OVERVIEW OF OUR PROGRAMMING
Our goal at LDA is to inform, support, challenge, and help busy L&D professionals to navigate this complex field and solve their most pressing problems.
We offer regular programs monthly and bi-monthly, as well as special programs throughout the year, such as webinars, training sessions, or mini-conferences, that aim to do just that!
Some of our programs are free and open to the public, like “Meet the Author” or special webinars. Others are for LDA Members only.
We also offer workshops available to both members and non-members. Members benefit from a special price on all workshops.
Here is an overview of our regular programing:
FREE PROGRAMS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Meet the Author
Every month, join us for a live session with an author to discover their book.
Debates and Discussions
Every two months we host a playful debate on a specific topic within L&D to explore the nuance and application of those ideas. Our debates and discussions are really not about winning the argument. They are about unpacking complex ideas and concepts to enlighten L&D practitioners' thought process and decision making on the job.
You Oughta Know: The Motivation Series hosted by Matt Richter
In this series of recorded videos, Matt Richter will interview researchers and practitioners on one of his favorite topics: Motivation!
Programs EXCLUSIVELY FOR GOLD AND PLATINUM MEMBERS
The Nuances Series, by Clark Quinn
Asynchronous - Monthly
The Nuances series is about the nuances of learning experience design. In it, Clark Quinn is digging into the details behind each element of an experience as a learner perceives it. He will start with the objective, which isn’t something learners see, but is critical to get right to begin.
Each month, we willl release a new video, going through the Intro, Concept/Models, Examples, Practice, and separately one about Practices (covering the principles about them in aggregate; there’s enough there), and finishing with the closing. It’s about the fine distinctions needed to achieve the elegant integration of engagement with learning science that yields experiences that are truly transformational.
LDA Book Club, facilitated by Kat Koppett
Exploring the content you know you want to get to!
The LDA Book Club is an informal monthly gathering for Gold and Platinum members of LDA in service of advancing the art and science of learning and development.
Each session focuses on an evidence-based book that offers new frameworks and tools to inform and inspire our work. Want more of the brilliance, companionship and insight that LDA has to offer? Join us for Book Club!
Show Me How You Do It, hosted by Sofie Willox
In this new vlog series, Sofie will interview practitioners from different disciplines to learn about their craft.
While the audio version is available in the LDA Podcast feed, the video version is exclusively for Gold & Platinum members!
L&D Executive Insights hosted by Matt Richter
NEW DATES COMING SOON!
In this new, LDA Gold and Platinum-only, series, we will explore the administrative, strategic, and political aspects of leading an L&D function. Whether you are new to L&D management, or you have been running the function for years, this highly practical series is for you.
Each session (90 minutes), once a month, will tackle a specific topic. Sessions are independent from each other, but do hold together thematically, and the provided content fit, as well.
Some sessions will just be facilitated by LDA’s own Matt Richter. Others will have guest facilitators and/or subject-matter-experts.
Matt has played on both sides of the ball—meaning he has led the L&D function for large and small organizations, most recently working as the Global Head of L&D for a mid-size Dutch finance company (8000 employees in 25+ countries) in a 12-month interim capacity as they searched for a permanent leader.
Past programs - Recordings available
Learning Insights Monthly with Will Thalheimer
Will Thalheimer's Learning Insights Monthly provides a reflection space for curious travelers within learning and development. Each month in an hour-long online meeting, Will introduces an important concept—often a provocative one—to get us thinking and sharing ideas.
In 2024, topics will include "the crap data problem" and the "learner blindspot problem" and other topics from his new book, The CEO's Guide to Training, eLearning & Work: Empowering Learning for a Competitive Advantage.
Will's Learning-Insight methodology brings together a mix of newbies and experienced learning professionals who all have one thing in common. They are completely mad for learning—the kind of folks who look for practical ideas and aren't afraid to push boundaries and share their thoughts and ideas—even if they are out on the bleeding edge.
This series is like appointment TV used to be—before streaming. Not to be missed!
Think like a… hosted by Clark Quinn
One of the important ways we advance is looking at adjacent fields for insights. Many of the practices we now embrace first showed up in other practices. Agile, design thinking, and more were all imported as approaches from elsewhere.
To honor and expand that opportunity, we’re introducing a new series for this coming year: Think Like A… In it, we will interview experts from related fields. You can expect to hear from designers in fields like games, interface, and more. We will look at practices from the perspective of engineers and sciences. We will also explore related media like video, graphics, story, and more.
Come expand your thinking in this new initiative!
You Oughta Know: Practitioner hosted by Clark Quinn
You Oughta Know returns, with a new perspective! Last year, we focused on folks who had intriguing (and perhaps underexposed) models about learning and performance that were useful and important. While we talked about practical applications, they weren’t the focus.
This year they are! We are going to talk to practitioners who are pushing boundaries. We will get into the pragmatics of succeeding, in a variety of ways. We look forward to the conversations which will provide insight in balancing the principles with pragmatics. You’ll be hearing some great insights into how learning can be improved in the real world.
Join us for this series refresh!