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April has a way of keeping us on our toes. One day it’s sunshine and cherry blossoms, the next it’s torrential rain and a very strong desire to stay indoors. If you decide on the latter, curl up in socks or sandals, depending on the day, and take in a free webinar. This month’s free offerings cover a mix of practical tools, thoughtful insights and fresh ideas to keep your curiosity blooming. Bonus points if you share with someone who could use a little springtime inspiration too.

Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Four Proven Strategies for Supporting Adult Learners: What Works and Why (Free for ATD members)
How do you create a learning experience that keeps adult learners engaged and supports long-term growth? In this webinar, Melissa Loble, Chief Academic Officer at Instructure, will explore practical strategies for supporting adult learners at every stage of their journey. From making training more accessible to designing clear career pathways, you’ll walk away with actionable tips to improve engagement, retention and skill development. Whether you’re looking to refine your training programs or build a more scalable approach, this session will give you the tools to better support adult learners — on their terms.

Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Elearning Fundamentals: A Crash Course for Newbies
Does reading an elearning blog result in more questions than answers? Does reviewing descriptions of elearning conference sessions make you wonder what language they are written in? Do acronyms such as SCORM, LMS and xAPI make you dizzy? It can be challenging to understand elearning information without a baseline of knowledge. This session’s designed to give you that foundation so you can understand everything else you see, hear and read, so bring all your questions (yes, even the ones you are afraid to ask) and get the answers you need from Amy Morrisey, President of Artisan Learning.

Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: 25 Tips for Training Videos in 2025 (Free for ATD members)
Creating effective training videos isn’t just about hitting record — it’s about making videos that are engaging, instructionally sound and efficiently produced. But where do you start and how do you ensure your videos make an impact? Join Jonathan Halls, President of Jonathan Halls and Associates, for a fast-paced, practical session packed with 25 essential tips to level up your video production in 2025. You’ll get expert guidance on:

Looking polished and professional.
Ensuring your videos provoke learning.
Making learning content quickly.
Selling video to your organization.
Leveraging AI to make better videos.

Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Binge My Series! New Hire Orientation That Doesn’t Put You to Sleep
Are you an instructional designer stuck in the same pattern of thinking around new employee orientation? This session is for all instructional designers, regardless of tenure, to help you break out of the conventional way of handling training for new hire orientation. Deb Lewis, Instructional Designer at Terracon, will give you five key things you can think about to change your new hire orientation courses or other programs by connecting compliance, job responsibilities, and core company values with relatable characters and experiences.

Thursday, April 3, 2025, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Creating Continuous Learning Journeys with AI
Building a continuous learning culture has long been a strategic advantage for organizations, offering benefits such as increased resilience, enhanced shareholder value and a boost in innovation. However, the rise of AI has shifted the very nature of continuous learning. Creating such learning journeys can be challenging, to say the least. However, a structured skilling approach that is subtly infused into the learning culture can help. Join this session to explore:

How your organization needs to infuse AI as a core part of their learning culture.
How different teams need to be upskilled or reskilled to embrace AI.
New roles and new functions that are emerging due to AI.
How should L&D heads navigate this entire skilling landscape with the help of AI.

Thursday, April 3, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Making Messages Stick: Marketing Strategies to Boost Training Engagement
If advertising messages can get people to recall information and even purchase items they don’t need, how can you use these marketing techniques to change behaviour and ignite action amongst your learners? In this interactive session, with Danielle Wallace, Chief Learning Strategist at Beyond the Sky Custom Learning, you’ll learn the four key techniques that marketers use to make their messages stick. You’ll explore the role of message visuals, drama, emotions and compelling text. You’ll examine both marketing and training examples to apply the concepts to your own L&D projects.

Thursday, April 3, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Strategic Misalignment in L&D: Bridging the Gap Between Learning Operations and Business Impact
Misaligned priorities and inefficient resource allocation will threaten L&D’s ability to deliver value. Join an exclusive virtual roundtable featuring Alan Mellish, Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, Ryan Austin, CEO of Cognota, and Matt Mason, SVP of Director Talent Operations Office at Truist Financial Corporation, as they discuss the most recent research and share proven strategies for elevating L&D operations through effective governance. Learn how leading organizations are standardizing processes, implementing strategic frameworks and measuring impact across global teams.

Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Transforming Compliance Training: From Boring to Engaging
As regulations evolve, organizations must move beyond checkbox learning and create programs that are both engaging and compliant. By rethinking training through the lens of modern media consumption, you can turn it into a dynamic, impactful experience. Video-based learning is transforming corporate training, driving higher engagement, better retention and greater accessibility. With the influence of short-form content from social media and streaming platforms, compliance training can become more immersive and effective.

Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Boost Learning Retention: Overcome “The Forgetting Curve” with Proven Training Strategies
Most training fades fast — but it doesn’t have to. Join Dr. Bob Nelson, President of Nelson Motivation, and Mario Tamayo, Principal of Tamayo Group Inc., for an engaging session packed with practical techniques to make learning stick. Loaded with real-world examples, interactive insights and actionable takeaways, this session will transform the way you train. Walk away with new ideas to energize learners, improve knowledge retention and make your training more effective — while having fun in the process.

Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: The Business Impact of Emotional and Relational Intelligence: Building High-Performance Teams Through Personality Insights
When organizations do use self-assessments, they typically treat them as one-off exercises rather than tools for personal development and managing team performance. Join Brandon Hall Group’s Principal Analyst, Roberta Gogos, SVP Claude Werder and Demetra Anagnostopoulos, Chief Success Officer at SurePeople, to explore how organizations are leveraging 54 traits and attributes of human beings — also known as “People Intelligence” — to gain predictive insights for building stronger teams and driving measurable outcomes.

Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Making Virtual Learning a True Multiplayer Learning Experience
In this session, you’ll learn how to transform passive virtual meetings into dynamic, multiplayer-style learning experiences. Through hands-on exploration, Allyncia Williams, Learning Experience Designer III at LA Care, will dive into:

Fostering community in virtual spaces.
Creating sequential narrative themes.
Converting SME content into microlearning experiences.
Ensuring long-term course value.

Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Storytelling for Impact: Five Ways Narrative Drives Change (Free for ATD members)
As a leader in training and development, you know that managing change is one of the toughest challenges organizations face. But what if the key to lasting change lies in the stories told? In this webinar, discover how storytelling can help you inspire action, align teams, and navigate complex change initiatives with confidence. Leverage G. Riley Mills’, Co-founder and COO of Pinnacle Performance Company, award-winning methodology to unlock the power of narrative and transform the way you lead change in your organization.

Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Start and Scale Your Enterprise Skills Strategy: How to Get Unstuck and Achieve Results Quickly (Free for ATD members)
Are you looking to launch and scale your enterprise skills strategy, but feeling stuck and don’t know where to start? This webinar will focus on solving the complex problem of skill development and management for enterprises — from uncovering your workforce’s existing skills to identifying if those skills support your overall business strategy. PeopleFluent’s TJ Seabrooks, Managing Director, and Gavin Beddow, VP of Product, will discuss the challenges of existing approaches, how to identify roadblocks, and best practices to launch quickly.

Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Creating Escape Rooms for Learning Using an Action-First Learning Approach
Escape rooms can be more than just fun and games — they’re effective tools for creating immersive and engaging learning experiences. By blending problem-solving, teamwork and storytelling, escape rooms can transform traditional learning into an adventure that promotes critical thinking, collaboration and deep knowledge retention. Join Karl Kapp, Director of the Institute for Interactive Technologies at Bloomsburg University, to discover how to harness this innovative strategy to drive real learning outcomes through experiential and action-driven methods, learn a few cyphers and codes that should be in every escape room, and explore the impact they can have on learner performance.

Thursday, April 10, 2025, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Level-Up Your L&D with Games and Simulations
With the rise of immersive learning, organizations are embracing interactive solutions to boost learner engagement and measurable impact. Discover how games and simulations can revolutionize your L&D strategy. Join this session, sponsored by Learning Pool and hosted by Luke Smith, Learning Designer, with expert insights from Lisa McGeady, Learning Design Principal and Rob Taylor, Senior Storyline Developer, to dive into proven techniques for creating effective learning games that drive results.

Thursday, April 10, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: AI Avatars in Learning: The Science of Engagement and Best Practices for Interactivity
AI avatars and content upscaling are making content creation easier, but how does this optimize the learner experience? Marlon Fuentes, AI Evangelist at Colossyan, explores the science behind human-avatar interaction and how anyone can create engaging, interactive learning experiences that drive retention and behaviour change. Discover how to strike the perfect balance between realism, interactivity, and instructional design to make interactive AI experiences for learning and communication.

Thursday, April 10, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: From Stale to Stellar: Personalized Learning That Works
Learning is deeply personal. The way we grow, adapt and master new skills isn’t just about absorbing information — it’s about self-discovery, reflection and the choices we make along the way. When learning is tailored to individual needs, it becomes more than just training; it becomes an opportunity for real transformation. In this session, you’ll explore how to create learning experiences that truly resonate with the learner.

Thursday, April 10, 2025, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Where L&D Will Survive and Where It Will Die In Age of AI
AI, automation and executive demands for measurable business impact are changing the game. Being a “nice to have” won’t cut it anymore. You must move from merely delivering training to proving strategic value — or risk being sidelined. In this engaging and interactive session with Russ Hill, Co-founder and Senior Partner of Lone Rock Leadership, you’ll discover:

Why L&D professionals are increasingly being seen by business leaders as expendable — and how to change that perception.
The critical shift from training creator and deliverer to business impact driver.
How to deliver leadership development programs that drive measurable ROI and business results.
How to embrace AI instead of fearing it.

Friday, April 11, 2025, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Action-First Learning – Designing Immersive, Engaging and Sticky Learning Experiences (Free for ATD members)
Instruction with an action-first mindset. Action-first learning is a proven approach that immerses learners in real-world scenarios, challenges them to think critically and drives retention through experience — not just exposure. Drawing from concepts in his latest book and bringing them to life, Dr. Karl Kapp, Professor of Instructional Technology at Bloomsburg University, will guide you through practical strategies, real-world applications and exciting examples, highlighting how you can make instruction more engaging and effective.

Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Enhancing Elearning with AI Voices and Audio in Adobe Captivate
In this webinar, with Sharath Ramaswamy, Senior Elearning Evangelist at Adobe, you’ll discover how to elevate your elearning projects using the power of AI-generated voices and audio features in Adobe Captivate. Learn how to integrate realistic AI voices, optimize audio for better learner engagement and improve accessibility — all without the need for professional voiceover talent. Goals in this session are:

Learn how to enhance learner engagement and accessibility through optimized audio.
Understand the benefits of using AI voices in elearning and how to integrate them into your Adobe Captivate projects.
Discover best practices for creating clear, impactful and immersive audio experiences.

Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Unleash Your Power: Learning and Talent Development as Agents of Change (Free for ATD members)
In today’s dynamic business landscape, learning and talent development professionals play a crucial role in driving organizational success. How equipped are you to elevate your organization? In this interactive webinar, Coach U Inc.’s Renée Robertson, Advisor and Executive Coach and Angie Tong, Global Director of Client Success and Executive Coach, will discuss the impact learning and talent development professionals play in fueling growth, and the necessary skills, brand and influence to steer change. Seize the opportunity to become a true agent of change and shape the future of your organization and your career.

Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Solve the Problem of One-Size-Fits-All Training
Consider this situation common to most organizations — 100,000+ global employees, 50+ courses to be taken every year, annual recertifications needed … a lot of time spent in training. However, engagement and retention levels remain low as learners struggle to find relevant training. Join CommLab India’s Gitika Nagra and Razzak Hussain as they break down how adaptive learning can solve the problem of one-size-fits-all training — improving learning effectiveness, reducing time and impacting business results. From understanding adaptive learning to its levels and more, get ready to catch real adaptive learning in action.

Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: AI L&D Graphics
Discover the latest AI and automation tools and techniques to make professional L&D graphics, slides and covers. Mike Parkinson, Owner of Billion Dollar Graphics, will show you how he quickly turns text, data and ideas into professional, at-a-glance designs. Also, learn Mike’s three AI truths that impact your job and our industry for years to come. Don’t miss this high energy, interactive, mind-expanding session.

Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Advanced Prompt Engineering Techniques for L&D
Elevate your use of AI in learning and development with advanced prompt engineering techniques. This workshop, presented by Garima Gupta, Founder and CEO of Artha Learning Inc., delves into sophisticated methods for crafting precise and effective prompts to ensure accurate and relevant AI-generated responses. Through practical exercises and real-world applications, you’ll gain mastery in prompt engineering, empowering you to harness AI’s full potential in their instructional design and development processes.

Thursday, April 17, 2025, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. PT: Unleash Your Inner Innovator (Free for I4PL members)
Innovation isn’t reserved only for the Steve Jobs of the world. Innovation is for everyone. In this inspiring talk by Leo Chan, Chief Innovation Igniter of Abound Innovation Inc., you’ll learn about the who, what, why and how of innovation. Most importantly, you’ll see that you have the ability to become an innovator. Yes, you! Come find out what innovation is all about and be challenged to embrace the call of the innovator.

Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: GenAI Powered Storytelling – A Gamification Case Study and Demo
Discover how an AI-supported workflow created a compelling story with engaging visuals and gamification mechanics, bringing an epic sci-fi adventure to life in a gamified learning program. In this case study, Tristia Hennessey, Sr. Instructional Technology Strategist at Evolve Solutions Group, will explore how they used three generative AI tools, including a custom-trained agent, to craft a story and supporting media that tap into users’ intrinsic motivation, while points and badges reinforce extrinsic motivation.

Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Improve Your Value: Why You Should Focus on Impact, Not Content or AI in 2025 (Free for ATD members)
L&D budgets are under pressure, and AI is reshaping how learning is measured. In 2025, proving impact isn’t optional — it’s survival. Yet, many organizations struggle with limited resources to evaluate learning effectively. This session, with Alaina Szlachta, Founder of By Design Development Solutions, and Britt Brewer, Sr. Director of Creative Experience at BookClub, explores why impact — not content or AI — should be your top priority and how a strategic approach to measurement can safeguard your role, your programs and your influence in the evolving learning landscape.

Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Learning From and Interacting with Your AI-Coach
Learn how AI can simulate real-world interactions, helping you refine communication, problem-solving and presentation techniques. Through live demonstrations and practical applications, Karl Kapp, Director of the Institute for Interactive Technologies at Bloomsburg University, and Corey Mustard, Solutions Consultant at Centrical, will show you how organizations leverage AI coaching to boost employee performance. Plus, gain actionable insights on integrating AI-driven learning into your own professional development.

Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Zero to Chatbot in 30 Minutes: Build Your First AI Learning Assistant in Half an Hour
Want to create your own educational chatbot but don’t know where to start? Are you working with a limited (or non-existent) budget? AI learning pioneer, Margie Meacham, Founder and Chief Freedom Officer of Learningtogo.ai, follows up on her previous chatbot webinar with this hands-on mini workshop where you’ll build a working chatbot in just 30 minutes. Drawing from her decade of experience designing award-winning AI learning solutions for organizations like the United Nations and major corporations, Margie will guide you through the process step by step.

Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Use AI Tools to Improve Delivery Skills: A Neuroscience Approach
Strong facilitation and delivery skills are key to building successful relationships with customers and internal teams. But keeping these skills sharp isn’t always straightforward. Coordinating training sessions for busy, dispersed teams can be a logistical headache. The quality of coaching often depends on who’s available and how much time they can commit. Join Carmen Simon, Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroscientist and Founder of Enhancive, as she reveals fascinating neuroscience insights into how AI and humans compare when it comes to coaching and skill-building.

Thursday, April 24, 2025, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Engage Learners with AI-Powered Content
New advancements in AI can save time and help you create more personalized training content. But many learning leaders lack a foundational knowledge about the abilities of modern AI tools — or a strategic plan for how to deploy them. In this Training Industry Leader Talk, industry experts will share how to optimize, automate and enhance workflows by adopting AI at your organization. Dive into best practices on how to navigate multiple AI tools while empowering yourself to take charge of your content creation.

Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Unleashing AI: Workflow Agents in a Live Training Demo
Jerry Sullivan, President of Dynacom, Mo Traor, AI Consultant, and Andrew Clark, Performance Improvement Consultant, will demonstrate multiple AI powered workflow agents (automations), including the white hot Gumloop, to find ways to make them more efficient and find out where AI can plug in to processes. By the end of this session, you’ll leave with practical, hands-on experience using Gumloop and other advanced AI tools, empowering you to immediately integrate these innovations into your daily workflows.

Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Roundtable: AI in Learning and Development
Join Josh Cavalier, Founder of JoshCavalier.ai, to explore the transformative impact of AI in learning and development. This interactive roundtable will bring together experts to discuss how AI is revolutionizing instructional design, personalized learning and training efficiency. Gain insights into real-world applications, best practices and the future of AI-driven learning solutions. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with thought leaders and discover how AI can enhance your organization’s learning strategy.

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