadership accountability, transparency and an inconsistently applied return-to-office mandate hurt morale, with 65% of the team reporting a negative outlook for the year ahead.

The process

We designed a full-day session that shifted blame to ownership, everyone could step up to own something. Leadership explained and owned past decisions, made public commitments with timelines, and the entire team co-created solutions. Real-time sentiment tracking measured how perspectives shifted throughout the day.

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leadership commitments, each with a named owner and date
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CEO-sponsored cross-functional projects, with team members owning the project manager and deputy roles
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individual team solutions; silos dissolved from pairing teams strategically
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brand values, each linked to an exercise, revitalizing faith in the team's culture
One concentrated day saved months of meetings, inaction, and the ongoing strain from team members not feeling heard.

"Most people walked in skeptical. By the end, they left feeling heard, valued, and genuinely optimistic about the year ahead."

PROOF

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One day became a continuing partnership.


BERLIN TECH STARTUP · ~30 PEOPLE

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CURRENTLY ADVISING

Dwayne is L&D Strategic Advisor to Manageable, a UK company helping managers build leadership confidence and habits.

At On, Dwayne led the buildout of “Leadership Essentials,” a program shortlisted for two 2024 Business Culture Awards: Best Learning Initiative for Business Culture and Best International Initiative. Manageable partnered on that program, saw his approach to the work up close, and brought him on to advise theirs.

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“We really appreciated deep focus on the learning outcomes, openness to experiment, and respect for our point of view. He saw every experience as an opportunity not just for learning but also to experience the brand through action.”

Farley Thomas
Co-Founder & CEO
Manageable

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