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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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 did you get started in learning and development? Amy: I started working in the Florida public school system with special needs students and in mathematics. As I continued in my L&D career, I found that the most beneficial thing for me was statistics. Anytime I could provide data to back decision-making and better student…
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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 flexible and agile can lead to faster response times and greater innovation. The session will highlight the benefits of building cross-functional teams that drive continuous improvement and adaptability. You will learn how to create an L&D structure that not only meets immediate needs but also…
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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, including how to get started, the complexity of skill data, high-impact use cases for skills, and how L&D can play a critical role in the skills transformation journey. You will leave this session prepared with the information you need to engage your organization in deciding…
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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 to adapt proven change management models, such as Kotter’s and ADKAR, to support AI adoption while addressing resistance. We’ll explore how to foster cross-departmental collaboration, identify AI champions, and most critically establish key metrics to measure success. These metrics will balance technological adoption with human…
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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.
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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 Destination for Learning Executives and Their Teams For team leaders: Learning Leadership, Nov. 2 – 3: An exclusive 300-seat event designed for those steering learning strategy. Created with insights from learning executives at F1000 organizations, this event is where bold ideas and actionable strategies will…