Les Cowie is a visionary entrepreneur and industrial psychologist with over 50 years of global experience in learning and development. He is the creator of the 7 Steps™ Methodology, a structured, first-person learning approach that forms the foundation of the planner and assessments on the Skillmaker.AI platform. In the 1960s, Cowie pioneered a “step-into-their-shoes” training method that emphasized immersive, experiential learning—an approach he refined over decades while working with major clients such as Ford, Mercedes, IBM, Sulzer, and AECI. Today, that methodology has been transformed into a digital algorithm, making training not only faster but dramatically more effective for enterprise-level workforce development.