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The Association for Talent Development (ATD) is a professional membership organization supporting those who develop the knowledge and skills of employees in organizations worldwide.

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Meet Joshua Schea who earned the Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD®) credential in 2025.

Finding a Shared Language in Learning and Development

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ATD OrgDev will provide you with the skills needed to develop employee programs at all levels and throughout their employment lifecycle. You’ll learn innovative methods at all levels to manage the ever-increasing rate of change in today’s workplace.

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This three-day event features sessions from our best and most popular speakers on the most essential topics for all learning and development professionals: Instructional Design, Training Delivery, Measurement & Evaluation, and Learning Technologies.

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Let It Go!: How to (Finally) Master Delegation for You and Your Organization

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Successfully Implement AI in L&D, the Learner Experience, and Your OrganizationThe AI Implementation Guide for L&D is a practical, forward-thinking resource for L&D leaders and practitioners who are navigating the integration of AI within their organizations and looking to drive meaningful, enterprise-wide change.At the heart of this book is the “AI Implementation Canvas,” a comprehensive planning tool that helps teams design and deploy AI solutions with clarity, care, and confidence. From aligning with business goals to navigating legal and ethical considerations, this book guides readers through every stage of implementation—from experimentation and scaling to governance, measurement, and change management. It offers a powerful lens for understanding how AI affects personal productivity, the learner experience, and organizational transformation.Filled with actionable insights, reflection questions, and “one small step” challenges, this book equips you to:Identify where AI is already affecting learning and where it should.Build AI readiness across teams and stakeholders.Use L&D as a launchpad for broader organizational transformation.Play a significant role in helping your organization determine how to integrate AI into its operations.If you’re an L&D leader, HR strategist, or enterprise change agent, this book will help you lead an AI-powered transformation—not just in learning, but through learning.

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Drive Organizational Performance Through EvaluationOrganizations that embed evaluation into their culture and operations can pivot faster, innovate more effectively, and foster a growth mindset. Evaluation thus becomes a tool for learning and continuous improvement. Building a Culture of Evaluation leads you through how to integrate measurement and feedback into your organization’s DNA.Learning trailblazer and President and CEO of Kirkpatrick Partners Vanessa Alzate delivers a bold, visionary guide for transforming learning functions into strategic powerhouses. In this book, she reimagines the impact the Kirkpatrick Four Levels® can have in today’s dynamic workplace. Not just for L&D use, the model gives you and your organization a common language and decision matrix—an operating system—to align all people, processes, and performance systems with results.This book explores using evaluation as the foundation of the design process for new interventions to ensure you achieve behavior change and learning transfer. Then, it brings evaluation to life with practical applications across onboarding, leadership development, sales enablement, coaching, and even artificial intelligence initiatives. Finally, it looks ahead to how you can scale evaluation beyond just L&D across the entire organization.With contributed chapters from global experts and real-world examples, this book is your road map to shifting from order taker to business partner, from isolated metrics to enterprise-wide impact.

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Every shift counts.Frontline employees turn strategy into action. From grocery clerks and delivery drivers to construction workers and restaurant servers, the frontline makes up 80 percent of the global workforce. But when they are overlooked and under-supported, execution suffers, turnover rises, and business performance declines.The Frontline Enablement Playbook is a comprehensive guide for L&D, HR, and operations teams focused on improving performance across the deskless workforce. Drawing on 25 years of hands-on experience and insights from more than 50 global contributors—including Matthew Daniel, Chad Udell, and Gina Jeneroux—JD Dillon outlines practical ways to improve onboarding, training, communication, compliance, recognition, career development, and everyday readiness.Inside, you'll dive deep into six parts that redefine frontline support: Understanding who frontline workers really are—and what they needArchitecting a modern enablement ecosystemEmpowering frontline managers to empower their employeesHelping frontline workers do a great job todayFostering future opportunities for developmentEvolving your entire strategy to get that all-important buy-inAre you struggling to improve day-to-day execution across frontline teams? Are location managers burning out under constant pressure? Are you trying to figure out how AI can help frontline teams hit daily targets?The Frontline Enablement Playbook will give you the tools to unlock employee potential by ensuring every team member has the capability, confidence, and support to do their best every shift.

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Become Indispensable in Driving Business GrowthL&D leaders must know how to connect learning strategies with business strategies and communicate effectively with leaders to improve employee performance and drive revenue. In other words, L&D needs to run like a business. Enter learning operations expert Tracie Cantu and her innovative Learning Operations Blueprint, which puts critical business needs first and brings rigorous systems-based thinking to corporate learning. This first-of-its-kind approach offers step-by-step guidance for updating L&D processes and structures to immediately improve results and increase the relevance of the L&D function. When learning teams and leadership become better partners, outcomes improve for organizations and employees. You’ll learn how to build an L&D business model that works, how to manage a portfolio of learning products, and how to design employee learning experiences that improve outcomes without demanding more tech or human resources. Cantu also provides questions for reflection, checklists, worksheets, and scorecards for practical application of her recommendations. Each chapter includes tips for taking action immediately and real-world stories that illustrate how to use the framework successfully and avoid common pitfalls. With this book, you will learn to scale your impact, secure your influence, and reach L&D’s potential. 