Executive Technology Strategies
Forward-thinking executives are aligning technology investments with learning goals, leveraging platforms and data ecosystems to drive workforce readiness and business agility.
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Transforming Content into a Strategic AI Growth Asset: Building a Unified Content Fabric
As organizations expand, their audiences diversify—employees, customers, partners, distributors, and now AI agents all rely on consistent, high quality content. The shift from an access focused world to an answer focused one means Learning & Development teams must ensure their content is not only accurate and up to date at scale, but also structured and […]
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Architecting What’s Next: How L&D Can Lead in the Age of AI
As AI reshapes how we work, learning has never been more essential to staying relevant — and L&D professionals are at the heart of it. In this keynote, Yulia Barnakova, Accenture’s AI Innovation and Learning Advisor, explores how L&D can turn AI disruption into new opportunities for learning. From AI coaches and knowledge assistants to […]
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Learning Leaders as AI Change Agents
Michelle Lentz didn’t open her session with a demo or a prompt. Instead, she started with a question about emotion. At The Learning Guild’s 2026 Trends & Strategies Online Conference (Dec. 3–4, 2025), Lentz—founder of Innovate & Elevate Strategies—asked attendees to name the feeling AI most often triggers for them. The responses came fast and varied: “wow,” “hesitant,” […]
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Rethinking Work Design for the AI Era: A Conversation with Alex Kalish, Amazon Global Ops GenAI
The real value [of AI] shows up when teams become willing to challenge legacy assumptions and when they stop asking how to do the same process faster and start asking why the process exists at all!
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Agentic AI at Work: What L&D Must Be Ready for in 2026
Everyone’s waiting for AI to get “better.” For hallucinations to disappear. For the system to finally be perfect. Spoiler: it won’t. GenAI is probabilistic, which means it will always make mistakes. And agentic AI? That just means we’re giving those mistakes legs. It’s error on the move. Which, let’s be honest, makes AI less like […]
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Igniting Critical Thinking, Curiosity & Creativity in the Workplace
It is time for a revolution in L&D! In an age where innovation and adaptability determine the survival of organizations, superficial skill-building is no longer enough. Organizations must shift toward understanding how to encourage employees to challenge outdated paradigms, embrace curiosity, and use critical thinking and collaboration as the foundation of every project. In this […]
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Learning Leaders as AI Change Agents: Leading Transformation
AI is transforming organizations, and learning leaders have a unique opportunity to lead the way. But AI adoption brings challenges like resistance, fear of job displacement, and skill gaps that can derail success. This session equips you with targeted change management strategies designed to address these challenges and measure AI’s impact effectively. You’ll learn how […]
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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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AI Clarity: 4 Mindset Shifts Learning Leaders Need Before Building an AI Strategy
The AI landscape will keep shifting—new tools, faster models, endless possibilities. But clarity, not speed, will determine who succeeds.
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2026 Priorities for L&D Leaders: Navigating Change, Tech & Talent
The more digital we become, the more human we need to be. L&D exists at this crossroads.