June 6-7, 2023 | Chicago, USA | In-Person
L&D Leaders USA is the leading meeting place for senior executives from across the entire Learning and Development landscape with flagship conferences in Europe, APAC, USA and Canada.
Since inception, we have cut through the hype and challenged the pioneers to educate, up-skill and drive long-term thinking on the strategic strategies, technologies and importance of the workplace of tomorrow.
Created for senior executives within:
✓ Learning & Development
✓ CLO's
✓ Leadership Development
✓ Training
✓ Learning Analytics
✓ Sales Enablement Training
L&D LEADERS USA
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2023 CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Kristi Millhiser, Vice President, Organizational Development
John Regan, VP, Learning & Professional Development
Lisa Holloway, Director of Global Learning and Development
Jay Fortuna, VP of Learning and Organizational Development
Sandesh Bilgi, Vice President of Global Learning
Rachel Dillion, Head of Leadership Development
Sebastien Monnet, VP of Learning & Development
Karina Alcorchas, Head of Training & development
Gina Flaig, Executive Director - Talent + Organizational Development
Matt Fallon, AVP Learning Strategy & Design, Global Talent Management
Kelly Leonard, Executive Director of Learning and applied improvisation
Dawn Kliniewski, Regional Head of Learning & Development, North America
Karin Knecht, Director, Global Talent, Learning and Organizational Development
Jeff Bottorff, VP Talent Management & Continuous Improvement
Laura Knights, Founder and CEO
Dave Wilkin, Founder and CEO
Jason Berry, Director Training & Development
Keri Ibarra, Senior Director, Organizational Learning & Development
Travis Bose, Director of Learning & Organizational Development
Lindsay Fletcher, VP, Global Head of Learning & Development
Kristin Henderson, Global Learning and Development Manager
Alina Villasenor, VP of Talent, Engagement & Inclusion Learning & Development
Lauren Clodfelter, VP Organizational Talent & Development
Paul DuBois, Vice President, Talent and Learning
Laura Lee Gentry, Chief People Officer
Kara Doak, Senior Enterprise Director
Sam Sleva, VP, Americas Lead, Leadership & Professional Development
Geovanny Andino, VP, Head of Workforce Development
Paul H. Flowers Jr, Regional Director, Broker and Sales Development – Midwest Region
Latisha Tyler,Director, Employee Development
Jen Paterno, VP, Global Onboarding Experience Lead
David Morelli, Ph.D., Co-founder and CEO
Shannon Tipton, Chief Learning Officer
Deborah G. Harris, Founder and Chief Learning Strategist
Frank Gartland, Chief Product & Technology, Officer
Nadiya Wilson, Senior Director
Jaclyn Hoeg, Director Talent Planning & Development
Dana Washington, Leadership Solutions Partner
L&D LEADERS EVENT SERIES
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09:00am
Chairs Opening Remarks
Laura Knights, Founder and CEO, Knights Consulting
09:15am
Panel: Elevating the role of L&D as business strategic partners
Organizations today are placing a disproportionate focus on capability development, at an individual, departmental, and pan-organisation level. Business and HR leaders are looking at L&D as the differentiator to drive competitive advantage, with the CLO expected to take centre stage on the organisational achievement journey and spearhead a game-changing learning vision. From this panel, learn how you could present, monitor and measure the business case for a learning revolution.
Moderator: Laura Knights, Founder and CEO, Knights Consulting
Panelists:
Jay Fortuna, VP of Learning and Organisational Development, GoHealth
Lisa Holloway, Director of Global learning & Development, CKE restaurants
Lindsay Fletcher, VP, Global Head of Learning & Development, Allianz
Travis Bose, Director of Learning & Organizational Development, Sidley Austin
Kara Doak, Senior Enterprise Director, Blinkist
09:55am
Presentation: Solidify L&D's seat at the executive table
- Implementing a Strategic L&D/Business Partnership Process to Ensure we Recruit, Retain, & Upskill the Best Team Members in a Disruptive and Rapidly Evolving Business Climate.
- In today’s fast paced, economically challenging environment where the best talent demand both a vibrant work culture and accelerated career growth potential, L&D Teams are tasked with meeting those needs while simultaneously demonstrating business ROI under increasingly tight fiscal and tactical goals. This session will share a process that has resulted in scalable and sustained growth of 20% year over year since 2006 by tightly integrating the L&D strategies with executive operational metrics. We will cover the numerous “plus and delta” learned while implementing and continuously refining the process. If you’re looking to drive deeper and more effective partnerships with your business leadership, this session will deliver practical tips to achieve results on purpose
Presented by:
John Regan, VP, Learning & Professional Development, Keeley Companies
10:25am
Presentation: Are you doing enough to build and strengthen your company culture with L&D?
- How to curate great learning content to create communities of learners
- Ensure the support DE&I goals through L&D
- Understanding how to adjust to our new remote world
Presented by:
Gina Flaig, Executive Director, Talent & Organizational Development, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Latisha Tyler, Director, Employee Development, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
10:55am
L&D Leaders CONNECTS
11:10am
Morning Break and Networking
11:30am
Panel: L&D’s role in advancing DEI priorities across the organization.
- Creating continuous learning programs that go beyond one-time webinars or training
- Measure, report on, and continuously improve the effectiveness of your DEI program
- Ensuring you have inclusive learning programs, accessible to all
- Building allies to ensure sustained behaviour change and supporting your DEI leaders
- Integrating DEI into your leadership development programs
Moderator: Laura Knights, Founder and CEO, Knights Consulting
Panelists:
Matt Fallon, AVP Learning Strategy & Design, Global Talent Management, Hyatt
Dave Wilkin, Founder and CEO, Ten Thousand Coffees
12:10pm
Presentation: To the Metaverse and beyond: An Immersive Learning adventure for L&D leaders and professionals
- Defining metaverse characteristics and tools
- The different types of reality
- Metaverse facts and myths
- The difference between immersive learning inside and outside the metaverse
- Use cases, benefits, and applications of immersive learning
- The benefits of immersive learning
- The basics of immersive technology, hardware, and the spectrum of immersive.
12:40pm
Lunch & Networking
1:50pm
Panel: Delivering closer connections through hybrid and remote working
- Understanding the learning challenge of flexible hybrid work
- The importance of mentoring
- How to build closer relationships between different departments and scopes.
- Cultivate communication through solving shared challenges
- How to best measure hybrid and remote working
Moderator: Shannon Tipton, Chief Learning Officer, Learning Rebels
Panelists:
Kristi Millhiser, Vice President, Organizational Development, Exact Sciences
Karin Knecht, Director, Global Talent, Learning and Organizational Development, Livingston International
Jason Berry, Director Training & Development, Echo
2:30pm
Presentation: Improvisation is Human Being Practice: Learning for the Unscripted World
The World Economic Forum notes that interpersonal skills are at the heart of the future of work. Improvisation, at its core, provides embodied practice in listening, collaborating, communicating and unlocking the creative spirit of individuals and groups. Long-time Second City creative executive Kelly Leonard provides an engaging, evidence-based look at how the same training that made stars of Tina Fey and Stephen Colbert, can be used to make stars of your workforce.
This Keynote will feature:
- Specific exercises and practices developed with leading behavioral scientists that you can use in your workplace.
- Engaging storytelling that moves beyond charts and spreadsheets and speaks to the greater meaning of the work we do.
- A session that is more dialogue than monologue – getting everyone in on the act.
- An inspired message of hope, gratitude and resilience in an age of increasing complexity.
Presented By:
Kelly Leonard, Executive Director of Learning and applied improvisation, Second City Works
3:00pm
Panel: How are emerging L&D technologies reinterpreting traditional methods of learning?
- Advantages of utilising technology to connect instructors and learners remotely and flexibly across time zones
- How is technology such as webinars and shared screens currently impacting corporate learning and development? How might they influence remote and peer-group learning in the future?
- Can, or will, technology training ever fully replace human presence?
Moderator: Shannon Tipton, Chief Learning Officer, Learning Rebels
Panelists:
Sebastien Monnet, VP Learning & Development, CSBS
Rachel Dillion, Head of Leadership Development, The Kraft Heinz Company
Karina Alcorchas, Head of Training & Development, Miniat Holding LLC
3:40pm
Afternoon Break
4:00pm
Presentation: Leadership Development in the face of uncertainty
- How leadership training addresses emerging challenges and how to build resilience in the new normal
- How best to retrain employees to bridge gaps and bolster confidence
- How to create a culture of learning through sustainable leadership development training
- The tools you need to effectively train the next generation of leaders for your organization
Presented by:
Dawn Kliniewski, Regional Head of Learning & Development, North America, Olam Food Ingredients (OFI)
Jaclyn Hoeg, Director Talent Planning & Development, Olam Food Ingredients (OFI)
4:30pm
Presentation: Connecting skills, capabilities, and career paths to maximize talent retention
- Develop innovative mechanisms to attract and retain talent
- Rethink organisational paradigms to propose a greater sense of purpose
- Create multi-dimensional career paths for high potential employees
- Engage high potential employees in individual career planning and skills development
Presented by:
Jeff Bottorff, VP Talent Management & Continuous Improvement, Dot Foods
5:00pm
Closing comments and end of conference sessions
5:10pm
Networking drinks in the exhibition area
Bought to by the Center for Creative Leadership
6:15pm
End of Day One
09:15am
Chairs Opening Remarks
Laura Knights, Founder and CEO, Knights Consulting
09:30am
Presentation: Better Leadership: How Focusing on 6 Components of Wellbeing Can Increase Engagement and Motivation
- Companies are still trying to find the best way to engage and retain employees in our post-pandemic work environment. The way we work and leaders themselves have changed dramatically. Despite some companies best efforts to get people back into the office, the old ways of working no longer make sense which means that leaders and organizations have to change their approach to leading their people.
- Introduce CCL’s Better Leadership Project that centers 3 focus areas for effective leadership: Compassion, Wellbeing and Belonging.
- Today’s presentation will focus on wellbeing and how the 6 components of wellbeing can increase motivation and engagement for all employees. Introduce each one with a short description: Purpose, Growth, Health, Agency, Connection, and Resilience.
- How to talk to your team about wellbeing and integrating wellbeing practices into your team environment and organization.
Presented By:
Dana Washington, Leadership Solutions Partner, Center for Creative Leadership
10:00am
Panel: Upskilling & reskilling - what’s the ROI?
Metrics and data are paramount in helping organizations gain a deeper understanding of the impact of their L&D programs. As businesses are placing increased emphasis on upskilling and reskilling their workforce for the future of work, what should they be measuring to ensure their initiatives are having the desired impact on skill gaps?
Moderator: Deborah G. Harris, Founder and Chief Learning Strategist, iCU Learning
Panelists:
Dawn Kliniewski, Regional Head of Learning & Development, North America, OFI
Geovanny Andino, VP, Head of Workforce Development, Zurich North America
Paul H. Flowers Jr, Regional Director, Broker and Sales Development – Midwest Region, Fountain Health Frank Gartland, Chief Product & Technology, Officer, Skillable
10:40am
Presentation: The future of leadership: New coaching styles research revolutionizes how we lead
- Being a great coach is the #1 skill of effective leadership
- How does coaching truly work? (New Research)
- The cutting-edge discovery of the 7 RESPECT Coaching Styles change leadership
- Lack of style variety is the #1 reason for employee turnover based on a new study
- The sweeping implications for leadership development
Presented By:
David Morelli, Ph.D., Co-founder and CEO, OwlHub
11:10am
Morning Break and Networking
11:40am
Presentation: Empowering Learners - The benefits of shifting the focus from the centre to individual employees
- Embracing the shift to self-directed learning and understanding the change of approach required from the organisation
- Building a self-directed learning culture which empowers and inspires learners to take charge of their own development
- Making learning and development, attractive, accessible and relevant to engage and empower learners.
Presented By:
Karina Alcorchas, Head of Training & Development, Miniat Holding LLC
12:20pm
Presentation: Building scalable employee onboarding in 2023
- Understanding the key benefits of an effective onboarding process
- How to create an extraordinary onboarding plan
- The benefits and challenges to virtual onboarding vs in person on boarding
- How to establish clear onboarding metrics
Presented By:
Jen Paterno, VP, Global Onboarding Experience Lead, dentsu
12:50pm
Presentation: Creating Leadership Development Programs for the Remote Workforce
- Explore the contemporary realities and challenges of leadership of a remote workforce
- Rethink what is needed to evolve from “just managing” to “truly leading” a dispersed team
- Uncover new rubrics that measure effectiveness of leadership engagement
- Bypass archaic concepts to explore true behaviours of inclusive and equitable leadership
- Realize the benefits of virtual teams and expand and enhance the opportunities for meaningful Leadership Development
Presented by:
Paul DuBois, Vice President, Talent and Learning, Acclara Solutions, LLC.
1:20pm
Lunch & Networking
2:20pm
Panel: Ensuring effective Learning Engagement
- When introducing a new learning process, how do you engage with and persuade staff to participate in something which is potentially very new for them?
- Assessing the best corporate learning management systems on the market - is it better to buy off the shelf or develop your own bespoke system?
- Rather than actively pushing learning onto staff, what is the best way to motivate and inspire employees and incentivise their conscious and active development?
Moderator: Laura Knights, Founder and CEO, Knights Consulting
Panelists:
Sandesh Bilgi, VP of Global Learning, Sotheby’s
Jason Berry, Director Training & Development, Echo
3:00pm
Panel: From 2023 to future-ready
Many lessons have emerged or been underscored during the past couple years, but one of the biggest is that change is the only constant – and rather than fear it, we must embrace it in order to thrive. But how can organizations prepare for an uncertain future and ensure their people are positioned for success, health and happiness in 2023 and beyond?
Moderator: Deborah G. Harris, Founder and Chief Learning Strategist, iCU Learning
Panelists:
Jeff Bottorff, VP Talent Management & Continuous Improvement, Dot Foods
Lauren Clodfelter, VP Organizational Talent & Development, Hastings
Keri Ibarra, Senior Director, Organizational Learning & Development, AmeriLife
Sam Sleva, VP, Americas Lead, Leadership & Professional Development, dentsu
Nadiya Wilson, Senior Director, D2L Wave
3:40pm
End of Day Two
