Int. J. Innovation and Learning, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2012 181 Copyright © 2012 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Learning styles and organisational development in practice: an exploratory study of how learning styles and individual learning strategies can facilitate organisational development Jacob Brix* and Karen M. Lauridsen Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences, Fuglesangs Alle 4, DK-8210 Aarhus V, Denmark E-mail: jabk@asb.dk E-mail: kml@asb.dk *Corresponding author Abstract: Issues of innovation and knowledge management are often treated from an organisational learning perspective. As a complement to this, there is a vast potential in the strategic enhancement of individual learning by implementing learning styles profiles and creating personal learning strategies for management and employees in a knowledge-based organisation. Based on an action-research case study, we offer an example of how learning styles affects individual learning and thus personal knowledge creation in practice. The paper argues that innovation and knowledge management is enhanced and facilitated in practice by working with the learning styles of individuals and groups/teams. Keywords: learning styles; personal knowledge management; organisational development; learning; incremental innovation. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Brix, J. and Lauridsen, K.M. (2012) ‘Learning styles and organisational development in practice: an exploratory study of how learning styles and individual learning strategies can facilitate organisational development’, Int. J. Innovation and Learning, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp.181–196. Biographical notes: Jacob Brix is an Industrial PhD student at the Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University. He is affiliated with the Danish Technological Institute’s Centre for Innovation. He has a Master’s degree in Corporate Communication and he is a certified Dunn and Dunn Learning Styles Trainer and Qualified Building Excellence Trainer. Karen M. Lauridsen is an Associate Professor who works with knowledge generation, learning and learning styles. Her current research focuses on the multilingual and multicultural classroom at the International University, including the challenges of teaching and learning through the medium of a foreign language. She is a Building Excellence Master Trainer.