KIMO KIPPEN

Kimo Kippen, Founder of Aloha Learning Advisors, is a thought leader, speaker, and advocate for lifelong learning and talent development. A native of Hawai'i, former Chief Learning Officer at Hilton, recognized by CLO Magazine as Chief Learning Officer of the year (2015). Former Chair of ATD (2007), and VP of Learning at Marriott International, Kimo has been creating life-long learning solutions for hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.

As a former Chair of the Board for the Asian Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIA Scholars), Kimo is an advocate for APIA achievement. He is currently a Senior Fellow at The Conference Board and Council Director responsible for two Councils: the Talent & Organizational Development Executive Council (TODEC) in New York City and the Learning & Development Council for Europe, based in Brussels, Belgium.

One of Kimo’s activities involves advisory services. He has served in this capacity at the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) as Intermittent Chief Learning Officer Advisor, the Center of Talent Reporting, Strategic Education, Inc. (SEI), the Council for Adult & Experiential Learning (CAEL), GP Strategies, SkillSoft, New Markets Venture Partners, L&D Cares, and Education Reimagined.

Kimo is also a founding member of ATD’s CTDO Next Organization, a member of ATD's Awards Selection Committee, and McKinsey’s Consortium for Advancing Adult Learning & Development.

Kimo’s passion for learning, facilitating, and teaching has drawn him into the academic world as an adjunct professor at the Catholic University of America, and George Mason University.  Kimo also serves on the Rochester Institute of Technology Advisory Board for the Saunders College of Business. Kimo is also a lead facilitator for iVentiv – an HR Executive learning events Company. (London, Berlin, Amsterdam, New York City, Sydney, Copenhagen, etc.).

Kimo has an M.S. in career and human resource development from the Rochester Institute of Technology, a B.S. from the University of Hawaii, and is a graduate of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland's Post Graduate Program. Kimo’s home base alternates between Warsaw, Poland, and Honolulu, Hawai’i.