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Trends Learning Professionals Can’t Ignore
To help you set the course for this year, we caught up with influential voices in the learning and development space at DevLearn 2025 to find out which learning and development trends are worth your time in 2026. We asked each of our DevLearn influencers the question, “What’s one trend in learning and development that’s capturing your attention right now?” and these […]
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Urgent Patience, Part 2: Disarming Resistance & Sustaining Change
Construct a narrative around your change initiatives. When stories of success outnumber stories of failure, cynicism loses its audience.
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Why Readiness Is Shaping the Future of Work: A Conversation with Alicia Sanchez, CAIO at MPF Federal
Where L&D still has unique value is not in owning content, but in shaping conditions, helping define when human judgment is required, designing learning into the flow of work, and enabling people to operate responsibly inside rapidly changing systems.
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How L&D Can Lead in the Age of AI Even If Your Company’s Not Ready
When you think about who’s leading the AI charge, you may think of the technology department or a dedicated AI team. However, L&D professionals should be leaders in the AI movement too, even if their company limits use of AI tools in the workplace. During a DevLearn 2025 keynote, performance improvement professionals discovered why it’s crucial for them to lead and how to go about it. Here’s a taste of the strategies DevLearn attendees received from Yulia Barnakova, AI Innovation and Learning Advisor, Accenture: Why L&D professionals need to lead As AI changes […]
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How Position-Based Microlearning Aligns Learning with Workflow
A position-based approach notes that what we learn and how we learn it vary by role, experience level, environment, and context.
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Learning Design Beyond Burnout: Building Sustainable Practices with AI
AI could do more than save time. It could help me refocus on why I teach instead of drowning in the how.
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Future-Proof Your Career: The L&D Strategic Roadmap for AI Readiness
This article outlines a strategic roadmap for L&D professionals to navigate the rise of artificial intelligence by proactively adapting their skills and pivoting into adjacent, integrated, or specialized AI roles to ensure long-term career resilience.
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Beyond the Hype: 5 Pillars for Ethical AI Adoption
The ethics of AI isn’t just about red tape and box-ticking… We need to look at what AI adoption means toward building inclusive cultures, toward challenging our biases, toward creation of the conditions for a fair, equitable education for all learners.
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How to Get Started with Skills-Based Learning
A thoughtful, evidence-based approach to identifying performance gaps and designing appropriate solutions will be far more effective than defaulting to training as the automatic answer.
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Learning Guild Elevates Events with Co-Location of Learning Leadership and DevLearn 2026, the Nation’s Premier Learning Tech Conference & Expo
The Learning Guild is redefining leadership forums and professional development for modern learning professionals at a singular destination, MGM Grand in Las Vegas. These best-in-class events are poised to deliver an unparalleled opportunity for exclusive executive conversations, and the following day, set the stage for collaborative team growth, and hands-on innovation and execution. One Dynamic […]