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Dr. Leslie W. Joyce is Vice President and Chief Learning Officer for the Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement retailer. She has responsibility for all aspects of designing, developing, and delivering learning solutions for Home Depot’s 350,000 associates and leaders. Her areas of expertise include executive and leadership development, technical training, learning technology and organizational effectiveness. Leslie joined the Home Depot in 2002 as Director, Organization Effectiveness and in this role was responsible for individual, team and organizational assessment, leadership development processes, competency modeling, employee selection processes and organization design and development. She is also an active member of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology with many publications and presentations to her credit. Leslie holds a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. In this Spiral Story interview, Leslie shares her thoughts on creating a family culture at Home Depot, the Home Depot story and how the internet has changed the learning mindset.