Johannes Hyldegaard Lystbæk

In my current role in the LEGO U team, I’m empowering colleagues and people leaders to build the skills they need to excel in their roles today and shape their careers for tomorrow.

With technology as a key lever, I design and implement solutions that enable skill discovery, development, and growth at scale. Whether it’s leveraging advanced tools, creating clear skill frameworks, or driving innovative approaches to upskilling, I ensure all colleagues have the support they need to navigate their unique skill journey.

In this role, I was part of the local leadership team to establish and develop the organization for our new factory in Vietnam.

• Establish and lead the local L&D team.
• Leadership Team Development – Design, develop and deliver leadership team development activities for the newly established LEGO Manufacturing Vietnam leadership team
• Leadership development – Local roll out of global leadership development programme
• People & Culture lead – Define and deploy local strategy to create sense of belonging to the LEGO culture and building the skills for +300 new colleagues (both hourly and salaried)
• Onboarding experience – designing new process and materials for local onboarding.
• Capability building – Working across manufacturing streams to effectively build the capabilities for first batches of local operators, technicians, and trainers.

In this role in the central L&D team, I was overseeing our learning technology landscape and managing our communication & engagement strategy/plan. Since I started in this role in December 2018 my responsibilities have been:

• Business lead for Workday Learning global implementation (new global LMS)
• Selection, implementation and support of LinkedIn Learning
• Global roll-out of LMS365 and support for all LEGO Academies
• Development, deployment and maintenance of the global LEGO Learning Hub
• Project member for LEGO U – Taking part in the early stages of the strategic L&D project to make the LEGO Group a skills driven organization.
• Development of the global internal comms & engagement strategy for L&D at the LEGO Group, including conceptualization and development of our content series (Learner Spotlights, Webinars, Monthly Spotlights and L&D Newsletter)
• Defining and designing a learning program about change leadership at the LEGO Group (Leading Change) with an external vendor.

In this role my primary responsibility was capability building in the Horizon Program as the competency development lead. In this role my focus areas was:

• Change Impact Assessment
• Defining the learning strategy
• Implementation of a new Learning Management System (LMS365)
• Developing a global training/learning organization
• Vendor selection and continuous collaboration for learning content development

As global L&D Manager I was the owner of our learning principles and responsible for ensuring that we have the right mindset, tools and technology to promote and anchor a strong learning culture. With 70-20-10 as the guiding star, I used the latest research in organizational learning to develop and implement new tools and technology that support social learning, micro learning and blended learning programs.

Learning Mindset: Build and promote a common approach to learning based on existing learning principles in L&D

Learning Solutions: Develop and refine tools and methodologies for learning needs analysis, design, evaluation and continuous on-the-job learning

Learning Platforms: In depth analysis of current learning technology infrastructure diefining roadmap for implementation of new tools/systems

Task force lead - analysis of L&D tools and processes + recommendations for improvement
- Individual development plans
- MBTI and DiSC
- L&D toolbox

Project support: Develop learning & communication strategy for implementation of new global planning system

I developed, designed and implemented learning solutions locally and globally with a special focus on utilizing technologies to enable and facilitate learning. Accordingly, uncovering business needs and transform these into relevant learning solutions. As part of this process, I engaged in dialogues with other specialists across the LEGO Group as well as trainers, leaders to ensure the best possible solutions.

Capability building projects

• China market expansion - Capability definitions, gap analysis and roadmaps for systematic development
• Engineering capability expansion - technical element design, mould design, mold manufacturing and quality

Knowledge management

• Testing a new interview technique for tacit knowledge extraction and transfer
• Designing new “Expert System” for technical designers

Digitalization of work instructions

• Creating a new standard for web based dynamic documentation for trainers and employees
• Testing tablets in production

New standard for IT training.

• Design and implementation of a new IT training method

Learning platform

• Design, implementation and maintenance of the learning platform in Operations

Learning toolbox

• SPOC for training and support in learning resource production

• Analysis and definition of learning objectives
• Design, development, and implementation of e-learning.
• I created both stand-alone and blended learning solutions, within a wide range of subject areas such as performance management, onboarding, sales training, product knowledge, compliance, and systems training.
• SPOC for communication and training on our Windows 8 implementation.
• Selection and implementation of a new LMS and authoring tools
• Defined Telenor DK’s “learning manifest”
• Representative for Telenor DK in Telenor Group’s learning network group.
• Certification in impact measurement
• Peopleway - Learning Improvement Specialist

As a full-time intern at KMD’s e-learning department, I worked on various e-learning productions – for both internal and external customers. The work included:

• End user analysis
• Development
• Testing

• I worked mainly with video production and web design. E.g:
• Video presentations for Aarhus University’s patent- and contract unit about their new technologies.
• Web and flash work for Bestseller – Jack & Jones

• Assistant instructor in media production courses
• Student mentor