The purpose of this study is to investigate Chief Learning Officer’s verification, importance recognition, and levels of performance for required competency. This study tries to look into required competency and important competency of CLO, who is a leader of HRD organization as well as a chief in charge. The primary conclusions of this study are as follows. First, the role of CLO can divided into a value creator of business renewal, a performance consultant of organization, a builder of learning organization, and leader of HRD. Twenty-four required competencies were drawn and that is categorized by thirty. Second, the twelve important competencies among required competency of CLO’s role were derived. Third, roles of CLO showing the big gap in importance recognition and present performance level are a value creator of business renewal, a builder of learning organization, a performance consultant of organization in order. There is no statistically significance in case of a leader of HRD. Forth, comparing the competencies of the big gap in importance recognition and present performance level among required competencies of CLO with the each role, there are level differences in a value creator of business renewal and business acumen, a performance consultant of organization and networking and change management ability, a builder of learning organization and business acumen, and a leader of HRD and strategic planning ability. Through this, gap in perception of CLO’s importance recognition and level of performance for roles and required competency were analyzed to provide insight of future research about performing his roles and developing his competency.
Key words : CLO, Value creator of business renewal, Performance consultant of organization, Builder of learning organization, Leader of HRD