Andy Storch
Most career development inside large organisations has quietly broken down. Employees expect the company to map their growth, the company expects employees to drive their own, and neither side is honest about the gap. The result is disengagement, attrition among the people most worth keeping, and L&D budgets that produce activity but not ownership.
Andy Storch is an author, facilitator, and host of the Talent Development Think Tank who helps employers rebuild career ownership inside their workforce.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Andy Storch
- He has facilitated talent and leadership programmes for Salesforce, Oracle, Google, Toyota, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, Cisco, Sony, and Tiffany & Co., which means he has tested his career-ownership material against the most demanding corporate L&D functions in the market.
- He runs the room where his buyers meet each other. The Talent Development Think Tank conference, community, and podcast give him a working view of what CHROs and L&D leaders are actually trying to fix, before they brief a speaker.
- His thesis is concrete and actionable: career ownership is a learnable practice, not a slogan. Own Your Career Own Your Life breaks it into specific steps employees and managers can apply on Monday.
- His 2025 follow-up with Mike Kim, Own Your Brand, Own Your Career, gives organisations a practical handle on personal brand as a retention and internal mobility lever, not a LinkedIn exercise.
- He works equally credibly as a keynote, workshop facilitator, and community host. For talent functions running multi-day events, that flexibility is rare.
Biography highlights
- Author of Own Your Career Own Your Life (2020) and co-author with Mike Kim of Own Your Brand, Own Your Career (2025).
- Founder and host of the Talent Development Think Tank podcast, conference, and community, sponsored by Advantage Performance Group.
- Has consulted, taught, or facilitated for Salesforce, Oracle, Google, Toyota, State Farm, Red Bull, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, HP, Sony, Cisco, and Tiffany & Co.
- MBA, USC Marshall School of Business (President of the MBA programme); BS, University of Florida.
- Host of three podcasts: The Talent Development Hot Seat, Own Your Career, and My NFT Journey.
- Workshop facilitator for global enterprises since 2011.
Biography
Career development inside large organisations has become a quiet contract failure. Employees assume their employer will plot the path; employers assume employees will take initiative; the middle is where engagement and retention disappear. Storch built a practice around closing that gap from both sides.
His book Own Your Career Own Your Life sets out a step-by-step approach to career ownership for individual contributors and managers. The 2025 follow-up with Mike Kim, Own Your Brand, Own Your Career, extends the argument into personal brand as an internal-mobility and retention lever rather than an external marketing exercise. Both books are direct and operational, not motivational.
The proof point most relevant to corporate buyers is who he works with. Salesforce, Oracle, Google, Toyota, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, Cisco, Sony, and Tiffany & Co. have used him to facilitate leadership and talent programmes. He has been running these workshops since 2011, which is what allows the keynote material to land in language a senior L&D function recognises.
The Talent Development Think Tank, his podcast, conference, and community, gives him an unusual position in the market. He is not commenting on the talent development field from outside it; he is the convener inside it. For a CHRO or head of L&D, that means the speaker on stage has heard, in private, the same problems they are trying to solve.
Key speaking topics
- Career ownership and employee development
- Talent development strategy
- Personal brand and internal mobility
- Leadership for managers of professionals
- Employee engagement and retention
- Future of work and talent trends
Ideal for
- CHROs, heads of L&D, and talent development leaders running enterprise development programmes
- Annual talent and leadership offsites for managers of professionals
- Employee resource groups and internal high-potential cohorts
- Sales and account leadership conferences focused on retention and growth of top performers
Audience outcomes
- A working definition of career ownership that managers and employees can apply to weekly conversations
- Specific tools to make personal brand work as an internal mobility and retention asset
- A clearer line between what the employer owes the employee and what the employee owes their own career
- Language to frame development conversations that does not collapse into performance review template
- A view of where talent development practice is heading, drawn from a sitting community of CHROs and L&D leaders
Talks
A keynote that reframes career development as a shared practice between employee and employer, with concrete steps for both sides.
Key takeaways:
- A practical model for employees to take ownership of growth without waiting for the organisation
- The manager’s role in career ownership conversations, with language that works in real one-to-ones
- How talent functions can structure development programmes around ownership rather than compliance