Learning Executive Strategies
The methods used by executive leaders to align learning to the mission and vision of an organization, and to elevate the role learning plays in business strategy.
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Real Challenges, Straight from the DevLearn Community
At DevLearn 2025 we asked attendees to share their current biggest challenge. Their answers weren’t about trends or buzzwords. They were practical, immediate, and human. Across industries and roles, clear themes emerged, and they paint a picture of what learning professionals are navigating behind the scenes today. Doing More with Less Capacity was the most common challenge. Small teams are supporting entire departments, sometimes entire states. Many […]
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From Badge to Business Value: Making Digital Credentials Work for Learners, Issuers, & Employers
There are plenty of programs that issue digital badges and certificates to their learners. But many of those credentials stop delivering value the moment they’re issued: Learners struggle to explain them, employers struggle to trust them, and learning teams struggle to show the impact of their programs. Drawing on research from over 500 employers and […]
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How to Make L&D Hard to Overlook
Let’s face it: when it comes to allocating funds or making budget cuts, at many organizations, learning and development often gets the short end of the stick. So how can you make the value of learning hard to overlook? I sat down with the two AdventHealth speakers from our Communicating L&D Impact Online Conference to get their advice on conveying learning’s ROI to business leaders. Check out the real-life examples from Amy Colasanti, Learning Alignment Supervisor, and Natasha McIlmurray, Learning Quality Assurance Specialist: Q: How […]
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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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Redesigning L&D to meet the Speed of Business
In an era where change is the only constant, Learning and Development (L&D) teams must evolve to stay ahead. This talk, “A Journey to Real-Time L&D,” will explore the critical need for L&D team reorganization to address the demands of a fast-paced, dynamic business environment. You will learn how restructuring L&D teams to be more […]
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L&D’s Role in Supporting Skills Transformation
Organizations have recognized the value of skills in making more informed people-decisions across their business, but most are just at the beginning of their skills journey. L&D has a unique opportunity to play a key role in skills transformation, but what does that look like? This session with provide a blueprint for organizational skills transformation, […]
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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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Band-Aid or Bandage? Moving from One & Done Tactics to Lasting Business Impact
Gaining a clear understanding of the Should, Is, and Cause for a given challenge can help move from a tactical to a strategic approach.
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Welcome, but Disconnected: When Onboarding Misses the Mark on Belonging
Belonging, not bureaucracy, must become the new metric of success.
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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.