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Build Your L&D Edge with Skills, Strategies, and Connections That Matter
For L&D practitioners, the strongest professional development combines learning expertise, business knowledge, technology, and influence. Your goal should be to become not just someone who creates training, but someone who can identify performance problems and help the organization solve them. Here are some ideas on how to get there: Go beyond course creation Learning professionals need to become comfortable with needs analysis, setting learning objectives, deciding when learning isn’t the solution, and understanding and integrating adult learning principles into training. These are the skills that will help learning professionals adapt their role for the future. How can the Learning Guild…
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How SMBs Can Offer AI-Personalized Learning Paths
SMBs can deliver—and benefit from—personalized training. By aligning each AI initiative with business goals, training leaders can boost employee skills, enhance performance, and ensure every learning investment counts.
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Leaders Must Create the Foundation for Lasting Change
When leaders reinforce the same priorities through communication, decision-making, coaching, and recognition, people begin to believe the change is real and sustainable.
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From Content to Capability: Danielle Eisenach-Reichel on the Future of Learning Leadership
As part of our Learning Expert Spotlight series, we spoke with Danielle Eisenach-Reichel, Global Director of Facilitation at Fresenius Medical Care, ahead of her discussion at Learning Leadership 2026. In a rapidly evolving workplace, the role of learning leaders has expanded far beyond delivering training programs—they’re now responsible for building leadership capability, navigating complexity and driving meaningful behavior change. Danielle is at the forefront of that transformation. In this interview, she shares why values-driven leadership is more important than ever, how organizations can move beyond content to create lasting impact, and what attendees can expect from her Learning Leadership breakout discussion on turning values…
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Leveraging GenAI to Support Cognitive Development
Human‑factors research shows that automation can make simple tasks easier while exacerbating difficulty in complex tasks, underscoring the need for deliberate task allocation between humans and GenAI.
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AI & Organizational Learning: Beyond Hype, Toward Work
The organizations that will benefit most from AI are not the ones adopting it fastest. They are the ones thinking most clearly about what learning actually is.
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Creating Learning That Works: A Conversation with Melissa Milloway
Melissa Milloway, Senior Learning Experience Designer at Microsoft, has become one of the learning industry’s most recognizable voices by sharing practical ideas that help instructional designers create better learning experiences. But long before building an online following or becoming known for her expertise with tools like Articulate Storyline and Rise, she found herself drawn to a field that combined technology, creativity, and a passion for helping people learn. Ahead of DevLearn 2026, we caught up with Melissa to talk about her path into learning and development, why she believes sharing your work makes the entire community stronger, what attendees can expect from the new Storyline & Rise…
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Designing Learning for a Time‑Starved Workplace
Designing learning around real work patterns is not about lowering expectations. It’s about acknowledging reality and designing within it.
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When Performance Is Not Understanding: The Disappearance of Expertise in AI-Supported Learning
AI can generate outputs. It cannot generate the judgment that emerges from experience, productive struggle, reflection, and feedback.
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Meet the Learning Guild’s 2026 Thirty Under 30 (Part Two)
We’re back to announce the second half of the Learning Guild’s 2026 Thirty Under 30! Together, these innovators, strategists, designers, and leaders represent the depth and diversity of the next generation shaping the learning field. This November the Learning Guild community will recognize all 30 of these emerging professionals and celebrate their contributions to the future of learning at DevLearn 2026. Meet the second half of this year’s Thirty Under 30 cohort. Patrick McMorrow Constructive Disruptor in Learning and Leadership Patrick challenges assumptions to create stronger learning experiences. Through leadership development, facilitation, and learner advocacy, he pushes organizations beyond the status quo in pursuit of meaningful results. Kelyn Melendez-Ruiz Guiding People Through Transformation Kelyn…