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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When Leaders Struggle and Tech Fails: The Perfect Storm for Bad Performance Conversations
Performance conversations don’t fail because leaders want them to. They fail because of a lack of tools, context, and support. In this candid session, Keith Metcalfe, President of Acorn PLMS and a 25-year leadership veteran, shares how the challenges he faced as a first-time leader still echo today, amplified by the complexity of modern HR […]
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Confessions of an L&D Consultant
Whether or not these are considered confessions might depend on your definition. However, I did interview Dr. Elham Arabi, Global Learning Consultant, Northeastern University, about the challenges her university clients are currently facing, her thoughts on AI replacing instructional designers, and the perspectives she’ll bring to the Learning Leadership Conference: Q: How did you get […]
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Learning Leadership Conference 2025 to Spotlight Workplace Belonging in the Age of AI
New York, NY — The Learning Leadership Conference, the premier event for learning and development leaders, produced by the Learning Guild, returns to Orlando, October 1–3, 2025 at the Rosen Centre. This year’s urgently needed conference focus is on leading during a time of rapid AI adoption and workplace change. The opening keynote will be […]
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Unlearning Learning: Brain Science, Better Design, and an AI-Powered Boost
Corporate training is due for a reset. Despite advances in brain science, many learning programs still cling to outdated assumptions and ineffective practices. In this highly practical session, we’ll unpack what needs to be unlearned in corporate L&D, explore the AGES model (Attention, Generation, Emotion, Spacing), and show how AI can support the application of evidence-based learning design without requiring you to become a neuroscientist or AI engineer.
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Learning Leader Q&A on Agentic AI and Learning Strategy
I recently got the opportunity to ask Greggory Wright, Strategic Learning Partner at Southwest Airlines, for all the details on his team’s challenges, agentic AI, learning strategy, and his Learning Leadership Conference sessions: Q: What’s been your Learning & Development career journey? A: My learning and development career journey has definitely had its mountain peaks […]
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Learning Leader Q&A on AI research and Award-Winning L&D
I recently caught up with Dr. Becky Burke, VP Learning & Strategic Development at BankWest, Inc., to discuss her team’s challenges, her AI research, her award-winning L&D program, and her Learning Leadership Conference sessions: Q: How did you get your start in learning and development? A: When I began working at BankWest full time, I […]
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The Architecture of Error: Persistent Flaws Despite Advancing Capabilities
LLMs never say, “I don’t know.” Instead, they provide a contextually coherent response, which may be completely false. Learn to recognize and avoid this and other common AI errors.
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Keynote Speakers Announced for the Learning Leadership Conference 2025
New York, NY – The Learning Guild has announced keynote speakers for the Learning Leadership Conference 2025, which takes place October 1–3 at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando, FL. This year’s program will feature presentations by Wendy Gates Corbett and Frank Nguyen, two of the most prominent figures in the learning and development field. […]
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Connecting Employee Performance With Capability-Driven Learning
You’ll learn how to extract capabilities from job descriptions, benchmark them with competency levels, and connect them to learning opportunities. We’ll explore available tools and frameworks to help you build capability frameworks without reinventing the wheel. You’ll walk away with a step-by-step process to implement capability-based learning in your organization and drive real performance improvement. […]
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Customer Success Is Your Learning Success
Extending the L&D function to include customer education brings surprising benefits, such as improving relationships with customers.