From Busyness to Impact: Building an L&D Strategy That Creates Value
The L&D world has transformed remarkably in recent years. While AI is dominating our conversations, we all know that technology alone isn’t enough – creating meaningful impact requires strategically aligning our work with what our organisation and workforce truly need.
Many of us are feeling the squeeze of tighter budgets while facing increased expectations to show our value. Sound familiar? The good news is that a thoughtfully crafted learning strategy can help us navigate these challenges by gaining buy-in through consultation, aligning to what matters for both your organisation and workforce and getting better at helping them to achieve the outcomes they care about.
In this practical session seasoned L&D strategist Michelle Ockers will walk you through a proven process for developing a learning strategy that connects directly to your organisation’s challenges and workforce motivations. Drawing from her work with a range of diverse organisations I’ll share examples of what works – and doesn’t – that can inform your own strategic approach.
Whether you’re refreshing an existing strategy or building one from scratch, you’ll leave with practical approaches you can apply immediately. We’ll make time for discussion and questions, so bring your specific challenges along to explore.
Join us for a conversation that will help position your L&D function as an essential strategic partner in your organisation’s success.
Three Tangible Learnings
- How to understand what your organisation and workforce really need from L&D
- A robust process for developing and implementing a learning strategy that meets these needs and creates value
- Practical ways to gain and maintain buy-in for your learning strategy
Beyond Boundaries: Creating Strategic HR and L&D Impact Together
In today’s fast-changing business world, HR and L&D teams can’t afford to work in isolation. This practical keynote shows how to transform HR from separate specialists into a unified strategic force that directly improves business results.
Using real examples from organisations that are making this shift, this session will show you how to:
- Align with Purpose – Clearly identify business goals HR can help achieve, create shared priorities across all people teams, and build partnerships that break down silos
- Use Evidence That Works – Combine multiple sources—people data, employee feedback, business metrics, behavioural science, and your own experience—to understand what’s happening, design better solutions, track what’s working and adapt your course
- Create Joined-Up Impact – Coordinate actions across HR and with other departments by using multiple approaches at once, making sure rewards support desired behaviours and building coherent experiences that drive real change
You’ll leave with practical tools you can use immediately in your organization—no matter your role or company size—and renewed confidence in tackling complex challenges without feeling overwhelmed. This session will help you see how connecting your work across HR creates new opportunities for influence and innovation.
Three Tangible Learnings
- Connect HR and business goals, creating shared priorities that everyone understands and supports
- Feel confident using different types of evidence to design, monitor and adapt better solutions
- Discover practical ways to coordinate actions across teams, ensuring everyone pulls in the same direction for greater impact
