Lyle Yorks, EdD is a Professor Emeritus in the Adult Learning and Leadership Program in the Department of Organization and Leadership, Teachers College, Columbia University where he continues to teach the course Strategy Development as an Organization Learning Process. He is also a Principal Research Fellow at the Conference Board conducting research on applications of artificial intelligence in talent development. Earlier in his career Lyle was Principal and Consultant to the Firm of Marshall-Qualtec a consulting firm working in the area of strategic change, organization restructuring and alignment and has also served as visiting faculty in various EMBA and Executive Education programs in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Articles authored and co-authored by Lyle have appeared in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Education and Learning, California Management Review, Human Resource Development Review, Human Resource Development International, Advances in Developing Human Resources, Sloan Management Review and other scholarly and professional journals. His most recent book is Strategic Human Resource Development in Practice: Leveraging Talent for Sustained Performance in the Digital Age of AI, published by Springer, 2022. Lyle earned Master degrees from Vanderbilt University and Columbia University and his doctorate from Columbia University.