Experienced Learning Leader to Accelerate AI Training and Enablement Across Global Agency
CHICAGO (September 10, 2024) – Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG) agency Golin today announced the appointment of Joseph Leslie as Vice President, Global AI Learning & Development (L&D). This key hire underscores Golin’s commitment to becoming the first fully AI-integrated global public relations agency. Based in Chicago, Leslie reports to Jeff Beringer, Chief AI Officer.
Joseph Leslie
In this newly created role, Leslie will drive the design, development and delivery of multi-modal AI training programs for Golin’s 1,700 employees across 50+ global offices. He will collaborate with craft leaders, managing directors and top client leaders to tailor AI training for specific roles, office locations and client engagements. Leslie’s responsibilities include expanding AI training through personalized self-paced learning, expert-led skills development events and other modalities. Additionally, he will implement a data-driven AI readiness assessment framework to measure employee aptitude and development.
“Joseph’s appointment marks a significant step in our AI transformation journey,” said Beringer. “His extensive experience in equipping global teams with AI skills makes him ideal to help every Golin employee harness AI’s potential to supercharge our work and results.”
Leslie brings nearly two decades of L&D experience across various industries. Most recently, he served as VP, Global LMS Lead at Publicis Groupe, where he led strategy and operations for a global AI learning management system serving over 100,000 employees across 100 countries and multiple agencies.
“I’m thrilled to join Golin at this pivotal moment,” said Leslie. “The firm’s investment in technology, talent development and work process transformation is the formula for success. I look forward to collaborating with our global communications experts to develop innovative programs that better serve colleagues and clients.”
Leslie will foster an agency-wide culture of continuous AI learning and adoption of best practices, and he’ll support Golin’s mission to create change that matters by delivering industry-leading solutions for clients in the AI age.
About Golin
Golin is a global public relations agency that helps companies create change that matters. Together, we discover powerful human truths that bind us, create with bravery and collaborate inclusively and obsessively. Golin’s 1700 global employees operate across 50+ offices worldwide, allowing us to provide our clients with comprehensive solutions for multi-market, regional and global communications programs. Golin is a 2024 Grand Prix winner from the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity and was named PRWeek’s 2024 overall Agency of the Year in the U.S., PRovoke Media’s 2024 Best Large Agency to Work for in North America, a 2023 and 2022 PRWeek U.S. Best Place to Work, PRovoke Media’s 2022 overall North America Agency of the Year, PRovoke Media’s 2022 and 2021 North America Large Agency of the Year, PRWeek’s 2021, 2020 and 2019 Global Agency of the Year, AMEC’s 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019 Communications Research & Measurement Team of the Year and a 2021 Chicago Tribune Top Workplace.
