Microsoft L&D Director terminated after 3 decades at company: 'My job elimination was result of...'

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when my job was eliminated." He said his "job elimination was the result of HR adopting the hub and spoke model for L&D that I was pitching". Bogdan is in search for his “second career" and the “The simple start is via consulting". As per his post, Bogdan had key role in three Microsoft products: Windows Phone, Zune, and Windows 95.

His “biggest payoff", he said, came in last two years, when he had pitched and landed an L&D role in Windows. ALSO READ: Microsoft sales top estimates; cloud growth disappoints some "My 33-year run with the wonderful Microsoft come to a close in February, when my job was eliminated I spent the last 2 weeks at Microsoft trying to say a "proper goodbye" to my enormous second family." I then spent the 2 weeks that followed in Chelan, half the time with family and half the time in solo reflection. My entire MS career has been an incredible ride. The three products I am proudest of are Windows Phone, Zune, and Windows 95. But the biggest payoff for me came in these last 2 years, when I pitched and landed an L&D role in Windows. My premise was that, after successfully spreading a "learn-it-all" mindset throughout the org, it was time to spread a "teach-it-all" mindset to accompany this. I focused on organizing the learning investments for a 2,000-person org, and then worked to align that with learning & development offerings from our parent orgs and from central HR. My job elimination was the result of HR adopting the hub & spoke model for L&D that I was pitching. Sadly, when my division already had their L&D team in place, there wasn't a seat at the table for me. After abundant reflection, I have concluded that I am nowhere close to the "R word". There is still so much that I want to contribute.