Chief Learning Officer, Trane Technologies

Lisa Gary has more than 25 years of learning and development experience, working in financial, food and manufacturing industries during her career. She is passionate about learning where she always applies a business perspective to our field. For the last seven years, Lisa has served as Ingersoll Rand’s/Trane Technologies chief learning officer. She is responsible for developing enterprise strategic capabilities of leadership development, operational excellence, strategy and market analytics, product management, innovation, and sales excellence. She is also responsible for global learning by ensuring aligned learning strategies for Asia Pacific, EMEA, India, and Latin America businesses. In March 2020, Ingersoll Rand split into two publicly traded companies, Ingersoll Rand (IR) and Trane Technologies (TT) with Lisa joining the Trane Technologies company as their CLO. She and her team are focused on building the next set of strategic capabilities as well as a reskilling/upskilling strategy as the world becomes more digital and technically enabled. Lisa has served on the ATD Forum Advisory Group and wrote the first chapter in the newly published book Leading the Learning Function. Lisa has a BS in marketing from Virginia Tech and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Lisa is a NeuroLeadership Institute Results Certified Executive Coach, Hogan Certified Assessor, and lifelong learner, tackling anything from blacksmithing to clogging to glass enameling. Lisa is the proud mom of a grown daughter and son, and lives in Cowan’s Ford, North Carolina, with her husband and rescue dog, Elvis.