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Thursday, May 16, 2024
7:30 AM – 5:00 PM CST
Prayer and Meditation Room

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
ATD Master Trainer™ Program (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Coaching Certificate - Group A (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Coaching Certificate - Group B (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
E-Learning Instructional Design Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Evaluating Learning Impact Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Instructional Design Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Managing Learning Programs Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Training & Facilitation Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM CST
Certificate Programs Luncheon (Registered 3-Day Certificate Program Attendees Only)

Friday, May 17, 2024
7:30 AM – 5:00 PM CST
Prayer and Meditation Room

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Articulate Storyline Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
ATD Master Trainer™ Program (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Change Management Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Coaching Certificate - Group A (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Coaching Certificate - Group B (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Consulting Skills Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Creating Leadership Development Programs Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
E-Learning Instructional Design Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Evaluating Learning Impact Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Human Performance Improvement Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Instructional Design Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Integrated Talent Management Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Managing Learning Programs Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Measuring Return on Investment Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Microlearning Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Needs Assessment Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Project Management Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Rapid Video Development for Learning Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Training & Facilitation Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Writing for Instructional Design and Training Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM CST
Certificate Programs Luncheon (Registered 2-Day and 3-Day Certificate Program Attendees Only)

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM CST
ALC First Time Attendee Orientation (Separate Registration Required)

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CST
Welcome Networking Reception (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

Saturday, May 18, 2024
7:00 AM – 5:30 PM CST
Sensory Room

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CST
ALC Welcome & Breakfast (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

7:30 AM – 6:00 PM CST
Prayer and Meditation Room

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM CST
Everyone's Favorite F-Word--Making Chapter Finance Easy and Fun (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM CST
How to CARE-fully Accelerate Your Chapter's Strategic Work (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM CST
Incentivizing Member Engagement: Designing and Implementing a Rewards System (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM CST
Leading with Learning: The Power of a Professional Growth Series in Your Chapter (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
ALC - Chapter Leaders Conference (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Articulate Storyline Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
ATD Master Trainer™ Program (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Change Management Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Coaching Certificate - Group A (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Coaching Certificate - Group B (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Consulting Skills Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Creating Leadership Development Programs Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
E-Learning Instructional Design Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Evaluating Learning Impact Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Human Performance Improvement Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Instructional Design Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Integrated Talent Management Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Managing Learning Programs Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Measuring Return on Investment Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Microlearning Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Needs Assessment Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Project Management Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Rapid Video Development for Learning Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Training & Facilitation Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Writing for Instructional Design and Training Certificate (Separate Registration Required)

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CST
Board of Directors and Governance (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CST
Communication and Marketing (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CST
DEI - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CST
Finance (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CST
Membership (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CST
Programming (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
An Accessibility Audit for Your ATD Chapter (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
Creating and Cultivating Dynamic Sponsorships (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
Elevate Your Chapter: 3 Transformative Tactics for Mastering Member Engagement (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
Making it Competitive: Redesigning Your Chapter Programming to Offer Relevant Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
Putting the Pieces Together: How to Construct an Effective Chapter Leadership Team (ALC: Separate Registration Required

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
Working with Geniuses (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM CST
Certificate Programs Luncheon (Registered 2-Day and 3-Day Certificate Program Attendees Only)

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST
ALC Lunch (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

12:00 PM – 6:00 PM CST
Registration

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Party Like It's 2034: Futurecasting for a Resilient Chapter (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Programming in the Age of Hybrid & Micro Learning (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Running Your Chapter Like a Business: How to Create Value-Driven Strategy (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Unleashing the Power of DEIB: Transform Challenges into Triumphs! (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Why a Board Orientation is Worth Your Time (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Wild Apricot - Tips and Tricks (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM CST
Deliver Inclusive In-Person and Virtual Chapter Meetings Using Real-Time Accessibility Tips (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM CST
Exploring Strategic Sponsorship: Crafting Personalized Action Plans for Chapter Success (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM CST
Identifying, Submitting, and Using an SOS! (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM CST
RICE: Sowing Seeds of Volunteer Success (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM CST
Using Geographical Data to Develop a Targeted Recruitment Strategy (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM CST
Why You're Not Getting Chapter Speakers (from a Professional Speaker!) (ALC: Separate Registration Required)

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM CST
ATD Central, ATD Store, ATD Theater, Career Center, and Member Lounge Open

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM CST
Global Village Open

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM CST
Opening reception and Book Sale

Sunday, May 19, 2024
6:30 AM – 6:00 PM CST
Hotel Shuttles Run

7:00 AM – 5:30 PM CST
Sensory Room

7:00 AM – 6:00 PM CST
Luggage and Coat Check

7:00 AM – 6:00 PM CST
Prayer and Meditation Room

7:00 AM – 6:00 PM CST
Registration

7:30 AM – 5:00 PM CST
ATD Central, ATD Store, ATD Theater, Career Center, and Member Lounge Open

7:30 AM – 5:00 PM CST
Global Village Open

7:30 AM – 5:00 PM CST
VIP Lounge (VIP Registrants Only)

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
ATD24 Orientation

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST
International Orientation

9:15 AM – 10:00 AM CST
Community Meet-Up: Consultant

9:15 AM – 10:00 AM CST
Community Meet-Up: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

9:15 AM – 10:00 AM CST
Community Meet-Up: First-Time ATD Attendee

9:15 AM – 10:00 AM CST
Community Meet-Up: Instructional Design Trends

9:15 AM – 10:00 AM CST
Community Meet-Up: Level Up Your Talent Development Toolkit

9:15 AM – 10:00 AM CST
Community Meet-Up: Navigate the AI Revolution

9:15 AM – 10:00 AM CST
Community Meet-Up: New to L&D

9:15 AM – 10:00 AM CST
Community Meet-Up: Own Your Career

9:15 AM – 10:00 AM CST
Community Meet-Up: Talent Leaders

9:15 AM – 10:00 AM CST
Meet Up with APTD and CPTD Credential Holders

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
10 Brain Boosters to Prevent Boring Learning
Do you want to turn a compulsory session into an engaging learning experience that fascinates even Gen Z? In this session, we’ll explore 10 scientifically backed brain-boosters you can use to transform your training style and increase the return on learning! Take your delivery to the next level with this session, which is packed with practical advice and tips.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Aligning Instructional Design With Business Goals
Join this session to learn about an eight-step evaluation-focused instructional design framework that uses evaluation criteria to inform curriculum. We’ll cover infusing evaluation throughout the instructional design process, including establishing evaluation criteria, creating evaluation instruments, and ensuring that courses deliver value-add business results.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Burnout Prevention Beyond Bubble Baths
You’re not exhausted because you haven’t done enough yoga, set strong enough boundaries, or bought the right candles. You’re burned out because America has programmed you to be. Join this session to learn how you can recalibrate and design a culture that fosters balance and allows everyone to thrive.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Courage and Commitment to Change: A Modern Learning Transformation Journey
Dive into one organization’s transformation from traditional to modern learning and discover how courage and innovation can reshape learning strategies and drive growth. Learn about the deployment of an advanced learning ecosystem, the monetization of personalized learning paths, and the application of generative AI for a personalized learning experience.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Eliminate Apathy: How Genuine Curiosity Sparks Loyalty and Retention
Apathy is spreading through many organizations and crushing company cultures. Fortunately, the cure is simple: Curiosity creates community, and community ignites loyalty and retention. So, let’s talk about how to ask better questions, change how you listen, and adapt a curiosity mindset that creates organizations no one wants to leave.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Emerging Corporate Learning Trends With the Development of Generative AI
This session will explore the intricacies of artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on its four key dimensions and role in revolutionizing corporate learning. The speaker will highlight the transformative power of generative AI in various stages, from content production to course delivery, emphasizing how using AI can enhance learning results and corporate efficiency.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Empowering Change: Harnessing Microsponsorship to Tackle Workplace Inequities
Discover how microsponsorship, a modern approach to mentorship, can dismantle workplace inequities. Uncover strategies for leveraging allies to create a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. Gain practical insights to foster a culture of advocacy, breaking barriers for underrepresented groups and promoting professional growth.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Evolving from a Cost Center to a Profit Center: Maximizing Learning & Development Impact

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
How Executives Transform Their Organizations Through Deep Personal Work
An analysis of interviews with 19 successful industry leaders revealed that they all underwent a four-stage leadership development process. This process of deep personal work allowed them to master their physical, mental, and emotional state, which turned out to be the leading indicator for individual, team, and organizational success.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
How to Work with (Almost) Anyone (In-Person and Live Streamed)
Every working relationship can be better. Don’t leave it up to chance. This session will show you how to keep building the best possible relationships with your key people—relationships that are safe, vital, and repairable.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
How to Work with (Almost) Anyone (Live Streamed)
Every working relationship can be better. Don’t leave it up to chance. This session will show you how to keep building the best possible relationships with your key people—relationships that are safe, vital, and repairable.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Ignite Sales Engagement: Effective Techniques to Drive Behavior Change and Showcase Impact
Unlock the potential of your middle 60 percent of performers. A mere 5 percent sales increase from this group generates 70 percent more revenue than the top 10 percent. How can you replicate this level of business impact? Join this session to explore an array of techniques to empower your sales enablement initiatives and demonstrate impact.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Implementing Skills-First Interview Practices to Drive Strong Hiring Decisions
Implementing skills-first interview practices will support talent acquisition leaders in widening the talent pool, mitigating bias in the interview process, and strengthening the quality of hiring decisions. Join this session to learn how to rewrite a traditional job description through a skills-first lens.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Introducing Motivate, Train, Sustain: A New Framework for Workplace Learning
This session introduces the motivate, train, sustain (MTS) learning framework as an improved way of applying best practices in instructional design, learning science, and learning technology for effective results. We’ll explore relevant case studies in multiple industries, and you’ll leave with an expanded view of learning program design.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Learning in Bytes: Creating Drip Feeds to Revolutionize Learning Retention
Be prepared to share, collaborate, and leave with the knowledge that creating conversational learning reinforcement using email drips, bots, and blogs can be fun and meaningful. And most importantly, it won’t require a degree in computer programming.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Learning Through and From Generations: Leaving a Legacy!
Engage with four international experts in a session that intertwines generational learning with best practices. The speakers will also cover some myths about technology (AI in particular) and interaction. They will show the audience how they put these concepts into practice in their roles as parents and professionals, introducing the concept of reverse mentoring.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Nurturing Resilient Leadership: Developing Hardiness and Emotional Intelligence

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Quality by Design: Integrating Quality Management into L&D

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Savvy Self-Promotion: How L&D Can Stand Out Without Selling Out
Do you wish you could speak up, share your ideas, or promote your work, but feel held back by fear of self-promotion? In this session, you’ll learn practical ways to self-promote that feel authentic. Through hands-on exercises, you’ll gain tactical ways to practice savvy self-promotion to stand out, build credibility, and advance your career.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
The 5 Es to Learner Engagement: Driving a Learning Culture
How do you build engagement and a learning culture? In this session, the speaker will describe the five Es that drive engagement across the organization: excite, executive, experience, empower, and engage. Get the playbook for the whole workforce that includes stories of success, guides, communications, design ideas, and plans to execute real engagement.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
The Human Centric Economy: Leveraging AI in the Creativity Crisis

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
The Latest Technology and Approaches to Developing Emotional Intelligence

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
What Healthcare Leaders Need to Know About Healthcare
Healthcare is broad and complex, and leaders can be far removed from the front lines of patient care. In this session, the speaker will provide their perspective on what leaders across the industry should understand about the challenges of delivering high-quality care to patients. You’ll have the opportunity to apply their approach to your leadership development efforts.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Why My L+D Team Is Better Than Yours
It doesn’t make sense to build a diverse and talented team but not give them the right foundation for working together. And why hire great people but not serve as the absolute best possible leader for them? This session will use stories, data, and activities to inspire L&D leaders, new and seasoned, to elevate their leadership game.

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM CST
Government Lunch and Learn: Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM CST
Healthcare Lunch and Learn: The Healthcare Workforce of the Future: Proven Strategies for Skill Building

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM CST
International Welcome Luncheon (Invite Only, Separate Registration Required)

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM CST
Sales Enablement Lunch and Learn: Build a High-Performing Team in the New Age of Revenue Enablement

11:45 AM – 12:15 PM CST
Overview of the Talent Development Capability Model

11:45 AM – 12:15 PM CST
Wellbeing for a Thriving Workforce

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST
Resume Reprogram Roundtable

12:30 PM – 1:00 PM CST
Community Conversations: First Time ATD Attendees

12:30 PM – 1:00 PM CST
Speaker Spotlight (Live Q&A) with Michael Bungay Stanier

12:45 PM – 1:15 PM CST
Make the Most of Your ATD Membership

1:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
Chapter Leaders Lounge

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
20 Ways to Use Microlearning—and Design Tips for Success
How can you go micro with the greatest impact in your work? In this session, we’ll share four use cases for microlearning and five common formats to identify 20 ways you can go micro. Then we’ll share 20 tips for designing great microlearning. You will leave with fresh ideas for using microlearning, as well as ways to design it well!

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
3 Ingredients to Launch E-Learning Successfully

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
Assessment: The Silver Bullet to Personalized Development
Imagine achieving that magical aha moment—when leaders understand exactly why learning is important to their work, that (gasp!) they may not be perfect at a key skill, and how to do things differently. What’s the secret? Personalized learning that’s driven by assessment insight. Are you ready to learn how to do it? If so, don’t miss this session!

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
Building Powerfully Customized Learning Solutions With Low-Code Technology
Traditional learning technology solutions make it challenging for L&D teams to keep up with rapidly changing needs. Join this session to explore how you can leverage low-code technology to develop customized, low-cost learning technology solutions to meet a variety of L&D needs, without coding experience.

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
Community Conversations: An Accidental L&D Career (Trainers, IDs, and TD Professionals)

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
Cultivating Cohesion: Harnessing Intentional Connections in a Remote Workplace
Discover the transformative power of intentional connections—that is, purposeful efforts to nurture authentic relationships—whether you’re in a remote or hybrid workplace. In this session, the speakers will share their successful experiences implementing intentional connections in the finance department of their healthcare organization. From their example, learn actionable strategies to cultivate cohesive teams and how to apply these techniques.

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
Design Learning Like a Scientist. Design For the Brain.
How does the brain work? How does it learn, focus, and create memories? And how can knowing these facts significantly change the way you design? Join this session to experience a scientifically designed learning journey, and discover what you can accomplish when you join forces with your brain to elevate learning and learning designs.

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
Designing Employee Development Strategy With the Whole Person in Mind
Join this session for inspiration and practical tips on how to bring a thoughtful suite of learning programs, focused on soft and power skills, to an internal employee and leader audience. You will learn how a holistic approach to development provides a clear design strategy that ensures employee learning needs and preferences are met.

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
Developing New Global Leaders: The Importance of Human Communication in an AI-Driven World

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
Empowering ERG Leaders: Tools and Strategies for Nurturing Employee Needs
Are you an organizational leader who believes in the power of employee resource groups (ERGs) or other similar groups? Join this session to gain strategies on understanding, supporting, and advocating for your ERG leaders and, in turn, help create a culture of inclusion and belonging.

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
Forget SAM and LLAMA—Use Scrum for Agile LXD Delivery
Want to pivot to agile development, but unsure where to begin? This session will have you ditching the ADDIE revisions of SAM and LLAMA and implementing scrum on your team. You will leave this session with a toolkit tailored to an agile transformation in the learning space. Get ready to iterate!

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
How Listening Training Can Improve Employee Morale and Productivity

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
How to Train Your Salesperson
In this session, you’ll discover how to keep salespeople engaged in training, improve sales training outcomes, create permanent behavior change, and make training stick. From onboarding new reps to driving performance in veteran salespeople, you’ll gain proven techniques for improving sales productivity.

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
How We Built a Transformative Skills-Based Mentor Program
Don’t miss this opportunity to unlock the power of peer-to-peer skills-based learning culture. During this session, the speaker will share how they built a skills-based micro-mentoring program on SharePoint and PowerApps for employee upskilling. Learn what resources and ideas they used to implement the program, and update your traditional mentoring programs.

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
Improve Your Ability to Influence
Successful leaders must obtain buy-in from others to meet their objectives. This session defines and explains several influence techniques. It also discusses the importance of treating influence like a project and determining goals, your influence approach, and action steps. You will leave with a tool that you can use to create an influence plan.

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
Insights Into the Capabilities of Talent Development Professionals
What can the results of more than 28,000 self-assessments of TD professionals tell us about how they view their own proficiency? How do those views stack up against what research tells us are the most important skill sets? What skill sets are emerging and must be considered as we look to update the competency framework? How can you provide input?

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
Interested in Writing a Book? How to Finesse a Book Proposal

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
L&D Detective Measurement Mysteries
How do we measure training and learning's contribution to human and business performance, and what are signals for impact? In this session, you’ll conduct an impact measurement investigation. You’ll examine facts, clues, data, and evidence that answer the question, “What is the impact of training and learning?”

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
Making the Case to Invest in Talent Development

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
Maximize the Value of Off-the-Shelf Content With AI

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
ReVisionary Thinking: The Science and Strategy of Adapting to Change
To reach your goals, you must . . . change your plans! Backed by the speaker’s proprietary research on adaptability as a success tool, ReVisionary Thinking offers concrete strategies for building future readiness and creating new plans when the goalposts move on you.

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
See-Try-Do Can Improve Training Effectiveness for You
During this session, we will explore the application of David Merrill’s Principles of Instruction at a small pharmaceutical manufacturing company, which empowered trainers with a simple model to follow when delivering on-the-job training. You can adapt the model and templates that will be shared for application in any industry and your next hands-on training event.

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
Snackable Content Workshop: Crafting Irresistible Short-Form Videos for L&D
Want to create short and engaging videos that your audience will love and learn from . . . maybe even binge? Join this session where the facilitators will guide you through video creation, from concept to editing, and help you shine on camera. By the end, you’ll be ready to dazzle on camera and ensure you leave your learners wanting more!

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
The Cure for Stupidity: Using Brain Science to Explain Irrational Behavior
Economists tell us that given the chance, people will behave rationally. But many of us can point to countless examples of people behaving irrationally! What would life look like if we cured the “stupidity” around us? Imagine the end of frustration. Imagine the peace. Based on Eric M. Bailey’s bestselling book, this session can alter how you approach everyday interactions.

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
Think Like a Performing Artist. Speak Like a Master Trainer. (In-Person and Live Streamed)
Would you like more power, versatility, and longevity with your speaking voice? Would you like your audience to think you’re honest and authentic? Discover how to support your voice—to sustain clarity and connection throughout your daily interactions and over your career using the same techniques as singers and theatre performers.

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CST
Think Like a Performing Artist. Speak Like a Master Trainer. (Live Streamed)
Would you like more power, versatility, and longevity with your speaking voice? Would you like your audience to think you’re honest and authentic? Discover how to support your voice—to sustain clarity and connection throughout your daily interactions and over your career using the same techniques as singers and theatre performers.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
5-Star Course Design: Applying Merrill’s First Principles of Instruction
Join this session to learn how to redesign or design a course using M. David Merrill’s First Principles of Instruction, which use meaningful real-world tasks for demonstration, application, testing, and integration.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
A Geek-Free Guide to Exploring Learning Analytics
What happens when a data scientist, a standards wonk, and an instructional designer walk into a room and . . . collaborate? Join this session to find out. You’ll hear from three experts and discover how each applies learning analytics in the real world. Then, just like improv, they’ll collect a hypothetical case from the audience and follow it through their own processes along with you.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
A Quest for a New LMS
Is your learning management system (LMS) meeting your organization’s training needs? Are you hesitant to embark on the task of selecting a new LMS due to the overwhelming number of options available? Knowing where to begin can be challenging. Join this session to gain valuable insights into choosing an LMS that aligns with your company’s specific needs.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Are Your Courses Built for Yesterday’s Student or Today’s Learner?
Join this session to learn how to develop a partnership between instructional designers and subject matter experts to transform the expertise embedded in your organization into courses built for today’s learner. Move from content that’s long, not applicable, and wrapped in a PowerPoint that many people can’t understand to content that’s immersive, decision based, and highly memorable.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Beyond AI: Prompt the Next Wave of Human Intelligence

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Closing the Skills Gap: Empowering Talent with Credential-Based Solutions

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Coaches, Trainers, and Consultants: Win 3 Times More Clients With Ease

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Community Conversations: Teachers to Trainers

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Decoding the Black Boxes of Assessment Tools
This session will help you think more strategically when choosing personality and other psychometric assessment tools to use in your training and talent development initiatives. The speaker has been researching and working with assessment tools since 1995 and says the challenge is getting worse as evolving technology makes it easier to create your own assessments, often without scientific rigor. In this session, you’ll be given digital access to research, survey results, strategic questions, spreadsheets, checklists, and action plans to use in your organization, as well as guidance on how to think through the type of tool you need, what you’ll be using it for, how it fits your strategic initiatives, and how to compare vendors.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Drawing Out Your Genius: Sketchnoting for Communication, Collaboration, and Culture
Whether facilitating at the whiteboard or taking your own notes, you can use simple drawings to skyrocket engagement, comprehension, and retention in meetings and trainings, both in person and virtual. Even if you think you can’t draw, this session led by a visual strategist and New Yorker cartoonist will change your mind!

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Elevate Your Game: Strategies for Establishing C-Suite Credibility
In challenging economic environments, leaders often see the learning and OD organization as “nice to have” but not “essential to the business.” This session focuses on establishing the function’s value proposition with the C-suite. Learn to identify and communicate the operating framework, critical levers for a strong brand, and inhibitors to success.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Employee-Forward Performance Counseling: No More PIPs!
Does the term performance improvement plan (PIP) strike dread in the hearts of your employees? Do your managers handle performance issues with either a sledgehammer or a feather? Join this session to learn how the speaker’s organization gave its managers the tools to effectively intervene to turn around performance problems—or to act clearly when necessary.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Empowering Frontline Employees: Controlling the Conversation With Difficult Customers
When employees face angry or abusive customers, they cannot do their jobs. Proper educational training support and policy change must be made to support employees. In this session, you’ll learn how design thinking can influence the creation of a new onboarding program to promote employee empowerment when engaging with angry or abusive customers.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Exploring the Opportunities of the New Learning Technology Landscape
What’s new and exciting in the world of learning technology? And what works? Explore emerging trends developing in the field. In this session, you’ll look at tools, touch on key trends (such as the movement of L&D to recruitment and talent), and reveal what they might mean for the technologies you adopt.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Fearless Feedback: Amplifying the VoE With AI

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Global Insights Panel – Mastering Lifelong Learning: Navigating a World of Technological Disruption and AI

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Holistic Talent Development: Integrating Physical Well-Being for Optimal Learning Impact
In today’s fast-paced and competitive world, talent development goes beyond traditional training and upskilling. Join this session to learn how to nurture the whole individual by considering their physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Inclusion Mindset—Designing Accessible Learning
Considering inclusion when designing learning is more important than ever! Learning professionals must design and deliver courses that are accessible to people with varied access needs due to physical or cognitive differences. Challenge yourself to open your mind to new ways of designing and delivering accessible learning programs that are inclusive of all needs.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Let the Good Talks Roll!: World-Class Speaker Best Practices
Chock-full of presentation preparation secrets, pro speaker moves, and little-known practices that’ll give you an edge and delight your online and in-person audiences, this session is for anyone who speaks or presents to groups of any size. Learn from an award-winning international professional speaker, and your talks (or trainings) will never again be the same!

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
LinkedIn Data & Insights on Talent Development in the Age of AI

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Mindfulness Practice as an Act of Service and Belonging

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Navigating the Talent Landscape: Insights and Strategies From the 2023 Hiring & Talent Trends Report

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Onsite? Offsite? Yes to Both! How to Facilitate Hybrid Learning (In-Person and Live Streamed)
Hybrid classes are on the rise, which creates a challenge for facilitators who need to engage both in-person and remote audiences simultaneously. In this session, you’ll learn how to effectively set up a successful hybrid class. And, you’ll explore how to create a sense of shared experience among audiences joining from different locations.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Onsite? Offsite? Yes to Both! How to Facilitate Hybrid Learning (Live Streamed)
Hybrid classes are on the rise, which creates a challenge for facilitators who need to engage both in-person and remote audiences simultaneously. In this session, you’ll learn how to effectively set up a successful hybrid class. And, you’ll explore how to create a sense of shared experience among audiences joining from different locations.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Out With the Old: Six New Rules to Reinventing Work
The pandemic changed our relationship to work. Employees are insisting that their well-being matters, that diversity and inclusion matters, that feeling joy and happiness matters. This presents new challenges, and there’s no playbook. This session will explore six strategies for leaders wishing to engage, retain, and inspire a changing workforce.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Think Like a Hollywood Cinematographer to Improve Learner Engagement
Creating videos to improve learning outcomes is difficult, even when you have the right tools. In this session, you’ll study examples of cinematography techniques, identify opportunities to use them, and learn how to modify them. After, you’ll be able to push the boundaries of what you think is possible with the tools you already have.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Turn Your Organization into a Talent Factory

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Unlocking Authentic Inclusion: 4 Practices for Inclusive Learning and Development
Discover how to cultivate inclusive leadership in L&D programs. In this session, you’ll gain insights on implementing eight best practices, overcoming roadblocks, and creating inclusive learning teams to empower learners and drive meaningful experiences.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Want Engaged Employees? Better Have Engaged Leaders!
While L&D professionals strategize about enhancing leadership’s ability to engage employees, an intriguing question arises: How can leaders create employee engagement when they lack engagement themselves? Join this session to explore the critical factors contributing to leaders’ disengagement.

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM CST
Author Meet & Greets

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
Leader as Coach: The Key Coaching Conversations for Leaders of Today

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
VIP Happy Hour (VIP Registrants Only)

4:15 PM – 4:45 PM CST
Panel Discussion- Study Tips for the ATD Certifications

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
ATD Annual Business Meeting

5:45 PM – 7:00 PM CST
Certification Networking Reception (APTDS AND CPTDS ONLY)

Monday, May 20, 2024
6:30 AM – 7:30 PM CST
Hotel Shuttles Run

7:00 AM – 5:30 PM CST
Sensory Room

7:00 AM – 6:00 PM CST
Prayer and Meditation Room

7:00 AM – 6:00 PM CST
Registration

7:30 AM – 6:00 PM CST
ATD Central, ATD Store, ATD Theater, Career Center, and Member Lounge Open

7:30 AM – 6:00 PM CST
Global Village Open

7:30 AM – 6:00 PM CST
VIP Lounge (VIP Registrants Only)

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CST
Opening General Session with Matthew McConaughey (In-Person and Live Streamed)

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CST
Opening General Session with Matthew McConaughey (Live Streamed)

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM CST
VIP Networking Coffee Break (VIP Registrants Only)

9:30 AM – 3:00 PM CST
EXPO Open

9:30 AM – 3:30 PM CST
Conference Team Connection Center

9:30 AM – 5:00 PM CST
Chapter Leaders Lounge

9:30 AM – 5:30 PM CST
Talent Development Leader Networking Room

9:45 AM – 10:15 AM CST
18 Months of ChatGPT and Gen AI: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

9:45 AM – 10:15 AM CST
Down the Rabbit Hole: Design Thinking for AI

9:45 AM – 10:15 AM CST
From Concept to Connection: A Step-by-Step Guide to Launching Your Internal Podcast

9:45 AM – 10:15 AM CST
Organization Learning: Catalyzing Collaborative Content Creation

9:45 AM – 10:15 AM CST
Using AI and Human Connections for Skills-Based Development Plans That Work

9:45 AM – 10:30 AM CST
ATD Certification Overview

9:45 AM – 10:30 AM CST
The Talent Development Capability Model and You – A Roadmap for Your Career

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM CST
Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CST
7 Ways to Enhance Your Personal Brand and Increase Your Happiness at Work

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CST
Agile Program Development and the Future of Skills

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CST
Effortless Excellence: Achieving Your Ideal LMS Without the Hassle

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CST
LinkedIn Learning: Driving Business Outcomes Through Skills & Career Development

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CST
Unlock Engagement: AI-Powered Immersive Experiences With Gamification

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Community Conversations: Strategies for Wellness and Tackling Burnout

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Talent Development Leader Networking: The Future of TD

10:30 AM – 1:00 PM CST
Global Recognition Ceremony & Luncheon

10:45 AM – 11:15 AM CST
Certification Panel Discussion- The Value of Certification

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM CST
New Ideas in Leadership Development: Scaling Manager Effectiveness

11:00 AM – 1:30 PM CST
Lunch in the EXPO Hall

11:15 AM – 11:45 AM CST
Fanness: An Idea That Will Change the Way You Motivate and Inspire Others

11:15 AM – 11:45 AM CST
Growth With Purpose: 4 Steps to Delivering Effective, Scalable Training

11:15 AM – 11:45 AM CST
The LMS Selection Criteria for Backbone Industries That Train for Compliance—Yes, It Is Different!

11:15 AM – 11:45 AM CST
Unlock the Power of TMS + LMS for Streamlined Training Operations

11:15 AM – 11:45 AM CST
What’s New and What’s Next in Articulate 360

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM CST
Make the Most of Your ATD Membership

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM CST
Global Recognition Ceremony & Lunch

11:45 AM – 12:45 AM CST
Unlock Your L&D Career Potential with The 4 L&D Career Success Codes

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST
5 Steps to Achieving Your Goals

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST
Dessert Break in EXPO

12:15 PM – 12:45 PM CST
AI, AI, Everywhere, but What Will Work for Me?

12:15 PM – 12:45 PM CST
Cohort Learning Strategies: 5 Proven Tips With Live Examples to Skyrocket Learner Engagement

12:15 PM – 12:45 PM CST
Effective Conversations with AI Tools: Prompt Engineering

12:15 PM – 12:45 PM CST
Going Beyond Translation – Cultural Awareness of Global eLearning

12:15 PM – 12:45 PM CST
Maximizing Performance & Leadership Development through Behavioral Science

12:30 PM – 1:00 PM CST
Author Meet & Greets

1:00 PM – 1:30 PM CST
How to Strengthen Mental Fitness in 3 Steps

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
1% Better Everyday: Microlearning For The Frontline To Improve Your Bottom Line
Can a microlearning program designed for frontline store associates influence a key business metric like the customer satisfaction score? This session explores results from a controlled experiment run at a large retailer, where store associates received a learning initiative designed to improve their customer interactions, teamwork, and well-being.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
3-2-1 Make It Stick

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
5 Key Principles of Leadership to Change Your Life
Leadership is so much more than learning to manage direct reports. It is the foundation of how you successfully interact with everyone at work, as well as those outside work. In this session, you’ll learn how to build five core leadership skills that will energize you and the people around you to build stronger relationships and have a deeper impact.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
6 Secrets to Consulting Success
Are you a consultant? Considering it? Want to know how to increase your success immediately? Based on the speaker’s more than 40 years of consulting success, she will share real-life stories and reveal six rarely discussed secrets to ensure your consulting success. Relate each secret to your situation, and leave with actions you can take to reach a six-figure career.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Be an L&D Superhero With These Tools
What’s better than an expert’s vetted list of free or low-cost tools that supercharge your training efforts? In this session, you’ll get a personal tour of the tool landscape. Explore and create using an eclectic list of tools for sourcing and editing images, videos, and audio assets and even dabble with the latest artificial intelligence–based resources.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Becoming Interculturally Competent: Strategies and Stories
Create opportunities for yourself by developing your ability to work across cultures. You will leave this session with the tools to create a personalized strategy for developing your intercultural competence. The session will include some brief simulations with time to reflect and cover key knowledge, skills, and attitudes through stories—yours and the speaker’s.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Building a Talent Development Strategy From the Ground Up
Do you want to know how to quickly develop a successful talent development strategy from scratch? Join this session to learn how a high-growth, top-rated construction company did just that. You will have a chance to create a mobile app for your own talent development road map using some of the lessons learned.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Collaboration for Scale, AI for Speed: How to Build, Launch, or Implement a Skills-Based Learning Strategy

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Community Conversations: Creating Cultures of Inclusion and Belonging

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Connecting Soft Skills to Hard Data
We all need soft skills, yet there is a misconception that they don’t contribute to the bottom line because they are often perceived as less valuable than hard skills. This session will provide useful, practical tools to show the value of soft skills programs using a proven and credible approach.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Data-Enabled Instructional Design: How to Show Real-Time Learning Outcomes
Don’t wait until the end of a learning experience to evaluate its effectiveness. Waiting until a program ends can make the evaluation process more difficult. But there’s a better way: data-enabled instructional design. Learn how to integrate measurement and evaluation with instructional design to create real-time insights that show your program’s outcomes.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Don’t Show Your Duck Butt: Creating Public Speaking Confidence
Ducks glide on a pond with confidence, and when they drop their heads below the water, they expose their butts. When speaking publicly, you want to portray effortless confidence. When your confidence wavers, you show your “duck butt.” This session will focus on three key areas that create confidence.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Driving Results in the Digital Workplace: Optimizing Virtual/Hybrid Meetings
Effective virtual meetings can be key for business success. Join this session to learn how to design and deliver captivating online meetings, based on two years of research and expert interviews. The speakers will debunk the multitasking myth and show you how to embrace the vital three Ms of meetings— magnetic, mesmerizing, and memorable. Empower your talent to maximize meetings and thrive in the digital workplace.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Empowering Collective Intelligence: Co-Creating a Culture of Human-AI Collaboration
What emotions does AI trigger for you and your organization? How is the human-AI dynamic shaping our workforces and cultures? To navigate the unknowns, what if we leveraged our human-centric skills to maximize the positive use of AI? In this session, we’ll explore how to foster a harmonious collaboration between humans and AI to grow strategic talent capabilities.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Excellence Unleashed: 6 Implementation Best Practices to Drive Business Impact

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
From Hype to Reality—Using AI to Create, Learn, and Upskill

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Generative AI: New Technologies for Learning
Let’s explore generative artificial intelligence (AI) hands-on. This session equips you with the tools and knowledge you need to strike the right balance between AI-driven solutions and the human touch in training.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Helping Leaders Put Values Into Action
This panel discussion will explore how a major airline is introducing and embedding new core values across the organization. The senior talent development team driving this change initiative will share insights into how they’re preparing leaders to put these new values into action, with the support of HR business partners.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Leveraging Chaos: Skills for Career Growth During Reorgs and Buyouts
Why do some people struggle during buyouts and reorgs, while others emerge stronger? Learn seven factors that determine career and personal success during corporate chaos and the four skills needed to advance your work and career. L&D has a role to play in helping people thrive and emerge stronger because of these changes.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Loneliness is an Epidemic: The Cure is Relationships (In-Person and Live Streamed)
Dive into the paradox of our times: a world hyper-connected yet brimming with isolation. This session promises an exploration of the silent epidemic of loneliness and the potent antidote of human connection. Come, be inspired, and learn how, together, we can reshape our world, one relationship at a time.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Loneliness is an Epidemic: The Cure is Relationships (Live Streamed)
Dive into the paradox of our times: a world hyper-connected yet brimming with isolation. This session promises an exploration of the silent epidemic of loneliness and the potent antidote of human connection. Come, be inspired, and learn how, together, we can reshape our world, one relationship at a time.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Mnemonics: How Our Brains Can Comfortably Remember Almost Anything!
Experience how your brain can memorize enormous amounts of information by applying some basic mnemonic principles, such as relaxation rather than effort, creativity rather than memorization, and confidence rather than drilling. Learn to trust your brain, and be amazed at how it can absorb loads of information straight into your long-term memory.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Removing Complexity From Needs Assessment: A Practical and Proven Approach
The L&D competency that continues to get the least attention is needs assessment. What little recent literature exists is contradictory or anecdotal. You will learn a practical, proven approach for three occasions to conduct a learning needs assessment and will receive job aids to ensure that your assessments are efficient and effective.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Team Harmony: Practical Ways to Build and Nurture a High-Performing Team (Conference Team Registrants Only)

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
The Energy of Belonging: 9 Ideas to Spark Workplace Community
Belonging is built or destroyed with every human interaction. A sense of belonging at work is a major driver of employee (and learner) engagement, loyalty, and productivity. Learn and experience simple research-based ideas to connect with, respect, and protect yourself, your colleagues, and your learners.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
The Last AI Mile: Applying the Right Generative AI to the Enterprise

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
The Neuroscience of Psychological Safety and Teamwork
This session will present evidence showing that psychological safety is not a perk to attract employees but substantially improves organizational performance. The speakers will demonstrate a new neuroscience technology that continuously measures psychological safety and effective teamwork by applying algorithms to smartwatch data.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Understanding the Social Determinants of Health to Enhance Workplace Culture
Social, behavioral, and environmental factors—also known as social determinants of health (SDOH)—play a critical role in an organization’s health and well-being. In this session, you will develop a better understanding of SDOH to achieve lasting behavioral change, better health outcomes, and a more inclusive workplace for employees.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Wellbeing for a Thriving Workforce

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
You’re Leaving? You Just Got Here! Debunking the Bad Manager Myth.

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CST
How to Lead From Anywhere

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM CST
3 Things Learning Admins Need to Know About AI

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM CST
A New Skills Taxonomy to Bring Hearts and Minds to Work

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM CST
Community Conversations: AI in Learning and Development

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM CST
Human + AI: Learning Leaders’ Imperatives

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM CST
Learning Reimagined: How to Captivate and Transform Your Audience Through Video-Based Microlearning

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM CST
Soft Skills Training at Scale: 4 Ways Immersive Roleplay is a Game-Changer

2:15 PM – 3:00 PM CST
ATD Certifications for International Delegates: Empowering Lifelong Learning and Career Advancement

2:15 PM – 3:00 PM CST
Turn Your Organization Into a Talent Factory

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
A Strategic Approach From Tech Pilot to a Full Rollout
We are critical facilitators for introducing cutting-edge technology solutions into businesses. And for those solutions to be successful, everyone in the organization must have the knowledge and skills to effectively leverage these technologies. Join this session to explore a framework for investigating, selecting, and implementing new technologies.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Better Conflict Conversations: Have More Influence, Less Drama, and Lasting Outcomes
If you want more success, influence, and joy in your work, you’ve got to navigate conflict well. Unfortunately, the stress and uncertainty of the last few years is making it harder. In this session, you’ll learn practical techniques and powerful phrases for holding more productive conflict conversations with less drama and better results.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Beyond the Boot Camp
Enablement has fallen into a pattern of packing as much content as possible into a week and then sending sellers out to sell. However, this isn’t an effective way to help sellers become fully productive. This session will demonstrate a model to help you build a scalable learning experience to help your sellers become fully ramped in your organization.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Camouflaged Content: Creating Alternate Reality Games
Did you know that there’s a way to leverage your love of true crime documentaries and pop culture to create workplace learning that is effective and engaging? In alternate reality games (ARGs), reality and fiction collide. Join this session to explore the potential of ARGs to revolutionize workplace content and find out how to embed them in your learning technology ecosystem.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Community Conversations: AI in Learning and Development

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Conflict Resolution That Works: Remove the Drama, Eliminate the Blame

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Connection, Belonging, and Engagement in the Virtual Classroom
In today’s digital environment, facilitating meaningful connections, fostering a sense of belonging, and maintaining high levels of participant engagement online can be challenging. Let’s develop what’s needed to cultivate a vibrant, engaging atmosphere in a virtual classroom for every participant!

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Creativity Rules! Principles to Wake Up Any Workplace
Think there’s no place for the arts in highly regulated industries? Think again! Creative aptitude is now considered essential, even in the government. This session will translate artistic principles—like imagination and ambiguity—into tools for growth, compelling coaching, and education. No need to bring paint brushes, just an open mind!

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Digital Credentials: The New Currency in Skills-Based Hiring and Development
The world of work is rapidly changing, and employers must now look for candidates (internally and externally) with the skills needed to do the job, not necessarily a college degree. Skills-based hiring and talent management are now essential. Learn how digital credentials can help develop or improve your organization’s approach to skills.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Do What Matters Most: Improve Productivity and Reduce Stress!
Much of the workforce thinks their biggest challenge is prioritizing their time. Many are trying to figure out how to navigate a work-life balance and juggle their responsibilities. Discover a simple yet powerful solution to schedule your priorities and do what matters most to achieve higher productivity and better health.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Effective Training Is as Simple as 4-3-2-1
Did you know that the Kirkpatrick Model is good for more than training evaluation? It provides the structure to design, develop, and deliver training that will increase job performance and contribute measurably to the most important organizational results. Attend this eye-opening session to learn how to design training that works.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Energize Express: Power Stretch Session - Quick & Dynamic Conference Pick-Me-Up

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Engage, Pull, Transform: Drive Change With Creative Learning

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Excellence in EQ Habits: Supporting Well-Being and Effectiveness in Government
Talent development professionals in the government and military, like everyone else, experience emotions at work, and they’re uniquely positioned to support how communities rebuild, especially in hybrid contexts. Learn how emotions can be processed and managed in ways that enhance wellness and productivity for yourself and those you serve.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
From Poaching to Staying: The DNA of Inclusive Stay Conversations
CEOs have spoken, and talent retention is the priority. The key lies not in poaching from competitors but in fostering an environment where employees thrive, belong, and stay. Join this session to discover the game-changing talent retention formula for creating talent-centric, inclusive stay conversation programs and deeply embedding them in the organization’s and its leader’s DNA.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Harness AI to Transform Your Learning Ecosystem
Welcome to the new L&D! AI is transforming how work gets done. As the employee experience rapidly evolves, it’s time for L&D to rethink our role within the modern workplace. Join this session to discover a step-by-step process for architecting your AI-enabled learning ecosystem. Spoiler: This is going to change everything about workplace learning!

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
How to Start, Stop, and Excel at Every Training Imaginable
Most trainers don’t open; they start by dumping content. They don’t close; they run out of time. Discover the ingredients of the CORE approach (closers, openers, revisitors, energizers) to design and deliver training that increases retention by 90 percent over lecture and PowerPoint. Leave with creative strategies to make your training participant-centered and memorable.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Leadership Apocalypse: 8 Outdated Leadership Myths that Just Won’t Die

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Leadership Confessions: Accountability Skills to Set Leaders Up for Success
Just because you’re given a leadership title doesn’t mean it’s easy to tell someone they need to improve their performance or behavior. How can you learn to hold people accountable and resolve conflicts confidently and effectively? In this session, you’ll learn six skills to respectfully and effectively solve problems and build relationships.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Leading the Charge: Harnessing Strengths to Champion Change
Amid a heightened urgency for change, many leaders lack the essential skills needed to be effective change agents. Based on data from thousands of leaders, this session delves into harnessing the power of strength-building behaviors. Discover how to become an exceptional change leader, armed with the tools to drive meaningful transformation.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Learning to Fly: Hooters Takes Off with a Modern Culture of Empowerment & Growth

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Striking a Balance: Optimizing Training Development Projects for Maximum Impact
Discover how to optimize resource allocation for your organization’s learning needs by identifying projects requiring substantial effort while crafting simple, effective training solutions for those that don’t. Practice scenarios will give you experience determining effort levels, ensuring effective analysis of your future training projects.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Talent Development Leader Networking: AI Strategy for TD Leaders

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
The Collide of Data, Culture and Design (In-Person and Live Streamed)
How can you harness culture data when designing talent programs today? Join this session to learn and apply a prototype that leverages critical training practices, HPI, design thinking, data, and experience to design talent programs that influence your organization while gaining cultural and executive approval.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
The Collide of Data, Culture and Design (Live Streamed)
How can you harness culture data when designing talent programs today? Join this session to learn and apply a prototype that leverages critical training practices, HPI, design thinking, data, and experience to design talent programs that influence your organization while gaining cultural and executive approval.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
The Science of Emotional Intelligence and Well-Being at Work
Discover the brain science of emotional intelligence (EQ) and why it’s vital for well-being and organizational success. In this session, you’ll explore the latest research and techniques for designing EQ training and learn strategies to manage amygdala hijacks, better read emotions, navigate difficult situations, build positive relationships, and flourish at work.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Use Generative AI to Create Scenario-Based Learning
Unlock the power of scenario-based learning (SBL) with generative artificial intelligence (AI)! Join this session to discover how generative AI can accelerate your instructional design process and make it easier to create engaging and effective SBL experiences. Learn how to use cutting-edge tools, explore real examples, and gain practical insights to elevate your courses and empower your learners.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Video Rules: 7+ Ideas to Rethink and Level Up Your Videos
There are always new “rules” for creating videos. Video as a medium keeps evolving, but many organizations struggle to keep up with the best practices that can help make their videos better, faster, and produced for less. This session will provide ideas, practical approaches, and examples of when to follow the latest rules and when to break them to help you rethink and level up your videos.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
What’s Cooking: Preview the Upcoming AI Innovations in the All-New Adobe Captivate

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Whole-Person Safety: The Marriage of Human Resources and the Environment, Health, and Safety

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Why Most Diversity and Inclusion Programs Fail

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM CST
Speaker Spotlight (Live Q&A) with Tonya T. Tucker Collins

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
Network Like a Rock Star and Increase Your Conference ROI

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
12 Amazing PowerPoint Techniques for Better Presentations
PowerPoint is the basis for much training material, yet these presentations are often text heavy and dull. Learn how to revolutionize your presentations using visuals, diagrams, and animated sequences, and receive helpful how-to guides and a collection of 12 effective PowerPoint techniques. Attend this session and become a PowerPoint legend in your workplace.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
5 High-Engagement Alternatives to Basic Icebreakers
If you want to get learners engaged in your training from the beginning, you need to upgrade your opening from a basic icebreaker or list of learning objectives. In this session, you’ll experience five activities that work with in-person or virtual instructor-led training and e-learning to entice learners to want to learn, even if it’s a required program.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
AI Video Innovations—Streamlining Content Production, Effortless Maintenance, and Immersive Learning

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
AI-Powered L&D: Forging Agile Organizations and Learning Pathways With Generative AI

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Bridge Builders: Embracing Diversity Across Generations

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Demystify AI: What’s Hype, What’s Real, and What to Do
Embark on a journey of creativity as this session explores the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) for leadership development. We’ll cover the foundation of a few key AI topics, demystify some of the most pressing questions, and then dive into interactive applications. Leave this session feeling energized and ready to apply new tools to your short- and long-term development strategies.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Discover the Golden Thread of Your Personal Brand
Understand the “golden thread” of your full life and career experience to position yourself for the next step in your career. Your thread is not only about what you’ve accomplished—it’s about who you’ve become along the way. Discover new ways to view your unique story and how what you omit from your storyline may be where your superpowers hide.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Explore the Future of Learning: Introducing Mursion's New Generative AI Simulation

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Human+: Leveraging AI to Empower Your Workforce
Dive into this session as we explore the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to enable human performance. Learn how AI fosters personalized learning, boosts engagement, streamlines training administration, and uncovers insightful analytics. Future-proof your talent strategies with real examples of AI in action to formulate your own next steps.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Imposter Syndrome Steals Talent—Spot it and Stop it!
Imposter syndrome is a thing! When you have imposter syndrome, you feel inadequate, like a fraud, and undeserving of your position or success—despite evidence that you are fully qualified and deserving. In this session, you will learn to spot your own internal imposter monster and gain resources and techniques to help you stop it effectively.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Inclusive Cultures Require Agency in the New World of Work
With seismic shifts in the world of work, one concept is emerging as critical—individual and team agency. Join this session to discuss what agency is; explore how it can address workplace challenges, enhance job satisfaction and organization performance; and learn practical actions for enhancing agency at the organization, manager, and individual levels.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Integrating Mental Health and Well-Being Into the Employee Journey
Talent development leaders can play a critical role in integrating mental health into employees’ experiences of company culture. This session will provide you with tools and examples of how to strategically map key points on the employee journey to implement practices that enhance cultures of inclusion, safety, and mental health.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Learn to Lead (Not Merely Manage) Change
Leading change (versus managing or coping with it) is a critical capability for leaders at all levels. Join this session to experience a proven change leadership L&D program and learn how to apply it to your organization. The session will include real-life, broadly relevant examples of leading change in the workplace.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Learning About High Performance From New Orleans Bands, Oh Yeah!
The Tuckman Model of Team Development needs a new level—achieving high performance. Few teams reach this, where people know their roles and support each other and their goal, just like outstanding New Orleans bands. Learn the secret of jazz musicians interacting with one another and apply this thinking so your teams can be high-performing.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
LinkedIn, NBCUniversal & Kraft-Heinz Panel on AI & the Future of Skills

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Mending the Healthcare Experience-Complexity Gap: Talent Development Can Help!
Healthcare continues to face an experience-complexity gap, where seasoned clinicians have exited the workforce and novice employees have taken on roles that were previously held by those more senior. This session will explore ways that talent development professionals can help close this gap and thereby improve the healthcare delivery system.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Move Beyond Accessibility With Universal Design for Learning
In today’s global, diverse world, trainers must go beyond accessibility to reach a variety of learners, including those who may have disabilities, those with low literacy, or those who are multilingual. Explore the principles of universal design for learning (UDL) and how this method can help TD professionals reach as many learners as possible.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Proving Value in Top Leadership Development Programs (Case Studies)
This session will show you how to measure the value of leadership development programs through detailed case study examples that illustrate how to measure and evaluate various aspects of leadership programs and initiatives.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Sales Mastery in Minutes: Unleashing the Power of Microlearning for Sales Enablement

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Spotting Instructional Design Talent: A Field Book for Hiring Managers
Recruiting instructional designers can be daunting for new hiring managers, especially if the L&D function is not well established or it’s an inaugural role. How can we be sure? How can we test for fit? How can we confirm our decision before going ahead? This session will focus on minimizing the risk of making the wrong decision and helping you hire your next star.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Story Design: A Foundationally Human Approach to Instruction
Sometimes, we can get lost in the science of instructional design and forget that we are training people. Story design provides a process for designing instruction that speaks the language of humans: stories. Bring your expertise to this audience-driven session and experience story design for yourself!

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: Training Managers Leading Hybrid Teams
If you are looking for new ways to train leaders to thrive in the hybrid environment, this session is for you. The speaker will provide you with training tools, approaches, and activities that you can use to empower managers to lead in the hybrid workforce.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
The Neuroscience of Effective Coaching
Neuroscience research provides insight about how best to engage two brain networks for successful goal initiation (insight and motivation) and goal pursuit. This session will provide practical tips and strategies based on current research findings to enhance goal adoption, deliberate practice, and successful behavior or habit change in clients.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
The Power of Employee Engagement and Connectedness: Employee Resource Groups
In this session, you’ll learn how to diversify your employee engagement experience and unify your organization by empowering your employee resource groups (ERGs) to become organizational focus groups, employee networks, and drivers of policy change.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Trust and Inspire (In-Person and Live Streamed)
The days of a command-and-control approach to people and performance are over. Trust as a competency—the ability to build, extend, and restore it—is as vital as reading and math. The ability to inspire, on purpose and as a matter of course, is a differentiator and a competitive advantage. Join this session to learn how these attributes are now nonnegotiable for the L&D field.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Trust and Inspire (Live Streamed)
The days of a command-and-control approach to people and performance are over. Trust as a competency—the ability to build, extend, and restore it—is as vital as reading and math. The ability to inspire, on purpose and as a matter of course, is a differentiator and a competitive advantage. Join this session to learn how these attributes are now nonnegotiable for the L&D field.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Y’all Means All! Empathetic Learning Experiences for Neurodivergent Learners
Did you know that applying best practices for supporting neurodivergent learners benefits all learners? In this session, you will explore many of these best practices and then develop and practice delivering a short demo, applying your new skills. Embrace neurodivergence as the new neurotypical in your learning programs today!

5:30 PM – 6:00 PM CST
Author Meet & Greets

5:45 PM – 6:45 PM CST
Sales Enablement Reception

Tuesday, May 21, 2024
6:30 AM – 6:30 PM CST
Hotel Shuttles Run

7:00 AM – 5:30 PM CST
Sensory Room

7:00 AM – 6:00 PM CST
Prayer and Meditation Room

7:00 AM – 6:00 PM CST
Registration

7:30 AM – 6:00 PM CST
ATD Central, ATD Store, ATD Theater, Career Center, and Member Lounge Open

7:30 AM – 6:00 PM CST
Global Village Open

7:30 AM – 6:00 PM CST
VIP Lounge (VIP Registrants Only)

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CST
General Session with Dan Pink: Beyond Resilience: A New Path to a Strong Culture (In-Person and Live Streamed)

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CST
General Session with Dan Pink: Beyond Resilience: A New Path to a Strong Culture (Live Streamed)

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM CST
7 Ways to Enhance Your Personal Brand and Increase Your Happiness at Work

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM CST
VIP Networking Coffee Break (VIP Registrants Only)

9:30 AM – 3:00 PM CST
EXPO Open

9:30 AM – 3:30 PM CST
Conference Team Connection Center

9:30 AM – 5:00 PM CST
Chapter Leaders Lounge

9:30 AM – 5:30 PM CST
Talent Development Leader Networking Room

9:45 AM – 10:15 AM CST
APTD and CPTD Certification Preparation

9:45 AM – 10:15 AM CST
Coaches, Trainers, and Consultants: Close 3 Times Bigger Client Deals

9:45 AM – 10:15 AM CST
Gamification + Leaning Journeys = Impact and Data

9:45 AM – 10:15 AM CST
How AI Video (and Avatars) Will Change the Way We Learn and Work

9:45 AM – 10:15 AM CST
Leadership Rising: Elevating Connection Skills in the Age of AI

9:45 AM – 10:15 AM CST
Managing Employee Skills Disruption with Pearson

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CST
Helping Your Boss Help You

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
6 Learning Ecosystem Hacks to Win the War for Talent
The “war for talent” shows no signs of abating, but help is on the way! In this session, we will examine six strategies to ensure your organization can onboard, retain, upskill, and develop the talent you have fought so hard to win. You’ll learn how two organizations are implementing these strategies and assess your own readiness and vulnerabilities.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Beyond Diversity: Embracing Neurodiversity for Organizational Success
Dive into the transformative power of neurodiversity within your organization. This session offers strategies to enhance inclusivity, boost innovation, and anticipate future trends. You’ll engage in a dynamic dialogue that inspires and equips you to shape an inclusive organizational future.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Changing Your Company Culture With Podcasting
Learn the essential how-tos for creating an internal company podcast. From pitching to your executive team to designing a strategy with realistic and achievable goals, this session will provide all the information you need to build your own internal podcast.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Community Conversations: What's Hot in Leadership Development in 2024

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
C-Suite Talk in 3D (In-Person and Live Streamed)
When you get a seat, can you handle the heat? Knowing how to talk to the C-suite involves speaking in 3D—data, dollars, and decisions. This session will help you develop a game plan to nail your next C-suite conversation.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
C-Suite Talk in 3D (Live Streamed)
When you get a seat, can you handle the heat? Knowing how to talk to the C-suite involves speaking in 3D—data, dollars, and decisions. This session will help you develop a game plan to nail your next C-suite conversation.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Dancing With Data: The Decision Dilemma

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Feedback-Fueled Leadership: Why Seeking and Receiving Is Better Than Giving
The most effective leaders actively seek feedback, embracing both approval and criticism as invaluable tools for growth. Discover how this underutilized skill can empower you to take control of your growth journey by influencing the timing and scope of feedback. Explore innovative methods to revolutionize how you approach feedback acquisition.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
From Telescope to Kaleidoscope: How to View Career Mobility
A telescopic perspective presents a linear path. Today, workplace structures require you to widen your view to align development with the changing environment to see what possibilities exist. This session provides many scenarios and multiple opportunities to gain a new view. You will leave with six new ideas to contemplate.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Future Focused: Modernize and Align Your Talent Development Function
Join this session to learn more about ATD’s Talent Development Framework and how to align your goals and prioritize the TD function. Using a free online puzzle tool, you will select primary and secondary functions for developing talent to meet your organization's strategic objectives and ensure your team has the knowledge and skills they need to thrive.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Immersive VR Sales Training: Revolutionizing Skills for Success
Discover an innovative sales training approach using virtual reality (VR). Replace live role play with immersive simulations, interact with virtual clients, and receive personalized coaching from virtual mentors. Seamlessly integrate transformative technology into curriculums for consistent, scalable, and skill-enhancing experiences.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Innovate or Die: Harnessing Generative AI for Maximum Impact
Are you ready to harness generative AI and take your curriculum learning strategy to the next level? Join this session to learn how to get started, see case study examples, and gain valuable insights. Walk away with the knowledge to evaluate and apply generative AI for greater learner impact.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Inspire Growth: Harness The Power of Culture Change

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
It's Always the Leader!
In this session, one speaker will share the enduring truths he has been teaching for decades that are still valid for leaders today. Then, another speaker will describe the “new reality” modern skills we must acquire. Learn how today’s leaders must be authentic, inclusive, and empathetic to empower people and drive organizational results.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Modern Learning Strategy: Not Just Methods and Journeys
Elevate your impact with learning in the flow of work! Discover the “how to” using the popular Learning Cluster Design (LCD) model. Design multi-asset initiatives aligned with business goals that address learner differences and leverage technology. Reshape your organization’s learning landscape with a new strategic competency!

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Social Serious Play Experience: Large Group Learning Games
We all want to make our workshops and learning programs more fun and engaging. Are there any strategies or tools you can use for your audience that combine fun, play, and real learning? Yes, there are! This session will introduce you to a framework for understanding the different play options available. Then, you’ll experience a live demonstration of the latest tech on the cutting edge of “social serious play.”

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Storytelling for Engagement: Using Narrative to Strengthen Communication
This session will reveal how to wield the power of narrative to structure compelling stories that will bolster your ability to communicate in more effective and engaging ways.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Surviving Hybrid Horror Stories: Success Strategies From the Field
In this session, experienced hybrid facilitators will share their hybrid horror stories, how they survived, and strategies for the future. You’ll leave better understanding the challenges of hybrid meetings and workshops as well as what to be ready for in your own sessions. You’ll also have a chance to ask questions and get advice for your personal training situations.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Talent Development Leader Networking: From Conflict to Collaboration: Leading Learning Organizations Through Uncertainty and Change

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Team Harmony: Practical Ways to Build and Nurture a High-Performing Team

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
The 6-Step Process to Solve Challenges and Create Solution-Focused Cultures

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
The Case for a Professional Doctorate in Talent Development

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
The Distracted Mind: How Technology Changes Memory and Learning
Explore the neuroscience behind memory and learning and how our devices change it with a digital well-being expert. Learn why you should resist creating shorter learning programs and how to help employees restore their attention.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
The Power of a Speak-Up Culture

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
The Secret of Training and Evaluation That Works
How do you keep your training commitment to increase performance and contribute measurably to organizational results? Attend this session with a world leader in training evaluation to learn the best way to implement the Kirkpatrick Model to protect your training and talent investments.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Unlock the Secrets to Make Digital Learning Work

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Unlocking Genius: Collaborating With Subject Matter Experts for Unbeatable Results
Subject matter experts (SMEs) bring experience and credibility to a learning program, and their stories can bring content to life. Explore techniques for facilitating live discussions with SMEs in learning programs to maximize their impact. Learn how facilitators can prepare the expert and participants and engage creatively.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Weaving Deep Skill-Building into Your L&D Strategy

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
What to Steal From Famous Games to Create Engaging Learning
Join this session to learn how to borrow concepts, ideas, and techniques from games to create engaging, interactive, and meaningful instruction by creating learning games that incorporate those techniques. Discover new ways to design interactive, engaging experiences for your learners both online and face-to-face.

11:00 AM – 1:30 PM CST
Lunch in the EXPO Hall

11:45 AM – 12:45 PM CST
APTD and CPTD Speed Mentoring

11:45 AM – 12:45 PM CST
Certification Overview

11:45 AM – 12:45 PM CST
DEI & Your Talent Development Career

11:45 AM – 12:45 PM CST
Team Harmony: Practical Ways to Build and Nurture a High-Performing Team

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST
Dessert Break in EXPO

12:15 PM – 12:45 PM CST
AI + U: How to Embrace Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence With Articulate AI

12:15 PM – 12:45 PM CST
Harnessing AI and Sales Savvy: Crafting Captivating Learning Experiences in the Digital Era

12:15 PM – 12:45 PM CST
How to Build a Coaching Culture With Infrastructure

12:15 PM – 12:45 PM CST
L&D’s Role in Manager Development: The Why, What, and How of Great Managers

12:15 PM – 12:45 PM CST
Spark Success in Times of Change With Everything DiSC on Catalyst

12:15 PM – 12:45 PM CST
Speaker Spotlight (Live Q&A) with Esther L. Jackson

12:15 PM – 12:45 PM CST
Why Just Train When You Can Change Behaviors?

12:30 PM – 1:00 PM CST
Author Meet & Greets

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM CST
Energize Express: Power Stretch Session - Quick & Dynamic Conference Pick-Me-Up

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
3-2-1 Make It Stick

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
“Shouldn’t They KNOW This Already?”—Breaking the Curse of Knowledge
The curse of knowledge: when you learn something and then forget what it was like not to know it. This can harm our learning experiences, creating over-complicated explanations and impatience with learners. In this session, we’ll do exercises to see how the curse of knowledge occurs. Leave with ways to prevent it from taking hold!

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
AI Doesn’t Mean “Always Inclusive”
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a dream of the future—it’s happening now. But will what we once perceived as a dream become a nightmare for your DEI goals and objectives? In this session, we’ll dive into the risks associated with implementing AI in your organization’s day-to-day operations.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Before We Begin: Leverage Psychological Thresholds for Learning Experiences
Are you using psychological thresholds to deepen the impact of your programs? Level up your learning content by making the most of these key moments. Join this session to understand the opportunities available at psychological thresholds and leave with immediately useful practical applications.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Breaking Through the DEI “Wall”
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work is often described as a marathon, and just like runners hit the “wall,” so too do leaders, trainers, DEI practitioners, and organizations as a whole. How can we push past the wall to surge our DEI efforts forward in the moments of greatest adversity, without causing damage to ourselves and others? Join this session to discover how to move ahead.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Community Conversations: Mentors in L&D

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Cultivating Future Government Leaders With Emotional Intelligence
Transform public leadership with the power of emotional intelligence (EI). Leverage insights from the Maryland Department of Human Services Leadership Academy, strategize to conquer pain points, and supercharge team performance. This session is for talent development professionals seeking to ignite EI-powered change. (Prior EI experience is not required.)

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Deeper Learning Through Empathetic E-Learning
Join the speaker, the godfather of e-learning, for a session that explores how integrated empathetic components can dramatically change the appeal, effectiveness, and satisfaction of e-learning—all within even the tightest budgetary and timeline constraints.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Designing Leadership Development in a Hybrid & Generative AI World

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Empowering Teams: Propel Performance and Cultivate Collective Intelligence
Explore methods, techniques, and tools to boost team productivity and foster collective intelligence in companies. We’ll focus on the role of thinking preference, essential practices for improved performance, and creating a collaborative environment with open communication to achieve greater productivity and innovation in high-performing teams.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Foster Retention and Engagement: A Newcomer-Centered Onboarding Assessment Tool
Onboarding is one of the most common talent initiatives, yet negative onboarding experiences are so common. Join this session to learn how to use the onboarding assessment tool (OAT) to determine how well your onboarding program is meeting newcomer needs, and then plan how to close the gap.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
From Intangible to Tangible: Demonstrating L&D’s Impact
How can you connect learning to bottom-line business results and elevate the perceived value of L&D? Join this session to discover how to gain actionable insights that showcase the impact of learning, secure greater buy-in, facilitate strategic alignment, and boost the organizational value of the L&D function.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Full Speed Ahead: Build Your Team for Technology Innovation
Wheeeee! New technology is coming at us faster and faster. With so much momentum in the tech world, it’s nearly impossible to keep up. But that’s also exciting! The road ahead will be fast, fun, and a little bumpy—and your job is to keep it safe and productive. In this session, we’ll explore how to navigate this landscape and who you’ll need on your team.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
High-Performance Culture: Creating a Workplace Where People and Productivity Thrive

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
How to Be an Effective Observer: Enhance Experiential Learning With an Outside Perspective

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Human-Centered Leadership: Your Edge in a World of AI

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Make Succession Planning Part of Your Workforce Development Strategy
Remember the days when CEOs handpicked and groomed their successors? Or when managers assigned nine-box labels to determine who had potential and who didn’t? If your organization still relies on these practices as its only tools for succession planning, join this session to update your thinking and learn how to build succession into your workforce strategy.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Predictive Training: Use xAPI and AI for Targeted Student Interventions
Join this session to discover how xAPI and artificial intelligence (AI) can predict student needs in time for early intervention. We’ll explore a case study in which xAPI provides rich student data for AI that is designed to recommend individual interventions. Learn to apply these techniques and navigate the necessary technologies in a hands-on way.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Remember: SMEs Can Be the Greatest Link to Learners’ Success
Talent development professionals working in collaboration with SMEs enrich the learners’ experience when they are prepared to coach and support SMEs to be successful facilitators. Discover effective techniques for ensuring that SMEs deliver engaging, interactive presentations appropriate to their audience. Test your knowledge in this quiz-show style session.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Remote to Close: Developing a Sense of Team in Virtual Workspaces
The shift to remote work has dismantled traditional workspace boundaries, but also intensified the challenge of fostering a sense of team cohesion. This session will equip you with proven strategies to navigate these challenges effectively, nurturing close-knit, high-performing teams irrespective of geographical distances.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Resilience: Refocusing Energy in Times of Change

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Stop Wasting Your Training Budget on Unnecessary Training! Unlock Value With AI and Adaptive Learning

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Strategic SynERGy: Leveraging ERGs as Learning Partners
This session will emphasize how harnessing the collective power of employee resource groups (ERGs) can enhance organizational learning and drive inclusive excellence. Learn effective strategies to foster collaboration, leverage diverse perspectives, and create effective learning opportunities through your ERGs.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Sustaining Your Edge: High Performance Teams and Culture (Conference Team Registrants Only)

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
The Future of Learning (or Growth) Is Everywhere (In-Person and Live Streamed)
The events of the last few years have pushed the world into the space between “no longer” and “not yet.” This is a moment when talent development could redefine its future and enhance the role it plays as a true growth lever. This session will explore seven possible futures for talent development and will challenge your beliefs about what is possible now.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
The Future of Learning (or Growth) Is Everywhere (Live Streamed)
The events of the last few years have pushed the world into the space between “no longer” and “not yet.” This is a moment when talent development could redefine its future and enhance the role it plays as a true growth lever. This session will explore seven possible futures for talent development and will challenge your beliefs about what is possible now.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
The Future of Learning Is Spatial
The future of spatial learning just arrived. Again. Apple and Meta’s new mixed-reality headsets give people superpowers as they move seamlessly in the flow of work from the workplace to a pixelated practice space where they build muscle memory and mastery. Step inside the new reality-bending sims that reinvent learning for Fortune 500 companies.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
The Neuroscience of Emotional Intelligence (EI): Unlocking Leaders’ EI Potential
Emotional intelligence (EI) is a needed skill for leaders and employees. Unfortunately, recent neuroscience research reveals that our common efforts to develop EI are ineffective. In this session, the speaker will explain the neuroscience behind EI and how this perspective transforms how we think about and develop EI.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Top Workplace Trends: 5 Ways to Bring Humanity to Work

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Unlocking the Power of Learning Experiences
Discover UNI(CO), a transformative methodology for creating effective and meaningful learning journeys. Embrace cognition and emotion to craft enriching experiences. Join this session to learn about this essential technique for educators who are shaping the future of education and making an impact on society.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Women as Entrepreneurs: Navigating Challenges as a Business Owner
Do you have the business owner bug? Do you want to own your own learning and coaching business? Have you considered all the various parts and pieces, time, and energy it takes to be a successful woman entrepreneur in 2024? What about the necessary skills? Join this panel discussion to learn from our experience and find out what it takes to be successful!

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CST
Accelerating Your Career Journey: Create Your Roadmap to Consulting Success

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CST
Taste of New Orleans

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM CST
Addressing the Skills Shortage: 3 Essential Strategies to Close the Skills Gap

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM CST
Community Conversations: Creating Cultures of Inclusion and Belonging

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM CST
Make the Most Out of Your ATD Membership

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM CST
Microlearning Matters for Leadership Transformation

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM CST
Quit Coaching Without a Roadmap: How to Accelerate Outcomes With Assessments

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM CST
Transforming Leaders From Change Weary to Future Ready

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM CST
What Learners Want: The Future Learning Experience

2:15 PM – 3:00 PM CST
NeuroCoaching – A Leadership Communication Program that Leverages Neuroscience to Drive Sustained Performance Through Tailored Situational Coaching Conversations.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Apart Together: Using Community Management Principles to Connect Distributed Teams
Online communities can bring distributed teams together through learning. But simply creating a space for conversation isn’t enough to make them work. In this session, you’ll learn how to leverage strategies and principles from social media community management to amplify the impact of your training. You’ll also leave with a documented community engagement plan.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Applied Leadership Development—A Transformation and Engagement Strategy
Join leaders from a major cancer institute and pharmaceutical firm for a panel discussion on developing diverse leaders through an applied leadership academy. Learn how to improve leader engagement, mitigate burnout, and drive organizational strategic priorities through custom leadership development programs.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Boost Your Brain for Transfer and Make Learning Stick
Join this session to learn from two international experts who intertwine neuroscience with learning transfer principles. They’ll unravel the complexities of neuroplasticity and memory for you and gather actionable insights to bolster your L&D strategies. Partake in collaborative and practical activities for improved learning outcomes and transfer.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Building More Inclusive Communities at Work
As we progress into the future of work, the need for leaders to build more inclusive communities is increasing. Employees (and all humans) are more isolated and hungry for human connection. This session will explore the important factors required to build more community and connections and thereby increase retention and engagement at work.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Community Conversation: Business Development for Consultants and Freelancers

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Creating WOW Leaders: A Case Study in Executive Development
How do you get executives and leaders to act now to make your organization’s strategic future possible? In this session, you’ll follow a case study that details how one company tackled this challenge with an expansive executive training program. Learn lessons that you can apply to your organization.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Demonstrate the Impact and ROI of Learning and Talent Development (In-Person and Live Streamed)
How we work has forever changed, but one aspect remains—the need to show the value of what we do. And while there are many ways to demonstrate the value of talent development, business impact and ROI are what most senior leaders want to see. This session will teach you how to demonstrate the impact and ROI of your programs. Bring a calculator!

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Demonstrate the Impact and ROI of Learning and Talent Development (Live Streamed)
How we work has forever changed, but one aspect remains—the need to show the value of what we do. And while there are many ways to demonstrate the value of talent development, business impact and ROI are what most senior leaders want to see. This session will teach you how to demonstrate the impact and ROI of your programs. Bring a calculator!

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Elevating L&D: Innovative Approaches for Large-Scale Success

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Find Your Jam: Create Momentum, Unlock Potential, and Rock What’s Next
What does it take to convert potential and talent into innovative outcomes and engaged employees? A simple, repeatable framework and a little bit of rock and roll helps! The speaker (and his guitar) will introduce a creative approach to creating engagement and helping people find their “jam,” using the power of four simple questions and a unique experience.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
From Dull to Dynamic: Turbocharge Your Training With Applied Improvisation
Ready to revolutionize your training and captivate your audience like never before? This session—based on the science of improvisational thinking—is a perfect opportunity for you to acquire the skills you need to become a dynamic trainer. Think on your feet and create engaging training sessions that stick!

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Help Employees Thrive Amid Disruption

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
How Neuroscience Can Fast-Track Developing Future Skills
Discover a neuroscience framework consisting of 13 brain-mind elements that help you learn, think, and process information quickly and easily. You’ll be able to use this framework to develop a fast, focused, and flexible brain that meets the demands of future learning and thinking.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Igniting the Skills-Based Revolution
The workplace is beginning to rely on a skills-based approach. But the transformation into a skills-based world is uncharted territory for most organizations. Join this session to discover what you can do today to start the transition and begin reaping the benefits.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
LEGIT! Amping the Value of Organizational Learning With Digital Credentials
Organizational learning has internal value. Have you considered, beyond individual performance, the impact of having proven knowledge and demonstrated skills relating to career and succession planning? Digital credentialing adds rigor and confidence, leveling up the internal and external value of the learning you are providing today.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Making Microlearning Work: Design for Conciseness and Context
Is your organization moving toward microlearning, but your content looking a bit macro? In this session, gain an overview of how microlearning strategy frameworks guide the development of microlearning campaigns and their subsequent products. You will have an opportunity to practice writing concisely and with context to a product you choose.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Memory Hacks: How to Make Your Training Stickier

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Performance Consulting Basics
Leaders often have a tendency to “jump to a solution” before an issue is fully understood. When this happens, a solution may be implemented that has little real impact. In this session, we’ll use a case study to illustrate the Performance Consulting approach and explore ways to prevent solution jumping by linking solutions to root causes.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Principles and Practices of Durable Learning

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Raving Fans Guaranteed! The Ultimate Facilitation Framework for Participant Engagement
Ninety-six percent of people will stop paying attention after just 50 minutes, and the only way to keep participants engaged is to continuously hijack their attention. In this session, you will personally experience seven proven facilitation tactics that create laugh-filled learning experiences.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Reduce Stress Through Joyful Movement

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
SME to Trainer: Building Instructor Skills in Frontline Government Employees
How, with limited resources, do you build and maintain the skills of more than 100,000 part-time employees? Learn how one government agency develops subject matter experts into part-time instructors to meet its training needs. Explore the skills taught, instructional methodology used, and results achieved by one innovative instructor-training program.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Talent Development Leader Networking: The Science Behind Change Fatigue and Resistance

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
The Evolution of Coaching: How AI is Revolutionizing People Development

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
The Generalists Take Over: Lateral Thinking in the Age of AI

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
The Thinking Effect—AI, Neuroscience, and Experiential Learning
We will discuss and explore how artificial intelligence (AI), experiential learning, and neuroscience will revolutionize enterprise learning. Skills practice via experiential learning moves learners from knowing what they need to do to doing what they need to do. The thinking effect approach to learning is now more affordable and ready to deploy than ever.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
The Three E’s of Employee Experience in L&D

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
The Top 10 Prompt Strategies for Large Language Models
Get ready to experience the top 10 prompt strategies for large language models. You will walk away with simple tips you can start using immediately to increase the quality of your responses from ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude. This session will boost your productivity and creativity and show you the secrets to solving problems with your prompts.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Turning Career Aspirations Into Powerful Retention Conversations
In this session, you will learn to empower your colleagues to manage their aspirations, expectations, and performance to support career growth. You will also create a plan to facilitate productive career conversations and gain your supervisor’s support in the process.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Understanding the Art of Negotiation: A Guide for L&D Professionals
Want to improve your negotiation skills as an L&D professional? Join this session to learn how to prepare effectively, ask thoughtful questions, listen actively, think strategically, and close the deal with confidence. Don’t wait any longer—take your negotiation skills to the next level today.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Using the 3 Cs to Manage Change and Maintain Culture

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
What’s Next? Creating Your L&D Career Path Blueprint
No matter where you are in your L&D career, you may wonder, “What’s next?” With the field growing rapidly, there are more roles available now than ever before—but how do you know which one is the right next step for you? Join this session to explore how to identify the next role for you based on your strengths, interests, and values.

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
Career Well-Being: How to Get It and Keep It

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM CST
Author Meet & Greets

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
5 Ways to Build a Culture of Coachability
Looking to boost your efforts at building a coaching culture? Join this session to learn how to invest in developing the coachability of your organization’s workforce. The speaker will provide research and five specific strategies organizations are using to apply the practice of coachability.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Are You Listening? Your Journey to Greater Influence and Impact
This session focuses on the art of active listening. When you truly listen to your clients’ needs and connect on a deeper level, it will make you a more influential talent development partner. Through laughter-infused listening activities, you’ll gain practical skills and enhance your ability to understand both professional and personal aspirations.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Better Culture Starts With Better Conversations

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Breaking Barriers: Using VR and AI to Transform Soft Skills
This session explores the powerful combination of using virtual reality (VR) and conversational artificial intelligence (AI) for experiential soft skill training. You will gain insights into fostering engagement, personalizing learning, and overcoming barriers, and leave with actionable strategies to integrate VR and AI into your soft skill development programs.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Build Your Visual Design Skills by Fixing Bad Examples
Strong visual design can make sure our training messages are heard, understood, and remembered. But we've all encountered projects where weak design choices got in the way of learning. In this session, you’ll uncover practical design tips in a fun and unusual way—by analyzing and repairing visuals that just don’t work.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Building Human-Centered Learning and Development Ecosystems
Enterprise approaches to learning and development are critical for large organizations, but bringing siloed L&D programs together is a massive leadership challenge, involving silo-busting culture change and technology investment. Hear success stories from leaders who have done it, and use their insights to build your own roadmap for change.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Create a Culture of Belonging to Drive Employee Experience (In-Person and Live Streamed)
Join this session to learn how to create a culture of appreciation, mentorship, and connection to drive real impact for your team and your organization.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Create a Culture of Belonging to Drive Employee Experience (Live Streamed)
Join this session to learn how to create a culture of appreciation, mentorship, and connection to drive real impact for your team and your organization.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Create a Measurement and Reporting Strategy With TDRP
Have you ever wondered what data to collect, how it should be organized and reported, and how it should be used? The talent development reporting principles (TDRP) were developed by a group of industry leaders to help better measure, report, and manage learning. Join this session to learn about TDRP, and how it can be used to create or improve your measurement and reporting strategy.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Creating Level 2 Quizzes and Tests That Actually Measure Something
Do you use Level 2 quizzes and tests with your training programs? If so, you’ll want to attend this session to learn about the most common test creation errors that can compromise the validity of your test items, as well as 15 tips for overcoming them. You’ll also learn the value of test items that measure job application, not recall.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Data Is Powerful: Data Storytelling Makes It Effective

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Demonstrating L&D Value: Moving From the Transactional to Strategic Alignment

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Design Personal Learning Journeys at Scale for Incredible Results
L&D programs tailored to individual needs, reinforced with practice and applied immediately for meaningful results have been the dream of L&D practitioners for years. In this session, you’ll learn how to use technologies (even with limited resources) for assessment, practice, and feedback with clever instructional design to drive application and results at scale.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Don’t Hold People Accountable; Develop Accountable People
Most employees are dissatisfied with their organization’s performance evaluation process, and leaders are exhausted trying to impose accountability. Learn a practical approach to shifting the responsibility for real accountability from managers to employees, and discover how truly effective leaders can enable this shift.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
If You Give a Robot a Story: Humanizing AI-Generated Content
AI is transforming how we source content, but only humans have the essential skill needed for meaningful experiences. This session explores how you can infuse AI-generated content with storytelling techniques to create truly memorable training. We'll look at a road map, tools, and strategies to bring your AI-generated content to life!

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
L&D Technology and AI. . . . Oh My! What the Research Says
To gather fresh data on the L&D technology landscape, the speakers conducted studies on L&D technology broadly and AI in HR more specifically. These studies provide insights on LMS user satisfaction levels, critical feature and priority considerations, tech barriers and challenges, and more.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Learning in the Age of AI: When Less is More

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Lightning in a Bottle: Build High-Impact Leadership Development That Sparks Outcomes and Innovation

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Motivation Science for Learning
We can create the best learning experiences in the world, but it won’t matter if learners aren’t motivated to learn. Learners also need to be motivated to act on that learning. In this session, learn about research-based motivation models that provide simple, often inexpensive ways to support learner autonomy and motivation.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Next Gen Work: Strategies to Develop and Retain Early Talent
Learn how to engage, develop, and retain early talent professionals, with a focus on the emerging Gen Z workforce and what they desire from employers, while balancing the reality of today’s multigenerational workplace.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Practice and Validation: The Missing Link Between Learning and Business

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Reimagining Talent Success Through 7 Holistic Dimensions
Dive into the state of talent health worldwide by exploring a 2023 index that reveals what HR leaders are prioritizing and where they might be falling behind. In this session, the speaker will reveal the findings from this study and share the seven critical dimensions that comprise a healthy talent program.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
SkillGym: GenAi Digital Role Play for Effective Upskilling

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Stop the Chaos: Bring Teams Into Alignment With Business Storytelling
Want to improve team building and collaboration, build trust across your organization, and ensure everyone feels seen and heard? Storytelling may be the secret to achieving your goals. Learn how a common language and framework can get your teams on the same page and transform leaders into strategic, influential, and visual communicators.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Upskilling a Future-Ready Workforce: A Skills-Based Success Story
Ready to modernize your workforce to meet evolving market and people demands? Explore a transformative skills-based approach through upskilling, collaborative learning, and technology integrated into the flow of work to drive rapid role-specific skills development, applied learning, and continuous improvement with skills-based coaching.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
Using Emotional Intelligence to Improve Workplace Performance and Productivity
Are you challenged with supporting learners through the myriad of emotions experienced during times of uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure? Understanding the five dimensions of emotional intelligence (EI) is essential to fostering employees who are engaged and productive even in hybrid and remote work environments. Gain tools to manage and influence workplace emotions.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST
What Your CEO Needs You to Know: Building Business Acumen
Business acumen alone won’t make you, or anyone else, a great leader. But without it, you will never become one. With that in mind, join this session to learn five simple yet powerful lessons that will help you develop a big-picture mentality and return to work with a better understanding of how your company makes money and why talent development matters to your CEO.

7:00 PM – 10:00 PM CST
Networking Night (Separate Registration Fee)

Wednesday, May 22, 2024
6:30 AM – 5:00 PM CST
Hotel Shuttles Run

7:00 AM – 4:00 PM CST
Sensory Room

7:00 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Luggage and Coat Check

7:00 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Prayer and Meditation Room

7:00 AM – 4:30 PM CST
Registration

7:30 AM – 2:00 PM CST
Global Village Open

7:30 AM – 2:30 PM CST
ATD Career Center and Member Lounge Open

7:30 AM – 2:30 PM CST
VIP Lounge (VIP Registrants Only)

7:30 AM – 4:30 PM CST
ATD Central and ATD Store Open

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
10 Brain Boosters in Online Training
As a live online trainer, you compete against many distractors during your online training. Fortunately, a lot of research has been done on attention span and brain power, and we can use this research to improve our online training programs. Join this session to gain practical tips and learn about 10 brain boosting activities that will keep your online participants engaged.

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
“I CAN do that, Dave.” Building Branching Scenarios With AI
You already know how branched-path scenarios engage and immerse your audience. Now, join this session to learn how to create them faster, with more realistic choices and tailored feedback, using the power of generative artificial intelligence (AI).

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
AI to the Rescue: Streamlining Role-Play Training

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
An AI Strategy Framework for TD Leaders

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
Building Your Learning Operations Blueprint
Do you struggle with aligning your team’s capabilities and capacity to business needs? Do you know how to create learning operational processes that are scalable across all learning mediums? Join this session to learn about frameworks for building your learning operations blueprint and enabling your team to deliver efficiently and effectively every time.

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
Create Training That Makes a Real Impact
Training isn’t about information; it’s about behavior change. Neuroscience says that changing a person’s behavior requires focusing on three elements: specificity, connection, and context. Join this session to examine learning design from a neurological perspective and effectively change behavior.

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
Developing the Dynamic Foresight Skills of Your Organization’s Leaders
What if everyone in your organization could anticipate shifts in trends and embrace uncertainty? Strategic foresight can create that capability. In this session, you will gain an understanding of a unique dynamic foresight process, and as a bonus, leave with a richer understanding of the future of learning and development.

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
Ditch the Competency and Performance Spreadsheets

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
From Numbers to Narratives: Storytelling With Data
Don’t put your data on mute! Data cannot speak for itself—it needs you to voice its story and provide context and meaning. Data dumps often lead to analysis paralysis, rather than kindling discussion or driving decisions.. Instead, transform dry data into juicy anecdotes that drive results by applying three easy strategies.

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
Gen AI and Knowledge Management: The Power Duo to Turbocharge Employee Onboarding and Performance

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
High Impact Evaluation
High impact evaluation (HIE) is a new, evidence-based alternative to traditional evaluation. It is designed to drive impact, not just measure it. This session will give an overview of HIE and describe three key innovations that will transform your reactive training evaluations into a more proactive approach to drive performance and bottom-line results.

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
How Coaches Sabotage Motivation and Three Fixes from Motivation Science (In-Person and Live Streamed)
Even the most well-intentioned and experienced leaders and certified coaches unintentionally undermine people’s energy to pursue and achieve their goals. Join this session to learn three common traditional coaching techniques that sabotage people’s optimal motivation and three globally tested alternatives based on empirical motivation science that keep inspiration flowing.

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
How Coaches Sabotage Motivation and Three Fixes from Motivation Science (Live Streamed)
Even the most well-intentioned and experienced leaders and certified coaches unintentionally undermine people’s energy to pursue and achieve their goals. Join this session to learn three common traditional coaching techniques that sabotage people’s optimal motivation and three globally tested alternatives based on empirical motivation science that keep inspiration flowing.

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
Inconceivable! Achieving and Maintaining 90% Participation in Your Engagement Survey
What’s the secret? Join this session to find out how to get 90 percent of your employees to participate in your engagement survey from an organization that has been doing it for years. The speaker will share the required steps and inspire you with the potential gold mine of cultural data found in surveys. Leave with simple action items to implement for success.

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
Learner Personas Mean Better Learning Solutions
Apply the three steps of creating learner personas in this session. Through activities, relevant training examples, and application, you'll discover how the insights from learner personas help you change behavior and engage learners. You'll leave this session with practical tips to apply to your next training project.

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
Master Accountability Conversations by Avoiding These 3 Traps
Accountability conversations are one of the most important and challenging leadership tasks. Master the art of accountability conversations by avoiding three common traps and implementing a proven template. Gain clarity around your role as a leader and boost confidence to get results while building stronger relationships.

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
PennCLO Doctoral Program: Scholar and Practitioner Research and Implications for Practice

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
Skill-Driven Future: Crafting the New Talent Development Ecosystem

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
Speaking at ATD25: A Conversation With the ATD Program Advisory Committee

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
Taking Control of Careers: A Case Study
For reasons from accelerated promotion to more purposeful work, the demand for more meaningful career development continues to grow. In a crowded marketplace of potential solutions, peek into how a rapidly growing software company flipped career conversations upside down and empowered its emerging workforce to own their progression.

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
The DEI Divide: Finding an Inclusive Way Forward
Why is the work of DEI so often championed by women and people of color? Are we checking boxes or changing behaviors? Are we aiming for revolution or evolution? Join us to explore these tough questions and hear some fresh approaches to help you drive the DEI improvements you want for your teams and your organization.

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
The Secret Sauce Most Sales Training Omits: Creating Prospect Belonging
In today’s competitive marketplace, with two of three consumers saying their social values shape their buying choices, sales are being won and lost based on whether sales teams understand the fundamentals of inclusion. Equip your teams with the knowledge, tools, and behaviors to incorporate and demonstrate inclusion from start to finish in the sales process to win more sales.

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
Unlocking the Top Marketing Secrets for L&D Pros
It’s time to take a new approach to L&D, one that puts the learner at the center of the process and leverages the power of marketing to create more engaging, relevant, and effective learning experiences. Learn about the lizard brain, learner personas, attention-grabbing visuals, and writing good copy to enhance your L&D strategy.

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
We’ve Been Doing It Wrong: Fresh Approaches to High-Potential Programs
There are crucial leaders in your organization right now who could change the future of your organization. The problem? You may not know who they are, what they are capable of, or how to make sure they are ready for bigger challenges. Join this session to update your high-potential development and succession strategy.

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CST
World Café Session – Unpacking ATD24: Apply Your Lessons Learned

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST
DEI and Your Talent Development Career

9:00 AM – 10:15 AM CST
Talent Development Leader Skills Showcase

9:00 AM – 1:00 PM CST
EXPO Open

9:00 AM – 2:30 PM CST
Talent Development Leader Networking Room

9:10 AM – 9:40 AM CST
Allianz Case Study: Driving Career Coaching for All to Empower our Workforce and Accelerate Development

9:10 AM – 9:40 AM CST
Mastering Personalized Content: Enhance Your Learning Experience

9:10 AM – 9:40 AM CST
The Agile Mindset as a Catalyst for Continuous Learning

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM CST
International Delegation Leaders Meeting

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM CST
Virtual Closing Celebration

9:30 AM – 10:15 AM CST
Burnout Immunity: How Emotional Intelligence Can Help You Build Resilience and Heal Your Relationship with Work

9:30 AM – 1:00 PM CST
Conference Team Connection Center

9:30 AM – 5:00 PM CST
Chapter Leaders Lounge

9:45 AM – 10:15 AM CST
APTD and CPTD Recertification 101

9:50 AM – 10:20 AM CST
Emotionally Invested: 5 Reasons Why Your Business Should Care About Emotions

9:50 AM – 10:20 AM CST
Future-Proofing Teams: Achieving Upskilling Goals with Adobe Learning Manager

9:50 AM – 10:20 AM CST
Improved Business Outcomes Through Skills Validation

9:50 AM – 10:20 AM CST
Music as a Metaphor for DEI

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
Bark Break

10:30 AM CST
Expand Your Mind and Your Learning Technology Strategy

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
7 ChatGPT Prompts That Make Training Evaluation Better, Easier, and More Fun!
Are you wondering how artificial intelligence (AI) could help you overcome your evaluation challenges? In this session, you’ll experiment with seven prompts that can help you design and analyze evaluation. Learn how to make learning evaluation more fun, easier, faster, more cost-efficient, and better overall—continuous improvement is possible within your organization.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
A Guided Workshop on How to Launch a Capability Academy
How can your company prepare employees for the future while benefiting the business? A capability academy may be the answer. Join this session to find out what a capability academy is, its benefits, and how one company developed its academies. Leave with a strategy and ideas for how to identify the most critical capabilities and key components for your academies that align with your business needs.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
A Trainer’s Gifts—Uncovering Your Unique Strengths and Style
Every trainer offers a unique set of gifts to every group of learners they meet. That uniqueness is personal, like a signature. It adds deeper meaning and purpose to the work they do. In this session, you’ll work with various personas to help you accelerate the discovery process, identify natural strengths, and uncover your signature style.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
A-List L&D Team—Assemble!
Equip yourself and your L&D team to soar by identifying leadership metrics for success. Position yourself as the ideal candidate for your dream leadership job and make a personal action plan for the role. Explore how to recruit, select, and retain top L&D talent, and define your team’s mission, vision, and value proposition to stakeholders.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Community Conversation: Joy and Happiness at Work

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Differential Utilization of People Analytics to Drive Modern Leadership
While some organizations are far along in their people analytics journey, the vast majority are in the very early stages. With access to data and the sophistication of analytics and technology tools increasing every day, people analytics will be a significant strategic differentiator for organizations that can gain expertise in differential utilization.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Do What Matters Most: Learn How to Balance Your Health, Relationships, and Professional Life

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Driving Better Results by Becoming a Learning Sales Organization
What if every salesperson on your team learned or improved just one skill every week? At the end of one year, think of how much better your team would be than your competition. In this session, the speaker will share practical steps you can take to achieve this outcome by becoming a learning sales organization. You’ll learn from real-world examples and take a self-assessment.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Embracing Failure: Reimagining Learning Through Constructive Struggling
Failure offers experiences and memories we do not soon forget, yet most organizations fail to use failure as an effective mechanism for growth. This session will address the need for organizations to embrace failure, to create “safe to fail” learning environments, and to build understanding and confidence through “constructive struggling.”

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Experience Design Leadership
Whatever kind of leader you are, experience design leadership invites you to recast yourself as an experience designer for your teams, clients, and yourself. Join this session to explore how this research-based approach can empower you to design life-changing experiences starting with these three questions: What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who are you becoming while you do it?

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Extending Storyline With Simple JavaScript Snippets
Learn how to extend Articulate Storyline’s capabilities without coding. Discover how to add JavaScript snippets to triggers for advanced logic and custom animations. Enhance your courses with timers, adaptive content based on date and device type, and engaging animations. Unleash the full potential of Storyline beyond its out-of-the-box features.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Film School for Trainers (In-Person and Live Streamed)
Just about everyone carries a production studio in their pocket—their smartphone. Join this session to learn how to craft training videos that look professional and support learning with your smartphone. Walk away with tips for planning, filming, and editing effective training videos.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Film School for Trainers (Live Streamed)
Just about everyone carries a production studio in their pocket—their smartphone. Join this session to learn how to craft training videos that look professional and support learning with your smartphone. Walk away with tips for planning, filming, and editing effective training videos.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
From Exhaustion to Engagement: Helping Leaders Combat Change Fatigue
Is your workforce running on empty? Join this session to learn how to transform change fatigue into change readiness. Gain practical strategies for energizing leaders, engaging teams, and moving from exhaustion to engagement amid constant change.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
From Resistance to Resilience: L&D’s Role in Unlocking Digital Transformation Success

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
How to Create a Change Narrative Session to Enable Transformation!
Building a compelling change narrative is crucial to a successful organizational change initiative. Knowing the eight components of crafting that narrative will not only help leaders and managers articulate the vision more effectively, it will enlist others to engage and adopt the change more rapidly.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
How to Reinforce Training and Learning With a Coaching Framework

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Preparing Leaders for the Future of Sustainable and Equitable Business
The concepts of sustainability and equity have become paramount for organizations striving to thrive in the future. This session will prepare leaders for the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Learn how your organization can implement experiential-based programming—at scale—to support leadership and innovation development at all levels.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Rock Your Leadership Brand Online
One wrong post online can destroy your professional reputation. But a minimal digital presence can leave you invisible. In today’s competitive market, societal leadership is a core part of business. Unleash the power of your leadership brand online to break through the digital noise and attract the right clients, talent, and opportunities to you and your firm.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Strategies for Building a Thriving Learning Community

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Strategy + Tactics = Achieve Business Outcomes + Engage Learners
Join this session to answer key questions about your business situation and how you are meeting the needs of your learners and achieving your organization’s goals. You’ll also develop an overview of your potential learning strategy and how it can drive your operational tactics to become a true business partner focused on adding business value.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
The Benefit-Relationship Matrix—Supercharge Your Influence Without Authority
Elevate your peer influence by leveraging the benefit-relationship matrix. In this session, you’ll learn about the benefit-relationship matrix through hands-on activities. You’ll create your “ask” using a three-step plan—build relationships, make beneficial asks, and communicate your objective—then refine it by balancing logic and emotion.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
The Gold Standard of Leadership Development

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
The National Environmental Policy Act: A Tool for L&D Modernization
Join this session to explore how the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Environmental Justice Executive Order No. 12,898 (EJEO) provide government agencies, regulatory decision makers, and government-focused learning and development professionals with a framework to predict (and mitigate) the negative impacts of policy.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
The Skills Revolution: Unlocking the Potential of Tomorrow’s Workforce

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Think Like a Scientist—Expand Your Healthcare Leadership Mindset
What does it mean to think like a scientist? Imagine how your talent could thrive if more people adopted a mindset of favoring curiosity over conviction. Join in discussions about what would it take to break down silos in your healthcare organization and allow for discovery and innovation to flourish. We will also engage in “what if” exercises to best learn from one another.

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Thriving at Sea: How Content Keeps Starboard Cruising

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Train Your Funny Bone: Humor and Learning in the Workplace
Humor is a powerful tool to improve learning, but humor in the workplace can also be risky. Join this session to explore the dos and don’ts of using humor in training design. You’ll gain culturally sensitive, practical, and effective ways to engage your funny bone to improve retention, problem solving, engagement, and creativity.

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM CST
Lunch in the EXPO Hall

11:45 AM – 12:15 PM CST
Community Conversations: Accessible Learning Design

11:45 AM – 12:15 PM CST
Elevating Workplace Language Skills: Confidence Building with Busuu

11:45 AM – 12:15 PM CST
Speaker Spotlight (Live Q&A) with Jonathan Halls

12:00 PM – 12:45 PM CST
How to Partner with ATD Globally

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST
Dessert Break in EXPO

12:30 PM – 1:00 PM CST
Author Meet & Greets

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
3 AI Amplifiers to Augment the Learning Function
Experience the evolution of L&D with the power of artificial intelligence (AI)! This session dives into three potent AI amplifiers—personal assistants, performance support, augmentation—that are supercharging working and learning capabilities. You’ll experience the transition of the learning function from order taker to value creator, guided by L&D business models.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
4 Simple Tips to Build a Culture of Psychological Safety
Most of us have heard about psychological safety. There is a lot of information out there on why psychological safety is important. And there’s also a lot on what to do. But how you do it is another question—one we struggle to answer. This session will take you through four simple tips on how to operationalize psychological safety and make it a habit for everyone.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
5 Powerful Improv Exercises for Stronger Teams
Improv is simply performing without a script or an opportunity to plan. Behaviors learned through improv training are positively correlated with the psychological safety of teams. In this session, you’ll participate in five improv exercises, learn to implement them back on the job, and engage in powerful debriefing questions to make your learning events more relevant.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
A Capability Building Approach for a Remote, Technical Workforce
Learn how a global diversified technology and industrial business transformed onboarding and structured career-long learning to build capability in a technical workforce. This case study details the challenges faced and solutions implemented to create learning programs that ensure employees are equipped to serve customers safely and effectively.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Accelerating the Rise of Human Insight (HI) to Rival Artificial Intelligence (AI)

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
AI Meets TD: What the Future Holds

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Beyond Chatbots and Dashboards: Harnessing AI and Data to Drive Learning Efficacy

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Beyond Gamification: Using Board Game Design to Drive Learning
Gamification is often used in L&D as a Band-Aid for engagement. But as L&D professionals, we can do so much more for our learners. In this session, the speaker will go beyond gamification and discuss how you can build full learning games that drive your employees’ skill development and are just as engrossing as modern games such as Catan, Dominion, and Wingspan.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Bridging the Skills Gap - ATD Research Report Overview

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Caught in Awkward Silence: Strategies for Asking Better Questions
Are the questions you ask met with silence? In this session, we’ll explore how to stimulate learner participation by asking better questions. Learn five methods for prompting responses from learners and seven rules of discussion to get learners responding to your questions and eliminate the awkward silence.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Crowdsourcing Your Way to Training ROI: Measuring the Hard-to-Measure Quickly
Establishing the value of soft-skills training is impossible—or is it? Learn to harness the wisdom of crowds to establish actual dollar values for soft-skills training. In no time, you’ll be able to demonstrate how important training is to the bottom line after every class. The speaker will even calculate the dollar value of attending this session live!

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Design for All: Essential Accessibility Practices for Instructional Designers

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Discovery in the Desert: Exploring Global Experiential Learning
Imagine you’re in a brand new place and feel completely lost. You don’t know how to find your way around, speak the language, or navigate the culture. What do you do? As a program designer, supporting exploration in an evolving environment can be tough. Join this session to learn how one global learning program did it with six experiential practices.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Equity, Empathy, and Your Role as an Ally (In-Person and Live Streamed)
This session will use a unique paradigm to define organizational equity. The speaker will identify two types of unconscious bias and introduce specific steps you can take to mitigate the negative impact of these biases, create a more equitable environment, and serve as an ally to potentially disenfranchised individuals.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Experience ExperienceBuilder

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Internal Coaching Programs: Development, Selection, Assessment, and Lessons Learned
Equipping coaches to meet the needs of a government organization with more than 70,000 employees is an unfolding process. In this session, the speaker will discuss all aspects of one government organization’s coach program and internal coach training program, from development through assessment, lessons learned, continuous improvement, and organizational impact.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Navigate the Revolution: Activating Awareness to Thrive Through Change
From artificial intelligence (AI) to hybrid working, organizations and individuals are in the midst of a revolutionary shift that transcends industries. It’s hard to know how to respond. This session combines thought leadership with practical strategies to activate your awareness and empower you to thrive in a constantly evolving landscape.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Sharing What You Know (Without Sounding Like ChatGPT)
Hear a storyteller’s perspective on the limits and leverage points when using ChatGPT to create learning content. Learn how to use ChatGPT to generate ideas and draft content, allowing you to spend more time developing content reflecting your unique abilities and perspectives. Future-proof your work by creating content that artificial intelligence (AI) can’t.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
The Art of Managing Up
Join this session and learn the art of managing up. You will take away five actionable insights that will help you accelerate and take charge of your career, influence decision making, effectively showcase your value-add, positively affect the wider business, and foster a more harmonious and productive work environment.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
The Facilitation Advantage: Increasing Your People’s Communication and Connection Skills
In this session, we’ll explore the skills that define great facilitation, enabling you to assess facilitator performance accurately and benchmark with world-class organizations. Leave with practical approaches to increase facilitator impact.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
The Transfer Dilemma: Applying Skills Across Contexts
Why are the same knowledge and skills so difficult to apply across different contexts? During this session, we will dive into the issue of transfer, consider what is required for effective transfer to occur, and discuss what this means for the modern C21 skills movement. Further, we’ll explore the only future-proof skill research has ever found.

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Closing General Session: A Conversation With Venus Williams (In-Person and Live Streamed)

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Closing General Session: A Conversation With Venus Williams (Live Streamed)

4:00 PM – 4:15 PM CST
Virtual Wrap Up